Still 60 degrees and 2nd to last Sunday to close. Everything should be a walk on

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^ Free Fast Lane Plus, bring-a-friend, dining plans, and great weather (especially compared to yesterday).

still about 10 minutes for Diamondback

^ Free Fast Lane Plus, bring-a-friend, dining plans, and great weather (especially compared to yesterday).

Plus a bye week for the 6-0 Bengals...

As opposed to the usual Bye Bye Bengals weeks in the past...

I was really kind of surprised by the crowd today. We used our Fast Lane passes a few times and it seemed to cut the wait about in half. The Beast was 45 around 5:30 and we waited about 20 in the Fast Lane line. Food service was absolutely atrocious today, some of the worst I've seen all season. However, we brought 6 friends that hadn't been in several years, so it was still a great day. We rode everything except The Bat and The Racer. Considering going on closing day if the weather is nice.

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I suspect the crowd next Sunday will be highly weather-dependent.  Looks like it'll be relatively warm for November 1st...but will it rain?  I'll probably be there either way, just not sure how long.

Diamondback crew was really on it today.  We closed the day with 3 rides on it (I am guessing it was the power hour deal).  Banshee, not so much.  Adventure Express and Racer were walkons after 5.

 

Food lines seemed really understaffed.  We ate once and it was backed up at the register.

 

Seemed like a lot a fast passes in use, but the ride operators were keeping it all moving fairly regularly.

 

Overall, pretty good.  Got in 12 rides (without making ERT), ate a meal, and caught Blood Drums.

I doubt if I'll be able to hit up the park either on good ole' Halloween. It's much more likely I will end my season at Great America if I go to any. I can't go Sunday because I'm taking a friend ice skating and I don't get to see her nearly as often as I like, and the last time kinda ended on a sour note.

I suspect the crowd next Sunday will be highly weather-dependent.  Looks like it'll be relatively warm for November 1st...but will it rain?  I'll probably be there either way, just not sure how long.

 

Does closing day typically provide an attendance bump over other Sundays during Haunt? I know there are a lot of other factors that go into it (weather, Bengals game, whether it is before or after Halloween...) My Sunday experiences have typically been last weekend in September or first weekend in October...not quite as crowded those weekends as the dates closer to Halloween.

Closing day, in my experience, is usually walk-on city all day long. Your experience may vary, of course.

Much depends on weather.

Terp...who has never not sobbed on a Ye Olde Park, Maple Grove or NJFTP Closing Day.

There's a pretty good video on youtube of closing day, 2014.  Wasn't busy.  However, it was A LOT colder closing day last year than it's supposed to be this year.

Anyone care to conjecture about Haunt on Saturday night?  I'll be coming up after work, so it will be a the end of the night, probably around 10:30.  Besides a ride on The Beast and Diamondback, any suggestions on a specific Haunt t try out?

I'm conjecturing it will be insanely busy, but I'd love to hear others saying it won't be.  I'd love to go Saturday night, and Sunday...I'm just not sure about Saturday.

Even when it's busy on Saturday, the 12am-1am hour can be a good time to get some rides and/or mazes in. Then get in line for The Beast just prior to 1am. (Careful; they cut the line based on the intercom announcement, which can come as early as 12:57am)

I think somebody rented a hearse to come to the park in style tonight. It looks to be of the type currently in use, and raced past me in the parking lot on its way to handicapped parking.

See the Camden Park thread in KIC Meet Ups.

I don't think the cat is rented!

A guy I used to know would purposely purchase strange cars, fix them up, and drive them. From what I remember, he at least had a hearse and ambulance. He loved telling stories about people's reactions. The pictures were priceless. 

here by myself and so far it is mostly walk-ons.

The reason I thought this one was rented was that it's a very modern one, not a classic one someone fixed up. It didn't have any special touches I'd expect on one not currently operating, either.

To kikid74....I've attended closing day the last two years and almost every ride was walk on or short waits. But that being said, last year was FREEZING. Like only a few rides were running throughout various times of the day. In fact we rode The Beast about 6 times in a row because that was about the only ride running....so I would say expect lower crowds than normal but it would be weather depending as well.

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At Diamondback for ERT. Waiting in line? There is a bunch of cameras and crew by the exit

Yeah, they just tweeted about that. Gary Coleman just took his 13,000th ride on Diamondback

https://twitter.com/kingsislandpr/status/660473685439066112

We wrote just before that. Diamondback line is pretty light today. We have been on 5 times already.

I haven't seen Gary in a while. He has been a long time family friend. Glad to see him at 13k. To those that want to hate and dismiss his ride count; just go away. If you knew him, you know he doesn't lie, and has no reason to. Congrats Gary!

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I saw Gary a few weeks back. Big shocker here, it was on Banshee....

I saw him a lot this summer, taking advantage of ERT on DB. He's well rounded tho, I also saw him a number of times at Cirque Imagine. Really a nice guy.

Five minute wait for The Beast at the moment.

It usually isn't too bad - it's Sunday and the haunts won't be open.