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I'm in love with the announcement video.. Now why couldn't our announcement for Diamondback be that special? With a growling box? Smoke?

Diamondback may be my favorite ride, but I really really want to ride either Racer or Beast first.. I'm not exactly sure why, I just want to ride those two so badly!

Wrong. There is 4,783 roller coasters in the world. You forgot one, the best one of them all! But wouldn't there be 4,784 because of Blue Two? Didn't he make another coaster? Nemo, awesome video by the way.

Wow.. That's stunning, but yet it makes me kinda sad to see it sleeping like that. I don't know why. Maybe just because I miss it.

I've been when I was little (7ish?), and I was too short for almost all the rides. I absolutely hated it (Loved the animals though).. (But that was because I was a thrill-seeker then) Although now they have the Jungala kid area, and a new Sesame Street kid area, alond with the animals. I'm sure it'd be just fine. I would go if I were you.. You might not have a change to go back, and SheiKra, Kumba, and Montu are all totally awesome rides.

I love it! Although, I am still getting used to it.. Everytime I log on the forums I go.. 'Whoah!' Then I'm like 'Wait, I've seen this before..' *I can't change it out of italics... Help?*

I'm probably on a 80%-90% chance of going to CM! at the moment. -hey that's 500 posts! -

I've ridden Fire-In-The Hole, a similar ride at Silver Dollar City at Branson, Missouri. Very fun ride. And yes, I do consider it to be a coaster.. Like Jackson said, it has 3 parts where the train is propelled by gravity.

Uh, the park closes primarily so it can do group business, and is open to groups many of those days, though not as many as in the past, sadly. Group business is down. I stand corrected, I knew P&G day, GE day, and the Toyota half-day thing were held during those 2-3 weeks, but I thought it was for Haunt too.. Considering that during the week is when they put the decorations up, and thats when they built Cut-throat and Slaughterhouse

I think that they should change Scooby to a ride-through haunt in September. I'd like it if they did a ride in there.. Something along the lines of The Great Pumpkin or something, and then turn it into a haunt for September/October. I know that KI closes for like 2-3 weeks in September to prepare for Haunt, and they could easily do it then. They could easily use the ride for the Haunt, and have the cars go through it. Heres a few ideas for the haunt: The Production Line It could be like you are in a factory and the cars go through multiple scenes of different scary things such as: 1. Maybe some kind of Frankenstein-esque monster being created 2. People being slaughtered by machines that are supposed to be making things The Toy/Doll Factory (something to do with dolls and scary toys) Same kinda idea, but its a toy factory and scary people who look like dolls haunt the factory.. Maybe some freak took human victims and turned them into dolls... If it was just toys in general they could use that jack-in-the-box that was in Coney Mall/Maul this year.

My favorite part of Haunt this year was going through Trail of Terror with a group close to 30!

Beast79, that's what I'd do. I know how much I hate line jumpers and if I saw one, I wouldn't play.

I've seen somebody get kicked out for wearing very very exposing clothes.

These pictures all look professional!! (Especially the Disney one!) But what else could I expect from you? You make some of the best PTRs! May I ask what kind of camera you use?

I'd say not knowing. It's just so fun not knowing where you're gonna go next, which was the best part of The Revenge of the Mummy and Flight of Fear. EDIT: And of course, The Beast!!

Hey Ryan, it's nice to know that someone else on here favors Ice over fire besides me and ol' Terp.

For me, my first ride on Son of Beast. This was back in 2006 (a week or two before the big accident *phew*) and I was 9. There was just something about the ride.. Something just didn't feel right about it. There's really not supposed to be a wooden hyper coaster. It's just too much for the wood to handle.. I just didn't feel safe on the ride. Maybe its just what its supposed to feel, being a wooden coaster and all. This was really the only time I didn't feel secure on a roller coaster. This was really the first time I had ever actually been scared of a coaster. Today, although it is actually an okay ride in the front seat, I get kind of nervous before riding it. I may sound like a coaster 'n00b' so to speak, but this is the one ride I am actually afraid of. And while I am scared of it, I will ride it if I am asked to do so. Josh, who is afraid he is becoming more of a roamer than a poster.

I've only ridden the Ducks in Branson, and yes they were the original. The Herschends own Silver Dollar City as well, by the way. I enjoyed this trip report, thanks for posting it.

I love this guy's videos so much.

