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Ok, so here is Part 2. It was a great 2nd Beast tour for me! Matthew suggested doing a group ride on The Beast, so we tried to do that. We waited about 15 minutes to get on. We couldn’t really get a group ride, it was more like 3 group rides. But it was still a very fun ride. He missed his old ride. I was now with DiamondAceExpress, malem, and Beastie1980 and her mom. Matthew was texting VortexBFForver and heard she was in Action Zone, so we headed to Action Zone. On the way to Action Zone, we stopped at the Hank’s bar so I could see how bad the Colts lost. When the Colts score displayed, it said Colts:19 Titans:13 Final OT. I got real excited now. My mom said she could go check on my FUN Perks and see if I leveled up to Level 4, while we go look for VortexBFForever. We went to Flight Deck. It was a walk on for a fun ride on Flight Deck. When we were in the brakes, I swear I saw VortexBFForever walking in line, with a penguin hat on like she said she would have. When we got back to the station, we waited for VortexBFForever’s train to come back. It came back, and she was reriding, and it was too late for us to get on. We watched her ride it. When she got back again, we then got on, but there was only 1 restraint open in each row, so we rode single file. Another fun Flight Deck ride! When we got back, we headed to Sling Shot. We also found my mom again. When we got to Sling Shot, I got a free Sling Shot FUN Perk, and VortexBFForever payed $10 for one. It was both of our first times riding Sling Shot. We waited about 10 minutes to ride. We soon got on. We waited for us to launch to the sky, and soon we did. We launched up and got flipped forward, then went down, and up again, and upside down again, and yeah. It was a lot fun. When I returned to earth, it turns out my nametag flew off of me on the ride and flew to The Racer. We then talked with the Sling Shot ticket op for a while about KICentral and such. VortexBFForever and Beastie1980 suggested riding Adventure Express, so we headed to AE. We walked on to Adventure Express, and had a fun ride. When we got back to the station, there was nobody in line. No exaggeration. Literally nobody. So we rerode, and there was only KICers on the train! It was a great KIC only ride on Adventure Express! We then headed to Vortex. We walked onto Vortex. I rode in my new favorite seat, 7-1. A great ride on Vortex! Beastie1980 and VortexBFForever stayed at Vortex, but I had a $25 Merchandise Voucher to spend that I got for Level 4 on FUN Perks! We went to the Emporium. They still had The Crypt hats. My mom got a Funnel Cake with her FUN Perk. I ended up getting a Beast shirt, Beast snow globe, and Diamondback hat. Pretty sweet. It was 20 minutes until Kings Island closed for the year, so I went to get my first and last ride of the year on Grand Carousel. It was a walk on, but I was pretty stupid because I forgot the outer horses don’t go up and down. With just more than 10 minutes left before the offseason, I headed to The Beast. On the way, we ran into Don, who was also heading to The Beast to take photos. I ran into a big crowd in front of The Beast, meeting up again with more KICers. There were also plenty of people from ACE. Just before closing, we all headed into line for The Beast. I pretended to wait for the front row to buy time to make sure I got the very last ride of the year. Luckily, I was able to catch the very last ride. I waited a few seconds until getting on, to make sure, and I was the very last one all year in the que. The ride, started, and it was about to be the end. I tapped on The Crypt’s shoulder, who was in front of me, And we both lip synched “Remain seated throughout the entire ride. Please keep hands and legs inside the car at all times”. Then, for one last time this year, we dropped into the first tunnel. We carried along in the night, turning into the 2nd tunnel. The speed picked up, and we were then stopped by the 2nd lift hill. We headed up a lift for the last time all year. We then dived into the double helix one last time, and then it was over. The season was over. We had a loud applause as we got to the station, and we said goodbye to The Beast crew. When we were out of the exit, the line still wasn’t closed off! Nobody wanted to ride again though. We walked to the entrance for one last time this year. Thanks for making it the best year ever, Kings Island! A couple notes: *Water rides and Drop Tower weren’t running on the last day. *I hope to do lots of meetups like this next year. *The employees seemed nice and happy on the last day. Thanks for reading!

