acbjones1983

What benefit does this site (or its owners) get from weeding out speculative information being leaked from it's members? Kickbacks? Media privileges? If so, is Kings Island playing the Big Brother of this site, effectively deciding what unreleased information is discussed? (Lets be honest... many of the topics on this site are speculative rumors. The park likes this discussion because it fosters interest in the park on a social networking level) While the TOS are the laws that govern the site, it seems like KICentral's ownership is bowing down to Kings Island and allowing them to set the TOS, which in-turn limits discussion on unreleased information. Seems as though the park (A.K.A. DON) can cry foul to his buddy Boddah whenever it's imaginary line is crossed. While I admire the founders, owners, and administrators of this site, and have enjoyed reading this site for many more years than I have been a member, I hope that the adherence to the TOS does not censor discussion or hinder the leaking of rumors that are obtained in a legal fashion. Just my thoughts on a topic that has, for some reason, really irritated me.

WLWT.com will livestream the announcement on their website at 2pm tomorrow.

Sadly I spent nearly my entire summer from 1998-2002 in, around, or managing one of the various food stands that serve pizza in the park.

In the pre-Cedar Fair days, the pepperoni was under the cheese at least as far back as 1998. Before that I do not know.

Forget the record. I think obscure records that are broken by assembling 102 people are bogus anyway. If the record was 10,000 people, then I would give it some credit. What is interesting to me is the fundraising aspect. I went back and looked at what the Diamondback first rider auction brought in and... 256 seats auctioned off for $102,000 total. ($398/Seat) I can think of 20 people that would put up (pledge) AT LEAST $100 for me to ride a coaster naked. If you get 256 people to each get $1000 in pledges that's a quarter million dollars! Not to mention the publicity would be priceless. If you are worried about American opinion, just do it after hours or when the park is closed to the public. If you are worried about cleanliness, sanitized the trains after each run. Or just let people do it in their underwear, although I doubt that would raise the same kind of money or publicity.

Interesting idea. I'd bet that if this type of fundraiser was held at Kings Island, we could get more than 102 people. I'd do it just to say that I did it, not to mention that it raises money for a good cause. Someone with connections to Don should see if he wants to organize this (before it gets cold ).

Somewhat off topic, but while I was riding Diamondback a couple weeks ago I got hit in the face from change falling out of someone's pocket. Ouch. The guy next to me thought it was funny. I was not laughing.

Ah... Thats right! I totally forgot that it was a smoking area now. See! Now that I'm too old to be kissing girls at the park, I have no reason to go back there!

My first kiss was in the Paramount Story. It was very dark back there. If your looking for seclusion, I'd go there. Although there is not much romance back there anymore, now that the MirthMobile is gone!

It's common to see the curbs, sidewalks, and arched bridges at the Orlando parks. Its a shame they did away with those things here. Really adds to the ambiance of the park.

Back in 1998 we had a close call one night after close. It came over the radio that we were under a level 3 warning (highest level). We grabbed the money and headed for the walk-in coolers at Tuckers (A.K.A. Jukebox Diner). That was the typical routine for Food Service then, but obviously there isn't enough cooler space for 10k-30k people.