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Fast Lane will just send you to the station, as If you were in the regular line, but with no/minimal wait. Depending on the separator/ride/wait, you may or may not get assigned a row. But, as The Beast Unchained said, you could request a row if you wanted.

If a Go-Kart track were to come back, I would imagine it would have a more exciting layout than Thunder Alleys. They still have the cars, which could be used for a future Go-Kart attraction. Not sure where/when/if they would put it.

I remember these from a few years back. I'm pretty sure it was 10/10/10 I went and got a Snoopy Bobble head... 3 years ago today. It is still on display along with Jay Bruce, Joey Votto, and Chris Sabo.

I believe my personal Vortex record is 5, set on September 8th, 2013.

Whenever anybody spoke to Don about it, he said it was all placeholder material and it was not meant to persuade anybody.

Yeah... Rode it twice in the rain.

Ride Vortex in 7-1, was the only rider. It was on two train operation. I headed to WindSeeker, no trash can at the entrance, but was told it was closed due to wind.

Can't see much here, quick picture I took in line yesterday. Something is visible, not sure what.

She looks good!

Great trip report, and awesome pictures! Glad I got to meet you!

Looking great!

I tried to find you back on the 22nd, but never did. I was in the station when only one of the three trains was allowing people on.

Thank you! Sorry about that, just the way it turned out. Thank you! That was actually suppose to be a photo of an awesome amazing B&M coaster (feels good to safely say that) that included those boats and... BeastForevers head. Thank you! And yes you did. The ride was ok, and your all like 'THAT WAS AWESOME WE DOIN IT AGAIN"! Thank you! Diamondback really does look amazing!

That is wickedly twisted don't care what Wicked Twister says!

