Magenta Lizard
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You don't need to make me feel worse for not visiting any parks (except Disneyland, ONCE) during the five or so years I lived in Burbank. Whenever I saw those billboards go up in the fall, I wanted so badly to go. I wasn't to the maturity I am now, where I just go places on my own if I really want to and don't know someone else who wants to.
Maybe some year I will take a trip down to Universal Orlando but for now I'm only interested in KI.
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Granted I haven't done any sort of haunted attraction in years, but I generally don't enjoy them.
I love horror movies, but not slashers. Too often, like a slasher movie, haunted houses go for the easy startle. I would love something that goes for the deeper fear that comes from atmospheric creepiness, feeling more like a psychological thriller. I'm not sure how it could be accomplished, unfortunately.
I probably wouldn't pay an up charge. I also don't think the general public is likely to latch onto it much either.
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This is the best idea I've heard in some time. I have very fond memories of Phantom Theater. At the time it opened, I was so amazed to have something nearly Disney animatronics' level (Disney was worlds ahead of any other parks at that time) here in li'l ol' Ohiah. It would be great to see something new, and even more advanced than the original, but based on its ideas. Who doesn't love a haunted theater?
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I kind of want one of the giant doughnuts. I also think it would be cool to see more area-themed type prizes.
The prize I covet the most is the giant Wonder Woman banana at the Coney Arcade, though.
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I don't think they would actually permanently (or semi-permanently) rename a coaster "King James!" But, I don't think it is a bluff likely to be called, anyway. Good publicity stunt I suppose.
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Congrats thekidd33 on your nuptials, and harmony29 on your upcoming nuptials.
When I first started on these boards (only a couple months ago), I was quite surprised when some of the regulars posted pictures of themselves and I discovered how young they were. The kids of KIC conduct themselves quite maturely. Usually the adults do as well
This is one of only two online communities I've ever felt this impressed with. It is a combination of the social influence of regulars' posting style, board rules, and efficient moderation that keep everything moving smoothly most of the time.
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n00b_rider, if you want to catch fantastic air try to get the middle of the train (rows 7-10). I love all parts of the train for different reasons, but for someone a little cautious about riding, I think you would love the middle. You just float for what seems like seconds, absolutely heavenly, at the peaks of the hills. It is unlike anything else, and doesn't feel scary, just weightless.
For more thrill, front and back are good. Front because you hang over the tops of the hills and can see down while the rest of the train is holding you back from going anywhere fast (and because of the arrangement of the seats, the second row is almost as good as the first row for it). Rear of the train is great because it feels like nonstop wild speed.
Unfortunately with the current ride-op situation, you're probably going to end up wherever they put you. Fortunately, I haven't found a bad seat on Diamondback. They're all fun. If you like coasters, I think you will get over the height really quickly and give yourself over to the intense fun of the ride.
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It's weird, too, because I had no problems with Diamondback earlier in the season. But lately, the person assigning seats, more often than not, seems to purposefully put singles in odd rows (so strangers get to sit right up on each other when you would think pairs riding together would prefer to a lot more), blocks people from entering and choosing their own rows then screws around and waits to finally start asking group sizes and assigning rows when the gates are open to load the next train (leaving some rows empty because everyone can't get sorted in time), or does other similar shenanigans that can't be explained by difficulty of the job itself.
I don't know what is going on in the current atmosphere of ride ops on Diamondback, but it is making me less and less willing to wait to ride it (especially when I can go to Banshee instead, and see what happens when a crew really has it together). I don't want to wait for a half hour or more to ride (with the wait increased due to inexplicably unfilled seats) when I know I'm going to end up at the inflexible (and also inexplicable) whims of an amateurish despot.
So, I only ride it now if it looks to me to be a likely 15-minute or so wait, so I'm not as disappointed when I get an undesirable seating assignment. Because of the weird unprofessional and inefficient turn the operations have taken, it's very rare to have that short of a wait, too.
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I was behind someone quite thin on Flight of Fear on Monday, a young teen who apparently hadn't yet learned the importance of deodorant. There's nothing else like the wave of stench with which I was smacked in the face upon launch. I continued to face it for about half the ride before it finally had blown off enough or I got used to it and I could actually enjoy my ride.
I really haven't noticed heavier people being more likely to smell than thinner people.
People not moving when the line in front of them does is something that irritated the heck out of me when I was a kid, and now doesn't bother me at all. The only exception is a non-corralled line like at a food stand, when someone can't be bothered enough to pay attention to standing in line and that creates confusion as to who is actually in line, so someone may end up inadvertently line-jumping.
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They tweeted again this morning that the millionth Banshee ride will happen this week. Maybe people are all trying to be the one. I sure would be if I were there, and believe me, being there is something I've been thinking a lot about doing because of the millionth rider thing. Still sore from Monday, tho.
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After falling down the rabbit hole last night, looking what trademarks Cedar Fair has filed (and some surprising ones it hasn't) I would be exceedingly surprised if any of their recent filings are about Haunt attractions. Registering trademarks takes money, and I doubt they are going to be making enough (any?) merchandise for a single Haunt maze to make it worth their while.
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It said the TM was applied as a name for a /ride/ and merchandising too. I haven't personally double checked it, but I don't think mazes are considered rides? I'm inclined to believe the name may not be for this particular construction.
