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You need to look for the radio buttons under the size drop-down. One says "HTML", the other says "BBCode". Make sure to select BBCode before copying the code. HTML doesn't work.

On the photo page on Flickr, click on the box with the arrow above your username/photostream. Then click "Grab the HTML/BBCode", select the BBCode option at the bottom of the pop-up, select the size you want from the drop-down box, then copy the code in the text box and paste it into KIC.

Now that I'm back on my computer where I can more easily type longish posts, let's see here: 1. Wood vs. Steel: I actually did not want to answer this question at all, because I feel that you cannot compare wood and steel. They are two totally different animals. I have an (out-of-date) ranking of steel coasters and an (out-of-date) ranking of wood coasters, but never would I dream of making a combined ranking. Likewise, I will never say that wood is better than steel or vice versa, because it depends on the individual coaster and as I just said, I cannot rank wood and steel together. However, the system requires me to answer all questions or none at all, so I chose randomly and came up with wood. Therefore, you can reduce the vote count for wood by one when reading the results. 2. Airtime vs. Inversions: This is a close one, because I like them both. However, airtime is airtime, and I like both floater and ejector air with no preference between the two. Inversions, on the other hand, vary; some I like, some I don't, and it's not so much a function of the type of element as it is how well that element is designed and whether it results in painful head-banging. I may love the corkscrew on one coaster and hate a nearly identical corkscrew on another. So I voted airtime because I can consistently love that on virtually all coasters, whereas I can't say the same about inversions. 3. Height vs. Speed: Easy pick. I'll take speed over height any day. I have absolutely zero fear of heights (I'm the kind of person that can climb 40 feet up a 60-foot climbing wall and then look down without panicking when I realize how high I am), so the only cool thing about height to me is the view. Speed, however, always gives me a rush. It's interesting to note here that speed and height often go hand-in-hand with roller coasters, so you usually get both at once, but I'm more interested in the speed than the height. 4. Dream Coaster Airtime/Inversions: As I said in #2, I like both, and so my dream coaster would have both. The inversions need to be smooth, though. The ultimate dream coaster would have airtime and inversions at the same time, as well as speed. This would more than likely necessitate OTSRs, though, so the restraints need to be specially designed to eliminate the head-banging often associated with OTSRs while still allowing significant airtime. 5. Type of Coaster: Oh my. Too many choices. Um... let's start by narrowing it down. Strata, giga, and hyper are height classifications and not types of coasters on their own to me, so we can eliminate them. The one wing coaster I've ridden (GateSleeper) has been extremely underwhelming, so we can kill that; the same goes for the dive coaster (ShieKra). While I love water coasters, they are a third entirely different animal and shouldn't be in the same category as regular roller coasters IMO, so they're out. Launching is a gimmick (albeit one that I like) that can be combined with many of the other types, so it is not a type itself IMO. So after the first round of elimination, that leaves us with sitting looping, sitting non-looping, stand-up, floorless, inverted, and flying. Looking closer, I've ridden exactly one stand-up (Mantis), and while I love it, there are other coasters I love more. Likewise, I've ridden one floorless (Kraken) and only did so twice; it was good, but not memorable, as evidenced by the fact that I remember nothing about the ride 10 1/2 months later. I've ridden a few inverts and they were really good, so they stay as a candidate. Of flyers, I've ridden two, one Vekoma (Firehawk) and one B&M (Manta); I like them, but not as much as the inverts, so they're out. That leaves the two sitting types and inverts. Sitting is obviously what I've ridden the most of, and my all-time favorite wood and steel coasters (Voyage and Millennium Force) are sitting non-loopers. But this is about best type, not type of your best. When we compare sitting to inverts, one thing I've noticed is that inverts are consistently intense, while sitting coasters vary wildly in intensity. We've talked about airtime, inversions, and speed above, but when it really comes down to it, what I love most on a coaster is intensity. And inverts have that more often than sitting coasters, so I have to go with inverts here. Which means that after typing this long paragraph, I now have to go back and change my original vote that I made from my phone.

^ ENFJ sounds right for you, given your leadership of the camp for your cousins.

We have great wolf lodge walking distance Mr. Ouimet is talking about hotels owned by the park/Cedar Fair. Great Wolf Lodge is not owned by Kings Island or Cedar Fair.

