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Sounds like Dick made a terrible move there, and now he is wanting to hire Mark S to replace him. You know I was on his side when Q became a pain in his side, but he is making it harder and harder to side with him.

All of this in Q1? WOW!

PP at HW is 135 feet tall. PP at KBF is 115 feet tall.

Did anyone spot KI Enthusiast dude on Saturday? I didn't, but heck there were a lot of KIC'ers that were at the park that I never saw. Even some I saw before the park opened, I never saw again after entering the park.

Any everyone will be begging for it to rain again!

I see it now, must has been cached. I had to refresh the page for it to come up. Thanks!

What webcam you talking about here Hendrick?

Construction Update for DA on KI YouTube!

I have to give credit to Oldiesmann for that pic. His came out a lot better than mine since he was using an actual camera and I was using my phone!

I did notice that Saturday. I did not know you had posted that as an idea. Very cool!

I believe the Flight Deck music is from Transformers...ironically a movie distributed by Paramount A group of us noticed that as well on opening day.

Construction pictures added for Adventure Point addition. I am a little disappointed about the moving of the swings and Falling Star, but hopefully this is a good thing for IB! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.10150163642517199.302717.337613147198

Looks like they are very close to start testing!

The kinks seemed to work themselves out by the afternoon time! I hope you were able to get some rides in with your family!

Thanks for sharing! Great pics. It was an awesome day!

Maybe at KI they realized pulling those cables took longer than expected, so they got a earlier start at CP? Being as this is the first few ever built, I am sure they are learning as they go as to the best order of assembly!

Thanks for sharing Mark. Sorry we missed you at The Racer.

I also welcome you and appreciate you sharing your TR!

Thanks Terp! It was a truly great day with friends!

Thanks and you as well!

I am sure it is a once in a life time experience and was very cool! Wish we could have meet up!

I picked up Jesse (Avatar) at 6:30AM and we heading towards Mason, OH. We had a nice conversation and trip over. Once we got there I wanted to upgrade my Gold pass to Platinum. So I headed to the ticket booth to process. Here is a picture of Ro Tag, Tom76257, and Gigacoaster holding up their pass and my new pass. (Not sure what is up with Tom?) We headed to DB and had an amazing ride on it. There was about 7 KIC'ers together at this point so we headed towards Beast. Beast decided to be a little difficult and went down 2 cycles before we got on. We waited it out for a while, but gave up and headed to look at WS. We meet a few other KIC'ers outside Beast and we decided to hit up Crypt to see the new theming. There was some changes in the queue and the music is quite awesome during the ride. If you were wanting a different cycle you will be disappointed, but the ride seemed to be very smooth during the cycle. After Crypt we headed to see WS. Here are the pictures I took of WS during the daylight hours. We then headed towards Racer for a ride. The park was packed and the line was almost to the Coney Mall entrance sign, and that was with most of the switch backs open. Blue side was the side open. There was about 12 of us ridding and when we got 2/3 way up the lift will the train stopped and about 15 minutes later we had to be evacuated from the ride. This was a very cool experience to have been a part of especially when almost half the train was KIC'ers! This will be a great story to share for years to come! Thanks to KI staff for getting us off safely and making this a memorable experience! A few of us went up into the ET and we then meet back up with rest of the group to watch American Country. We decided to hit up Lunch at Rivertown Junction. Ryan, Robbie and myself at RJ. Gary and Jeese Ryan, Robbie, and Jesse After getting over stuffed at RJ, we headed to the train to let it settle. here is Gary and Michael on the train. Robbie and Cory with Keith and Jesse behind them. After the train ride, I had a interview with Don Helbig live on the radio with the Indianapolis radio station I work for back in Indianapolis. I hope to post that interview once I can get to the station and get the interview uploaded somewhere! After the interview we meet back up with Robbie and Michael (Oldiesmann) for a ride on FD. The new painted track looks great! I hope the supports are planned for painting next season! We then decided we really wanted to ride Beast for we had heard the track work was awesome! We got a really great ride on Beast. The track work after the brake shed feels great! Way to go KI! Here we are in queue. Michael and I went and got another ride on DB A few pics of DB WS in the back ground. Looks like a lot of the ride ops lost a lot of phone before the start of season! LOL! We then meet back up with Jesse and headed towards WS to see the light package. Here are some pics. What a great light package. This is going to be an awesome night ride! Jesse and Michael Here is a video I took of the WS light package. This really does not do it any justice. We took a ride on Vortex and got on Racer right before the fireworks went off. WS as we are pulling out of the parking lot after the park closed. Ride Count: Beast 1, DB 2, Crypt 1, ET 1, FD 1, Racer 1.1, Train 1, Vortex 1, Total: 9.1 Even though the park was packed and we did not get very many rides in, we all had a great time. No one was upset lines were long or complaining about line jumpers. We didn't care some of the rides were having beginning of season issues (like being stuck on Racer.) We will cherish this day for years to come and have stories to share with new members and relatives, and that is what it is all about. Opening day reminded me why I became a member of KIC. I joined because I love Kings Island and wanted to meet other people who are just as excited about KI as myself. I hope everyone who was there yesterday or will be going soon will also remember why you love KI and became a member of KIC!

The evac could not have worked out better for the park and KIC. There we were about 10 to 12 of us KIC'ers on the train that was evaced. Being our group found it an honor to be evaced from the ride and getting an experience that not many others get was very cool! These things happen and as enthusiast we must understand this and know certain things can happen at the park!

Very nice report Way29! Thanks for sharing!

While you at it can we update our main page from 2007 to 2011? I still see the 2007 park calendar, Firehawk is listed under the new attaction, DB is not even listed, Nick universe and SOB is still on the menus.