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They say not to lie to young'uns about the experiences of Roller Coasters in case they develop a phobia from it, but I will admit to having done that one time, with regards to the Indiana Jones/Adventure Express "coincidence". In order to entice my then seven-year-old nephew to ride Adventure Express, I told him it was an Indiana Jones ride (Raiders of the Lost Ark is his favorite movie). The queue music and the skeleton in a fedora just before the first lift hill aided me greatly in my deception. And he rode it and loved it. Still can't quite get him on Racer, but he's now ridden Backlot, Woodstock Express, and Adventure Express, as well as both coasters at Stricker's Grove. I'm hoping that this season I can convince him that Racer is only a little bit scarier than Tornado. Of course, in the eyes of a child, perhaps the difference is much bigger than it seems to an enthusiast. Admittedly, 55 feet to 88 feet is quite a leap in height.

Is Coaster Crew one of those approved? The list has not been announced yet. Except GOCC. They mentioned on their Facebook page that members will be invited. I do hope the April 17th date sticks around. It works out beautifully with my school schedule.

I know I'm going back to an older point of discussion, but I have a double approach to securing loose articles. I have cargo shorts with a flap over the pocket. I typically wear these, and reinforce the velcro with a Safety Pin. like Cedar Fair, I like redundancy in my fastening systems. If it is too cold for my cargo shorts, or they are in the laundry, etc, I have a small waterproof tackle box. It will hold my wallet and cell phone and fit nice and snug in my jeans pockets (snug to the point where INTENTIONALLY removing it is very, very difficult). Keys are ALWAYS attached to a carabiner clip on my belt loop (though people behind me on Diamondback are CONSTANTLY trying to inform me that my keys are falling out of my pockets). As an added bonus, the tackle box works well for the water park. Fits nicely in the pockets in my swim trunks, and has never allowed even a drop of water to touch the things inside it. Swim trunks with large pockets, the single biggest perk to having been born with a Y Chromosome!

If they will hold souvenir cups as they once did for Firehawk, then that's fine. Everything else I bring with me fits in my pockets. If not, then they can expect to make a LOT less money on drinks from me. Because I'll drink water before I'll pay for a locker.

We need turn no further than Muse to summarize the Starlight Sucktacular. Starlight, I will be chasing the starlight Until the end of my life I don't know if it's worth it anymore. My musings of Muse have made me that much more upset that Ed is leaving. My annual trip to Milwaukee this summer may require a detour to make a pilgrimage to Shakopee. Besides, that Wild Thing, she makes my heart sing!

When did we find out the show schedule last year? I'm anxious to find out if Ed Alonzo returns. His show is one of my favorite things about KI as of late. EDIT: Nevermind, reading the interview, it looks as though that show is gone. Ah, well. 'Twas fun while it lasted.

Here's your daily dose of the 1980s.

My favorite encounter with an Ark was at Kennywood. Being that I'm a man of faith who knows his Bible pretty darn well, I'm not sure how "biblically correct" the Kennywood Ark is, but I loved it. If any park relatively close builds something like that, they have one guaranteed ticket sale here.

So, wait, they're working on the parking lot? Glad to see them making an effort to smooth out the roughest ride in the park.

Shhhh! I was going to ask why Cedar Fair doesn't run two trains on Invertigo next! Invertigo does fine with a single train. I do think Wicked Twister could benefit from two trains, though. In fact, I think the improvement would be smashing.

I know that when I personally answered, I was responding to the topic in a hypothetical "you absolutely must remove a ride" scenario. In the real world, I am very happy with KI's ride lineup.

In the factory, my assumption would be that the track is powder coated. I have noticed a much nicer sheen to newly manufactured coasters that repainted ones don't quite get. Case in point, Gatekeeper looked much shinier this season than Invertigo just after its repainting, and the color is very similar.

Are there actually Portable Toilets on the construction site? I mean, there is a park bathroom that is extremely close by, which I'm sure would be much more enjoyable for the construction workers.

Indeed they did Knott.

They look very sleek and comfortable. I've yet to experience a Morgan coaster but I have heard some good things about Phantom's Revenge's restraints. Is this true anyone? I adore Phantom's Revenge, but you won't hear any praise from me on its restraints. I felt as if they were largely irrelevant and the seatbelt honestly did more to restrain me than the lap bar. Fortunately, the restraints on Lightning Run are completely and totally different. Lightning Run uses a T-Bar. Phantom uses some horrible abomination that comes down from the side, like an old school desk. Phantom also lacks any sort of handles, giving you no good place to hold on. Phantom is the weird case where the trains are not D.H. Morgan. They took the Arrow chassis from the Steel Phantom trains and put a new fiberglass body on them with new lap bars to replace the original Arrow OTSRs. But hey, I'm 6'1" and 140 pounds, probably a bit thinner than your average park guest.

Is it browser-based or IP based? You can clear the cache and cookies in any browser, effectively allowing for infinite votes if that's the restriction. If it's IP based, then I should get voting. I have access to four different internet connections at any given time.

Considering that all the sites above us cover the entire industry or revolve around a destination park, I'd say we're doing pretty well.

Well, if one can die at a fountain, it is quite possible that its water will be red.

Vortex.beansisland.com/pics/KI/Banshee That's my own personal server on which I host the webcam captures every 10 minutes. You have to go to the bottom to reach the newest capture, but a quick tap of the end key will get you there. If that's blocked for any reason, I have another server that captures it every 30 minutes: beast.beansisland.com/pics/KI/Banshee Looking at my own captures, I'm in the Sun glare camp.

Well, there but by a can of spraypaint go Paramount. I think one of the only obviously Paramount things left is our Stunt Coaster in Coney Mall that scene-for-scene recreates the final chase in the 2003 version of The Italian Job. EDIT: I'm fairly certain that it's just a glare, unless they were out painting over it in the wee hours of the morning before sunrise.

Well, while we established that it had been manipulated, we never established that it was manipulated well.

Not hard to manipulate web pages. It took me a grand total of 45 seconds to make this happen. No Photoshop whatsoever. *Note that this is a manipulated screenshot, and the image represented within does not represent Kings Island or any attraction therein. But it may reflect the poster's opinions of an attraction within Kings Island.

Morgan Hypers are wonderful. I have very high hopes for Lightning Run, even if it isn't really a "hyper"

Maybe they want to be more careful. As you said in your post, CP accidentally ended up adding a ride that isn't thrilling to the "Thrill Rides" section of the website.

Adventure Express, sometime between 2000 and 2001. I don't know the year, but Son of Beast and King Cobra were both operating. Then the coaster that was then called the Pepsi Ripsaw at what was then Camp Snoopy in the Mall of America in 2003. Then Space Mountain, then Big Thunder Mountain (both in Orlando) in 2004. I wouldn't ride another coaster until 2010.