purdude86

YEa be nice to have them finish removing the flight deck theming, mainly around the tunnel with all the stars and stuff.

I would love them to add a vine tunnel back into the park and I'm sure many others would.

But Universal can do more of that staggering as everything is new each year so they have a lot to announce. Kings Island really only had Skeleton Crew and Killmart for new additions, and then the return of Ghouls Gone Wild and the revamped Slaughterhouse. So not as much to put out. Plus they did reveal some of it before too. They said Slaughterhouse was returning in a new spot, teased the new building by Beast, then informed us that was the new Slaughterhouse location and it would be revamped. A couple other mazes were confirmed to be returning as well. We just didn't get an overall announcement for the stuff until now and nothing was posted on the park site, but there was some staggered announcements between Twitter and Don's posts here. RailRider, on 03 Sept 2014 - 09:58 AM, said: Very happy to see Board to Death, Cavern of Terror, and Backwoods Bayou returning. Curious to see if Slaughterhouse Reloaded is nothing more than Relocated. KillMart, this could be interesting or very generic. Skeleton Key plus Fright Lane looks to be priced at $40 to $50 a night from what I am seeing. I imagine the Skeleton Key feature is very underwhelming for the price you pay. I don't think Skeleton Key could be bad for the price you pay as the price hasn't really changed from when it wasn't there at all. I see it almost more as you are buying a Fright Lane pass and getting an extra scene at the 5 mazes for free.

Looking forward to this. Really hoping I'll b able to make it. Thanks Don and anyone else involved in getting this set up.

YEa if Son of Beast was still around I'd vote it easily to get the treatment. Before it got torn down thought it would be a good way to revive it but probably too costly. Love to see another one though in a similar vein to Son of Beast with the hybrid track. Like the idea of an Iron Beast in the park like that.

Surprised they already have the guy out in costume this early. He is great though.

Well it was no longer a discussion really and what little there was was no longer about the event but general park bashing so it needed to be locked or removed until calmer heads could prevail and new information was out to talk about.

Yea this seems pretty cool but like it could have a lot of problems associated with it as well. Best part of it I think would be you could throw up a generic coaster in a building and change it up each year with a new video, or even a new one for special events like Halloween Haunt, similar to their plans for Wonder Mountain's Guardian.

Agreed they are both great as they are and have some great properties and significance to them as wooden coasters. I wouldn't mind seeing a newly built RMC hybrid coaster but would want them to keep our current woodies as is.

Yea I voted for The Beast on the third question but only because I had too. I don't see them messing with either one. Racer is a historic coaster and still well liked, plus it fits the theme of that area better than a steel coaster would. The Beast is a classic as well that I don't see being messed with either. Not to say it isn't possible for either but I would be surprised to see it happen.

Yea they need to be spread out, one for cost purposes, but also after a couple years they won't be new anymore and people will start clamoring for a new big ride/coaster even though you just added 3 or more within the last couple years. Think something like Fury 325 and Maverick would make great additions. But I think we also need to see some more additions to the flat ride line up and Soak City as well to really round everything else out.

I agree. And having companies sponsor stuff is an easy nonintrusive way to bring in ad revenue. I wouldn't even mind some signs around the park. Might get a bit irked if we had ad wrapped trains on rides or huge banners on the sides of coasters like certain parks do as I think those are total eyesores. But letting companies sponsor stuff or buy some ad space for a few signs on buildings or even some ads over the park pa system when they are doing announcements about showtimes is fine if it means more revenue for the park to do more improvements and aditions in the future.

There's plenty of room back behind Banshee in general you don't need to take anything out. They could reuse SOB's station even or just put a new one there and have it run out back behind Banshee and Bat.

I agree. Most fo the rides were pretty much unchanged by the loss of rights when Cedar Fair took over. The only one that truly changed was Tomb Raider. The only other ride heavily themed to a movie was IJST and it's change to BLSC has had hardly any change to the feel of the ride at all. EVerything else was themed in name and movie posters only. And we have seen they can do well with theming without license with Banshee. Extensive theming to other IPs isn't needed. i'd rather them invest that money into other enhancements, attractions, and their own theming. Even if they did have the rights to these the theming would probably still be fairly light as it was before, we're not going to get a ride with the heavy theming of a park like Universal or Disney. I'd say Tomb Raider was even an exception. Flight of Fear would probably be the most I'd expect adn Banshee is probably even more likely.

