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The ride does move up and down side to side and dips you forward and back. Think the 3d motion ride at KI but on a big moving arm that swings you from attraction to attraction. not scarry but lots of motion. I think both parks has enough sit down rides for both older and younger. The MiB ride at Universal is beyond awesome. Reminds you of boo blasters but better The minion ride is also beyond awesome at universal. I think overall Universal has a few more "easier" rides and IOA has a few more "extreme" rides. Universal though did remove the Jaws ride so the rides that are left at Universal are Rip It Rollercoaster, Minions 3d , Twister experience, Mummy roller coaster (beyond awesome), disaster movie adventure (the old earthquake ride?), MiB blaster ride, Simpsons motion ride (old back to the future), Shrek 4d. Universal also had the blues brothers singing, plenty of street actors, a parade, and a few more sights and sounds. IOA was more extreme from the harry potter land with dueling dragons and the harry potter ride (not to mention the wonderful train, hogsmeade, and olivanders wand shop), JP land with the JP ride and the awesome visitor center where you can hold dino eggs and make your own dino dna!. Toon Lagoon, and Dr Seuss land. Either place you will not be disapointed. Defidently take time in to admire the street faire. From the random tourists who complain (actors hehe) to the super hero parade in IOA.

Just went to IOA and Universal last year. Fast pass is good for most rides, but there are a few that it does not work on. Rip and Rockit rollercoaster is one of them. The meal pass was not worth it IMO. My wife and I enjoy a good meal time and the fast pass meal was not worth it. You are going to Islands of Adventure, you must, I reiterate, You Must Go to Mythos. Great food. Great service. awesome atmosphere. The price was about 12-15 per person for some great dinner choices. Go to their website and book reservations early. We set up reservations before we left. When we showed up to eat our reserved time, they were telling people the wait was a good 90 minutes or more. We told them our name and they had us seated in about 15 minutes. http://www.opentable.com/mythos-at-universals-islands-of-adventure thats the link to set up reservations. The all you can eat was decent to be honest, but in IOA there are only 3 restaurants where it works. The food is normal pizza and burgers and such. Free drink refills as well. and you can keep going through the line. If you are a heavy eater and get hungry easy or have kids/family that do. Then use the meal deal. if you are like my wife and I where we are cutting back on our food intake and dont get hungry as easy then dont do it. Plus if you eat at Mythos, you really wont be using the meal deal very much. If your hotel offers the fast pass for free. use it and enjoy it. My wife and I lucked out and went on a day where even the normal wait for lines was less than 25 mins. We had fast pass because of our hotel and every ride was a walk on. We went in August. The harry Potter action ride is also not part of the fast pass deal. So dont buy it thinking you will get on that ride any quicker. In august the line had about a 2 hour wait while the rest of the park was 25 or less. If you get there early in the morning, everyone will be running (I mean it) running to get back to Harry Potter world. My wife and I attempted to do this and to get on the Harry Potter castle ride, but we still waiting about 90 mins the first time and 2 hours later in the day. The line usually keeps moving so its not so bad to be in the line. Not like a roller coaster where you are sitting for 3 mins then move a big distance. Think more like phantom theater where the ride and the line just keeps moving. If you have a single rider, or can break your group into single riders, this ride wait may be shorter as they move you through a different line. But you wont ride with anyone you know and you may be sitting at the end of the queue for 30 mins till a 3 some shows up. For the order of IOA, that is up to you. Try to hit the water rides (rip-saw falls, jurassic park, and another water ride i cant remember right now) during the hot part of the day. The day we went, we knew there would be a storm around 1230/1 because of the morning news cast. So we planned our second ride of Harry Potter around this time. Since it was a big storm, we knew that we wouldnt be able to ride any of the coasters or other outdoor rides so we got out butterbeer and got inline right as the storm opened up. The storm lasted a good 2 hours. So for the 2 hours we waited in a line and not in a restaurant or shop. Hope that all helps. Send me a message if you have any other questions. Where are yall staying?

I think its easy to look back at paramount with nostalgia. Same thing we will do when CF sells the park (when it happens, 10 20 50 years in the future). But I do miss the movie characters walking around the park and scooby. It was pretty awesome to get a picture with scooby and then walk to the other side and get a picture with a klingon.

nice article for a campus pub. Makes a bunch of sense. Could the roller coaster races of the past be the cause of the current status of many parks, thrill destinations but not family parks. Interesting CF last year stated about families, but the newest ride at its flagship park is a thrill ride. Still early in the game, and I dont claim to know any future plans for CF or any park system, but I would think that parks will still try to add some family rides that can bring in more dollars. Grandparents dont, usually, buy season passes.

I dont know, that appears to be four floors (based on stair case design)... average story (floor) being about 10 feet or so... thats 40 feet up...

Agreed 100% . If my wife and I, and maybe kids in the future, pay money to travel across the state or across the country to visit a park, which means we paid for a hotel as well, then well if I can afford it I will buy a Fast Lane or fast pass no matter the park. Also it depends on how many days we had at the park. If we have only 1 day at the park, lets judge the weather when we get there. Busy day yes Ill buy one. Slow day no way.

