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Kings Island Walk of Fame Class of 2009


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...Wachs devised a plan to relocate Coney Island and model the new park after theme parks that offered a “pay one price” admission. However, he aimed to include a crucial element ignored by those parks — rides.

Wachs also reasoned that if attendance totals were to expand beyond 1 million, the park needed a more expansive area, one that was located far from the flood plain.

However, with park attendance totals flourishing, Wachs said he felt like he was swimming upstream against an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality.

Presented with Wachs’ plan, Coney Island’s internal staff listened politely but took no action.But in 1968, Wachs received instant credibility when TV personality Fess Parker optioned property to build a theme park in northern Kentucky at the confluence of Interstate 71 and Interstate 75, where the former heads toward Louisville and the latter heads toward Lexington....

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