LongLiveTheSmurfRide

Yeah, there was a tiny little corner with some stuff for 75% off. It looked like it was mainly Backyardigans stuff. Scooby Stuff on I-Street was 50% off.

Glad I wasn't the only one who had a tough time finding the entrance to Cut Throat. Adventure Express was really fun last night. I had to ride it twice (since there was no line and I could just stay on).

Got there last night around 8. Our main goal was to get passes renewed, but the lines were crazy long at the main processing area. Tip for anyone going to get their pass renewed: if the lines are huge outside of the park, they were also processing passes in the Nick store in Nick U. and the line was much much shorter. When we first got there, we rode Diamondback which had about a 10 minute long wait. Row 14 and it was awesome riding in the dark with all of the fog. We then got our passes renewed in Nick U. The Haunt itself seemed to be missing something last night outside of the Haunts themselves. I only found roamers around Action Zone and Coney Maul. The rest of the park seemed content just to be blanketed in fog. We only did a couple Haunts, Carnevil and Cemetery Drive. Carnevil was fun but Cemetery Drive seemed to be lacking something. Some of the scareactors seemed to be a little off. Gotta give credit to the person who, about half-way through, was just crawling through the fog. I almost stepped on him but luckily I saw him before I did. I'm sure he was preparing for a scare, but seemed a bit dangerous especially since that was a crazy foggy area. Sorry Gator, I didn't make it to the Slaughter House this time. But I have at least 1 more trip planned (October 25th as part of my bachelor party), and hopefully I'll get to go a couple more times before then. I wanted to do the pirate Haunt but totally could not find the entrance easily so my group pulled me away. The Ghouls Gone Wild show was pretty good I thought. I didn't get the Cheeseburgers in Paradise part though. It seemed like they had a giant cheeseburger prop so they were like, "How do we incorporate it into the show?" Was really out of place with the rest of what was going on. Also got a couple rides in a row on an empty Adventure Express and a ride on The Beast which seemed actually fast this time around. Scariest part of the night was when we pulled into the brake run for Diamondback and we were sitting there waiting to get into the station and an explosion went off in the Hot Blooded show and made everyone in the train scream and jump. It was an awesome way to start the evening. I'm assuming the lack of roamers and whatnot was linked more to being the first night of the Haunt and the park being pretty empty. Had fun, but definitely hasn't proven to be the best Haunt yet, to me anyway.

I know he was cheating on his wife, but some people have been making statements like he deserved what he got for that, or he knew what he was walking into? I'm sorry, but everyone has skeletons in their closets, pun intended, but that doesn't exactly mean that they deserve to die for them.

I remember the Mummy one from a couple years later. Didn't they have an area where you could crawl through? I didn't go that way because I get claustrophobic.

Nice attempt to use large words, but I think all of them, except for undeniable, is spelled incorrectly. Indubitably.

Not that I'm offended, but I still see how people could be, but wanted to add, they also had his shirt with a #9 painted on it which was McNair's number. Personally, I hated the guy as a player because he played for 2 of my least favorite teams (Titans and Ravens) and he wouldn't stop winning; but please stop saying that he "put himself in that situation". He had a relationship with a woman. He didn't know she was going to kill him. People get married to people who are normal when they are together and then they snap and kill their spouses. Did they put themselves in that situation? Seriously, get off the high horse. People make mistakes and people usually learn from them (or hopefully get the opportunity to). You might do good to remember that when you make a mistake instead of flat out condemning.

I wouldn't say so. Like I said, I'd be fine with them showing McNair as a skeleton playing ball because it's what he was known for and what he loved to do. Everett loved football and probably wouldn't mind seeing that for himself either. Now if they had a skeleton with his jersey on and it was lying on the ground with a paramedic crew around it like a scene of him after his career ending injury; again, that's just bad taste.

I'll be there. I might be in the market for some fresh meat. What are your prices like? I hope they're "to die for".

And I believe they've done stuff like that in the past. I believe they had a scene one year (or multiple years) that showed skeletons playing football and I believe one of the ones on the bench was Chad Johnson (had an 85 jersey). I mean, that's just a funny scene of skeletons acting like football players. It's not portraying an actual event.

I think the scenes would have gone over better if they had put the skeletons in positions portraying things that the celebrities were more well known for. Like show McNair with a football in hand about to pass it. Or Ledger in his Joker costume. I'd be all for something like that. For instance, if they had an Elvis skeleton, I'd much rather see him in front of a microphone than laying next to a toilet with his pants around his ankles. Why show the actual way they died? That's just morbid. If you want to use it as an excuse to "remember" the dead, then remember what made them famous in the first place, not the circumstances of their end.

I'll be there with my fiance and a friend. Will be getting passes as well.

Aww, I wonder why. It was always packed when they did them. That sucks. Okay, CP only has 1 edge over KI then.

The 2 edges I give to CP over KI are the scare zones where you just walk through an area that's covered in fog and scare actors. Love being able to go through a 'Haunt' without having to wait. And the second thing I love are their Poe ghost stories in the little shack back by Snake River Falls. They have different actors sit and tell very intense versions of Poe stories. They're pretty fun to watch and the performers are usually really good. Wish KI would bring something in like that.

In one of the shop windows on I-Street. When facing the Tower it's on the left side, I believe in one of the last windows on I-street.

I woudn't say it's hard to not focus on them just because they're talked about a lot here. I mean, take the first drop for instance. Is there any worse and more disorienting feeling on a coaster than going down a hill, you know you should be picking up speed, but you feel the coaster slow down? That just kills a drop right there.

Actually, that along with a motionless and left for dead SOB just makes me weep for the park. At least we have Diamondback.

I'd have to say pretty much every ride I've had on The Beast this year has seemed slow. The trims really kill it. I can see why so many people who travel across the country to ride The Beast for the first time label it as "over hyped".

Didn't they have Owen Wilson's name on Death's List the year he tried to commit suicide, but then it had an 'X' through it? That was funny but a bit cold. I had one of those "That's just not right" chuckles at it.

I got nothing against people enjoying it, so no need to apologize (that's why I always add "in my opinion"). I just think it's been very overrated and will be even more so now that it's gone.

If that was one of the best shows then that's a bit insulting, in my opinion. They had a neat idea, but then broke into songs that had nothing to do with the theme of the show and just ruined it. Just because a song is popular at the time does not mean it needs to be in a show.

There's a lot of skinless stuff in the slaughter house, eh? How often do you think people will see that skeleton MJ and say, "Too soon!"?

Kat's right. It's from Independence Day. I can't confirm anywhere but I know the music.

When I was going through The Cemetery with some friends, one of them ran into a tombstone and scraped his ankle and when he looked down at it through the fog, he found a dollar.

LOL, I like that, good one.