Creed Bratton

Over on PointBuzz that person who reported that, I believe was just making that up. Don't ya think if he actually saw that a water dummy or two fell out of WindSeeker other people would have seen it, especially members of PointBuzz. I don't find that guy credible without proof. Has anyone seen rotation recently?

They will probably be covered somehow.

Depends on what you mean by ride. Dinosaurs Alive is not a ride but a walk through attraction. Talking with one of the DA Crew Members on Sunday, she will be driving a golf cart with seating for 6 around the attraction. This golf cart to my knowledge and her knowledge will be used for those with handicaps. Thank you Nemo for posting that video. I can't wait to ride one of these massive seekers of wind!

I'd still say call the park and hit "0" as soon as you hear the automated system, you may have to hit it twice. It may take a few minutes but they will get to you. That would be your best bet. Best of luck getting the renewal.

Trust me I know the jokes get old real quick. I worked on Diamondback. Technically you don't need a vocal check, sometimes many people aren't watching the ride ops as they are checking restraints, sometimes they don't even feel the restraints being checked so when a vocal check is given it gives the rider knowledge that they are for sure safe. Sometimes there are riders who freak out easy and want that reassurance. I remember having a guest asked me after I gave a vocal check on the mic ask me to give another vocal check. It's all a reassurance thing. Other Cedar Fair parks are doing it (at least they did at Carowinds and Kings Dominion)

Yes, various employees referred me and the group I was with to the website because the website had a list of locations, including a call center employee in the morning. No one seemed to know.

Looks like Canada's Wonderland WindSeeker is open! CW Facebook

Something tells me that they can not say that to an insurance company. You always prepare for something like that with a backup. It wont happen it does. That ride in China where the car came off and went flying...... Also, do you think this ride will be the full 3 minutes. I have watched the CW version testing and it was a 2 min video and I do agree it might be a little more in time but not much. This will have a very long slow line since it is single threaded. So 3 min ride, 1 minute load, 1 min unload...... not sure aboui that. If you want to compare, its equal to if Diamondback had one train running all the time... Except that WindSeeker can take twice as many people per cycle than Diamondback. WindSeeker can take 64 people per cycle, Diamondback 32 per train. So essentially, it's like Diamondback with two trains running. I think that's what a lot of people overlook when considering WindSeeker's true capacity (as opposed to advertised capacity, which would require a load/unload time of zero) is that it can take more people per cycle than any other ride at KI except KI&MVRR. It won't be super-fast, but it won't be as slow as some people think, either. If you calculate an average unload/load time of 2 minutes per cycle, that equals 12 cycles per hour, which equals 768 riders per hour. If they move faster and can complete unloading and loading in one minute (which may not be realistic), that would be 960 riders per hour. All in all, even the 768 figure isn't too bad for a flat ride. Also, keep in mind that when I was there on the 13th, IIRC I saw numbers on each seat, suggesting that seats may be assigned in a similar fashion to Drop Tower or Delirium, which would speed up the loading process. Think of it as every time WindSeeker cycles, a Diamondback train leaves the station. The ride has been advertised to have a 3 minute cycle, roughly the same time it takes a Diamondback train to complete the ride. I don't know if seats will be assigned, many seats on roller coasters and flats have numbers but they aren't assigned. They number seats because the ride system will let the operators know if a restraint is unlocked/locked and whether or not there is an issue with a seat. I personally do not see that they would assign seats on WindSeeker like they do for Delirium and Drop Tower.

The last I heard it's started vertical construction and yes it's purple. Edit: Jackson you beat me too it. Here's a pic provided from Knott's Twitter

Forgot to mention, one thing that was noted throughout the group was that ride ops are no longer required to give a vocal check, I'm not too sure how I feel about this. From what I remember at Carowinds and Kings Dominon they gave us vocal checks. Edit at 8:19 pm.....this was found by a facebook friend of mine, very well hid on the KI website. Discounts

I noticed yesterday while riding the train there was some kind of golf cart, not really sure what it was, but it is a black golf cart next to the "themeing" of the Mary Rose Inn and saloon scene across from the locomotive house that has the PKI logo on the front of it!