Edit: Ok, I looked:
http://www.trademarkia.com/rougarou-86317000.html
I suppose a maze could fall under "Amusement Park Services"
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I was fortunate that with the winds yesterday it was cool enough to sleep in the back seat of my vehicle. I got about a half-hour power nap, and it helped me make it through to past closing, even though I only slept about three hours the night before.
I will take the advice given for other places to sleep, though, because I often could use a nap and usually it's going to be like an oven in the car.
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This interview with the long-haired clown (Julien Roberge) has some footage of the act, and is fairly interesting besides:
http://wdtn.com/2014/06/12/cirque-imagine/
Edited to add: I hope that they consider releasing an official video of the show after the season is over. I would be willing to buy a copy of it on DVD. For now, getting to see it in person is even better, though.
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Unfortunately, I don't, and I haven't found such available either (I've looked). Nearly all video I've found is not even of this year's show. If the woman in white is on a ring rather than a rope, or there are roller bladers, it's not the KI show.
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It's weird they tweeted the millionth rider was coming "soon", over a week ago. https://twitter.com/KingsIslandPR/status/483285436711055361
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On the one hand, I'm worried that Tecumpseh Buildings' site refers to them as builders of steel buildings. On the other, winning, hand, it does also say post frame buildings. And, all of the materials laying there were wood.
The theme of a Cajun werewolf would lend itself well to a structure that would fit in quite comfortably to The Beast's mining camp theme. I am excitedly looking forward to seeing it, even though I will probably only walk through it once, if at all. I love visual theming.
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No doubt that filtered into my subconscious when I wrote it. I read those books several times even tho I'm "old."
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I think there is a certain subset of the general population that prefers their frightening fiction to reality, and without any actual reasons to back it up they will create stories. I have no doubt that in some people's minds, the brand new coaster this year has already killed someone.
So, as jcgoble3 says, the stupidity will always win. If you let it.
I think it was a great marketing ploy to resurrect the name, for people like me who have always wished that they could have ridden the original. I know it isn't the same thing, but I can pretend. No reason to trash the possible legacy appeal by allowing fear of the name (among those who won't have a positive image of KI anyway) to continue to give the park a black eye.
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Yeah. It's actually surprising they didn't break it earlier. I just feel vindicated the "clue" I discovered on the tour yesterday turned out to be true. Although it would be a crazy misdirection if the name written on the materials /wasn't/ the actual name of the building company.
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I wonder where they discovered to check out if Tecumpseh Buildings may have filed for any permits?
Now, that is good reporting though. Research.
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You don't think he's tired of it yet?
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It's been awhile since I rode AE. The only effects I remember not running were the fog machines. What other effects are not functioning?
There's discussion about it on the third page of this thread: http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php/topic/29687-backlot-stunt-coaster-special-effects-removed/page-3
Much of what is there as theming now used to either do something and/or looked better than now.
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I rode Adventure Express after dark last night, and it was fantastic. As much as I would love for the effects to be working, zipping through dark tunnels removed the deteriorated non-functional effects from the experience, and let me fully realize that it is simply a great ride, even without effects. The only negative of the ride itself (ignoring effects) is the anti-climax of ending with the lift hill, but that is countered by the cool experience of getting to take right off in the beginning without having to be slowed down by a lift hill.
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Verruckt - the world's tallest water slide @ Schlitterbahn Kansas is delayed... again...
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As one who loves amusement parks, it sickens me to have one capitalize on the direct implication of unsafety.
Most of the rest of this post is something I already had been writing in response to aspersions cast against media reports using the translation of the ride name "Hell" in relation to the recent incident.
It is no secret I am disgusted by the state of modern news reporting. There is very little fact checking, they only want to be first to the punch with click-bait headlines and don't update them even when further information is received (Four Fires at Flight of Fear, was showing on their Facebook page hours after the press release that it was a smoking motor and zero fires, for example).
However, this really makes me realize that how parks encourage the public to think about rides is complicit in, well, how the public thinks about rides. The media grabs on any incident (or creates their own "incidents" even when reporting on what is actually entirely safe and normal operation: Banshee "stuck" on lift hill) to get the public's attention, because feeding into the public's perception that coasters are scary, and thus unsafe, happens to be an effective way to get the public's attention.
As enthusiasts, we know the public is wrong in thinking that just because coasters are thrilling or scary means they are unsafe. We know tons of work goes behind creating rides that are as safe as humanly possible, and tons of maintenance goes toward keeping rides as safe as humanly possible, and lots of procedures are in place to operate rides in as safe a manner for all riders as is humanly possible. Although they are heavily covered by the media, serious injuries at theme parks are exceedingly rare (and often caused by circumventing of safety protocols by the patrons themselves or unpredictable and unpreventable "acts of god"). But, it is not a very hard mental leap from scary to unsafe.
Coasters are given very scary names. So, the parks encourage the scariness when it suits them. They don't, in my opinion, emphasize the public perception of safety enough, and we clearly can't count on the media to do it.
It is bad enough, in my opinion, to allow the public to take the small step from actual advertisement that "this is scary" to their own conclusion "this is unsafe." To literally advertise more or less "this is unsafe, so come do it!" is almost criminal, and in my opinion it is a disservice to amusement parks in general.