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Agreed the four hour window is nice and just long enough without being too long Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And longest is a nice friendly term for family coaster. You are not too high, not too many inversions, just length. I see these terms and think intensity enthusiast: fastest, steepest, highest, most inversions I see these terms and think "family" or "safe" coaster: Longest, air time, terrain.... That's just my opinion though ... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would even say Banshee is sort of a family ride. It's big enough for the adventurous but not too intimidating. My mom (former coaster enthusiast who now finds Beast and Racer too rough and DB just too large) enjoys Banshee. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You're comparing apples to oranges by thinking in terms of today's dollars. Add inflation in to that. As the pass prices go up, so too does the cost of everything else in life, and hopefully wages also. Seven years from now, $124 might be cheaper than $94 is today. "Always in motion, the future is." Not really comparing anything, but speaking as a father and a husband. $500 for anything is a steep price for a family. Just making a comment, not really looking at it more than face value. But if you want to look at it, you are looking at a 30% raise in price over a 7 year time frame. Its good for the park and it may push some people (good or bad) out of the park.... COMPARISON: A Zoo pass is around $100 for the family... I say this, and will most likely keep a pass for the family as the water park and dry side allows for many mini-trips for the family.

Do you think Kings Island will ever hit $126.00? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Ever? Ever is a very long time. Give inflation another ten to twenty years and, assuming that there is no change in ownership or season pass levels, I'm sure it eventually will. Well, I mean, since 2013 all we've seen is the price go up. Let's say the price goes up $5 every year. 2016 Season Pass: $94.99 2017: $99.99 2018: $104.99 2019: $109.99 2020: $114.99 2021: $119.99 2022: $124.99 I'm sad. That's only seven years from now. $124 is a bit pricey, but overall still a steal of a deal... For the price of 4 discounted visits (or the price of 2 full price visits) you get unlimited visits and parking for 124....But 124 would be the point where many families of 4 may not drop $500 for a family season pass...

Yet the Reds allow you to bring food into the park from Subway sandwiches to PB&J... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Higher prices help keep many things in the park in check.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I vote for a pass. Going into this year my wife said she would go maybe 2 or 3 times. So I bought her a pass. It turned out better as since she had it every time someone suggested to go she went. In total, she has gone about 6 or 7 times while I have been up there around 10 or 12.... As a hubby, I have found that spending a bit for the pass is 100% better than the "I told you to get a pass" conversation haha Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I asked this question before it opened about what would be considered a success. If/when it opens next year that would be its third season. I would count that as success. For all his good and bad, Hart has managed (it looks like at least) to bring the park back from the grave. It's done more than Americana did when it attempted a revival. Some days I think of Hart as an unscrupulous dude building the park to sell again. Other days I feel this park is like the Bailey Savings and Loan trying to stay up to avoid being bought out by Mr Potter. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

^ that's happened to me a few times in the morning. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Exactly. And my whole point was what you said and that it took 3-4 years from announcement to opening for HP. Not to count when they started to design it. I really enjoy both parks. HP is probably one of or the best additions (theme wise) to a park I have ever seen. But I just felt it was wrong to state Disney has done nothing but close things at HS when in reality WDW has been doing a bunch. They may not be what we want but it's huge. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So lets look at the facts for just a moment... Wizard World was announced in 2007. 3 years later it opened. In 2011 it was mentioned it would be expanded and the new Diagon Alley opened in 2015. Same 4 year time span... What did Disney do since Hogwarts opened? Developed, built, tested,a and implemented a significantly large investment to streamline and data mine all consumer information inside their WDW location. This included, but was not limited to the following: Rekeying and modifying all doors on all hotel rooms, installation of readers at all shopping locations and rides, created and built an online portal, reservation system, and credit card information. Just altered the way all consumers experience the park.... Oh they also redesigned and built the Art of Animation hotel and designed new hotels for on property and elsewhere. What else did Disney do? Oh yeah redeveloped Fantasyland and built an entire immersive eating location called Be Our Guest. So since Universal revealed plans in 2007 here is what WDW has accomplished since then.... More From 2013-2015 just look at the finishing of Fantasy Land, Toy Story Mania, and the continuing remodeling of Downtown Disney.... So yeah maybe they wernt as big named as an entire land themed to a movie/book series but to say the parks did nothing is short sighted....

