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From the article: According to Allegheny County police, three people were shot inside the park in the “Lost Kennywood” section by the “Music Express” ride. This happened around 10:49 p.m. Witnesses told police that two groups of juveniles were involved in an altercation and that was when shots were fired. One handgun was recovered on Kennywood property, police said. Kennywood has metal detectors and yet someone still got a gun past them and within the park property (previous events we have heard around the country were a gun in the parking lot, but this one apparently made it past the metal detectors). All of these incidents continue to put these events in bad light. At some point, more parks will decide it just isn't worth the bad press. We will continue to see chaperone policies being implemented at parks or they simply do away with these events and cater to the spending family demographic...

Or maybe these policies are in effect a way to control attendance without having to impose an attendance capacity restriction...just let the effects of said policies do it for them. I am sure they are still making enough money even if the attendance is down. And per cap may actually go up because maybe those that would spend in the park but avoided it based on perception that it is unsafe will now attend.

I always chuckle when someone says this...there are over 100 high schools within the greater Cincinnati area....certainly not all of them had Homecoming same weekend.... While some scare actors were good, most I saw were more interested in taking selfies with guests than doing scares (talking about the ones not in houses or mazes).... A lot of pictures on FB confirm the number of selfies taken with the roaming scare actors LOL

The Fischer Child center isn't open during Haunt.

According to different sources on social media, Scarowinds was it's normal packed self, despite no bag policy and a chaperone policy in effect...

Someone probably stole the phone charging cords as they were loading their bag up with chips and bottled beverages... I saw they moved the entrance to VIP as well. Makes it a little less obvious to someone now that they can sneak in there for some infused water LOL.

There are many that think that....but regardless of what the park puts together, the attendance is still there. Last night appeared to be one of the higher attended opening night Friday's in a long time...

Yes they do. Just north of The Bat, across from Great Wolf Lodge.

Everyone has an opinion and the opinions range from voted best Halloween Event to this season was worse than the offering last year...to everywhere in between. Certainly getting a fair amount of poor reviews on social media...

And yet it continues to get voted Best Halloween event....

I suspect that when you do actually attend, your opinion on the event based on photos and reviews will change....for the worse....

Based on chatter elsewhere, it appears these are on available during the day.

We use to have a no-bag line as well....

^But we won best Halloween event the past two years in a row .....

It was the normal KI security crew (well some new hires too LOL, but mostly the same faces we have seen all year)...

The hotel is open.

Not the same...Carowinds only allows medical bags...

Theory busted lol....the lights are on....and they are using the queue since the ride is down.

It has been on their website and all over social media with people complaining about it... https://www.visitkingsisland.com/events/haunt/conduct-policy-and-guidelines

It is not open....

If it opens, it will close at 8pm per the latest FAQ....

^Next year CF will call them all Haunt so they can do the same thing and take the number one spot collectively LOL This shows you how large the KI fanbase is that we can beat other chains that combined their park resources into one "Multiple Locations" to try to make the list....

The price increase is to offset the infused water being provided in the VIP lounge

How much did that cost you to reserve them all

Finally we are getting some media coverage! https://www.wlwt.com/article/kings-island-adds-new-attractions-to-halloween-haunt/41338276 https://local12.com/news/local/kings-islands-halloween-haunt-sets-it-sights-on-scaring-visitors-cincinnati-mason-warren-county-fall-fest-children-makeup-mazes-houses https://www.fox19.com/2022/09/22/kings-island-halloween-haunt-opens-this-weekend/