Tanna

I came here as soon as I saw the article, wanting to hear peoples' input. Shark6495 expressed my thoughts perfectly. The only concern is in a particular set of whales, most of which were born in captivity. What about the other marine parks in California? Isn't there a Six Flags with dolphins? Dance around the issue all they like, an orca is just a huge kinescope dolphin. Just because they are smaller in size, the dolphins get a 'meh'? What about fat office workers stuffed into cubicles? if they wear black and white, will they be freed?

I must have perfect bathroom timing. Not only are the bathrooms I've entered are clean, but they usually have an attendant cleaning when I'm there. I used to have use the Acrion Zone bathroom the most, since it was least crowded, but I have a feeling that's going to change.

I feel bad for people that are allergic to smoke. The Haunt is really a blast, but it excludes these people with the use of fog machines. That can't have a 'fog free' special night, but still, it would be nice for the people that are sensitive to be able to see it. If there's fog on the Banshee, are there going to be times when it's fog free?

As much as I would enjoy that, the park would not be making as much money. ALOT of people smoke, and if smoking is banned at KI, then they wouldn't go to KI... Sort of like how people stopped going to restaurants, bars, and bowling alleys when they banned smoking in Ohio? ^^ BINGO^^ Keep the designated areas and just enforce them. No need to ban everything just because no one enforces the rules. I stopped going to restaurants, bars and bowling alleys. They don't want my custom, and I oblige them. I'm okay with it. I really want the smoking area rule enforced. It's infuriating to have some toothless soaked hillbilly brag that he don't carr- he gonna smoke whar he wants- they ain't a gonna do nuthin, as if he owns the park and no one else matters. I want them to do something. Those people are train wrecks waiting to happen. I want ninjas to parachute in and tackle roaming smokers as they walk along, burning holes in other people's stuff, and stinging people's eyes, and endangering small children.

Sir, Enlighten us, please.

When rating Haunts, our Midwesternism comes into play. Perhaps that's why some of us love Slaughterhouse, and some of us Hate Cornstalkers, because of experiences with both in real life. I'd recently watched a movie called "The Fields" that did a very good job of depicting the experience of running through the corn, but Cornstalkers provides none of that eerie claustrophobia you get in real life. Slaughterhouse first gets you with the smell! no matter how many years it's run, it still has that animal smell.

eh- you just assuage them by tiki-dancing in your seat. works every time.

Perhaps we can sell the idea of "X-Treme" protesting to the activists. It's just like regular protesting, but in dictatorships, and with more Dorito powder on top. http://news.yahoo.com/dolphin-bites-child-hand-seaworld-190106170.html;_ylt=AwrBEiSDFhFTjgoANLvQtDMD Here we go again. Amazingly, no video footage, just a still photo, so we can't see exactly how the dolphin was approached to have the result of the girl's hand firmly in front of its' mouth.

I can understand not letting orcas born into captivity go into the ocean, but I am bothered by the whales that have just been captured even though we have evolved beyond that. Humans take a long time to get the picture, don't we? The Iranian whale is newly captured from the ocean, and is now isolated? I understand that it would be difficult to protest this, due to the physical distance, but also because of the political environment these new whales are in. Let's face it, it's easy to protest Seaworld in America, we take our freedom of speech for granted, but I like my head on my shoulders, I'd be afraid to be an Iranian activist.

I'm glad they didn't try to match up the colors of the cars with the track or supports, after a while one thing would fade differently than the other and it would look tacky. I like the contrast of the train colors.

I just saw some photos on Barb Nefer's Twitterfeed (she's a florida news writer that focuses on theme parks.) The detail they have so far for Gringott's looks amazing. That would be a nice park to walk through, to see the detail i. The work..

I had a pair of Kangas. They weren't really that useful for more than a single house key and a dollar. My dad was in the Korean conflict, and we grabbed up his pants that he wore in service.We found them in a storage barrel. I still wear his dress blue wool coat. We wore those pants out, save for one pair that I made a pattern from. If I can find that good, sturdy khaki that was available in the fifties, I'm never wearing another style of pants again. (We had like, 20 pairs of those things, so some people always thought we wore the same pants, and not different pants of the same style/ I was nicknamed 'Crusty' more than once.)

