Magenta Lizard

Diamondback just said 60 minutes on the sign and it looked about like that to look at the line. I decided not to wait. It's as busy as you would expect on a weekday in the midsummer, especially with this nice of weather.

I'm pretty sure she can't. They look for everyone going through the ERT gate to show a gold or platinum pass.

They're starting on roof parts now

You were probably seeing the result of the Monday sale (those tickets are able to be used for a couple weeks), awesome weather, and it being the middle of July.

I think they moved the Diamondback crew that was driving so many of us nuts to Banshee. They're taking about twice as long as usual to dispatch trains. And during ERT a friendly operator sent a bunch of us for a tour of nearly the whole cattle corral (kept closing things in front of us and sending us around again* even though the actual line was on the stairs at the time). When we finally were making our last approach to the stairs, a ride supervisor had taken over (and closed off all but the most direct route) and he let about ten people in front of us. Thanks. * it was so silly I would think he was messing with us, if he had any hint of a smile rather than a stern mix of confusion and incompetence.

Just saw the flames on BLSC. My first time this season. It was about a 20 min wait.

I hate when the North parking entrance is closed and it directs me to the South one. It is anything but clear where one is supposed to make a left turn into that entrance. Fortunately, most times when I get here (in the morning before the park opens) the North entrance is open. Unfortunately, most of the times it is closed are times later in the day when traffic on Kings Island Drive is heavier.

The new one on the ring appears to have Asian ancestry, while the one in the other act does not. I saw both of them on stage at the same time during bows, so I know for sure they aren't the same person Oddly enough, I noticed the woman from the trampoline act skipped bows during that performance, though. She has always seemed more stoic and distant than the other performers (a bit like a living doll in my opinion) so I was quite surprised to hear her give a cheerful ululating call from the top of the trampoline structure as a signal that the act was beginning.

I understood most of it, but I watch medical shows for fun. I didn't recognize IGE, or Xolair or Duoneb (although I can tell from context they are drugs).

Went with my husband yesterday, and allowed my pic to be taken at the entrance for the first time this season (even though I always go alone, I have had the photogs attempt to grab me and a stranger who happened to be entering around the same time and take pics of us together). This was also probably the only time I would have considered buying one of the photos (getting my husband to an amusement park is a rare occasion). Went to look at them at the end of the night, finally, and both pics were blurry. In the modern age of idiot-proof digital cameras, there is just no excuse for that. I do like the idea of a season pass, as it were, for ride photos. I ordinarily don't buy them because I'm there alone, but if I could get bunches for a reasonable price, it would be worth it to me. Does the one-day pass at KI or the Six Flags season one include gate photos?

The longer belts would be a very minimal investment, if that truly is the only difference. I was in a fifth row seat a couple times last week, and noticed the red belts that I had heard designated larger seats, but didn't notice any difference in fit/feel personally.

If you only bought one ticket, you still came out ahead. The $30 one-day sale was online only, and any purchase through the KI website involves a $6 fee tacked on at the end, so a single ticket would have cost $36. If you bought two tickets for $34 each at Kroger (total $68), you only paid $2 more than you would have online (30+30+6=$66). If you bought more, then you would have benefitted more, but $34 a ticket still isn't bad.

Something I saw yesterday that was not only shockingly rude, but potentially dangerous to one of my favorite performers. You know how they tell people in the front rows and the aisles about keeping their feet and other things out of the way of the aisles during Cirque Imagine, for their safety and that of the performers? I've been at some performances where it is said by an employee, unamplified, walking around those areas, but at yesterday's show it was announced by an employee on a mic on stage, so it was pretty much impossible to miss. Just before the lights were going down, an employee fortunately noticed some jerk in the front row had plugged her phone into an outlet on the front of the stage(!!!) and was holding her phone at her seat, with the charging cord stretched out right across where Trevor the stunt-rider would very soon be traveling. The employee just unplugged it and handed it to her repeating that it needed to be removed for the safety of the performers. If I had been the employee, I'd probably have called security to have her escorted out of the showing. Seriously, just plugging your phone in to someone else's outlet without permission is rude enough, but to risk someone else's safety in doing so is way worse.

