Is it just me or do I see somewhat of a pattern?

1978 No new rides ........1979 Big Roller Coaster (Beast) KI

1983 No new rides ........1984 Big Roller Coaster (King Cobra) KI

2007 No new rides ........2008 Big Roller Coaster (Behemoth) PCW

2008 No new rides ........2009 KI

When was the last time KI did not introduce a new ride of some sort for the year?

2007- Firehawk

2006- Nick Universe (numerous rides)

2005- Italian Job / WinterFest

2004- Boomerang Bay / Nick Parade

2003- Delerium / Scooby Doo and the Haunted Castle

2002- Tomb Raider: the Ride

2001- Nick Central - Wild Thornsberry

2000- Son of Beast

1999- Action Zone- Drop Zone / Face-Off

1998- can't remember

1997- Waterworks expansion

1996- Flight of Fear

1995- Drop Zone / Splat City

1994- Days of Thunder

1993- Top Gun

1992- Phantom Theater

1991- Adventure Express

1990- Flight Commander / Waterworks expansion

1989- Waterworks opens

1988- Amazon Falls

1987- Vortex

1986- Skylab, Zephyr, Dogems

1985- Whitewater Canyon

1984- Smurf's Voyage

1983- Festhaus / Viking Fury

1982- TimberWolf / Hanna Barbera rennovation / Winterfest

1981- The Bat

1980- nothing

1979- The Beast

1978- nothing

1977- Screamin Demon

1976- American Heritage Music Hall

1975- Coney Mall extension

1974- Lion Country Safari

1973- Kenton's Cover Keelboat Canal / Bayern Curve

1972- park opens

so, is this year to be a first since 1980?

1998- Hana Barbara expansion (Scooby-Doo's Ghoaster Coaster)

2001- Rugrats Runaway Reptar opens too

Those were the only ones that I remember right now.

^For help with our memories, might I suggest this page...

http://www.KICentral.com/history/timeline.php

does anyone really know 100 % that KI doesn't have anything new for 2008?

There are those who think they know 100%.

Then, there are those that may know 100%, yet do not comment on the boards.

So do you think that those who actually know will talk? Well simply put, if they like thier job they won't.

Is it just me or do I see somewhat of a pattern?

1978 No new rides ........1979 Big Roller Coaster (Beast) KI

1983 No new rides ........1984 Big Roller Coaster (King Cobra) KI

2007 No new rides ........2008 Big Roller Coaster (Behemoth) PCW

2008 No new rides ........2009 KI

It's almost as if there is a (former)Paramount Parks Davinci Code! Dun Dun Dun.

Only the Walmart where the Festhaus use to be.

Well I mentioned before that Walmart was coming to Kings Island this year, it was top secret. Now i have proof!!!!

What is this a picture of?

Bubba Gump's/Lt. Dan's back porch bar undergoing renovation to become a satellite Wal-Mart outlet store to open at Kings Island in 2008

For real:

Bubba Gump's/Lt. Dan's back porch bar undergoing renovation to become Bubba Gump's/Lt. Dan's back porch bar.

Its really being renovated??

Yes and the employee cafeteria is being turned into a Sams Club, I hope the employees enjoy their 5 pounds of french fries for $3.68

Yes and the employee cafeteria is being turned into a Sams Club, I hope the employees enjoy their 5 pounds of french fries for $3.68

HAHA! In that case I would eat for free every day because I would just fill up on free samples.

Ok to set the record straight Kifan, there is no walmart going into KI, well atleast not this year...lol I was just playing when I made those pics I posted.

Is it just me or do I see somewhat of a pattern?

1978 No new rides ........1979 Big Roller Coaster (Beast) KI

1983 No new rides ........1984 Big Roller Coaster (King Cobra) KI

2007 No new rides ........2008 Big Roller Coaster (Behemoth) PCW

2008 No new rides ........2009 KI

Haha, you may be on to something.

At least, I hope so.

(...but ignore the Paramount sign )

Be still my heart (and wishing it were true)....

Terpy, who knows an INTAMIN when he sees one....

I would take an Intamin any day. Well, I have to be honest...I'd take a B&M any day at KI as well.

Ok to set the record straight Kifan, there is no walmart going into KI, well atleast not this year...lol I was just playing when I made those pics I posted.

I knew the Walmart thing was a joke, but is that really BBSS or Lt. Dan's with the bulldozers around it?

(...but ignore the Paramount sign )

That is the single best picture ever thought up for the Eiffel Tower and beyond.

^Thanks. The "coaster" is supposed to be behind the tower, somewhere way in the back of the park (or even at the Rivers Bend golf course ), but, now that I look at it, it does seem attached.

I knew the Walmart thing was a joke, but is that really BBSS or Lt. Dan's with the bulldozers around it?

Actually, that picture is of that building, but from a few years ago when it was still known as Bier Garten, and being converted into BGSS. BGSS is not going anywhere yet.

WOOHOO!!! Post #200!!! Now I'm a Junky!

^Thank you. I thought that if BBSS was getting a makeover, that would have been big news.

I'd like to think that you guys all HAVE to find a pattern so that you KNOW what happens before it happens!

You never know, it's not written in stone.

Hmmmm....the movie titles in Paramount Story were written in stone, and Cedar Fair still upended them!

I don't remember this being discussed (but I could have missed it).

It appears that KI has removed the F/X theater from their list of attractions. Yet most of the other old Paramount parks still have their's listed. Does anyone know what is up? Also, I noticed that they are raising height limits on some of BB attractions. Snowy River is now up to 46". This height limit issue over the last two years is just getting stupid. It may save them a few bucks on insurance, but it continues to reduce the family experience at the park. No other park chain has that height limit requirements that CF now has, NONE of them.

I think I remember quite sometime ago someone said that one side of F/X theater was being used as storage and all the seats were gone. Does anyone know if this will still be in effect next year?

No other park chain has that height limit requirements that CF now has, NONE of them.

Maybe...But no other chain prides itself on safety as much as Cedar Fair does.

I think I remember quite sometime ago someone said that one side of F/X theater was being used as storage and all the seats were gone. Does anyone know if this will still be in effect next year?

Well in 2007 Side A (Left Side) had sponge bob 3-D and Played Fun House Express during Halloween Haunt.

Side B played Elvira's Superstition that same year.

No other park chain has that height limit requirements that CF now has, NONE of them.

Maybe...But no other chain prides itself on safety as much as Cedar Fair does.

Not to start a discussion that no one can prove. But something tells me that Busch, Herschend, Holiday World, etc... take just as much pride in being a safe environment as Cedar Fair and do it with less height restrictions.