homestar92

Using "Because" as an answer has always irked me. Unless the question is, "What is the worst song on Abbey Road?". In that case, it is a perfectly acceptable answer.

Find the error. Kings Island isn't technically IN Cincinnati? KIC's servers are probably not in Cincinnati (Though I don't honestly know. I could be wrong there)? Description isn't detailed enough to tell you whether it is the forum or the park that is supposed to be in Cincinnati? KIC tends to feature discussion of many things other than Kings Island? Oh, you mean the misspelling of "dedicated". That, too.

At one point last year, someone told me that 2013 was Vortex's last season. At the time, I thought they were mad. Now, however, I must acknowledge that as a true statement. On November 3rd, however, I will no longer make such an acknowledgement... Ah, homonyms...

Figure out what color the slips of paper are that they hand you after taking your picture. They don't change daily to my knowledge. Bring a small slip of paper of that color with you and hold it up as you walk in. I have done this before, and it usually works. Sometimes you get the overzealous guy that wants to take your picture anyway, but honestly, it's 5 seconds and they've got quotas to meet, so just let them take the picture and they'll be satisfied and you can carry on with your day. Another idea is to have your group split up and rejoin after you get past them. I have not been stopped by them a single time when coming to the park alone.

^Don't you mean "Monstors"? Now all we need is an option to buy a set of foglamps and we can almost make the park enjoyable during Haunt. - Homestar92, who finds the fog to be an irritant, in more ways than one.

Not to mention, the measurements of time on those signs are incremental. There is no place to point the arrow for a 38 minute wait, so the most appropriate course of action that estimates the wait time while retaining the readability of the sign will often involve some degree of rounding. I've always interpreted the 15 minute mark, for example, as meaning more than zero but less than 30 more than interpreting it as truly meaning 15 minutes.

Oh, if you thought Mind Eraser at Darien Lake was bad, there's a FAR worse one at a park just a couple hours away across the Canadian border...

It's amazing to me, both how much has changed and how much has stayed the same, in that video.

Closing day is a Sunday, however. It is entirely possible, plausible even, that November 1st will be more crowded than the 2nd.

2015 is, unless I'm mistaken, the 10th anniversary season of Backlot Stunt Coaster, am I correct? As of the beginning of the 2013 season, 40,649,743. https://www.visitkingsisland.com/media-center/ride-record-book At that time, it had completed 26 seasons, averaging 1,563,481 rides a year. So at the end of this season, it will likely be between 43 and 44 million.

And The Bat is proof that some TLC can actually change the experience of a steel coaster pretty substantially. Seriously, on media day, that ride was running so smooth it was amazing. Not that it's rough by any stretch, but it was smoothER. Top Bat Gun Deck has, on the worst days that I can recall, always been a much more smooth ride than the other two Arrow Suspendeds I've ridden. Granted, my experience with it only goes back to 2010, so I could certainly be wrong.

Man, I wish I liked wings... That sounds like a heck of a deal. As it is, the only Wings I care for are the variety with Paul McCartney. I want to see some KICers make us proud with record numbers of wings consumed.

My thoughts...

And as much as we hate it, no matter how beloved something may be by its fans or how reliable it is, or even how iconic it may be, that doesn't guarantee it will stick around forever. Money talks. Things that don't make money are bound to go bye-bye one day no matter how much people love them. See my avatar for proof (well, maybe "iconic" wouldn't apply there, but the other examples all do). Not saying I'd be OK with it if Vortex or Adventure Express left us. It would be devastating. It would fundamentally change Kings Island for me, and probably not in a way that I like. But such is life. Besides the woodies, I reckon I will outlive every coaster at Kings Island (assuming I live for roughly the average amount of time). Yes, that includes Diamondback and Banshee.

Taking out Vortex would be enough to bump Kings Island from my second favorite FUN park to my least favorite. If not for the fact that I'd be getting a Platinum to get into other parks anyway, it might be enough to make me stop buying season passes...

But, in said bathroom, you can enjoy a cold drink of water from their conveniently-located drinking fountain. Or not. (I really want to love that park...)

Zours. But not regular Mike and Ike candies. Those are foul. And as for dessert... Chocolate frozen custard from Culver's. Or Kings Island blue ice cream, from Planet Snoopy. Ice Scream Zone gets the color wrong.

They may not have the old ones anymore though. I've seen photos of the trains from Twisted Twins in storage at another SIX property (I want to say St. Louis). If SIX took those with them, then why not the ones from T2 as well? Especially since there are a lot of SLCs in the SIX portfolio. Though I'm sure they wouldn't be against Erasing those purchases from their Mind. Though I have no idea what new trains cost. If they weren't adding two brand new rides, I'd almost say it seems like it would be feasable with the $8 million figure. With two new rides and refurbishments on three others, though, I frankly don't even see how they could deliver the things they've ALREADY promised on that budget.

Still holding out for those new trains. I can imagine that an SLC would be greatly improved if you eliminate the headbanging. Heck, take away the headbanging, I might prefer them over B&M Inverts. The twisted, compact layout of most SLCs makes for a ride that, in theory, SHOULD be a lot of fun, Unfortunately, theory and practice are not always the same...

The Auntie Anne's locations at the park lost my interest when they discontinued the pepperoni pretzels. Those were delightful. I've been told that many Auntie Anne's locations do not sell them because the shelf life isn't as high as the regular ones. If that's true, then I understand their decision, but I still long for those delicious things.

Even Hartland had a quick and painless season pass renewal system in place this year... Well, as long as you were able to physically go to the park, that is... Why Cedar Fair has so much trouble with today's computer technology is beyond me... Perhaps once I have the 5 years experience that they were looking for, I could help them out with their software.

A complete demolition, followed by a complete rebuild from all new materials constitutes a new road (or coaster) by the way I count. Of course, some people might count differently, and that's fine. This conversation is prompting me to program my own database application to track my coasters. Coaster-Count.com works, mostly, but it only offers one way of counting. As we've learned, not everyone counts the same way. I'm writing my own database (with a browser-based frontend written in HTML and PHP) where I specify everything manually, so I can count racing coasters as only one, while also counting Haunted House at Camden (things coaster-count doesn't allow). I will happily share my source code when I' done if anyone wants it. I'm also really awful with CSS if anyone wants to help with styling. Anyway, looks like another topic has been successfully derailed. Sorry about that, lol.

That question hasn't kept me from posting there. The fact that I haven't looked at that thread lately is what's kept me from posting there. I look at it like travelling on a road. I can travel I-75 in my car or on a bus with standing room only. But either way, I'm travelling down I-75. They can add or remove lanes (an analogy for Son of Beast and Hades and their inversions) but that doesn't change the fact that it's still I-75. They can repave it (Thunder Run) and it's still I-75. However, if they tore up the asphalt and converted it to a completely different form of transit (let's go with a canal, because those are fun) then it is very clearly no longer the same thing, even if they continue to call it I-75 (An analogy for the RMC conversions at SIX parks). The only situation this doesn't have an analogy for is relocations. And for those, I consider it the same coaster. Yes, Rougarou will probably be a totally new experience, but I track coasters, not experiences. If I tracked experiences, then my spreadsheet would be a lot longer to make room for wheel seat rides vs non wheel seat rides on The Beast, as one example.

But to take down a ride that still moves lines, has plenty of fans, is relatively low maintenance, and still reasonably popular is quite a bit more far-fetched than to demolish one that sat unused for years.

No, as they do not run along the same track. Simple.