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... you must go now! I'd love to try one, but there are three Subways in Xenia (where I live), including one within walking distance of my house. The nearest Penn Station is a 15-minute drive, and with today's gas prices, that's too far to drive for a sub when I can walk to Subway. It's the same way I love Long John Silver's, but with the closest one 15 minutes away in Fairborn, I only go there when I'm already in Fairborn for other reasons. I see that there's a Penn Station close to KI, so I may try that one soon.

I've never been to a Penn Station, so I can't answer that.

Joncars05, please read this exchange from a couple pages back: Let me play devil's advocate here for a minute. You may be comparing apples and oranges there, and here's why: Those guests in the FL would, without FL, all be in the regular line, making the regular line longer. It might be that the wait time in a given situation is the same as it would be without FL, only that the the line is physically shorter (because guests are split between two lines instead of all being in one line) and thus misleading you as to what the wait time without FL would be. Does that make sense? This would only account for people in the Fast Lane pre getting in line. Wait times will be increased due to people getting in line after someone get in line. I'm not against the Fast Lane pass in any way but I do not agree that the wait times are not affected. But while it does not account for people who pass you in the FL after you're in line, think about people who used FL and rode before you got in line but who would have otherwise, without FL, still been in line ahead of you when you got in line. At first glance, those people, taken alone, should shorten your wait compared to no FL because they're no longer in line. Those people will likely be similar in number to the people who get in the FL after you enter the standby line and who, taken alone, lengthen your wait, and I would guess that those two factors cancel each other out nicely, leaving my previous explanation still valid. That argument is the same as saying, if there were only one single line, to think about the people that rode at 10AM when I get into line at 5PM. They have already been through and forgotten about. Those rides would have went weather I was in line or not. Anyone entering the FL post me getting into the standby line increases my wait by their ride.Basically the same as if I were waiting in line and decide to let someone in front of me to ride with their larger group. My wait time increases by 1 train cycle. What I'm trying to say is this: let's say that pre-FL, your wait time would have been 45 minutes, meaning that 45 minutes of riders are in line ahead of you when you get in line. With FL, let's say that of those 45 minutes worth of riders, one-third purchase a FL wristband and use the FL before you get in line, thus reducing the standby line to what appears to be (from your pre-FL experience) a 30-minute wait when you get in line. While you are in line, 15 minutes worth of riders enter the FL and pass you. Add those last two figures together, and you end up waiting 45 minutes, which is the same length of time you would have waited without FL. In other words, yes, those who pass you in the FL slow down the standby line, but that increase is offset by the reduction in the initial length of the line, which you don't see. Essentially, what we need to do is throw away our preconceived notions of "a line to this point is this long of a wait", because those "timepoints" have been changed by FL, even though the actual wait times have not changed much, if at all. The point here is that if we assume FL usage is consistent, those 309 people who passed you were offset by 309 people who used FL before you got in line but would have otherwise still been in the regular line ahead of you when you got in line. Either way, you still would have had to wait on everyone ahead of you in the regular line when you got in + 309 other people. Whether those other 309 people were ahead of you in the standby line or passed you in the FL doesn't matter. FL does not increase wait times except by re-riding, and re-riding, based on reports so far, doesn't seem to be very common. You reported only two instances of re-riding while you were in line, namely a group of four that rode six times (4 × 5 = 20 re-rides, remember that the initial ride doesn't affect the wait) and a group of two that rode three times (2 × 2 = 4 re-rides). That's only 24 extra riders. So FL may have made you wait one extra train. That's it. Contrary to appearances, it did not increase your wait time by 35%.

Not the best, but good nonetheless. You have to wait a couple of minutes because it's made to order right before your eyes. It's $8.69 for the cheesesteak and chips, less if you get it without the chips like I did.

Gray because I already have two blue cups of the same shape from last year (one each from KI and CP), so I opted for something different this year.

