Tanna

Thanks for the map. It'll help. I usually just tromp around the park til I see a skullhead.

I'm told that the TV show "Eerie, Indiana" was originally set in Ohio. That sums up the Buckeye stereotype for me. We shoot at water towers, thinking it's an alien invasion. My neighbor was playing banjo on his back porch, and saw Bigfoot stepping over his fence. I lived a few years in Kentucky, in Somerset. Needless to say, my interpretation of Kentuckians is that they are a boaty peoples. My only knowledge of Kentucky Kingdom is of an accident, if I'm not mistaken. I'd never heard of it before. I agree with rcs that he shouldn't have to foot the bill of jumpstarting the park with his tax dollars. Let someone else bite that bullet.

I'm imagining that strange op art from the seventies. Black Lights a go go.

Ouch! That would be the worst.

Shall we start with naming the dog "Malibu" and go from there? It was an "emotional support" dog. I take it this woman needs emotional support because she's found herself alone after years of treating others like she just treated that dog.

Now I go to the park firmly convinced those scareactors have something genuinely wrong with them. I like the scare. Ringmaster's statement on name calling: it's not just the name. Once in Carnevil, the knowledge that clowns bothered me shot through the haunt like wildfire- you could hear people yelling out a description down the line. There's something about frightening people that's really fun, and letting yourself be scared is fun, too.

So I got out our Brady Bunch Season Five dvd (yes, we have all the seasons on dvd), fast forwarded to that scene and saw you. How cool! Of course, being the mom that she is, the first words out of Mrs. Gator's mouth were "Why is she walking all alone?" My sister and I were making our way to The Racer, but the director said not to run. My sister is not the great actress I am (Huzzah huzzah). My parents and brother were just out of the shot, near a building, and my sister was already at The Racer. The next summer we went to Disney in Florida, and stayed in the campground. I would start off as soon as possible, on my own, get to the park, and stay until the parade. I met the most interesting people. One night, I missed the last shuttle, and had to walk in the dark back to the campground. In retrospect, I wonder what my parents were thinking.

I'm sorry to hear that happened, believe me, you have my sympathies. I know how you feel. It makes you look at people differently. Losing a new Torch is a pain, but also that you had that camera for seven years, and let's face it, we develop emotional attachments to our things. It's awful to have in the back of your mind that you took good care of your camera, to make it last, and now some lazy crumb bum has it.

Well, no. "If it doesn't run, take it down" is not the problem, it's a possible answer. If it liquidates people from the inside out with it's shaking, then it doesn't work as a coaster, but as a cement mixer on wheels with people thrown in. It's poorly designed, people were hurt, they do not run it. It sits in the park like a brontosaurus corpse taking up real estate. Action Zone is an expanse of cement with some rides plunked down on it. It could use more rides- where that pile of wood happens to be setting.

There's not many Scotties, so perhaps you remembered him, that's the time we used the kennels. We would go say hello to him like every two hours, just in case he needed to go out. We believe his previous owner was deaf (He was a rescue), because he didn't bark, but would shove you with his nose to get attention, and we didn't want to saddle the caretakers with a bunch of odd instructions. There was a female caretaker that did take him out back, it could have been to an outdoor kennel, but when we stopped by for lunch, she had said she just brought him in. I could've mistaken the words to imply a walk. They had picnic tables nearby, where you can have lunch with your dog. He liked the kennel very much, and considering he was so curmudgeonly, that would be a compliment. It's a great service for people who don't want to leave their pets home in a crate all day while they are out having fun.

I've done elaborate costumes in my day, and can see that the wardrobe team at the park made the costumes for the Haunt well. There's a certain criteria for building costumes for such a large group of people that have to work in some very heavy conditions. I think they do a great job of costuming what? 500 people? on time and in budget. It's foggy, it's dark, the right actor could wear brown paper and can gitcha with the right tude. I didn't see Duct tape girl. Now I'm curious.

Good catch. I have no emotional attachment to SOB, I've never ridden it, but frankly, if it doesn't run, take it down. There's some space for fun that it's taking up. It's not like it's casting Gramma on the curb with all her furnishings. Action Zone can use some livening up.

