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My understanding is that Dollywood is going to reveal what the ride is in September.

Not exactly in the immediate Cincinnati area but definitely worth the drive is the Lewisburg, Ohio Haunted Cave which was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s longest haunted house. It’s an actual cave with a mix of real scare actors and animatronics. Here is the link for more info: hauntedcaveatlewisburg.com

I agree it is a miss not having a tasting card. It would even benefit them if they allowed a tasting count as one of the meals on the all season dining plan or provide a nice discount to tempt you to buy the tasting card.

Would love to see the old Shillitos Department store elves that they display in Mariemont each holiday season make it to Kings Island. The full display would need to be in a large space indoors like the indoor maze some have mentioned and could end with the option of visiting with Santa. It would be neat that this Cincinnati holiday history would be seen by more people by having it at WinterFest.

If my memory serves me right when the park opened in 1972 the shops on International Street sold items from different countries similar to the shops at World Showcase at Epcot. They played international themed music as well in the area. I miss not having more authentic international street stores and wish they would come back in come capacity. Grand Carnivale would be a great time to test market it. Those were the days when international street stores were open an hour before the rides opened and an hour after the fireworks stopped.

They should follow Dollywood’s tasting pass model. They seem to be successful with making it work.

Hopefully any innovation will speed up the food lines at the parks.

Does anyone know if there is a certain reason the Haunt isn’t open the last Sunday before Halloween on Oct. 27th? It is open that day until 7pm.

This is a missed opportunity and Winterfest would be really popular that weekend. Dollywood and Disney seem to have success with their winter event being before Thanksgiving.

The space they are putting the water coaster seems really small. I hope I am wrong and it will be bigger than the space looks.

I think it they did it similar to Disney’s Electrical Light Parade or Spectro Magic it would be too much.

I wish they could add lights to the costuming of the performers in the parade. It’s cool the floats light up but would add a real wow factor to the parade and easier to see the performers when it gets dark out.

Would love to see a new steel coaster called The Son of Beast’s Revenge using where The Vortex was and the old Action Theatre as the cue with video projection screens explaining how the Son of Beast has transformed and risen again and would be the longest steel coaster to coincide with his Daddy The Beast being the longest wooden coaster. It would travel back behind The Racer, Flight of Fear and Orion. It could even pay homage to The Vortex by having the same number of inversions and similar double loops.

Saw this earlier this week at Dollywood and seems like the same show but will have to see the Kings Island version to compare

I am glad to see Kentucky Kingdom add a holiday event called Christmas at Kentucky Kingdom. I’m sure it will especially make season pass holders happy. I’m definitely going to check this out this year.