jcgoble3

The pepperoni pretzels were/are an AA product. The KI location had them for most of their first summer, but they disappeared from the menu in August of that first summer and haven't returned.

This. I loved those pepperoni pretzels. The regular ones and the cinnamon ones aren't nearly as good. I want my pepperoni pretzels back!

Sounds like the trustees have plenty of optimism. I just hope that optimism isn't for naught.

Yeah, fair point. I realized right after I posted it that I was probably overreacting, but was too lazy to edit.

Am I the only one who thinks that a chant based on alcohol commercials is inappropriate on a ride frequented by children? jcgoble3, asking an honest question

Speaking of which, has anyone on here asked about or attempted to purchase a drink wristband since Halloween season began? I'm interested to know if they've sorted out the confusion or not.

Bring-a-friend discounts generally require that the physical pass be presented at the ticket window at the time of purchase, both to verify that the pass is valid and eligible for the offer, and to enforce any limit on the number of tickets per passholder.

^ Agreed, though the basketballs-as-prizes do not come from the three-point shootout. They come from the single-shot midway games scattered throughout the park.

Are you sure that they weren't working, or were you pressing them too fast? Only one button works at a time, so once you press one button, you must wait for that effect to stop plus an additional couple of seconds before any other button will respond to being pressed. I've seen many people make the mistake of pushing several buttons one after the other and then getting frustrated when only the first one works. This is not due to a lack of maintenance; it's been this way since the trail opened in 2011.

^ Looked fine to me when I was at The Beach on the 7th. Has it really faded that much in three weeks?

Technically, Delta Delta Die is a house, though it is a sorority house and not a traditional one-family dwelling. The latter was lost last year when Massacre Manor was removed.

Yes, school is in session right now, hence why KK is open weekends only in September. Put another way, non-holiday weekday operations cease when school resumes, but weekend operations continue (along with Labor Day), because their high school student workers (which are probably a large portion of their workforce) are only available on weekends and Labor Day once school starts back up. Also, attendance would be low on a day when school is in session because the majority of the target market is busy attending school and thus unable to go to the park. KI is the same way: large numbers of workers become unavailable on weekdays after school starts up, and attendance takes a nosedive because much of the target markets are in school.

Details on the last rides on October 19: https://www.cedarpoint.com/blog-article/online-fun/The-Last-Day-For-Mantis?mobile=0

jcgoble3, cross-threading

Summer, okay. Winter weather?! In theory, a harsh winter can create excessive snow days, which can require schools to make up a lot of days, which requires students to stay in school longer, which reduces leisure time for those same students in the early part of the summer, and reduced leisure time means fewer chances to go out and do things like go to amusement parks. On the flip side, what hot summer? It seemed rather cool to me, and given that southwest Ohio isn't that far from Louisville, I wouldn't think there would be that drastic of a temperature difference between here and there for a whole summer. This statement just baffles me.

Yes, that link works for me. Thank you!

I clicked that link. I sat waiting for the image to load for two minutes before I finally got this message: Really?

^ My advice: Don't bet on it.

Last year, The Legend remained open through the second weekend of October. It closed two weeks early.

Perhaps he meant to say "at least". We don't know. Hopefully the park will survive for a few more years so we can find out for sure.

The way I've been interpreting that $1.5M-to-$2M figure is that the lease requires that they invest that much, but there's nothing prohibiting them from investing more. The plan may be to invest far more each year, say $6M one year, then $18M another year on a brand new coaster, etc. Likely (and this is just my speculation), the Fair Board demanded that Hart guarantee a minimum investment every year, and Hart went with a low figure so he could have freedom to have a year with low capex (e.g. 2013 at KI, when we got the Reds Grille and not much else) to allow saving money for a large capex the following year (e.g. 2014 at KI with Banshee). What I'm getting at here is that if the lease specified, let's pick a number out of thin air here, $8 million per year, then he would have to spend $8 million EVERY single year, hurting the ability to save for larger capital expenditures in future years. Thus, a low minimum figure enables more freedom to have large capexes more frequently, which is a good thing. Correct me if there's hard evidence to the contrary, but the word "minimum" doesn't have to be present in the lease proposal or contract here. If the contract says one figure, and Hart and company spend a higher figure, I seriously don't think the Fair Board would complain in the least. And for a preemptive rebuttal to those who would respond by asking where this extra money will come from, yes, Hart risked very little of his own money at the outset and had trouble getting loans, but I think once a couple of years pass and the park shows that it seems to be succeeding, all parties will see less risk than there was during the initial financing stage last year, resulting in banks being more willing to lend money, and Hart maybe being more willing to dig into his own pocket.

I thought the planned new-for-2015 coaster became Lightning Run and showed up a year early.

^ I know how you feel. When I went to Disney's Hollywood Studios in 2010 for an evening during the Last Tour to Endor event (the farewell for the old Star Tours), I got there early enough to catch a Backlot Tour ride. I wasn't impressed. When I did a full trip to Walt Disney World in 2012, including a full day at DHS, I skipped it in favor of spending my time on other things.

Festhaus is the one place at KI where I feel Wi-Fi is actually needed, as I sometimes lose service inside that building. As for watching Netflix, most public Wi-Fi hotspots require you to accept terms and conditions before granting you access, and those conditions often include a restriction against excessively heavy use, such as streaming whole movies, to prevent one person from hogging all the bandwidth. Also, public Wi-Fi is rarely more than 1 Mbps, on which you're going to struggle to stream video without buffering.

He means standard inverted trains, like Raptor, Banshee, or Invertigo.