a very FUN Day hope to not bore you

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rode Firehawk 2 hr wait

Vortex 15 min

Drop Tower 10 min

flight deck 5 min

Adventure Express 5 min

The Racer 5 min

The Beast 20 min

Son of Beast last ride in the front on the last ride of the day= AWSOME BETTER THAN The Beast

got back to northern kentucky at 1145

2 hrs!! so not worth it (to me at least) I would rather ride The Racer 24 times

The Racers is a great ride.

2 hrs!! so not worth it (to me at least) I would rather ride The Racer 24 times

I one time waited 5 hours for Firehawk on opening day. So not worth it!

The Racers is a great ride.

It's "The Racer." Be aware there are many at the park who find "The Racers" to be annoying...just as there are many of us older folk who find "The Son of Beast" to be annoying.

ya i may not be a older folk but when people say the Son of Beast i get angry too beacuse if i recall the sign says Son of Beast not The Son of Beast

And yet Jeff Seibert's own ride announcement in the station called it "The Son of Beast." Go figure.

I noticed guests were grumpier than usual-however who can blame them. The heat and those darn cicadas!!! I saw this little kid in a stroller who was holding two of them watching them flap. Another kid had a handful.

The Racers is a great ride.

It's "The Racer." Be aware there are many at the park who find "The Racers" to be annoying...just as there are many of us older folk who find "The Son of Beast" to be annoying.

It's not just older folk, I hate when people say

The Son of Beast

The T-- Flight Deck

The Drop Tower

The Firehawk

I could go on...

I agree that the park gets annoyed when people refer to The Racer as "The Racers". I've actually gotten emails from park officials asking me to remind the KIC community that there is not ride at Kings Island called "The Racers".

I think "The Drop Tower" has a better ring to it than just Drop Tower.

I find the butchering of ride names only mildly annoying. My main pet peeve is when people refer to "switchbacks" as "turnstiles"......

WOW

Just WOW!

I'd say it's a bit anal to get upset about such thing.

Boddah, which park officials sent you the email?

So if you call The Racer "The Racers" does someone at the park not know what the person is talking about?

If someone says "The Son of Beast" do we think there is an entirely new ride?

I'd say just be happy that people are talking about the rides as opposed to not.

At least when they are talking about The Racers, they are not talking about how many more nickels it now takes to eat in the park!

God who cares if they say, "Racer" or "The Racers". We all know what they're talking about, so let's not get into a footer-footing argument . . . .

As BoddaH has noted, there are those at the park who DO care...and they monitor this board carefully for many, many reasons. There are many lessons in life...some of them include doing what is easy to keep those that have effects on your experiences happy. How hard is it to remember a ride name is The Racer? Or that concrete foundational things are called footings by most in the industry, not footers? One can get more access to lots of things by speaking the right lingo, be it in the medical field, legal field, construction industry or yes, even, the amusement industry. It's really up to you...but others will, as the radio ads say, judge you by the words you use. Fair? Perhaps not. Reality? Yes.

You know, my Grandmother on my mothers side came from the hills of West Virginia.

She would call many, many, many things by names and words that were common but not proper term usages.

And you know what, everyone understood what she was talking about.

I'm very happy to say that I did not correct her usage even once in her 90+ years on the Earth.

Some things are just absolutely not worth the effort.

Yep, some people even call The Racer the "rolley coaster." And they spend nickels in the park, too!

Yep, some people even call The Racer the "rolley coaster." And they spend nickels in the park, too!

Exactly.

Many of my friends and most of my family would have no idea what the name of a given coaster or ride is.

And in the grand scheme of things.... It really does not matter as much as if they enjoy it or do not.

Hense... It will Always be Backstreet Stunt Thingy to me.

It's not just older folk, I hate when people say

The Son of Beast

The T-- Flight Deck

The Drop Tower

The Firehawk

I could go on...

at least they get the name somewhat right, you know there are the ones that will say

hey lets go ride the yellow one (Invertigo)

or

lets go ride superman (Firehawk)

or

lets go ride white water canyon (congo falls)