I used the fastpass system in Universal. It was a nice system but it did feel weird skipping lines and not getting to know people around you...

Well small company owned/family owned parks are really one bad investment, one bad ride, one bad season from closing for good. Hate to bring it up, but KK could have been the first nail into the HW coffin, had they taken on a park that needs a ton of capital investments to get the park open. For a park like Americana, it was another park opening, the high way not really being super close (KI and 71 versus Americana and route 4), and changing habits of amusement park goers. You see this with many companies, they either follow the customer base, lock down in who they are, or waver between the two. Usually the company that wavers is the one that closes. Now for KI, since its owned by a company it has a little bit more wiggle room. As long as it bring in crowds and is considered a jewel in the companies crown it gets the capital investments it requires to continue to bring in more crowds. *** the above statements are just pure speculation and my humble opinion.

yea that worries me as well. Unless we have people who are actively trained on extreme hight evacuation..... Maybe just a maintence level? yeah no idea...

Not that I disagree with what is being said, but alcoholism and addiction to drugs are treated as sicknesses. That is why baseball gives them multiple chances. For some reason gambling is not treated as a sickness, However, it is still an addiction. People chase the dragon that only shows up when money is involved. Had Pete been honest 30 years ago, we may or may not be having this discussion. The roid users didnt break any baseball rules but they sure did break america's rules on substance abuse...

I see the theme working, at least for me. Baseball is a sport that reaches back to the 1800s. (if not before depending on your research), rivertown has always reminded me of a rivertown around 1900. Soooo baseball would make sense. Plus its a historic baseball grille... Now taking that out of the loop, lets just look at what this gives to KI. If it really is a sit down with waiter restaurant, then this brings mroe reasons for people to not leave the park. If it is not too expensive, it could be a great experience to add to the park.

heck in one photo the man is standing in the middle of the stair case.

My question, a serious one that anyone can answer, is this. What do they plan on bringing into that area? Jobs? Golf Course? I ask because its not like the land is easily accessable. However, if I was a retired worker with a good bank role, I wouldnt mind buying 3-4 acres of land with access to the lake. 30K per acre would be about 120K investment into retirement property... plus property building, you are looking at about a 200-250K investment in totality... maybe in a few years that would be a 500K valued property. Or it could be a very bad part of town and could only be worth 100K or less...

more banked turns. You would lose the lateral Gs but you could hold more speed into the turns and would require less braking...

did they get to save anything from Six Flags New Orleans?

yea Hank, I misread your original post. I agree with you if the money is not there, then the park is not an option. However, when I was trying to rub 2 pennies together to make a dime, I scored park tix from giving blood. Wife and I made a vacation out of that. Probably was not good to go the next day to the park, being down a pint of blood... Good luck hank, Ill say a prayer for you and yours.

Now I may push a few buttons here Hank, and i do not mean to at all. But I cant afford to do it either. So I will make plans to pick a day I hope will not be too busy. I will make plans to attend all day and if I dont get on everything, I dont get on em. My wife and I had a similar situation when we went to universal. We had made plans to hit certain rides first to make sure we rode em. After that, if we didnt get to ride it, we lost out. We ended up getting 2 free fast passes from the hotel and we ended up going on 2 very dead days (one for each park). Growing up we didnt have fast passes. We were happy.

In order, SOB. It was a world record holder and brought the park national attention. Then the accidents and it brough the park national attention. Then it gets torn down and it will impact the future of the park opening up an area for future expansion. Beast because it took the park to a level that it previously was not at. It has actively remained a top coaster and still brings people to the park many years after it was built. Racer. Started the modern coaster boom...

yup... great point. Not sure where my brain went on that one...

Shouka was never transferred out till CF took over. SeaWorld stopped transferring killer whales and dolphins to other parks for the winter during the 90s (there used to be pictures online of the killer whales practicing for next season shows during the offseason with lots of snow on the ground) My dumb question here... Can killer whales and dolphins survive in the cold lake of Northern Ohio?

Which I figure would be a very hard task.

I am confused at why we think the dry part of the park is going to open up at the same time. Based on previous statements and pictures done by our own Gordon Bombay... The dry side looks like its about 2 years from reopening. The wet side will/may be the only part opening immediately...

Ok fair point. But would you travel across the country to hang out at the beach? Would you travel hours for just a water park?

I have no dog in this fight. As I never went and probably never will. But of the many people who do want to go, will they make the trip for a water park? Will they make a trip for a park with rides not running or operating. Ill be honest. If the park wants to attract me, an average park goer, what will they have to attract me from Cincy, just mins north of the KY boarder. Whats going to draw people from Louisville/Lexington/Etc to the park. When it opens/if it opens it sounds like it will be in phases. Phases does not mean many people to me. Best case scenario, from pictures and reading about the current state of the park, the water side opens first. Does Coney Island draw people from across the country of a dip in the wave pool? What will bring people to KK?