Ok, I’m a bit late here, but I decided to finally write a PTR for the day. Me, my mom (DiamondAceExpress) and my sister stopped in the Great Wolf Lodge parking lot to get some photos of SOB. Hopefully you notice a different in photo quality, as I now have a 5MP camera on my iPod instead of a 0.7MP camera. All it has though is a digital zoom. We now headed to the other side of the lot. No longer existent. Flight Deck’s train’s sleeping on the lift. We now drove over to the park. We got there at around 9:40. When we got out of our car, we saw that Matthew (malem) took our spot we usually go to for ERT. Anyways, we walked up to the front gate. I waited for the park to open, and I also saw Jonathan (jcgoble3) inside guest services. I later heard something like someone who works at KI saw one of Jonathan’s posts on KICentral about how he was able to use more than 1 FUN Perk or something. Then they made his pass invalid, and he had to pay whatever the ridiculous fee now is to park. I may have had that story not completely accurate, but it’s what I could remember. At 9:58, the National Anthem played, and then we headed for Diamondback. I walked right on to Diamondback, and I already forget who I rode with. But, I ended up riding a total of 5 times until I had to get off. All were chilly rides, riding threw the wind. I got off and headed for another ride on Diamondback. Also, I found this in DB Trading Post. Sweet! I walked onto Diamondback for 1 more ride. It was a nice, cold ride on Diamondback. When I got off, I attempted a Panorama of the Diamondback station. On my way to the Eiffel Tower for rope drop, my dad found us. He didn’t come because he said he wanted to sleep in. So, it was I, Matthew, the other Matthew (dad), my sister Lucy, DiamondAceExpress, and Jonathan at rope drop. We agreed on heading to FOF when the park opened. Here’s another attempt at a Panorama. So, we all walked to Flight of Fear. I think we got 2nd ride of the day. It was a lot of fun, as always. We then headed to Firehawk, except it was only the men, while Lucy and DiamondAceExpress didn’t want to go on. We walked onto Firehawk. We went into our “Flight Positions” and stayed there. And stayed there. And stayed there. And then we found out “We are experiencing a minor technical delay”. This was only my 2nd time being “stuck” on a coaster, the first being on Lost Coaster Of Superstition Mountain at Indiana Beach. The Firehawk crew was nice and making sure we were all ok. My dad was texting my mom and it turns out they were riding Racer and Dodgems. We waited about 20 minutes, and we were finally raised. We decided to wait it out, as I thought it wouldn’t be too long until it would run again. After a test ride, we got on. We safely had a fun ride on Firehawk. We ended up meeting up with DiamondAceExpress and Lucy again and headed for Delirium. Delirium was a walk on, and a fun ride. We now wanted to head to Drop Tower, but it was closed, and would be closed for the rest of the day. I had my FUN Perk for Xtreme Skyflyer, and decided it might be good to use it while in the area. I was able to ride with Jonathan, who paid the $5. Unfortunately for the others, they waited about 15 minutes until we finally got on. This was my 2nd time riding Skyflyer, and Jonathan’s ?? time. But, for both of us, it was our first time actually riding with somebody. We got on, and soon headed up to the top. I heard “3,2,1, fly” and pulled the ripcord. We free-falled to our doom, but the rope grabbed us just in time and we flew over Action Zone. We flew around for a minute, and then returned to the ground. A great, thrilling ride on Skyflyer. At this time, we were getting a little hungry, and decided to head to Rivertown Junction, hoping it wasn’t closed. But, it was. It was about 20 minutes until the 1:30 tower drinks meet up, so I suggested a quick ride on The Beast, so that’s what we did. The Beast was a walk on, and another great ride on the world’s longest wooden roller coaster. We now headed to Tower Drinks for the group photo. There was a bit of people there, including Don Helbig. Don talked with us, and also mentioned taking us all on a FREE Beast tour at 3:00. That sounded great, so we were looking forward to that. IndyGuy4KI and his kids found us. He mentioned Beastie1980 is almost here, so we waited for her to come. She came about 10 minutes later, and joined us in the picture. We asked Don to join us to, because he is a KICentral member, so he did. My dad took the photo. Then, Beastie1980 and her mom joined us to go to Hanks. I used a 30% off food voucher for our whole purchase. I scanned my pass, as nobody else cared anymore, and got a free Dinosaurs Alive! Ticket. I was unable to use it nor give it away in the day. We headed to the Festhaus to eat where it was warmer. I ate my taco salad and we watched part of the Graveyard Shift. The Crypt finally, after all these months, snuck up on us and said hi. We told him about The Beast tour, and soon it was actually time to head to that. We met up with a big group in front of a fence, and Don let us in. This is pretty cool. An offseason fun idea. Whenever it snows, sneak back behind The Beast, brink a sled, and sled down the hill next to The Beast’s second lift. My last attempt at a Panorama. Beastie1980’s head got chopped in half. I've "Posted more Images tha I'm allowed to", so Part 2 should be here in a few minutes.

