BeeastFarmer

Id recommend Carowinds like others have said. Fury is, IMHO the only real draw for the dry park. Carowinds to me, was very corporate and sterile, generic. Kind of like Kentucky Kingdom with bigger coasters. Kings Dominion has charm, is tied in with the history of Kings Island, and in my experiences, has better ops than Carowinds. But if you are going to Virginia, it would be a shame to not do Busch Gardens. It's phenomenal. Of course, if time and money is of no issue, you could loop Dollywood into a Carowinds trip

I saw that, too! I was pleasantly surprised.

These chicken strips at the Chicken Shack are dry, stringy and smaller than a wooly worm. They appear to be standard kindergarten issue strips...are they even hand breaded anymore or just out of a bag and into the oil?

Now if you could just get your saloon and beer/BBQ festival!

And it's machines vs free refills so money making opportunities. Perhaps a small area for Prestige Passholders to come and pay for a bottled drink, with a trough off to the side where they can put out yesterday's leftover Skyline Chili ®

I'm normally in agreement about your disdain for park communications. But in my opinion, inflammatory statements like this make you look petty. Do you really think that a bunch of people would drive three hours to look at a sign saying the area was closed? Or are you just expressing your thoughts that the KI team are idiots?

I'm not the target audience for this addition. But I will withhold judgement until the area is finished. I remember last year people here were wringing their hands and there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth about Adventure Port. But most everyone was impressed with it when the park opened. And they continued doing things after the season started (not talking about the new flats and updated roller coaster). There were many opportunities for AP enhancement that have yet to be realized. I think that most would agree that even a low budget upgrade to the Camp Snoopy area would be much better than what was there. I hope they absorb Planet Snoopy into camp Snoopy in the years to come.

That would be amazing. The most wonderful garbage ever! Kings Island just does everything everything so good!

I wonder what kind of trash bags they will use?

Via Cedar Point uncensored Facebook. IYKYK

Hmmm ..a drink station in zombie zone. I I wonder if we will see some sort of eatery soon? Could they be building up? Auxiliary services ahead of a revamp with a new large attraction? Whatever the design of this new refresh station looks like, it could give a clue in the future theming if they indeed are going to revamp this area.

Things should be interesting on Thursday at 830 when the two companies have earnings calls scheduled simultaneously.

@Hawaiian Coasters 325, thank you! And btw, you NAILED IT with the playground idea!

Did the Sandusky Register and Cedar Point make up? Did John Mattress have to go make peace?

Didn't Kings Island send out a survey a few years ago about Planet Snoopy, with a "playground" and an air conditioned indoor dining space being the top two things most talked about? We are getting the playground and the dining turned into PigPens mess hall, a finger food counter service location. I get finger foods for a kids area, and the theme for the place looks good. But it's not air conditioned for the parents and it's really just replacing an eatery that was demolished, that was rarely open.

Has this ride had any downtime since it's been open? If so, I haven't heard anything about it! If this continues, zamperla just might be the Next Big Thing.

Missi Six=cringe

When Skyline was on International Street, it unofficially was using the chipotle model. You placed your order and as the line person was making it, you could request cheese on the side, light sauce, heavy onions etc. For Coney Mall, it's generally a cluster on busy days and ran well on slow days. It seems to me, as never have been a chili slinger, that as long as the back of house is ahead of the demand, front of house should be able to crank it out. I think if mobile ordering ever comes into play, we could finally see wait times decrease as people adapt to it. I mean, it's pasta, sauce, cheese and onions. How hard can it be to slap that together if you have those basic things at the ready?

You misspelled the word. It's GiGa. IYKYK.

I still can't believe they put children fingers in Grain and Grill. Come on, Chef, be creative and stick with the theme! Next thing you know, they will serve them at The French Corner or switch it to Cajun food... oops, wait they already did such a thing.

It was, hands down (or arms up as the case may be) my favorite new coaster in 2023 for me. It has stayed in my informal top ten even after the recency bias has faded.

I enjoyed DarKoaster, but imagine if we got something like Verbolten? https://youtu.be/MSYaejy74AM?feature=shared

I don't know how Cedar Fair accounts for pass sales, buy they certainly want people to have repeat visits, use the drink plan, use FunPix and the meal plan. Higher attendance from passholders looks good on quarterly reports and many passholders will purchase overpriced goods and services while they are in the park, hence the per caps. I used to work in an industry that allows clients to prepay for a years worth of services and get a discount on said services. All this money went to corporate to. E aggregated across the country and earn interest. As a service was performed, the branch would get a "credit" on the P&L. Of course there were extras that were not in the prepaid package that were upsell opportunities. At the end of the calendar year, if a customer didn't get all the services that they prepaid for, corporate would issue a check after the yearly books were closed. The branch was charged this amount plus a penalty that went against their P&L statement. This incentivized the branches to complete the prepaid services and upsell. Id conjecture that Cedar Fair has a similar system, but instead of services, it's visits, photos, meal plan redemptions, etc. But I could be wrong. All the money goes into the same pot, but like our branches were incentivized to perform, parks are incentivized to encourage attendance and therefore per caps. This works well in theory at least, until corporate cuts the budget and causes attendance to spiral downward, which it will if this short term cheapness goes on for another couple of seasons. Living away from Kings Island ( (Lexington area), I've heard several people in my circles say they won't renew this year.

Hurler actually got RMCed this off season. Routine Maintenance by Carowinds. That was their pr person, dont blame me!