Honorarius

My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is waking up out of a turkey coma and going to ride roller coasters...

^^^ I approve of Hersheypark's method of dealing with it... Too many parks have the attitude of "We don't want to upset the odd bad apple, so we'll let them stay in the park and downgrade the entire park experience for a whole lot of others"

^^^ Well, at least the victory/peace sign can't be dropped and hit people... And it's better than some gestures which could be displayed...

Here's a pic of my final KI ride of 2015... Last train of the night, on a beautiful August evening...

Very sad... Was hoping it would find new life somewhere else...

Wow, for a second there I thought I accidentally wound up on TPR...

^^^ Means you're doing something right

While I didn't think Hank's was a 5 star meal, I got speedy service, it was something different, and I'd still rate it higher than most of the burgers and any of the pizza I ate at CF parks this year...

When you change your KIC profile pic 5 times in a day...

When you spend hours on Google Maps trying to find the perfect travel route for the parks you want to hit next year...

Lol, you reminded me, I took 4 spins, won 4 BOGO funnel cake coupons, which are still floating around on the floor in the back seat of my car...

^^^ Don't give them any ideas...

Wait, they don't turn you around and take a photo with a nice background??? That's just stupid... And I also feel the price point is crazy high... I'll stick with my routine of asking someone passing by to pass take my photo with my phone and have it printed the next day somewhere for 15 cents...

That raccoon clearly did not meet the height requirement of the ride...

But how much of people doing it stems from seeing others do something and nothing being done about it??? That dad who took out his cell phone on a ride has likely seen it happen with no consequence so he figures 'Hey, why not?'... And what's the worst that happens??? They ask you to put it away... So try again on the next ride, if you get caught, no consequences, try again next ride...

I didn't find Iron Dragon rough, I found it a massive let down when compared to the other 2 of that type in the chain... I find both to be far better rides than ID... I would be very sad to see The Bat leave KI...

I think it's only fair that we be allowed to try to make them drop the phone...

^^^And how am I supposed to get that out of my head now??? It's just a jump to the left... I agree with homestar92 that Firehawk isn't similar to Time Warp at all... Yes, you're lying down in both, but a ride on Firehawk in no way feels like I've been duct taped to the front of a car and driven through a cornfield at high speeds... And though KI's Vortex and Dragon Fire have the same manufacturer and trains, the ride is very, very different... It's kinda like a Corvette and a Vega... Both have wheels and seats and the same manufacturer, but one is much better than the other...

Well CF has other parks, but they don't seem to work on the same schedule as their "Big 5". After thinking about it, I'm not sure I should have included KD in my account. CP, CW, KI, KBF are there biggest attendance parks(If you believe TEA), and its clear they want to move Carowinds up the charts as well. CW's lineup is sorely missing a decent ride with inversions... Currently have an Arrow Looper, Vekoma Boomerang, Vekoma SLC and a Zamperla Volare... Using that logic, the only decent ride at KI with inversions is Banshee. Sure, if you pretend FoF, Firehawk and Vortex don't exist...

CW's lineup is sorely missing a decent ride with inversions... Currently have an Arrow Looper, Vekoma Boomerang, Vekoma SLC and a Zamperla Volare...

Knowing which parks are getting what would make planning my vacations so much easier... So little time too many parks... Planning on hitting 4 CF parks in 2017 and which park gets what will have a heavy influence on which park gets that 4th spot....

You don't get a vote just for having a subscription, that'd be even worse than the process claims to be now... They at least pretend that you have to apply and qualify to get one of the meaningless ballots that get fed into a shredder...

Well, if you count next year, that'd be 7 years out of the past 8...

Why spend the money to mess with what's already great??? Spend the money and try to improve some of the wooden turds in the chain...

Sooner or later, that money had to be repaid... Why push it off and continue to pay interest when you have the chance to get out from under some of your debt???