kiguy339

Eh, I'm siding with The Royals on this one. Like the Royals argued, the hotdog toss has been an annual thing at Kaufman stadium since 2000 and is fairly well known around the league. Why did he come to a game expecting to get hotdogs thrown at him only to sue for one hitting him in the eye? He wasn't aware of what was going on around him, period.

This is also the same system King Island uses today. Equal access.

They don't move fast? I disagree. Go to a Six Flags park, watch them do work. Come back and post the results and have the nerve to say Kings Island's operations are bad.

Hitting the interval is more important than making sure guests are confortable and checked porperly? Hahahahaha that is ridiculous. Im not sayings Kings Island has flawless operations. They aren't. There is always something to inprove on. But the sort of mantality you have is flat out wrong, and Im positive the management team there would disagree. Guest comfort and safety above EVERYTHING. Not hitting some interval most guests couldnt care less about. There is a difference between working fast and working with a pace. Working with a pace is good. It gets trains moving at steady intervals, and does not hold the line up much more than if you were sprinting around checking restraints. Getting slamed with a restraint couldnt cause injury? Tell that to the judge when a guest gets hurts and sues because of a ride op wanting to hit some interval nobody cares about. Ride hosts should be paying attention, and moving at a steady pace, not running around checking their restraints then throwing up a clear.

^Your complaints about ride operations is getting rather annoying. Nobody honestly cares if you spent a summer working 70+ hours a week, slaving away and working the dang Corkscrew. You're the typical Cedar Point ride host, with the typical "Everything we do is right and better than any other park." mentality, which is flat out rude and wrong. Kings Island's ride operations and Cedar Point's operations are not THAT much different. Sure, Cedar Point maybe emphasizes capacity more, but to say Kings Island doesn't care about it is bull. Remember Cedar Fair's conerstones? Sure you do. They are safety, cleanliness, courtesy, and service, which are all tied in by integrity. These conerstones are pounded into every associates head at BOTH parks, including Kings Island and their rides department. This means safety, efficiency, cleanliness, customer service are always aspects of the job. I have been to both parks many, many times and let me tell you Cedar Point's operations are FAR, FAR from "perfect," not saying King's Islands is. -Cedar Point takes off trains during rainy weather, which is quite the opposite from Kings Island. Kings Island runs EVERY single train no matter the weather conditions, if it is mechanically possible. The last time I went to Cedar Point, a slight drizzle set Millennium Force to one train. ONE. That is absurd. -Cedar Point ties off certain rows on sparse days, just so their operators don't have to check those restraints. Whats that beyond laziness? Kings Island does not do this. -The ride operators are friendly and interactive at Cedar Point? Hahahaha, standing in a corner of the Gatekeeper station with a microphone humming the Super Mario Bros theme song does not count as guest interaction my friend. I once heard a operator at Raptor say, "Raptor is read for dispatch, but it's guests aren't." How much more blatantly rude can you be? Seriously the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard a ride operator say. Stop taking such a high horse on your Corkscrew experience, over generalizing the operations of your park. Its nowhere near perfect like you tell yourself. I'm not saying they are bad, but to completely bash Kings Island's practices with them? Really? Go away and hit you "interval" on Corkscrew.