disco2000

Have you seen how many security and Mason and Warren county police are outside the entrance and in the lot at park close and yet it still happened, so of course they were on it fast. Folks don't care and figure nothing of significance will happen as a result of it. They were literally leaning on the police cars basically taunting them.... Let's see if these charges get dropped...

No, it still goes down several times a day LOL. Usually not for long.

But it is world famous. Says so right on the menu....

Of course there is always a bad apple that doesn't care - look how many laws are broken daily! Despite how stringent rules or laws or regulations are, there will always be that person that doesn't care. But as long as there is ZERO consequences, whether it be line jumping, smoking, fighting, it will continue to get worse. Publicly announced consequences will be a deterrent to all but the worse offenders. Who knows how many more instances KK would have had without public shaming.... And as you point out, that article was in 2017 - so based on your analysis, it took 3 years for a serious enough incident to happen to make the news.... and most of us would file that under the results of the COVID shutdown and most of the population forgetting how to interact in public.

^+1 above!!! People can say all they want about Kentucky Kingdom, but when they put out a statement like this and gets media attention, it stops...Will we ever see CF post a pic of a banned person and say don't be like him LOL... https://www.wave3.com/story/35658459/kentucky-kingdom-shares-photo-of-now-banned-coaster-rider-with-his-phone/ And they also need to improve their accountability. A ban is useless if they allow anyone to purchase a pass and use a fake name... https://www.wlwt.com/article/fake-name-on-gold-pass-leads-to-charges-being-dropped-in-kings-island-brawl/36623191#

This needs to stop and not become an annual tradition! https://www.wlwt.com/article/female-juvenile-arrested-after-large-fight-breaks-out-at-kings-island/39938208

It appeared cables were being replaced, so maybe 10-ish years is the replacement cycle for them. And it has a lot of cables LOL, so it takes more time than Drop Tower cable replacements LOL.

Just made a park announcement that they will close @ 8pm tonight due to weather.

3 trains were running over the weekend.

All the tall rides are currently down due to wind. Banshee is tallest ruide currently running. Edit: taller coasters reopening.

"i before e, except after c" is how LOL

One would think if they actually touched that they would not be testing 3 trains this week. I would assume at a minimum they would have B&M look at it.

I figured it would be blue LOL

The GP may know who made the coaster (but I suspect most do not), and certainly wouldn't be aware of subs for I&C.

Yes, it has been testing this week.

On July 9th, The Bat will be temporarily renamed Top Gun

^Maybe the waterline project was to add a bathroom LOL

Yeah, I just re-read it - at first I thought the ticket would get you into the park after 5pm, but it is just free parking after 5pm and an exclusive entrance into Timberwolf. Given the acts, I am assuming that they won't have opening acts, or maybe one and total concert could be over before park closes. I guess time will tell!

^Yeah anything is possible LOL. Except one of the acts I had seen them as guests in the park an hour before the opening acts started. And I recall at least 3 concerts where the main act was after park close. I think it was probably more diva behavior than intentional, but who really knows.

^ Or the opposite and they try to keep the concert crowd and regular crowd isolated and deal with their departures separately instead of all at once?

I remember one concert I went to, the opening acts were done, so they played this for an hour (I still hear it in my head to this day LOL) until the park closed and then the main acts performed. Or maybe the main acts were being divas LOL. But in any event, several concerts I attended the main act did not hit the stage until park close.

Or they have 12 opening acts such that the main acts don't start until after park close LOL. I remember several concerts early 90s employing that technique (well not 12 opening acts LOL, but enough that the main concert was after park close).

That explains the cleaning up and possibly the new paver patio installed for maybe Platform Beer Company VIP use.

Lawsuit specifically calls out the lack of a seat belt like other similar drop rides. https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-missouri-boy-fell-off-160639036.html

At least it wasn't Charlie Brown this time (some may get the reference). Fox19 says the man arrested is from Washington, while WCPO says he is from Texas.