Here's a helpful hint about car keys--i only take my ignition key into the park w th me and i put a safety pin to the inside of my shorts all the way at the bottom..i then slide the key in the pin and clip it to my shorts and presto--secure keys..ive ridden db tons and tons this season and have never had a prob.

I only take my ignition key as well, and also take a Ziploc baggie. This is so I can place my phone and wallet in there and ride water rides without it getting wet. I leave my car key in the Ziploc bag in a buttoned/zipped cargo shorts pocket. I also always add my phone to that bag when ridding DB.

Yes, I was there last Thursday and like the new changes as well, although I had not noticed the decor changes. There was a group of KICers and we were talking. I also get distracted by seeing DB out the window.

EDIT: I also noticed the wait staff were very quick at cleaning up tables and keeping it clean. Great job RJ crew!

Talking with friends and mention I work at Diamondback....

OMG! Have you ridden it?!!?!?

.......... Funny how I get that in the park while I'm working, too!

The last time I talked to a certain park employee about their ride count on a certain coaster, they mentioned they had not been on it at all this season. Although this person does not work that ride, I am sure it does happen.

I spent lots of weekends up at IB when I was younger; I have the fondest memories at that park. Now a days I like to take my Seadoo and get a few hours on the water before the rides open at 11.

Glad you had a good time!

This goes along with the other thread Guests Say The Darnest Things, but for conversations you hear outside the park. I see this most with people who have not been to KI in 5 to 10 years.

I was out to eat the other day and the people behind me were talking to some teenagers about going to KI. One of the adults in their party was telling them that King Cobra is a great ride and they should ride it when they go, if they still had it. I happened to know one of the adults and so when I said hi, I told them I heard them talking about KI and that KC was no longer there. Of course, I spent the next 5 minutes talking about DB.

Share your stories on what you hear, if you were able to break into their conversation, and if you were able to help them know the correct information.

especially in The Beast station!

Wow, that could be a safety issue... just imagine when one bounces right into the track!

Yeah, I don't see how those things have not caused an issue yet. The older stations with wood floors are the most annoying for those balls. The whole station vibrates with one of those things bouncing.

Since Terpy documented it was Ohio law to follow ride op directions, I would ask that they announce no bouncing of balls. Especially if KI is going to continue to give them out inflated.

Hey everybody.

I have missed the last few group meetings.

There are a lot of people here that I'd like to say hi to.

So if you are going to be in the park on Wed, and/or Thurs this week, gimme a holler.

I'd like to say "Hey"

I'm sure I'll find Stalkerchick over by the "whack-a-mole" game!!!

Your title says 7/30 and 31 which is Thursday and Friday, but you state Wed. or Thurs in your post. Which one is it? I started a meet up thread for Friday so if it is Thurs/Fri, I plan to be there Fri. Let us know!

Read that again very carefully! It's very carefully written, to be legally correct, yet leave an impression.

OK, I see what you are saying.

the prize should be a flat ball. they can pump them up at home.

Amen to that! Nothing drives me battier that someone bouncing one of those balls, especially in The Beast station!

Were the girls hot?

I did not ask them, but they were sitting in the sun when we met up with them.

Contrary to popular belief, Dolly Parton is not the sole owner of The Dollywood Company. In fact, she doesn't even hold a majority ownership in that company....

The website I Sourced does not read that way to me.

Dollywood theme park is the product of a wonderful relationship between Herschend Family Entertainment and entertainment legend Dolly Parton that dates back to 1985. Herschend Family Entertainment is the operating partner for Dolly Parton in her Dollywood Company, which owns the Dollywood theme park and Dollywood's Splash Country water park, both in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

While in queue for The Beast a man states "CF owns 7 parks including Dollywood."

As we all know Dollywood is not owned by CF. It is owned by Dolly Parton and ran by Herschend Family Entertainment. Source of info

I see 18 flags flying on the CF webpage. Source of info

Oldiesmann and I were getting off The Racer and we heard a man behind us say "This ride is rougher than DB."

Why thank you Mr. Obvious.

