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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?

A boat or a small train ride indeed. You can time the movements of the robotics to line up instead of hoping for really poorly prepared motion sensors. Honestly I was REALLY hoping the old fashion cars would use that path, would have been great.

An entire rail system into downtown Cincinnati? Benefits the Tennis Tournament (which is leaving), the Golf Course, Kings Island and just nice for commuters

It is called the Sol Spin, not the Luna Spin

services and costs are a never-ending battle. "How much can we charge before people stop thinking it is worth the money for as little as we can offer" and "How little can we pay for as much benefit we can gain" I am all for hustling to get maximum value out of a company, they are doing the same to us. But at some point it does kind of become cheating, going in and getting your meal and eating there seems to be one thing, bringing the means to save it for later doesn't seem like cheating to me unless someone else outside your group eating it. I mean they offer it, the two meals, why shouldn't you eat it as much as possible in whatever means you decide on. Even if it isn't an issue of people "abusing" service they paid for in a way which is perfectly allowed in the way the rules are written, I wouldn't put it past some bean counters to simply start pulling back on quantity or quality or just bolstering the price just to save. They could be making money hand over fist on the meal plan for all we know, and they'd still want to milk it for more. It is up to the individual customer to adjust just as the company is. I will say though, at the rate the food is going this year, if the price goes up again next year. I won't be renewing all the meals plans next year.

I used to be able to swap the fries on a cheese coney meal for a 3rd coney. I asked their year, they said not on the meal plan I would have to be a paying customer to get it. Thanks

The one time I rode I was the first person in line for my cycle, in the Fast Lane. I was the 13th person to get a seat. Somehow the barrels still manages to be worse.

They closed the front location, then completely forgot how to make Skyline at the other. The portions are smaller all around, and somehow they manage to take longer to make.

It is unique in that I haven't been on those others... Also it is a fun ride, and very quickly makes me very dizzy. The change between looking forward and "not moving" to looking to the side and "wtf I am upside down" disoriented me greatly. That said though, it is a fun ride, better than expected. And those seats are HELLA uncomfortable. I hate solid shoulder straps, makes it impossible to take deep breaths and are panic inducing.