Thank you! We finally have the answer to "what is the limit on FL passes?" 20% of attendance. That seems a little high to me, but they probably know more about this than I do. Between Mr. Ouimet's comments about SOB and Don's comments here, it looks like we have a new era of better transparency. Cedar Fair is definitely moving in the right direction.

The Couch-to-5K program Smurf referred to is here: http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml I would encourage you to give that program a shot now. If you're already walking/running 2.5 miles, then depending on what the proportion of running to walking is, you could probably jump in around week 2 or 3 right now.

BINGO! I have been rather fed up with all the tight lips around SOB as if it were top-secret classified information. Mr. Ouimet's openness is refreshing to say the least. Perhaps they should trim the tree?

D'oh! I got that email but didn't look at it too closely. Now I see it in there. Thanks for reminding me that everyone has the right to occasional stupidity.

I believe it replaced Thrill Seekers Jr. (or whatever it was called) based on my quick glances over there from the opposite side of IS. I did not go down the north side of IS on opening day.

Do you know what the opening and closing times are for that weekend? And, not to say that I don't believe you, but just because I like to see the evidence with my own eyes when possible, where did you hear that, and (if on the Internet) can you link me to it?

General public opening day? No way. That's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. You won't find me anywhere near KI that weekend. However, if I can ever find out what the dates and hours are for the Gold Pass preview days that were announced last year (or if those preview days are even still going to take place, considering that I can no longer find any reference to them on the KI website), I'll go to one of those in a heartbeat. I've sent a message through the "contact us" form on the KI website asking about it and I've tweeted the question to Mr. Scheid, but I've never received a response from either of them.

I was thinking exactly that as I was reading his post. Then I scrolled down to your post. What is it they say about great minds?

Great report! As has been said in the Fast Lane thread, FL does not affect wait times unless someone rides multiple times during your wait because the FL users would otherwise be in the standby line with you. What it does do is change the timepoints (i.e. X minutes from this spot) that we've all become so used to. You need to throw out your preconceived notions in that regard.

Yes, Terpy is correct. The Beast was replaced with Invertigo for ERT. Many people on opening day either didn't know that or didn't care, which made it very easy for me to get first train of the year on Invertigo as everyone else raced to Diamondback.

Has anyone on here used the new electronic lockers yet? If so, were you allowed to choose your own locker, or did the kiosk just randomly assign you a locker? I hope for KI's sake that it's the former, because if it simply assigns you a random locker, they're asking for a lawsuit over an ADA violation the first time a dwarf puts their money in and gets stuck with a top-row locker that they can't reach. Hell, I'm small enough that I have trouble reaching the top row; in the past, if I was given a key for a top-row locker, I'd go back to the rental counter and exchange it for a different one (which they were always happy to do). I really hope we can choose our locker or at least the row we want it in.

There's 76 of them right here. (edited to kill the stupid automatic slideshow)

Apparently they're doing this with multiple crews, as there's also a Travel Channel crew at Holiday World today for what appears to be the same show, based on this Facebook post.

I'm not sure who the bigger idiot(s) is/are here: the two bikers for trespassing, the guy who lost his job for (presumably) leaving the gate open, or the whole security department for giving these guys the run of the place for six minutes and never showing up to stop them.

I know it's going to be a good TR when I'm laughing at the thread title before I even click on the thread. Nice report. Awesome shirt, by the way!

Yes, Dayton International Airport is, as the name indicates, an international airport. EDIT: What ^he said.

Travel Channel is doing (another) coaster special, this time putting coasters up against others to see which is the best. Travel Channel was at Dollywood a few weeks ago, they are now at Kings Island this weekend to collect more footage for the special. It will probably be ready to air by mid-summer. Thank you for the explanation.

Yeah. What is going on? Would somebody who knows please explain?

KI just tweeted this: Anyone here know what's going on? I didn't know there was going to be a Travel Channel shoot this weekend until I saw the tweet.

There is no response to that except this: