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OK, I'll bite and be the first to say it, because you know someone will eventually: Maybe a red B&M giga for 2014????? Probably not, but only time will tell!

I'm also looking at an outside shot at making it to Dollywood this year, so keep the tips coming.

Excellent report so far, can't wait to see the rest! Oh, and mind telling me what hotel you were staying at? 'Cause I want to make sure not to stay there next time I go to Orlando.

May I suggest the Couch-to-5K Running Plan this time?

I like the 10% off at sit-down restaurants deal. The rest of the food deals are a mixture of good and bad; good in that they're actually useful for one or two people (none of this "buy four meals and get a salad free" crap that we deal with at KI), and bad in that who's going to remember that whole list? They should have scrapped everything on the food deals list except the sit-down restaurants deal, and then extended that one deal to counter-service locations as well. It'd be a whole lot easier to keep track of. On another note, now that I know how to get the Hotel Breakers discount, it's time to reserve my room for CoasterMania!

I will knott be going to Knott's until they get rid of their stupid policy on glasses. The rest of your trip, however, sounds great. Have fun!

My account is working fine as well and shows my 2012 information. However, it shows me as −23.67% of the way to four stars, which makes no sense; how could that be a negative number?

Two years. Max. Both valid possibilities. I personally don't know which to expect myself, but either way, we shall see!

Potations? The act of drinking, usually alcohol. Really? I'm guessing he means petitions.

Any bets on how long they keep ALL of the lights working?

Mrs. Gator and GatorGirl don't seem to have fundraising pages when I click on Team KIC. Is that a glitch, or did you forget something?

http://www.cedarpoint.com/blog-article/online-fun/Behind-the-Scenes-at-Cedar-Downs Some good photos of the work being done and a photo underneath the floor showing the mechanism that makes the horses go up and down. (Note that a couple of the captions apparently got transposed and haven't been fixed as of this posting; the "You can actually see the difference..." and "Here is a bonus shot..." captions should be swapped.)

I've added a column to the opening day meetup spreadsheet for this event.

When anyone quotes a post, as I just did, the timestamp in the quote header is five minutes ahead from the timestamp on the original post that was quoted. It seems to be consistent, both in terms of always occurring on every quote, and in terms of always being exactly a five-minute difference. Who's playing with the time machine?

There are still Dick's stores with operational rock climbing walls? My local store closed the rock wall permanently years ago. And as for the argument about grasping something, IANAL but if I were the judge, or on the jury, I'd take the simple fact that the rule about grasping something is not at all enforced (as clearly evidenced by the fact that riders put their hands in the air all the time) as proof that the rule is obviously not necessary and that it is therefore discrimination to enforce it on people with disabilities but not on people without disabilities.

For some reason, the system will not allow me to save a signature that includes any images at all. Is this a rule change I'm not aware of or a bug?

What are tubes? Tubs, not tubes. He's referring to the thing you ride in.

I have the lead for now, thanks to a $100 donation from a friend of my dad. I doubt that will last, though.

I decided that I'm going to do KI again this year. I signed up and joined Team KIC. My donation page is here: https://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/jonathangoble/KingsIsland2013

That link can only be viewed on an iPhone or iPod touch.

I found this particularly interesting: B&M is willing to do a launched coaster if asked. I had thought that it had previously been said on here that B&M would not do launched coasters due to reliability issues. If so, they appear to have changed their tune.

"wtih"? Should be "with". (And I note that it has been fixed already.)

I don't understand why you think there's no point, but I'll let it be. If this argument discussion is over with, then I'm going to bed.

... ... Exactly what is this supposed to mean? If you think I'm wrong, then explain to me where you think I'm wrong. Replies like this are not helpful in the least.

I'll take that point by point: "Except when there is a line for the ride it does what it's supposed to; queue people up." Except that the line these days is never long enough to come anywhere close to filling the entire queue. "Wasted space? Huh?" Yes, wasted space. Flight Deck no longer has any use for a queue that long (see point 1), so most of it is just taking up space that would be better used for park expansion. "SOB was never 'in the way' seeing how it was built after Flightdeck." When SOB was built, Flight Deck/Top Gun probably still had lines long enough to require that long of a queue, meaning that SOB was in fact not in the way at that time. SOB only began to be in the way of park expansion (see point 2) when Flight Deck's line ceased to ever be long enough to fill the queue (see point 1). Comprende?