So, here is a rather delayed trip report from the KICentral event back on September 8th. Most of the pictures are just from the special festivities in this PTR and not really the rides. My mom (DiamondAceExpress) and I arrived at Kings Island at about the time the parking lot opened. We were the first of the KIC group to arrive at the front gate. I unfortunately do not completely remember the names of everyone and such that showed up, because I forgot to mark it down. But, in no particular order, I believe BeastForever, malem, jcgoble3, thedevariousaffect and his girlfriend, mattr, IndyGuy4KI, and possibly a few others showed up before the gates opened. We chatted and waited for the gates to open, and soon enough they did. Our first stop was Diamondback for ERT. It was a walk on, and a great airtimey ride. We eventually decided on doing Diamondback again, but this time the line grew to about a 15 minute wait. Still an awesome ride! We then headed over to The Beast, as the park opened to the public. Beast’s line was about 5 minutes, and an awesome ride through the wilderness on the longest wooden roller coaster in the world. Now that the park was already open, we headed out to X-Base to get a spin on Firehawk, which wait was still only 5 minutes. After that flightful ride, We headed into Hanger 18 to go see what all the aliens were up to. They had the same spaghetti bowl layout planned for us, which was pretty cool as usual. We all saw Fire-Beast-of-FEAR when we exited Flight of Fear, and he joined us as we headed to guest services to pick up our lanyards. Fire-Beast-of-FEAR/Duncan wasn’t thrilled his first ride of the day was going to be on Drop Tower. But I’m glad he rode it. I kept warning him it was an Intamin. We waited 5 minutes. It was a nice ride, I guess, but Duncan really overreacted in my opinion. Wolf Pack was also already advertising its lights on tour. We then all headed over for a fun ride known as Fligt Deck, which was a walk on. Yay fun ride. We now decided to head over to our first activity, the Todd Frazier Q&A session. On our way, we stopped for a few hot dogs at the Eiffel Tower as part of dollar day Sunday. Then we got into the International Showplace. At a bit after noon, Todd Frazier came out. A long line of people formed waiting to ask Todd a question. I couldn’t think of anything, so I Just watched. I can’t really remember all the questions, but I do remember a few like “Why does Jay Bruce strike out so much”? (How Rude!). Also, the big common one was “Can I have a hug?”. But this one kid was too cool for hugs and asked for a handshake. jcgoble3/Jonathan asked “What is your favorite baseball player of all time, in any era”? The answer was Pete Rose. Another question he asked was “What is your favorite ride here at Kings Island to which he answered The Diamondback. So, it was kind of cool, and nice seeing Todd Frazier! Now it was time to go and ride The Crypt… Err Madame Fatales. NO FENCE!!!!!! Here are a couple blurry photos from the queue line. It was just so amazing to be back inside the building of The Crypt. The wait was around 20 minutes for the tour. I got to see my old friends the weird monster statue things, but Mr. Bat Demon was not lit up. A huge disappointment happened when I was told video and photo taking were strictly prohibited, despite Don’s tweet saying to “Bring your camera”. Oh well. The tour was very cool, and I even got to see my old bestie the scary Goddess on the wall! The tour guide kept joking about how I should come when the maze is actually open. Ehh… Our next exciting Haunt Tour was for the Haunt The Son of Beast Station. It was awesome being back in the old Son of Beast queue line as well, but for the Haunt The Son of Beast Station. We waited about 10 minutes for The Son of Beast Station Lights-on tour. I liked Madame Fatales theming better, but it was still really good. They did do a really good job theming it to The Son of Beast Station. Oh wait I forgot, its called Wolf Pack. Since Flight Deck was close by, we went on that again. Walk on. Fun ride. But earlier, that hot dog wasn’t enough, so we headed to the Festhaus. We waited like 25 minutes for pizza. I miss being a Media member. At least the food was only a dollar, but I preferred the free Prime Rib. After eating we took headed for a quick spin on Adventure Express. The wait was 10 minutes and a fun Adventurey ride! My mom and I then headed to the Festhaus again for the reserved seating at Rock ‘n’ Roll Never Forgets, for their next to last show of the season. Nice show, a lot of KICers were there for it. Luckily, I checked the Colts score to a pleasant win over the Raiders, and let No Chickens, another Colts fan know. Next was a Racer Red walk on, followed by a Racer Blue walk on. Both sides were great! But now it was time for my 3rd time (Yes, 3rd time) behind the scenes of Banshee. There was at least a hundred KICers by the Banshee fence. No way I could remember everybody. My memorie isn’t that good! The following will mainly be now very outdated pictures of Banshee construction. Photobombed by KingsIslandPR/Don, IndyGuy4KI/Brad, and Beastie1980/Melissa. Views of Delirium were great from the construction site. And that concludes our tour of Banshee! But wait, isn’t there another B&M at this park, that is actually open and operating? Oh yeah! Let’s head to the Diamondback tour! Train! And that concludes our tour of Diamondback! Next, we attempted to get VortexBFForever to her 200th Vortex ride. I believe she was at 193 before we started. I, VortexBFForever, and Fire-Beast-of-Fear took 5 rides on Vortex, were we all had to get back in line for each ride, because there was a crowd of people every time we returned to the station. BeastForever rode as well, Beast1980 had a few rides but then had enough, and MDMC01 eventually joined, saying that we could all “Grey out together”! Our 7PM Don Helbig Q&A Session limited VortexBFForever to only her 198th ride. WE hoped to come back later, but were not able to. Now, we headed to the International Restraunt to ask Don questions. It started off with a speech by Boddah1994/Ryan, and then a bunch of random questions wee aksed to Don. Pretty cool. It took up a lot of time, so next was our last festivity, the final rides of the summer on The Beast. We had a fun, awesome ride! Then it was time for Don to pull a name for the winner of a Banshee Media Day pass. I forget who the winner was, but it took 3 tries to draw somebody who was actually here. After this we headed to our cars after an amazing day at the Island of Kings! A couple of notes: *HUGE thanks to Don, Kings Island, Ryan, and all who were involved in making this event happen. There were a bit of difficulties along, the way, but thank you so much for making this amazing free event. *Sorry if I didn’t include you. Just so many people! *I hope for more of these events in the future! It was a great summer! Thanks for reading!

Does anyone on here want to rank all the Haunts from scariest to least scariest and give it ratings and comments that can include spoilers? (Just warn people if spoilers are coming) I need to be prepared as possible for Friday.

Great trip report! Wish I could have gone. Just try not to call it The Banshee unlike all the news outlets and I can forgive you.

I volunteer!

Good luck, I'll be rooting for you!

Must be 18 or older... Come on. Then again, some kids screams are extremely loud and annoying. I hope at least someone on here does it on Friday.

That webcam is now only useful on Sundays. On Friday and Saturday the stairs will be filled, and on Mon-Thurs they will be empty.

Just a warning, some of the prices have gone up by a couple dollars since that pick was taken, but overall food and service has been great so far.

Now that I can see them all... Awesome photos!!! It was great seeing you a couple weeks ago!

Intamin: The next Son of Beast.

I wonder if Board to Death will make you bored to death.