YES. I was worried about this contract expiring.

I'm going to name my top three moments.. 1.) Is it really that obvious? My first Diamondback ride, and the wait leading up to it. The excitement in the line was just exhilerating, and I got to meet quite a few other crazed enthusiasts. The first ride was amazing, although I can't remember much about my first ride, I remember how it was. 2.) Taking my brother on his first 'big' rides. My now 6 year old brother just reached the 48' mark this spring, and so we've been taking him on all the 'big' rides. The Beast, The Racer, BLSC, Flight Deck, Adventure Express, and even... Drop Tower. I remember him getting off his first Racer ride, and he told me.. "That was some ride!" It really made me happy to think I get to share these experiences with him. He is so excited about the fact he is now a 'ride warrior' 3.) Getting my friend Josh on The Beast for the first time. My friend Josh hated roller coasters. I was nagging him the whooooole entire day, and then he finally gave in and rode The Beast. He loved it, of course, and now rides it every time he goes. 2009 was by far my favorite KI season EVER. With the addition of arguably one of the best roller coasters ever, sharing my favorite thing with others, and many many other additions and changes to the park, I give 2009 the award of being my favorite seasons. Hands. Down. Or maybe hands up if you prefer. Ride on!

I'm not really going to go into grave detail on my trip except for the Haunts I went through. Anyways, here we go. We wasted about 38920098093 minutes waiting for my friend to buy a ticket. It was REALLY crowded, and it was hard to pick out the scareactors in the dense crowds, so a lot of them got me good at the gate.I passed by the Emporium, and there were virtually NO scareactors beyond that point. It was kind of disappointing at first, but later on they spread out more. Our first Haunt was Massacre Manor. The wait was about 20-25 minutes. I really liked this one, and it ended up being my favorite of the night. The only thing I didn't like was the multiple strobe-rooms. If I look at a strobe light too much it will make me sick, and I got a little sick from it. There were a few cool things about the strobe rooms though, like the fact that you couldn't see the monsters for a split second and then they get closer and closer to you.. It's pretty freaky. I give this maze a 8.5/10 We then met up with a ton of people and had a group of about 25-30. The maze we all decided on going through was Trail of Terror. The wait was pretty long, but it went by fast because I had fun in line with friends. Trail of Terror was really fun, and I liked it being in the woods. I kind of think it lacked a theme this year.. It was still good, and had quite a few good scares, but I just didn't like it as much as before (when it was my favorite maze). I really liked the end though.. And if you want to know what happens I'll put it in spoiler tags. All in all, I give this trail a 7/10. Some of our group wanted to see Hot Blooded, while my part of the group wanted to go to the CarnEVIL. (Heehee, like we wanted to go to the carnival.. I'm so funny right?) But one person in our group was hungry, and I was also a little bit hungry so we went to LaRosas. We walked past the Carnevil line and it was super long, so we skipped it. Diamondback came up, and while I was tempted to ride it, the line was an hour, and I had to leave in less than an hour, so we skipped that as well. We walked to Urgent Scare, which I really wanted to go through because there were so many KICers in there, but the line was an hour and 45 minutes! I was like ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! I wanted to check out Club Blood. So we walked allllllllll the way to Club Blood to find that the line was all the way back by FD. Some people wanted to do CornStalkers, so we did, and the line was short. I have to say, I actually liked this one! It had a few good scares (since I was in the front), but I think the theme stunk. I really would like to see this maze back in Rivertown.. Not in Action Zone. I give this one a 6.5/10. It was now 11:30, meaning I had to go. So I gathered my friends and we went home. I have to say, despite the very very long lines for everything, I had an AMAZING night. Also, I think they should've made some Haunt having to do with SOB. It was really dark back there, and you could hardly see SOB from the rest of the park. It would've been a good one. Okay, I'm done now. Enjoy.

I'll miss seeing Scooby. I just love Scooby with all my heart.

First thing that popped into my head was Revenge of the Mummy. But, if I think about it, I'm going to definately say Montu. EXACTLY as it is now. I love how it dives into the ground and I also love all of the heiroglyphics and everything. AND We need us a B&M Invert.

Uhm, sorry to rain on your parade Jackson, but Spongebob's been at Universal for a while. Along with Jimmy, Timmy, and all their friends. http://www.universalorlando.com/theme-park...toon-blast.html