Well yesterday was my last visit to the park for 2011 unless some miracle happens and I get to come back to Ohio for a Haunt night. The day started wonderfully! Got to the park just about quarter after 9. We noticed the LED scrolling signs said the park was open until 10pm. We were in the park for ERT. My friends and I headed to Diamondback. What a wonderful and smooth ride that was! We headed over to Beast to get a morning ride on it. I was impressed on the smoothness again! Of course I didn't ride in a wheel seat! At this point we ended up meeting with even more people! We headed over to Firehawk as soon as the park opened to the General Public. It was a walk on! Operations seemed really smooth, quick dispatch and all! Since we were in the area we decided to ride Flight of Fear since we were there and it was a near walk on. It must have been the earliness in the season but the coaster was really smooth! During the mid-course break being in the goofy mood I was I decided to yell I don't like roller coasters and had the girl behind me say she didn't either! Oops! After we rode that DaveStroem's wife and I went to buy tickets for Sky Flyer. Tickets were $5, hard to believe parks that have these attractions don't charge $5 too and get more ridership on them! We then went to Racer to meet up with the group again. Blue side was the only operational side at this point, however it went down for a protein spill. We got a great ride and view of WindSeeker/DA entrance area! We all decided to go ride Adventure Express (which was a walk on), Delirium (short wait), Drop Tower (short wait) then Flight Deck (walk on in the back row!) At this point it was just about noon...can you believe we did all of this before noon?!? Our group respectively split into different areas to eat lunch. We all got back together at the park entrance at quarter after one. DaveStroem's wife, myself and Dustin (sorry I forget his KIC name) went to ride Sky Flyer. Others followed suit! It was a great ride and well worth the $5! At this point, tickets were still $5! There were more people buying tickets at this time. I doubt they had any downtime at that all day! Our group ended up going to Flight Deck one more time before a small portion of the group left for a Bridal show. While waiting for dispatch I asked the ride op what time the park closed and he said 8. I forgot how intense Flight Deck actually is in the front! It was such a great ride! I enjoy the paint job on it! We decided it was a bit of time when we should relax. So we headed to the Festhaus to see American Country. They were doing rehearsals on Way Too Much TV before the show started. I still stand by my decision that American Country is one of the best shows I have seen at the park! A couple of my friends came in and say our hellos and goodbyes before they headed home. I had realized that my draw string Diamondback back had been tearing so I decided to go into the Emporium to get a new bag. As I went up to purchase the bag I asked if there were any platinum pass or season pass discounts. The associate told me no, they don't have them at this store. So I said okay and paid the full price, it wasn't too big a deal to pay full price. Our group then headed over to Boo Blaster's on Boo Hill because we heard a storm was coming in. The inside queue was totally packed but moving quickly. As RaptorGuy mentioned on another topic, there were some minor adjustments to the ride like ghosts added to the queue area and better painting on some things. Some targets were working and the fog screen wasn't working. I was a bit disappointed but what can you do! We all decided to ride Diamondback again. I ended up doing Single Rider a couple of times. We noticed some storm clouds were coming in and it was starting to sprinkle. We set out for Crypt but ended up deciding to ride the train. The train was an experience in a half! We got on the green train, my favorite. As we were riding it started to rain. We got to Boomerang Bay and it was not raining too hard. After a long wait there, we loaded up and got about 100 feet from that station and stopped. The ride op came over the speaker and said that we were going to be going backwards and to please remain seated. So yes, I got a roll back on the train!! We sat for a few minutes after stopping going backwards. Then headed forward again, then a loud crack of thunder and a down pour! We pulled into the main station and stayed on the train while many got out. It was lightning, thundering, pouring rain and hailing! After it started to lighten up and eventually stopped raining we headed to Beast. Well, Beast was still down and we ended up going up to the station for a dry place just in case it started to rain again. We made that smart decision to wait up there. There were about maybe 20 some people in the station. After about an hour and some odd minutes of down pour and storms, the sun came out! The ride ops got a call that they had to cycle the trains and have a track walk before they could open it. Seemed like one minute later they got another phone call saying all they needed to do was continue to cycle and have a test ride. So we were on in no time! I got to ride the front of the train with maybe 12 other people on the train, because a lot of people left the station during the storm. I tell you what, that was the best ride on Beast that wasn’t at night! The train was flying through due to weight and the recent rain! Even though I was on a wheel seat, it was very smooth! After we finished that ride we headed over to Diamondback. There was NO WAIT really. At most the wait would have been a station wait. I got several rides on it and it was running really smooth too! It was great to see so many of my friends that worked on Diamondback! After the park closed at 8, I said my final goodbyes to those at Diamondback. I headed up to the front gate area with a couple of friends. I wanted to get a couple of shirts from Emporium. I ended up picking up the “You must be this tall to ride this ride” shirt and a green old Kings Island logo shirt! As I went to the register I asked that attendant if there were any pass discounts. I was told no there wasn’t any. Now this is where my only rant and upset moment comes with the park on this trip. Before entering the park I was asked to do a survey and DaveStroem asked the employee about pass discounts. They said there were several discounts in the park including food and merchandise. We asked where because there wasn’t any information on the website about these discounts on merchandise except that there were discounts. So there was one employee telling me that I could get a discount on merchandise. But, when I went to Emporium I was told I couldn’t get a discount when I asked, twice. Now on KI's Website, platinum pass perks page it says So if you look at the KI's Website, gold pass discounts it says So I looked for a list of these locations...but there is no menu or anything that you can click to my knowledge that shows you the locations. When you search for platinum pass merchandise discount locations search, nothing is retrieved. Grant it, I bought 3 items that were fairly cheap for the park, it would have been nice to be able to use my pass for what I bought it for, such as discounts, free parking, ERT, admission to the park, etc. Not to mention platinum passes aren't a cheap up-front cost. Not sure I should have posted this rant where I did but it really made me kind of upset on my last day. However, I said goodbye to my best friend in the park and headed to Wendy's with the rest of the group. The day was amazing and I had a lot of fun for my last trip. It was a very bitter-sweet visit but totally worth it! I'm hoping for great things with this park in the future and it will continue to be my home park even though I'm states away! Thanks to everyone who came to visit yesterday with me and for all of your support!