Great trip report VortexBFForever! It was a great day. And thanks for riding Sling Shot with me!

I'd say Xtreme Skyflyer. I never hear much about it and I think it's the most intense ride in the whole park.

The background conversation in that video is just so funny. "Somebody catch it!" "It's on The Racer."

Ok, I'll try to list all the KICentral members I've met this year. (I'll probably miss a few) *KingsIslandPR *IndyGuy4KI *XGatorHead8904 (Or something like that) *jcgoble3 *Avatar *jlopez *Fire-Beast-Of-Fear *Joncars05 *Dudecoasterman *MDMC01 (I think) *Gabe *pkiboy *Original *malem *stashua123 *Beastie1980 *Gordan Bombay *DiamondAceExpress *Vortexfreak *Spongebob *TheCrypt *VortexBFForever And there's gotta be some people I missed. Otherwise, that's 22 people. Let me know if I missed you.

I've had so many good days this year. Coasting For Kids, KIC Day in August, My first time at Haunt, and as TheCrypt stated above, closing day was great too. Can't really pick a favorite.

Afterburn was a great coaster. I enjoyed Hurler and Thunder Road, but at least when I rode them, they were both pretty rough. Also make sure to ride or Flying Eagles (Woodstock Gliders).

^The Phineas And Ferb theme song. (Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day)

Here's the video of the all around Closing Day. I still have Sling Shot and Skylyer videos. Have a good rest of the weekend! Edit: The beginning of the video is a lot better than the end. At least thats what I think.

http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/26752-tutorial-how-to-upload-photos/page__pid__493279#entry493279

It was great seeing you and your kids Brad! Thanks for sharing with us!

^My mom did to. It's really funny!

"Remain seated throughout the entire ride. Please keep hands and legs inside the car at all times."

For my 1,000th post, I've decided to post my video I took of a behind the scenes tour of The Beast that Don Helbig surprised KICers with. Thanks Don! <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GjAbTZIflTk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Hopefully this works. It should also be 1080p instead of 360p, but thats what it wanted to upload as. Hopefully, I can get some other videos on the day and a trip report in this thread at somepoint as well. Thanks for watching! Edit: Darn, it didn't work! Here's the link to the actuall video: Edit #2: Oh wait, that's all I had to do .

Don was on Fox 19 last Friday morning, talking about the last weekend of Haunt, Ed Alonzo returning next year, and a new show. Since the Thunder Alley cars are now back by Firehawk, I'm thinking TA will be on its way outta hear next year. So, I thought it would make perfect sense to see a Luminosity type show (As mentioned before) in Thunder Alleys spot next year.

Great trip report malem! It was great to see you yet again! I've got that Beast tour video ready to upload.

^^Yes, Gold and Platinum passholders still get in an our early this weekend. Rides should be open, weather permitting.

^We'll just have to hope for another day like this next year. I promise I'll try more!

Actually, "DiamondAceExpress" (Base of of firebeastoffear) has signed up, but the confirmation email was never sent to her. We resent and checked junk, but its still not there.

