Summer sure is heating up but enjoying an ice cold Coke product on a hot day at Kings Island will no longer break the bank. Kings Island is now proud to offer UNLIMITED drink wristbands which can be used at any food and drink location within the park that offer fountain drinks. Click here for details!

Due to popular demand, Kings Island has extended its Breakfast With the Characters through August! Enjoy a full breakfast of scrambled eggs, french toast sticks, bacon, sausage, fresh cut fruit, assorted cereal, milk, orange juice, and coffee while meeting and greeting with some of your favorite Nickelodeon characters! Everyone in attendance gets a FREE 8x10 glossy photo to remember this unique experience! Breakfast with the characters is offered daily from 9:00 until 10:30am. HURRY! Space is limited! Purchase a Breakfast with the Characters meal ticket by clicking here!

You may be asking yourself, "what about lunch or dinner?" Kings Island's got you covered! The park is proud to offer the Backyard BBQ daily in the picnic grove! This all-you-can-eat buffet complete with Southern Fried Chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, unlimited soft drinks and ice cream treats at an amazing low price! Click here to add the Backyard BBQ meal ticket to your daily admission ticket!

Tired of waiting in line to purchase tickets? You now have two amazing options for purchasing individual tickets to Kings Island. Purchase your tickets in advance on Kings Island's official site, VisitKingsIsland.com and get an amazing discount or if you're already at the park, check out one of Kings Island's new automated ticket kiosks and purchase a single day admission ticket at the regular price and get two days for the price of one!

Speaking of admission tickets, special discount admission tickets are available on Kings Island's web site for an extremely discounted price! These Starlight Admission tickets are valid after 5pm! Click here to order Kings Island Starlight Admission tickets!

Until the early 1990s, Kings Island offered a safari ride through an area that we now know as Action Zone. This air conditioned monorail ride featured unique zoo-like views of countless wild animals. The days of the Lion Safari are now gone, but the monorails have found a new life serving the guests of Jungle Jim's International Market! KICentral was honored to be taken on a backstage tour of this new attraction. Click here to see backstage photos as well as a very detailed article about the food monorail at Jungle Jim's! A very special thank you goes out to the crew at Jungle Jim's International Market for reaching out to KICentral and allowing for this update to be possible.

Kings Island has partnered with the Great Wolf Lodge and the Warren County Convention and Visitors Bureau to give away 30 prizes in 30 days! Between June 16 and July 15th, 2008, a special prize package will be awarded that includes a family four pack of two-day tickets to Kings Island, a three day two night stay at the Great Wolf Lodge and a gas card. To win one of these 30 amazing prizes visit www.ohioslargestplayground.com/win.

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The summer is still young and it's not too late to get a Kings Island season pass! Purchasing a season pass gets you a whole summer of rides, shows, attractions and FREE admission to Boomerang Bay Waterpark Resort. Do you want the real deal? Kings Island now offers the new Cedar Fair Platinum Pass which includes FREE admission and FREE parking to all Cedar Fair properties such as Kings Island, Cedar Point, Geauga Lake's Wildwater Kingdom, Knott's Berry Farm and more! Click here for more information and to order your 2008 season pass!

Is a season pass not right for you? Avoid the long lines and pay only a fraction of the regular gate admission by purchasing your single day admission tickets on the park's official web site, VisitKingsIsland.com. Remember these deals are ONLY available through the web site, so purchase online and print at home for the best value and fastest way to experience Kings Island!

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Regards,

Ryan

Glad to see the old monorail finally being put to some more good use.

Yeah, seems like they've been saying they want to use it at Jungle Jims forever, but I thought that was one of those things that was never going to actually happen. Nice to see that they're close and even have Fall 2008 as a goal.

Summer sure is heating up but enjoying an ice cold Coke product on a hot day at Kings Island will no longer break the bank....

That was then, this is now.

That didn't last long, did it?

Until the early 1990s, Kings Island offered a safari ride through an area that we now know as Action Zone. This air conditioned monorail ride featured unique zoo-like views of countless wild animals. The days of the Lion Safari are now gone, but the monorails have found a new life serving the guests of Jungle Jim's International Market! KICentral was honored to be taken on a backstage tour of this new attraction. Click here to see backstage photos as well as a very detailed article about the food monorail at Jungle Jim's! A very special thank you goes out to the crew at Jungle Jim's International Market for reaching out to KICentral and allowing for this update to be possible.

This upsets me. How long has the mono rail been in construction, 5 years? It doesn't even look half-finished, and the trains have been sitting outside for how long. Even during winter! "the monorails have found a new life serving the guests of Jungle Jim's International Market!" Really, not even close!

Until the early 1990s, Kings Island offered a safari ride through an area that we now know as Action Zone. This air conditioned monorail ride featured unique zoo-like views of countless wild animals. The days of the Lion Safari are now gone, but the monorails have found a new life serving the guests of Jungle Jim's International Market! KICentral was honored to be taken on a backstage tour of this new attraction. Click here to see backstage photos as well as a very detailed article about the food monorail at Jungle Jim's! A very special thank you goes out to the crew at Jungle Jim's International Market for reaching out to KICentral and allowing for this update to be possible.

This upsets me. How long has the mono rail been in construction, 5 years? It doesn't even look half-finished, and the trains have been sitting outside for how long. Even during winter! "the monorails have found a new life serving the guests of Jungle Jim's International Market!" Really, not even close!

Please take the time to pay attention to the date of things before commenting. The original post in this topic is from July of 2008. The tour occurred in June of 2008 (as mentioned in the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph in the article that is linked to in that post).

The monorail is complete now, however it is not used as a general parking shuttle as originally planned. It is used to shuttle guests from the parking lot to the Oscar Event Center. There was a post about this on their Facebook page about this several months ago, but as I recall, the original plan to use it as a shuttle for all guests (not just those attending an event) ended up being a logistical nightmare, so that's why they chose to just use it for their event center. If I can find that post, I'll quote it here (unfortunately it was posted on their wall, so there's no easy way to link directly to it).