Sam also wasn't in yesterday's (7/15) 5:00 show (I didn't see the other two). I was hoping they would be to full strength after their day off, and I really missed his presence. I was surprised before the show when some girls in the front row were yelling "hey Carl!" (the name of the most recent "Niko") up to the catwalk in the front, because that isn't where he usually comes down: that has been Sam for every show I had seen so far. Three clowns just wasn't enough. They did very little clowning on the box: only the bit after Trevor the bike-dragon showed up; and the teeter-totter was entirely removed this time. The others weren't quite as smooth at performing the parts that Sam traditionally has (getting stuck on the way down in the beginning, on the trike later, etc). The new young woman on the ring is very talented. The one who I have seen on the ring in the past is very talented as well, and I missed her too, particularly the attitude she had that came across on the stage. The new woman has a body shape so similar to the one who is in the new Hand2Hand act, at first I thought it was the same person when she came out. She has some interesting different tricks she does, and I enjoyed watching her. Because I was concerned for the missing clown, and for the states of all of the cast (is it that 19 shows a week are too many for their bodies to take?) I found it hard to enjoy the show as a whole yesterday. Everybody is performing very well, though.

I don't know what they were doing different yesterday (because I didn't ride), but the line was longer than it has been on days with similar crowds, and during the several minutes I was watching, they had two trains stacked behind the station, not sending a new one out until 10-20 seconds (at least) after the previous train made it back. I was quite surprised.

We went to the Reds Hall of Fame Grille yesterday, and the prices were lower than I expected for inside the park, especially for being a table service restaurant. $10-$11 for a sandwich and a massive number of Saratoga chips (extra $2 if you prefer fries), $3 for fountain drinks with free refills. It's only slightly higher than I would expect to pay for the same thing if the restaurant weren't in the middle of KI. There's also 10% off those prices with a gold or platinum pass. We had been planning to leave for Dewey's Pizza and come back, but on an after-4 ticket for my husband, I was worried we wouldn't get as much done as we wanted if we took that much of a break.

I was going to say I'd like a Troika, but did a little research and discovered SR&R /is/ a Troika. Trabant is the type of ride I was actually thinking of. I always loved that one as a kid. Himalaya, too. I also would like to see the return of a Ferris wheel or Skylab.

It says "Status/Status Date: SUSPENSION LETTER - MAILED 2/4/2014" I am not sure exactly what that means though. It may be a regular part of the trademark registration process. It is still listed as a "live" mark.

"No line for the kids bumper cars, no line for FAAC, no line for the Turnpike ride or whip it (forget the name, but if they every install a series of classic flats, a grown up version of that would be terrific.)" Linus' Beetle Bugs? I sat and watched that ride for awhile, and was a little jealous I wasn't tiny enough to ride. It's got quite a punch for a ride for small kids.

Pre-workout probably refers to one of many energy supplements marketed as such. Flat black? My best guess is coffee.

And frequently guarana and taurine, which I suspect are the parts that make me sick as a dog for hours after drinking one. I have a sleep disorder that causes me to usually be sleep deprived to some extent, so I have tried all kinds of things for energy. Heavily caffeinated, I'm like a "normal" person. But I just cannot take the energy drinks. It's like I've been poisoned. I also have a friend I went to school with, whose heart stopped while he was out to lunch with his family. I am sure they were terrified. Fortunately the restaurant had one of those portable shock machines that are becoming more common. I forget how many times they restarted his heart on the way to and at the hospital, but it was a lot. He has a pacemaker now. The only thing his doctors could point to as a possible cause was that he had gotten on a bit of an energy drink kick in the weeks leading up to the event.

With all of the things over the years that I've attended with the thought "I'm the only one who could possibly be interested in this" and found myself drowned in a sea of humanity, I don't think it would be possible for KI to do anything (especially anything for free) and not get a decent attendance. They're in a fairly unique position of being easily accessible to two metropolitan areas and all of their suburbs. And I'd personally consider a little yoga in my mornings at KI.

Sure does. I was just being pedantic.

Hey now, I could go for a blue ice cream eating contest I voted too. I think online polls are pretty much worthless but I'm also willing to give my home park some love.

Trademarked. A few months after they filed the trademark for "Banshee". http://www.trademarkia.com/centurion-86094874.html