The red is VERY visible from the airport now. I noticed that in December when we were flying out there. It's far from my first choice but I don't hate it. It will be a nice contrast to the blue water of the wave pool in front of it.

$35!?! It is $60 to get in Carowinds at the gate but I know where I can get discount tickets for $39, at $35 I doubt a park the size of KK could even cover the bills. By the way, gate price at Holiday World is $73, gate price at KK is $50. Season Passes are $138(HW.com) and $110(KK.com).

And Kentucky Kingdom is not even remotely close to the same league as Carowinds. They should be pricing themselves similar to parks/competition like Indiana Beach and Beech Bend. Both priced at $31.95 and $31.99 respectively. Kentucky Kingdom has priced themselves at $49.95 at the gate or $39.95 advanced online purchase. Holiday World is $44.99 ($40.99 online) and that does not include early season discounts where tickets are almost half. Compare to the fact that Kings Island at the gate is $62 but online is $44. Yes for $5 extra dollar you can visit Kings Island instead of Kentucky Kingdom or for virtually the same cost you can visit Holiday World instead of Kentucky Kingdom. Pricing matters.

And Holiday World has free parking, including for day ticket buyers. Free Pepsi for them, too.

Kentucky Kingdom? Nope.

The red is VERY visible from the airport now. I noticed that in December when we were flying out there. It's far from my first choice but I don't hate it. It will be a nice contrast to the blue water of the wave pool in front of it.

I love red, but I would have painted the supports that red and the track another color, maybe black!

All red is almost to much...

Drop the 'almost' and you've got it right. This coming from someone with a favorite color of red.

The red is VERY visible from the airport now. I noticed that in December when we were flying out there. It's far from my first choice but I don't hate it. It will be a nice contrast to the blue water of the wave pool in front of it.

I love red, but I would have painted the supports that red and the track another color, maybe black!

All red is almost to much...

I have to agree that two tone would have looked better but it is what it is...I am just hoping the new trains improve the ride experience.

I just hope that the color scheme isn't representative of the Park's future.

Me too...

It sure seems representative of its past and present..

I'm sure it was just easier and cheaper for them to have it all covered in one solid color. No masking, no trimming, etc. Just go crazy with Red and make sure it covers EVERYTHING.

Well, the consumer saga continues...but it benefited me. As I said earlier, I was going to wait until 2016 when TT is supposed to reopen. According to KK's website, the presesaon season pass sale is over, but you can still get season passes for $79.95 at Louisville area Kroger stores (Lexington area Kroger stores, too!) So when I went Krogering a little while ago, I looked for the passes near the gift care kiosk. None to be found. I went to customer service, he said, oh yeah, take this laminated sheet to the cashier. Instead of $79.95, the voucher rang up for $59.95. Now I have to go online to process my pass, so we will see. Louisville is just a little over an hour away, so I am sure I will use it some this season. Won't keep me from KI, but it will give me a chance to ride Thunder Run and try out the 2014 Lightning Run.

At the Kroger I work at there is a sticker on the main entrance for the KK seasons passes at 59.95 each

I wonder what the Trains look like? My guess is they are solid red.

Guessing they are black, blue maybe, whatever doesn't fit in with red it will be that color!

I wouldn't be surprised to see black trains. Black is a pretty safe color when you're trying to make things look nice together. Very few colors don't look good with black.

Of course, they could stick with pink, since they're going back to the original colors.

117,ooo season passes last year.

Other tidbits:

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2015/04/22/kentucky-kingdom-opens-new-season-saturday/26192353/

Wait...

Kentucky Kingdom season passes are available for $109.95 online or at the park, or $79.95 at area Kroger stores.

Yeah...let's confuse people with the pricing structure. I've heard of discounted tickets at retailers but not discounted passes. Does any other park do this?

That's only about $9.36 million at $80/ea. How many of the total visits were from passholders and how much did they spend in the park?

117,000 season passes.

600,000 total attendance.

Something doesn't add up here.

Atleast it isn't 600,000 passes sold and 117,000 attendance!

Wait...

Kentucky Kingdom season passes are available for $109.95 online or at the park, or $79.95 at area Kroger stores.

Yeah...let's confuse people with the pricing structure. I've heard of discounted tickets at retailers but not discounted passes. Does any other park do this?

Add to that reports of passes marked down to $59.95 at Kroger..

Hey, Check out there new website! http://www.kentuckykingdom.com

What is FutterFly? I have never seen anything like it before.

Well, that link answers the question about T3 being ready on Opening Day.

Funny. It's not like they didn't have 2 years to get it ready.

The site states that "preview weekends" begin this Saturday.

Not really expressing confidence that the park is ready for Opening Day.

Wow, the train wreck has started early.

silver2005, watching the park from afar with some popcorn.

Train wreck? That's terrifying to the third power!

I can't quite tell, but looking at their map, it appears that one of the new attractions will be reusing Superman's old pad. Presumably Flutterfly, as the others are all clearly accounted for.

For their sake, I REALLY hope the ride's structure doesn't appear too... tower-like...

Also, hate to double-post, but their new website is a hot mess. On a desktop it's clunky and its UI seems to be layered incorrectly, and on a mobile phone (or at least, my Android phone running Chrome) it isn't even functional, as I can't scroll past the part of the page advertising the new attractions. It makes me like Cedar Fair's mobile websites, and that's saying something. You've got roughly 50% of users on desktop platforms and 50% on mobile, and you've managed to make a poor experience for all of them.

And seriously, guys? Animated GIFs? Is this 1997?

The software developer in me is scratching his head and the QA tester in me is weeping...

1997?

That's about the year Mr. Hart's theme park expertise was at its zenith.

^^ My first thought was that it looks like a very poor facsimile of the Holiday World website.

Looking at the code, whoever set up that site apparently didn't know that .less stylesheets are templates that are supposed to be compiled before being sent to a web browser. Probably contributing to the unusable layout. Entire chunks of CSS are missing.