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And you have to do more than Chef plate offerings, and tasting events to get that as well. Why does Dollywood and Knoebels get this award - they do not have chain places providing food around every corner. When KI gets more offerings like the French Quarter and Brewhouse and Coney and Smokehouse BBQ and moves away from the Skyline and LaRosa's type offerings and more of the meals are the quality of the Chef Plate and tasting events and Brewhouse and French Quarter and BBQ, then we will see KI make a serious run at that category.

Chef's Plate changes to Game Day Grill and moves to Sunday: https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2021/october/kings-island-foodie-news-introducing-game-day-grill

I guess nobody saw the person walking around Timberwolf at open with plans in hand...

How is this any different than the test seats with green and red lights? And one can know your weight before they leave the house, unlike knowing if you will fit in a test seat or not? I guess we should get rid of the guess your weight game as well...

True with PTC trains, but what if they replaced the trains with ones that a manufacturer says could go backwards.... Remember once upon a time they said Winterfest would never come back either... Never is a long time and personnel and ownership and technology change...

Wrong chain

Fight causes reduction of hours moving forward. Not sure how long they were originally scheduled for, but now closing at 9pm. https://www.yahoo.com/news/teenagers-brawl-chaotic-six-flags-191600917.html

It was already mentioned in another thread about a month ago lol.

He didn't think the fake props given to him looked real enough, so he brought a real knife from home to increase the scare factor... https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/haunted-house-actor-accidentally-stabs-boy-in-foot-with-knife-at-cuyahoga-co-fairgrounds

The report is saying unavailable. But how do you manually unlock a belt and not notice that the belt is not in front of the person? It sure does seem like the industry has had a disproportionate amount of deaths/injuries this year compared to prior years. Maybe not, but she does feel like it.

Meanwhile at Carowinds:

Between an earlier close and less Haunt events, it is anyone's guess on if that last hour will be busy or not. I expect it will be busy until close and that "last hour" experience from the past will remain in the past.

^I know, which is even more concerning that the ride ops did not check that. Visually inspecting seatbelt on The Beast and Racer and Diamondback is one thing considering they ran many years without one, but for a ride that the seatbelt is the only restraint, that is ridiculous.

WOW, that is unbelievable. Wonder if this will bring back physical checking of seatbelts at parks. Some of you may have noticed at KI, many of the rides are visual only for seatbelts. Some of the rides even announce the ride op will visually check seat belt and it is rider responsibility to check seatbelt and ride op checks the restraint.

At best the article is ambiguous as to who stated the name at the time of the incident and that first paragraph could be journalistic editing to get to the point quickly, but I suspect the name was released by the police first and not CP. The CP tweet and at least the partial press release in the article simply says a guest entered a restricted area and passed away and does not provide a name: Cedar Point released the following statement about the accident: At approximately 5 p.m., a guest entered a restricted, fenced area of the Raptor roller coaster and was struck by the ride. Park safety officials responded immediately to the situation. Unfortunately the guest has passed away. Local authorities are on the scene conducting an investigation. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family at this time. So unless you can find something official from the park with the victim's name in it, or a news video where a park spokesperson mentions the victim by name and the timeline would match up to show they mentioned the name first instead of the police, I believe it was the Sandusky police that released the name first, as is customary in high profile/interest stories of a death. Fox8, who did the story you referenced, did a follow-up story the next day with more details on the victim and that article states: Police in Sandusky said 45-year-old James Young of East Canton died after jumping a fence to retrieve some of his belongings. They had fallen while Young was riding the Raptor roller coaster.

Sorry for the double-post, but it was the Sandusky Police department that released this victim's name not Cedar Point, and death records are public records, unlike injury records, so the media has access to death records and most police departments will release the deceased name after next of kin was notified. Plus the 2015 incident was a lot more clear-cut.

Here is some interesting information obtained at the FOIA website: The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) generally provides that any person has the right to request access to federal agency records or information except to the extent the records are protected from disclosure by any of nine exemptions contained in the law or by one of three special law enforcement record exclusions. The FOIA applies only to federal agencies and does not create a right of access to records held by Congress, the courts, or by state or local government agencies. So people throw around FOIA inaccurately, just as people do with HIPAA (or as most call it HIPPA lol) But of course many states have passed their own comparable act, in Ohio it is called the Ohio Open Records Law: ....regulates and sets requirements for the disclosure of certain public records of certain public bodies in the state..... Key Definitions: "Public record" means records kept by any public office, including, but not limited to, state, county, city, village, township, and school district units, and records pertaining to the delivery of educational services by an alternative school in this state kept by the nonprofit or for-profit entity operating the alternative school pursuant to section 3313.533 of the Revised Code..... any other body which is created by state or local authority or which is primarily funded by or through state or local authority. Many private colleges and universities in Ohio and other states, for example, has successfully defended their opinion that they do not have to comply with Open Records Requests as they are a private entity and the police force is not funded with tax payer dollars. Whether we agree with that or not is irrelevant. It is up to a court of law to determine the intent of this language and how/if it is applied to a private police force. And until enough court decisions and/or Ohio Legislatures introduce bills to modify the Open Records Request law language, private entities like Cedar Fair and others will continue to lawyer up and defend their stance that they do not need to comply with an Open Records Request.

A little different approach than their parks in the US...

^and even with the GP "backlash", I expect that the place will still be slammed like it normally is for Haunt...

I wouldn't add it to Oktoberfest/German themed areas either...

Is that in order by ranking

At least they learned and will have Haunt at night LOL. I was half expecting Haunt from 4pm to 7pm

Hey, they did give us an extra hour compared to recent Sundays in Sept/October LOL. Plus our Haunt event doesn't happen on Sundays...

The child payment is not considered taxable income. They only have to pay back if their tax filing status changes - like this year they made more than the previous and it bumped them to the next tax bracket, divorce, that sort of thing. From my observations, not many were deterred by long lines and made several visits. I believe we will hear at the end of year results call that the number of times a pass was used per person will be up this year over pre-pandemic numbers. The bigger question that plays into your concern is when the stimulus/child credit dries up, will these same families then purchase a pass or will they decide to spend their money elsewhere based on their experiences this year. Many of us have predicted that the short term gains CF tends to employ will come back to bite them long term. One of these days we will be right LOL.

Sam the butcher of course