A few others have waxed eloquent above about obesity and the ADA. What follows is my response. I am offended that we as a society have allowed our system to reach the point where fat (no, I will not use politically correct terms, for that too offends me) is considered a disability. The fat people who are claiming as such need a cold, hard dose of reality. In a perfect world, this accident would be it, but sadly that will not be the case. Instead of seeking special treatment, get up off your lazy @$$ and lose some weight so you don't "need" special treatment (and I put "need" in quotation marks because it's really "want"). I don't care how you lose weight, just do it. Fat is NOT a disability. Get over it. (Note that this rant applies only to those fat people who try to abuse their physical condition for special treatment. I have no issue with those that recognize and accept their limitations, and furthermore accept that there are some things that they just can't do, like most [i would hope all] of the larger folks on here.)

OK, when I first saw that, I thought that six people ("train operators") had been killed on Gemini, and I was wondering, "Why haven't I heard of this before?" I had to read it twice to figure out that you were talking about six-train operation. Whew!

Let me guess: Hersheypark?

We have now exceeded 7,000 posts. I predict that we will hit 10,000 before the announcement.

Yes, it is a locking lap bar.

You need to upload it to a third-party image hosting site, such as Photobucket, Flickr, or Imgur, then find the BBCode for embedding provided on that site and copy and paste that into these forums.

From my experiences, it seems that the Blue side runs from noon to 8pm on 10pm closing days. Not sure about midnight closings. Welcome to KIC, and thanks for sharing your night!

^ Being a Bengals fan is nothing to be ashamed of. Being a Browns fan, on the other hand...

^ The PDF contains both English (in blue) and German (in black). Google Translate result of the webpage: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http://www.gerstlauer-rides.de/produkte/holzachterbahnzuege/hybrid-achterbahnzuege/

It's not that a random number wouldn't be believable as much as it would be noted I missed by one of reaching the 12,000 mark. My rides were accrued in a non-consecutive fashion, so whether I finish at 11,999 or took it to 20,000, it's a mark that will never be broken for the most non-consecutive rides on the same roller coaster. Ah, thank you for the clarification!

I believe it was at the 2012 Coasting for Kids event where he told us. If I'm not mistaken, it has something to do with the number being more believable in his obituary. The theory is that no one would make up the number 11,999 because a liar would want to say that they actually got to the multiple of a thousand. Numbers like 12,000 or 12,364 (or even "over 12,000") would be less believable because they might sound like a number that somebody would make up. Therefore he stopped at a number that no one would lie about. Now my memory is not very good, so all of this could be a figment of my imagination causing me to remember a conversation that never took place, but if my memory is actually working for once, now you know.

I think the KIC tweet means that one person on here is actually privy to what it really is, having learned from or been told by KI or CF management. My guess is Terpy or one of the admins.

https://twitter.com/KingsIslandPR/status/358356793103097857 Yes, Don. I get it. You're toying with us. I love it.

Yes, this. Airtime is not the only issue here. There is also the issue of hanging over the first drop from the front few rows. How do you stay on there if the restraint suddenly fails?

I still don't get it. What, exactly, are the physics that would prevent me from flying out on Diamondback if the restraint were to fail?

Other news stations outside the area are beginning to pick it up. WHIO-TV in Dayton: http://www.whiotv.com/ap/ap/transportation/boat-rolls-backward-at-ohio-amusement-park-7-hurt/nYxby/

To be clear for everyone else, the story linked above was updated with a witness statement. Another link for convenience: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20130719-breaking-news-woman-killed-while-riding-texas-giant-roller-coaster-six-flags-confirms.ece

Make that not a good month. At the beginning of the month, a Snake River Falls boat jumped the trough. http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/4242381

I can't imagine that. I can only hold my breath for about 45 seconds, maybe a minute if I absolutely had to. Beyond that, I'm drowning. And those numbers are assuming I'm able to prepare by taking deep breaths (i.e. that I'm underwater intentionally or that I have enough advance notice and am calm enough to prepare). Without preparing, I might be drowning in 30 seconds. Locking lap bars that you can't easily get out of like on Shoot the Rapids and Giraffica at HW always make me a bit nervous on water rides. Non-locking seat belts like White Water Canyon, CP's Thunder Canyon, or HW's Raging Rapids that you can release on your own in an emergency are fine with me. Snake River Falls at CP is kind of a gray area; it has locking lap bars, but they are of the single-position variety, and you probably could squirm out of them if needed.

The boat was apparently traveling backwards.... Backwards down a lift hill, which is why I asked about anti-rollbacks. From the article (emphasis added):