I didn't get a picture of it, but when I was there on Sunday the building was open but it was still compltely bare on teh inside. Not sure if anything has been done on it this week though.

Kings Island really needs something like this. A new slide complex would add multiple new attractions to the water park. They have made some nice improvements to it over the years but I agree there hasn't really been any new additions in a long time. I know a lot of people keep saying they want a water coaster like Wildebeest but while they would be nice I think something liek this would be better first as it would add multiple new slides at once versus just one new attraction. Though I would like to see a water coaster eventually added.

I could see us potentially getting something small as well like a Flying Scooters ride or something, but most enhancements to the park. They have been getting added to most of the Cedar Fair parks lately, and Cedar Point got them this year after just getting Gatekeeper the year before.

That's exactly how I see it. You'd be hard pressed to find another IP that is as timeless as the Penuts gang has proven to be. It might seem to many that they are not relevnat today but as yuo point out they are used in tons of advertising. Plus I'd say most kids see at least the Halloween and Christmas specials adn know the characters from those. I don't see any other current properties having teh same lasting power. Nickelodeon has hanged greatly and is morelive action shows now for one and most of their shows only last a few years. Spongebob is the only thing still relevant now that was 5+ years ago. But I don't see him still being around in another 20 years or so. Whereas Peanuts have been around for over 60 years. As for the original question of retaining rights to the Paramount films I think it would have been unlikely unless they got them for an extremly low price. Very few of the rides were that heavily themed. Tomb Raider and IJST are about teh only ones I can think of that really had much theme. Most of the other rides really only had a name of a movie stuck on them and some movie posters in the queue. Otherwise there was hardly any change once Cedar Fair removed the movie connections. Even BLSC has hardly changed. So it would probably be a bit of a waste of money to spend on the rights when it would primarily jsut be used to give a ride a name based on a movie.

Plus I'm not sure if it applies to the Platinum Pass but the price for a Gold Pass in the fall is generally much cheaper than it is late winter/spring.

There's a bit of space that they could still use there. Some of it would just require moving some stuff around a bit. As Blondy said there is space next to the Festhaus for a small ride. Also where the Rope Ladder game is if they moved it elsewhere there is enough space there for another flat. Ideally I' also like to see the Slingshot moved more into Action Zone or something and they would make room for another flat or a building/shop there. But I wouldn't expect them to move it. Also just some enhancements like revamping the Festhaus itself and make it more of a German restaurant could go a long way.

I don't fully count Wolf Pack as it's only permenant since the coaster station it uses is no longer needed. Otherwise it would get taken out and put back. Club Blood is decent too but not up to the par of the others I listed. I specified the permanent ones were nicer for the most part as some like you mentioned aren't much different form the others. But to me it seems that all of the really good ones are permanent ones.

Didn't know it was closing Sunday. Luckily I'm heading out there that day so I will have to make sure to go see it.

Yes but The Beast is an iconic coaster that anyone going to the park will know about and will hunt for or ask where it is if needed. Flight Deck was not the same way. There were people that didn't know anything about it and it wasn't some major must ride coaster to a vast majority and so might not take the extra effort to find it if they didn't know where it was.

I'm hoping it will be better if it is a permanent housing for it. It seems as if teh ones that are in permanent locations are the nicer ones for the most part. Madame Fatale's is defintiely are nicest maze right now, and Urgent Scare is one the better looking ones too and they stay there full time. Whereas others like Holiday Horror and Cornstalkers can be fun but just feel a lot cheaper.

Yea I loive the ride but giving it a retheming to fit in with the surroundings better would be good. Either jsut grassy adn trees or something to go with Coney Mall or a western type theme similar to Maverick for it to be part of Rivertown. I never thought the theming on it was terrible persay jsut didn't fit the area. It would have gone perfectly in Action Zone at teh time it wasbuilt as it was teh exact theme of the land. But it never fit in where it is located.