This is your brain on activism: i knew there were people that had such a heavy class load that they couldn't take jobs that would finance independent living, and couldn't afford the extra expense of personal TP. Also, the way dorm life is set up, good TP would have been 'borrowed' (like they would bring it back) and the borrowers wouldn't replace the decent TP with an equally nice roll. I knew people were saving money by living in the dorms. I knew you had to quadruple over that sandpaper to use it, thus blowing the whole "Save the Earth" thing out of water. The only thing good about that TP was that it was never stolen. Watch out for the people that say,"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Because they aren't the ones getting killed, they're back behind the lines, with cushy stuff in their possession. But if I pulled this recycled paper deal off, I was going to be able to blow off this class the rest of the year, because the professor was such a slacker, he didn't want to teach, and I didn't want to sit and listen to him. And of course, Cred. Credibility gets you more leeway to blow off your senior year. And the most glaring of all factoids- the wood chipper TP wasn't going to affect me, personally. I was born in 1963, and graduated in 1992. It took me that long because I would go to college for a year, then Take off a year, work, then have the money to afford anther year. I had means and time to get the dough together. Most students did not. Plus, I got the consolation prizes of college degrees, Anthropology, but it was the easiest, (it's all BS), and less time consuming to get, so I could still work during the semester, and live in that creepy cool house by the postoffice, with my massive collection of Charmin. Oh yeh, and "I changed the world, man!" For the worse, but I changed it. There are cadres of people out there that hate me, and rightfully so. I don't blame you a bit if you now read my posts with clenched teeth and other orifices. I made a lot of people unhappy, for really no good reason other than to avoid a droning professor who hated his job. When one is activating, if that's the word, you don't sit down and make a list of pros and cons, you only make a list of the pros, and most of those pros are twisted to benefit your personal agenda. You turn into Machiavelli and brainwash yourself it's for the greater good, when really it's so you can avoid waking up early. In your mind, the trees are saved, you are a "good" person, unicorns will once again be able to fart rainbows, and orcas that were born in a theme park will magically be able to fend for themselves in the ocean with no problems at all. When I see activists, I know their engine, I'm aware of their mindset, and I look for their selfish motivations.

And I see no problem with that.

I'm suggesting Banshee carabiners and small waterproof containers that clip onto carabiners in the gift shop. Empty hands means happy fun time at Kings Island.

Yeh...sorry about that. Did my activist's rationalization work? (I'm starting to believe rationalization is the Original Sin.) Did it impel you to get out of the dorms? That's what I told myself at the time, at least. And of course, save trees. Surrounded by trees in an Ohio rainforest, and I'm tearing apart peoples' behinds for trees. I could have just worked and saved money and bought acreage and planted trees, but jeez, who would do that, besides some of the largest paper companies in the world? It actually just started as a class report for "Environmental Anthropology 501" and took off from there, due the Activist Snowball Effect. The only thing my liberal arts degree taught me was "Know your enemy." I graduated from Miami University in 1992.

Now you just made me want to try them. Thanks.

Seaworld's got the contests, don't they? And me with a fresh bag of bottle tops. I'll probably have the money in my pocket before I win a contest, but it's something to do over the winter besides work. http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/PETA-challenges-SeaWorld-in-the-classroom-5182663.php PETA is going into classrooms asking the teachers and students to forego their field trip to Seaworld. I don't think the kids are going to hoist the activists up on their shoulders and huzzah parade around the room with that one, but from what I recall, I liked going to the bread factory just to get out of class.

Wow. Looks like they made a vacation into a job.

I tried the app, then just switched back to using Safari and getting the site. I wasn't happy with Tapatalk, but it could be that I'm more visually oriented.

Now that is young. It's not so bad being old. We old things are still riding, ain't we?

Dippin' Dots went bankrupt? I've never tried it myself, I feared it would taste like styrofoam. I wonder what they are going to replace it with in parks? How will we know where to go to get our information?

I will give it this; it fired up my winter reading list. Jack London only wrote so many books.

Of course,. Thank you.

I'm not sure that would make sense with Congo Falls, The Bat, or even Banshee, whereas Festhaus and Viking Fury fit in line with the Oktoberfest theming.But I can't for the life of me imagine what a re-theming of Action Zone could be. With names like The Bat and Banshee, the only thing that comes to mind are the classic Vincent Price/Christopher Lee Hammer horror movies, folk lore, and urban legends, but how does that fit Congo Falls, Drop Tower, Delirium, and Invertigo? Of course, this is if there's going to be a re-theming at all this year. I really like that idea. I'd love off kilter buildings like Ripley's Believe It Not Museums, but the architectural expertise to pull that stunt would be expensive.