Today is a music in the parks day. I applaud anyone who goes/went today and is staying....last year working these days I pretty much hated my life! Hoping tomorrow will be polar opposite!

I'm with ya, I took a snapshot of it. I'm thinking they are testing with full rotation.

I checked out the webcams the other night toward sun down and they at least have the LED lights on the top of the tower up and running.

Last year when I had worked at the park and had my check direct deposited it said Paramount's Kings Island!

From what we have been told, it seems like once WindSeeker opens, ERT (Early Ride Time) for pass holders will switch to WindSeeker and Vortex from Diamondback and Beast.

Where did you get info that WindSeeker was opening the following weekend?

Good guess! Not sure if you are right though, but I'd like for you to be!

Sorry to hear taters.....always a good idea to check the weather for Kings Island before leaving! I for one am tired of this stupid weather!

In one word: safety.

Typically on days like today, you see the very dedicated pass holders showing up to ride rides. Sometimes around 4-5 o'clock on days like today more people will show as they get off of work or out of school. Just kinda depends on the weather.

Part of Coney, the entrance plaza to DA has a tent up! Wonder if this is for final construction or will be "permanent"

Hey all, With the help of Nemo I found this show! It's thought to be the last Kings Island Productions show! Thought I'd share with you all. It's in three parts! Thanks again Nemo for bringing this show to light! Hope you all enjoy! Edit: I do apologize, I didn't realize these were posted in a topic a while back!

One can hope! That was one haunt I absolutely loved...especially seeing high school jocks cower and run with fear! You and I liked the same things from the commercial! Major kudos to whoever came up with the concept for the commercial!