First off we cannot compare a woodie to steel. Second, let’s also compare the roughness of a ride that is 37 years old to a ride that is about 4 months old. Hum!

Thats because they put new wheels on Thursday night. It sounds amazing.

I thought it was louder during the day on Thursday as well, and when we were riding on Thursday I did notice that the wheels were starting to get worn in. I assumed that was the reason for the louder roar. Like a new set of brakes, as you get them worn in they make more contact with the rotar. I figured with more of the wheel touching the track, it was creating a louder roar. If you are stating it was the same after a new set of wheels added, that sort of blows that theory!

It's nice that they buffed the bumper car floor. Of course, at most parks, the bumper cars move fast enough that by late July the rust is all gone...

Although, it would have been better if they would have done that before the park opened instead of 1 pm in the afternoon, but I am guessing there was a reason for that?

Great TR! I was at the park that day, as well. Did you notice during that short rain that all of the coasters kept cycling with empty trains?

I thought I saw you in the AE queue as Oldiesmann and I were getting on, but I could not remember your screen name and so I did not holler out to you. Did you ride AE that day? With my luck it would not have been you and would have felt silly!

Looks like you guys had a good time! Thanks for sharing with us!

IndyGuy4KI PTR 6/23/09

I pulled out of the driveway at 6:50 am on the west side of Indy. It was looking quite dark out but was not raining. Stopped in Shelbyville and got some breakfast. Got back on the highway for the rest of the way to KI, I never know if I am going to hit any traffic issues on the way, but thankfully it was smooth sailing. I was glad that I had not gotten into any rain, but ran into some good rain when I got on 275 and drove the Cincinnati Mills Mall. It rained all the way to KI, but once I got there is was a very light rain and by the time I got up to the metal detectors it had pretty much stopped. I got in line at the detectors at 9:12. While waiting in line I ran into “fan of beast” I then texted “Oldiesmann” to see where he was at for he and “CoasterRZ” had planned a meet up for ERT.

We all met up at DB and the four of us got 5 rides in on DB before the 10 AM running of the bulls. Robbie (CoasterRZ) noticed while ridding DB that The Beast trains were still in the storage shed so it was not running during ERT. After ERT we headed towards The Beast hoping they had it running by then, but it was still not open. We decided to hit BLSC and got a font car ride. Robbie was in the driver’s seat for he had seat 1-1, I got shotgun in seat 1-2. We then headed to Vortex. While getting in the queue I noticed an issue with a phone. Take a look.

We then headed to Flight of Fear and had a good ride, this is fan of beast’s favorite to ride so I think he enjoyed it. We headed further up Coney Mall and noticed only Red racer was running and it had a line so we skipped it and headed to AE. We then headed to Flight Deck, we were in queue in car 1 of the next train and as our luck would have it, the train had just left the station made it ¾ of the way up the lift and stopped. We decided to wait it out and see how long it would take for we had make the long walk back there and did not want to leave without a ride or two.

Five mangers showed up to the ride for some reason? I could understand 1 or 2. Soon after maintenance showed up, one went to a sensor and waved a shop rag at it and got the ride up again. We got our ride in and decide on a second ride since we were back there. We went for the back of the train this time. We were about 3 rides out and the ride stopped again. This time they brought a broom and a glove and cleaned the sensor, ran 5 empty trains before we could get on. We all agreed that you got more swinging action out of FD in the front of the train.

We then headed to Delirium, but it was down as well. It looked like they were just running test cycles for there was no maintenance so we decided to wait there for a test cycle or so and see what happened. They ran it once and then on the second time we noticed that it did not complete its cycle so we figured that it was not going to be up real soon. We headed towards Red Racer and got a ride on it in the back. They were actually racing now and we won! Fan of beast decided to head home for lunch and though he might catch up with us later.

Robbie, Michael (Oldiesmann), and I decided to eat at Riverton Junction. As we are making out way to the back of Coney Mall, we noticed that the dodgems were down and they were buffing the floor. Pics below.

