Stoan

It's always sunshine and rainbows until the merged company realizes they don't really need all those things they said they wanted. I'm not sure anyone is excited about this merger except the old rich investors that don't actually use the parks. 2025, the year after this proposal is expected to be closed will be an interesting year in what will be offered and delivered. We seem to have a lot of fun here dumping on CF on their bait and switch processes and it seems SIX is known for being cheap. I'm just hoping my kids will be tall enough to ride all the rides before major changes happen and I have to start telling them we're dropping the memberships.

I'd like to point out that it is in fact called, The Addams Family. Insert joke about ...

New York State I think just passed a law requiring open positions to list pay range. As you say, any job that doesn't say it out in the open are probably embarrassed about the number.

I tried to take my daughter in for haunt Saturday after spending the morning there with the grandmother. I got turned away at the check in because it was "after 6". It was 6:01, I was in line before 6 and got stuck behind what seemed to be a family of 30 needing to get new pictures for their passes. Responses of "get there earlier" aren't very helpful when the tardiness wasn't really due to my own fault to plan as much as delays at every single point by staff. I was legitimately angry and my daughter cried, was a great opening attempt of haunt for this year.

It is a great transitional ride. I only really have two qualms with it; 1 - It is stupid short. 2 - As a transition ride, riders that are finally at the height to ride can't actually see out of the car. I'd like to see them just re-do the theming, which doesn't make sense anymore. Also for a dedicated loading and unloading area, and only 6 cars, the cycle time is HELLA slow. What area is this ride even in really? Is it an odd off-shoot of Coney, or Rivertown? Theming could be redesigned to either a fair/festival style like Coney has, or continue the mysterious spoopy area that Rivertown is kind of turning into.

I think I'm dropping one of my meal plans next year. This year's food offerings have been lackluster.

So to preface this, I live 13 minutes from the park, I go weekly at worst, my daughter and I often go after school, ride two rides, get dinner and leave. For me, it is worth the 400 bucks (200x2) to not wait in line and not have to fight parking at 5pm when I visit. I am probably not the average user however.

They have a new drink plan.

They can't lose out on those half dozen people every year that try to cheat the hand-stamp and get into the park by inconveniencing half a million others

I've started carrying my physical card again for these reasons. Not too mention with the premium parking it's easier for the guards at the post to just see the black prestige card and wave me in without needing to stand up. The cards are just better at scanning than the phone.

Cargo loco has shade structure

My kids are fascinated by Son of Beast, mostly in how people got injured, but also the whole scale of the thing as well.

I got it a couple weeks back and just picked all the onions and peppers off. The sandwich itself was good, though soggy but that I think it part of the sandwich really. The au jus though needs a bit more reducing, it was more beef hinted water instead of beef concentrated water

When is the last time you saw the Mystic Timbers shed use the black light? I was thinking about this last time I rode with my daughter, I haven't seen the black light since maybe the second year of operation?

You mean the same 5 beats on a 10 second loop? Also as other have mentioned, they really need some thematic old sails put up as a canopy for shade.

I mean if we are still going on about this, I still think Polaris was the better name choice, and the lift hill should have pointed at the North Star. They already themed the thing to be some kind of add-on to Outer Limits and Aliens, they could have used the Polaris system as the origination point for the spaceship.

The few ruin it for the many.

I noticed when getting my prestige FotL passes so the Diamondback store they rang up at 20 dollars single use fast pass.

I shelled out for the bigger tasting card last time and it was worth it for me. I'll probably do the same this year. Maybe a nice park perk for extra tastings?

It's mineral water then

Bring back the kids shows. I miss the gak sliming! Also I miss the big splash area from Nickelodeon, and the big elephant fountain from Hannah-Barbara

I just wish the barrels were more consistent on the spinning, and they let you know it only spins one direction.

Someone else mentioned using drones for inspections, which I agree with. I am surprised more parks haven't moved towards having a pre-programed drone flight path with a camera literally just fly the entirety of the track, giving a 10 minute video each day to the maintenance team to inspect. If you wanna get SUPER fancy with it, add in some kind of IR/QR trackers on the track itself, use that as "checkpoints", then run through a AI algorithm to give an early alert system where it goes through every single daily video at those points and compares to see if anything at all has changed. Color differences, size differences, angles or shapes could all be assessed on the daily automatically while the engineering team does their walkthroughs and video inspections. I don't fault the maintenance team for possibly missing this IF it happened suddenly, who is going to spot that crack from all the way on the ground. But I think this crack probably started forming a while ago and it should have been spotted. That said, I do think a programed drone would be the smart way to go. Add a LZ just outside the entrance walkway, incorporate it into the theming even, just to give a nice reminder to "hey, we are taking this safety thing serious". Heck add a little TV and show that day's video footage on a loop so people can see the whole track from a new perspective.

https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Abcfc7503-92ff-3bfa-8938-93c321fe6008 Features Kings Island 50th anniversary on the cover and places KI 17th most popular park in North America. It's an interesting read overall. Reading through this a bit more it looks like KI was 17th in 2019 and would place slightly higher in 2022 at 16th, but with COVID still messing with numbers they didn't move it. It does like like KI is fairly consistent in their attendance though; 3.48m in 2019, 3.18m in 2021, 3.34m in 2022 (2020 doesn't really exist, but it was 1.62m)

How in the world did you manage to visit each of these parks a day after each other with travel, and still have time in the park to actually ride things?