Sorry I won’t have any photos in here, but the computer is driving me nuts, so I don’t have any. Anyways, me and my mom got to the entrance around 5:20 and saw Jonathan (jcgoble3) and a tall guy holding a KICentral Haunt Night Sign who I assumed was Malem (Matthew). A little bit later, Beastie1980 walked up to the group with her parents. Stashua123 then greeted us, also saying he was going to be with someone else for the night. A little later, Ronny (Gordan Bombay) asked if he could take a picture of the group for Ryan (Boddah), so we all got together + my non KIC Member mom, and het took a picture, which can now be seen in another topic. The other KICers decided they would do Wolf Pack at park opening, but I really didn’t think I was ready for Wolf Pack, and this is my first time at Haunt. I also wanted to get pictures from the Eiffel Tower of SOB demolition. The speakers started playing some creepy voiced guy talking, and I wasn’t starting to feel any better. The gates than opened up, and scaractors came running out. I made my way thru them to the entrance. Right when we got in, there was this loud explosion that really scared me. Really caught us all off guard. I then split up with the group to the Eiffel Tower, and we would meet with them again later. I made my way thru some tall scareactors and headed to the Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately, it was closed. SO, what other choice to than Diamondback? We made our way thru the foggy Freak Street, where I did not see any Scareactors. My mom stopped at the restroom, and I watched Jack scare teenagers. When she came back out, we headed over to Diamondback. Diamondback was a walk on, and a great ride. We didn’t get any texts, so we went on Diamondback again for another walk on. Another great ride. Still no texts back, so we headed to The Beast. The Beast was a walk on, and of course a great ride. There wasn’t any fog, though. We got a text back, mentioning going thru Wolf Pak and Club Blood. We also got a text from my dad, saying to meet him at the front gate. I met up with my dad around a bunch of scareactors and such. We ended up walking back to Flight Deck, through some scareactors, and Nightmare Alley and Grimm Blvd. We literally walked on to Flight Deck, and had a great ride. WE then headed over to Delirium, but only me and my mom rode, because my dad dosen’t do Delirium. It began sprinkling while we were in line. We took a ride in the drizzle, which was a lot of fun, after about a 5 minute wait. I decided for my first Haunt, I would try Tombstone Terror Tory when it opened at 8, so we headed over there. My dad was hungry, and saw they were selling Apple Pie at Rivertown Funnel Cakes, so he had to stop there to get some. We waited awhile for it, and he enjoyed it. We were able to meet Jonathan and Matthew in the train station, and waited a few minutes for the train. In the spoiler bar, I have a review on what I thought of Tombstone Terror Tory, which obviously contains spoilers. After Tombstone, my dad was starting to have enough with the rain, and he headed out. Me, Matthew, my mom, and Jonathan got in line for Diamondback. The line was backed up into the queue house, but the line moved really fast, and was probably only 5 minutes. Me and my mom rode a ride before Jonathan and Matthew, because of some line issue stuff. The rain made the ride a lot different, and that rain was just crashing on you. It was a fun, cold ride. When Jonathan and Matthew were done riding, we split up yet again, because they wanted to get some more mazes in, but I really didn’t want to do any more. Me and my mom headed over to The Beast for a rainy night ride. The line was just outside the entrance, but after about 5 minutes, the line still would not move, so we headed to do something else. We decided to do Backlot, which had a pretty short line, about 5 minutes. Backlot was a fun, rainy ride. At this point, I really didn’t see any scareactors anymore. Since it was cold and rainy, we headed over to Flight of Fear. There was a bit of a line outside, and it was about 35 minutes. I watched the movie inside, and enjoyed the heat and dryness while it lasted. It was a fun ride on Flight of Fear. We decided to get something to eat at Hanks, but it was just getting closed up for the night. We were able to meet Matthew and Jonathan in the Festhaus. I got some pizza and ate it in the festhaus. Matthew was getting texts from Coaster Fanatic 2012 and TTD-420-180, or the other way around. We decided to go meet them at Holiday Horror, but we never found them. We got a text back saying they went to Carnevil, but we waited and never was able to see them there either. My mom wanted to go thru Carnevil, but I didn’t, so Matthew took my mom into Carnevil and I waited outside in the rain with Jonathan. We never were able to locate them. By now, it was almost midnight, it was pouring, my shoes and feet were really wet, and it was just getting ugly. So, we decided to leave, and Matthew gave me the KICentral Haunt Night sign as a souvenir. Overall, I had a great first Haunt visit! A couple of notes: *Most of the rides, except for Eiffel Tower, seemed to be open. I’m surprised they were open into the rain. *Due to the rain, there really wasn’t any scareactors throughout the park in the night. *I spotted a raccoon in the festhaus! Thanks for reading!

One of the people in this picture isn't even a member! Yet.

Great trip report Matthew! Glad I got to meet you all!