So there was a kennel available, just like at KI, and Idiot leaves her dog in the car. Yes. She is an idiot. One summer it got so hot, that we took our dog to the park, after calling to make sure the kennel was available. Anyone with a third of an ounce of compassion would've called ahead and questioned if a kennel were available. I hope the dog now has a decent owner. Ki kennels have ac, are clean, have indoor and outdoor spaces, they walked my dog, and made sure he had plenty of water.

Same here. My first reaction was "get them out of the park!" but as the paper said, it went from inches to feet so fast, there was no time. There was nothing they could have done.

As Bobby and Cindy hand off the plans to Greg and Peter, you will see a small blonde girl in pigtails wearing a yellow shirt. That would be me.

I was Dollie girl last year for Trail of Terror. Or some people called me "pajama girl" But apparently what I heard is that Mysteria is suppose to freak out you senses. Like extreme light changes and optical illusions and such. I definitely remember YOU. The Fastfright option doesn't bother me, for some reason, I guess because when you go to a Haunted Attraction outside of the park, it costs you money to get in. The price of the FastFright boils down to what? (I'm being crappy with my math, right now-) less then five bucks a Haunt?

Thanks for the video, I appreciate it. The only thing missing was someone saying "Fried Dough" on the lift hill.

Sometimes things are added on to make the word count needed to complete the post, thus the repetition.

Definitely! It's more fun to go with the spirit of things. I can't see how people can go around being too cool to have fun.

Having both parks separate would alleviate some of the problems that people have stated in other threads, like people walking around the dry park in their bathing suits, or people just meandering through the water side. Right now, the water park looks like it would be a whole day's worth of things to do. You have to carry more with you if you are going to the pool for a few hours, and then to the park. That adds to the clutter that GYK noted. I think it would be easier for staff to know a better estimate of people at the park. They were understaffed when I went. We used to spend a day at the Beach, then ride a few rides at KI after. I had both passes. It didn't kill me. We stopped using the Beach when the adult pool became and all ages pool, (They did this without telling a local radio station before their swingin' Beach event- the dj was stuck talking about how hip and rocking the party was, while surrounded by 5-12 year old kids slopping on Dippin Dots.) The train could then become something nice, too, as someone's already said, not just a route to the water park. Maybe a transition, like a few free days at the water park, added to the pass might ease into the idea of two parks instead of one. GYK, what was the attraction that used to be free?

The Club Blood DJ denigrating our leather biker jackets. He kept it up until we were near the end of the ride. Too busy laughing, we were really caught off guard by one of the bungee boys.

Great idea! Just make sure to have some sort of lock on the zipper too so that they don't just open it up and take your stuff out instead of taking the whole bag! Mind reader. I'm already stocking on those small little locks to close the flaps and zippers, tricking it so that one lock can cover all the extraneous openings. Call me paranoid. Vortex brought up a point. More staffing- more job availability. The Australian meme has run it's course, Even Outback Steakhouse is strange with it's odd speaking spokesman, who doesn't sound Australian at all, he sounds like my uncle three sheets to the wind.

Silver2005, That's always who I thought of when I saw Boomerang Bay, Crocodile Dundee, and Men at Work, both of which are old shoes by now. Avatar, the park may not revolve around Cap'n Crunch, but these new designs and features seem to revolve around ME ME ME. This is exactly what I wanted changed. They must've been outside my car in the parking lot when I ranted.

Perhaps the Australian fad has lost it's flavor, and they want to update the image. I'm hoping for more lockers, and I see the grassy areas have been updated. More lounge chairs mean I won't have to park my possessions in the grass. (I'm designing a new park bag with a bike chain as the carry strap, to lock firmly onto a lounge chair- just in case there's no lockers.) A less crowded wave pool, intertubes, more changing rooms. I might give it a look. To be honest, I was only in Boomerang Bay for an hour this last summer, I only got to try the wave pool. I might look into giving the other things a try.

Doesn't B&M have a manufacturing plant in Ohio? I'm wondering if it could be someone else's track on route. Don't mean to spoil the party.