We had a good lunch at the Junction. They now have regular plates, plastic cups, and silverware, not paper goods. They must have been spending too much money on all that? We then decided to get back in queue for DB waited about 30 minutes, but totally worth the ride. This was Robbie’s 100th ride.

We then were heading towards The Beast and we were talking about Crypt’s cycle, since I had not ridden it with the new cycle we stopped to ride it. As we were walling up to the “cave” entrance a DB train went by above us and a cell phone fell onto the sidewalk in the Crypt queue. I picked the phone up and it was in 2 pieces, but the other piece was just the battery. It looked like the screen was fine so Michael and I got the battery back in and figured out how to get it on. I then looked for a contact of home.

I called the home contact and a lady answered. I told her that a phone had fallen from DB and I had it. She said her daughter was at the park and she had a friend with her. I told her to have her friend call my personal cell and then we could meet up. We found that the first waiting area of the Crypt is now queue line, not a waiting area. The girls had called me and they were going to wait at the Crypt entrance for us to come out. We got our not so thrilling ride on the Crypt and we returned the phone to the girls when we got off. Mark down KIC for saving a phone from the infamous cell phone box in DB queue!

We then went to Beast, and found that the queue was almost full. We decided we wanted to ride it and waited for the queue. Took almost an hour to get through the queue and ride. We did have a good ride on The Beast, I was really needing a ride on The Beast. We then headed to Vortex. Robbie and I got a 6-1 and 6-2 ride on Vortex, and Michael got a 5-1 ride. It was starting to sprinkle and we noticed that Dodgems were not busy so we got in it’s queue to get out of any rain that might come by. While in the queue it was raining out towards DB, but the sun was shining on Racer the other way. It was really weird. After we got off it had stopped.

We then went up in the Eiffel Tower and looked at the park. Robbie was going to go home for he had to work the next day, but we talked him into another DB ride before he went home. It took about 30 minutes to get through the queue. Again we got in the front car of DB. We saw Robbie out of the park and Michael and I went and grabbed a Coke for we were thirsty. We then saw that Delirium was open and rode it.

We rode AE again since we were right there and had girls behind that literally screamed from the time they released us from the station till we returned. I don’t mind people screaming, but that got a little annoying. We rode Blue racer since we had ridden red racer earlier. We lost the race that time. Michael wanted to ride some flats so we rode Monster, and Shake Rattle & Roll. We then headed back to The Beast for another ride. It took about 30 minutes to get through the queue. We had a good ride on Beast.

It was now after 9pm so we wanted to finish the night on DB. We met up with CoastersN Sich in the DB queue and we got 2 rides in before the park closed. We got 2 awesome night rides in on DB, it was a great way to end the night. I enjoyed ridding and spending the day with a few of my fellow KIC members and hope to meet up with you guys and others again soon! I pulled out of the KI parking lot at 10:30 PM and got home at 12:40 AM. I hope you enjoyed my TR!

AE -2

Beast – 2

BLSC - 1

Crypt – 1

Delirum - 1

Diamondback - 9

Dodgem – 1

Eiffel Tower - 1

FD – 2

FOF – 1

Moster - 1

Racer – 2

Shake, Rattle & Roll - 1

Vortex – 2

Total - 27

Bugs were crazy at the island yesterday. The crowds were swatting just walking around!

This spiel?

WOW, you have a lot of KI videos out there!

I would have thought a park like Holiday World would have made the list? I bet they only looked at corporately owned companies, not independently owned!

I am hoping my almost 4 year old seen in my avatar will enjoy them as much as well. He is 42" now, got a little ways to go, but he loves FOC and says "let's do it again" when we get off! Glad you had a good time!

A lot of money to pay for sewage problem!

Wow and I was so excited about getting to post 400 Thanks to Terpy (or Teryp? ) for all his great posts.

Funny part is when I went to fix this it was correct? Who knows!

I fixed the typo in the topic title for you. No, it didn`t fix itself, I caught it and corrected it!

Thank you kind sir! I was a little confused!

Have anyone of us actully meet Terpy?

Maybe, maybe not.

Indyguy who could not resist!