BeeastFarmer

@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!

My burning question for this season is: What kind of music will be on international street and Rivertown? Unfortunately, due to work, I will not be at the park for a few weeks.

Can they add chicken tenders to any other location? (Satire) I mean The Chicken Shack usually has pretty good chicken, but why are tenders at Grain and Grill? Is it that difficult to get grilled boneless skinless chicken at this location ? Was it because of all the undercooked chicken legs last year? Grain and Grill is supposed to be a healthier option. And what happened to the emphasis on locally sourced food that was a big deal under chef major? Are we back to total reliance on Sysco et al?

I think this topic has been discussed to death. In short, there is no reason to demolish it until there is. So when this part of the park is redeveloped, it will either get upgraded or demolished as part of that budget allocation. Right now it's good for the small events it hosts and WinterFest storage/staging.

For 600 some odd feet of track, it looks like a bigger ride. (Yes, I know this is all boomerangs)

I think a troll would be someone with no skin in the game. You have said that you no longer have passes and your main park was CP, correct? And that you no longer frequent the parks? So you've moved on? When most people have moved in to other things, they don't stay on forums and argue with the majority of posters ad nauseum. This is the only internet specific forum site I'm on, and while you may stick around to ruffle feathers, I'm debating on putting you on "ignore" status or watching what you post for some humor.

I wish we could get some of our originals back from WOF. I believe paramount sold ours to WOF.

But did that horrible nurse practitioner, who may have been under the influence, who's brother was filming on ride and could have caused an injury, who claimed to be a medical doctor, who interfered with EMS, who then claimed she was a trauma nurse, who demanded that EMS give fluids and a medication that would make the injury worse and who blasted out details of this all over social media, violating privacy principles...did she face any repercussion from any regulatory bodies in Ohio?

I think you are making my post into something that I did not intend. I was observing that as a Cincy legacy, Kings Island should have been in there somewhere. As far as the 22 list, I'd have to agree, Larry, that was quite good. Without a drink plan, if you need water on a hot summer day at Kings Island, you're going to be miserable!

I never rode T2 with the OG trains, but I thought the Kumbak trains on T3 were not bad, except the restrictive nature of them as the ride came back to the station.

Hey now, T3 wasn't TERRIBLE! the only issue I had with it was the downward ratchet on the restraint towards the end of the ride

In general, yes it's worth it to me because I'm a casual visitor to Cedar Point, so I want to take advantage of my time in the park. The last time I got FLP, if you were a platinum pass holder, you got FLP at FL price, but I'm sure that will change with the new pass structure. As others have said, the merge point is further back on many coasters, Kings Island has us spoiled.

Not a Cincy local, but it seems like Kings Island should have been somewhere on these lists. https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2024

So, I wonder how this will work with guests who have "loose articles" such as insulin pumps?