Sort of disagree on the drink line. If you have 10 people waiting only for pizza can you not skip ahead to get a drink? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I thought KI advertised for next year a season long drink cup? Also not sure it's line cutting when you walk in to purchase a drink but not food so you do not stand in the food line... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think the price for what is offered is a nice balance. I wouldnt mind paying a little less to do a meal and snack plan or a little more for 2 meals and a snack plan. I thought the 4 hours would be bad this year but it really isnt. I can go around 2/3 eat then grab a bite on the way out of the park around 7/8 or so.

Well thats a horse of a different color....

I believe the only time Beast operated without trims was when it was first built and before it was opened to the public. The skid trims were in the same place the magnetic trims are now. The magnetic trims slow it down to same speed the skid ones did, they just do it quicker. That's why it "feels" like it was slowed down. Plus as we get older the way we perceive things change. The more we do something the more mundane it becomes. When KI was a destination park with people visit 1 or 2 times per year there was a magic about the park. When you visit every day the magic is gone. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Show fatigue? Huh? Every Disney and Universal park has had the same shows for many, many years. People keep coming back to watch them. And I would definitely say many people would come back to watch Cirque Imagine. I'm extremely upset. Destination park for world wide visits versus a regional park... Its also why different Broadway touring groups come to Cincy each year, or we would get a Wicked/Avenue Q/Rent for every show. These things happen. Plus actors get fatigued as well.

I did and am still waiting on a response.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If only there was an actual campsite near Kings Island... say in the shadow of a coaster, maybe one that hung below the track... sigh... Still best memory of KI as a kid was camping in the shadow of Top Gun, catching my pants on fire, major thunderstorm, and for some reason hearing the lift hill start up around 3 or 4 in the morning... That being said anything to raise money for cancer research is a plus in my book...

But Ill say this, the lines and pizza shouldnt be cold. I really dont think the meal plan is whats causing the back up. The Festhaus for example is typically backed up, and the back up happens at the cashier line and grows from their. They can have 4 cashiers on either side, but typically only have 2 on each side. So now you have a back up people wanting to pay (theoretically, the meal plans would speed these lines up, as its just a quick scan). This back up extends into the drink fill line. You have 2 machines on either side, and maybe some cups out, maybe not. the flow of the line is that you have to turn around after your fill up, not move along (similar to Chicken Shack). Now you have people backed into the food dispensary. Now there may or may not be enough food for people. Too many options at one spot (you can get pizza, chicken fingers, burgers, sandwiches, fruit, mac and cheese). Now you are backed out through the turnstyles.... In years past, wernt the drinks poured behind the counter and there was a line of drinks that you could take and go. I specifically remember handing the worker my souvenir cup to be filled.... At Skyline in Coney Mall, they have very poor workers. No other reason. You have employees leaning on their hands. Just very poor poor service.... The meal plan has sure increased demand, but when service is poor it doesnt seem to matter if demand is 1 person or 1000 the service will still be very very poor...

I think they have enough staff. Chipotle can knock out a 50 person deep line with 3-4 people (burrito and rice, meat, salsa, cashier)... It honestly looks like the food staff have the following issues: they don't care about the job and they don't have any fear about losing their job. Talking about bad KI employees, had an employee in a food service uniform fake attempt to kick my car and flip me off in the parking lot (she just got off the bus and felt like walking outside the crosswalk).... Stellar example of a model employee right there. Of course I reported it but no phone call or email response (similar to my locker complaint).... For the meal, next year the lil shark will be 3... I have to really consider if getting him a pass and meal plan is worth it or if we get a pass we may just leave and get food or eat in the parking lot.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is why we have ugly gates and chains everywhere. At least it's back, for now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Terp.... Thank you for wording it better than I ever could. I will add something a sort of former insider thing. Working in the media on something like this is terrible. I have seen video of what's left when a person and semi meet and have interviewed a person as their house burned in the background (on the day after Christmas). You get a phone call or you hear on the radio about something happens. You grab your gear and your reporter and you go. You don't know what you are getting into. You get as much info and you send it back to the station. You don't talk about the situation till after the news/when it runs. You go for drinks and you realize that you just trivialized a mans life into a 30 second hit. You realize it could have been anyone you know. Sometimes you word a thing in a way you don't like. But then again, most things like this are out of our minds by the next day because there is something bad or worse that comes up he next day... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk