KIghostguy

Depends. '15 and '16 the park was like a ghost town. The Beast at night was a walk on. 2017, however, was a totally different story. The park was more crowded than any Saturday I've been there. The only ride I rode was Mystic Timbers after a four-and-a-half hour wait. The rest of the night was me walking through the park trying to find a ride that didn't have an hour-plus line (in other words: none of them).

Kings Island Cedar Point (only rode the Blue Streak and Mine Ride) Dutch Wonderland Memphis Kiddie Park Coney Island (Cincinnati) Striker’s Grove Gillian’s Wonderland Pier Morey’s Piers Knoebels Disneyland Park Magic Kingdom EPCOT Hollywood Studios Animal Kingdom I’ll be adding Blackpool Pleasure Beach to this list this summer!

It’s exactly the same as the 2017 map.

The living nativity and show during Winterfest was wonderful.

Good morning. Not too giant of a blog post today, but I hope you all find it interesting nonetheless. People seemed to like when I covered the King Cobra, so I thought I'd do another defunct attraction. http://kingsislandghosts.blogspot.com/2018/03/remembering-kings-islands-sky-ride.html Sorry for the wait. I've been busy working on another giant post. I don't really know when that one will be released.

One of the nice things about blogs is the fact that you can edit your posts. I've just added some new and more accurate information on the King Cobra's construction and added a very interesting and rarely seen photo.

Talk about a bump...but I believe the bridge was added in 1983. From the 4/15/1983 Cincinnati Post: "F.R. Bush, vice president and general manager of the park, said the Oktoberfest area...is being renovated this year...it will include such new additions as wooden bridges over the lake between the Festhaus and German Biergarten."

Just because they can does not mean they will.

Vortex really needs a new paint job. It's badly faded and is visibly peeling in many areas.

I already said it earlier, but @Mystic.Timber1.

It's not whether you "believe" or not. He said that he doesn't think Intamin would be used. There are members on here that were in the same room as I and heard it.

I'm not just "some random person" like you claimed earlier; he came to our school to do a presentation on jobs in the industry. You don't have to take my word for it, @Mystic.Timber1 was in the same "session" that I was in. If you want elaboration, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to contact him.

He has seen the 5-year plan.

The local economy boomed under Diamondback, Banshee, and probably with the addition of Mystic. I already posted this somewhere on this site, but tourism in the county was up to 23 or 24% the year Banshee opened. It usually is 4 to 5% annually. As far as Intamin, Kings Island’s head of Human Resources told me that he doesn’t think the park would work with Intamin for a Giga.

The park’s head of Human Resources did a presentation on jobs in the industry today at Mason High School and told us that there will be an announcement in March. There are no rides coming and it will be a restaurant.

Does anyone know what happened to the ranger jeeps?

ODA inspectors that cleared the ride won’t be held accountable for the accident and won’t have to pay: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/02/19/ohio-state-fair-accident-victims-say-state-inspectors-got-free-pass/352668002/

It’s been warm today (compared to the past few weeks) here in Mason, but it’s been gray and drizzling all day.

Although no one was ever killed on Son of Beast, there was a death related to preexisting health conditions. From the Dayton Daily News 7/2/2009: "[Ohio Department of Agriculture] determined the ride was functioning properly in the four other incidents involving injuries, including a death in 2007 that occurred a day after a man exited the ride complaining of pain. The department said that two of those four cases were the result of a pre-exisiting health condition."

She was drunk and had gone limp (passed out). Same thing would have happened had someone fainted, had a heart attack, etc.

Not sure about Kings Island...but when Banshee was added, tourism for Warren County jumped up 23%, usually it fluctuates between 4 and 5% annually. (Source: Mary Fessler of the Warren County Convention and Visitors Bureau; I interviewed her for an article I was writing on Mystic Timbers for my school newspaper.)

5 or so years ago, I did write to them and tell them that they should investigate KI. Never heard anything back, though.

Not a coaster, but Flight Commander here at Kings Island was an Intamin. The death on it was caused by improperly designed restraints.

Hello folks. This isn't the blog post I was teasing in the Random Discussion Thread, but I figured I hadn't written one of these in a while and it would be a few weeks until that one came out. In the meantime, here's an investigation (I guess) into the mysterious "Racer Boy." Enjoy! https://kingsislandghost.blogspot.com/2022/01/kings-islands-enigmatic-racer-boy.html

At some point, an episode that covers the ghost stories of the park are a must.