"Killmart" Webcam moved to face 2015 construction

[BoddaH1994]

Although it is still labeled as the "Killmart Web Cam," it appears to have been moved to Planet Snoopy to showcase the construction project for 2015.

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/online-fun/webcams

[TheBEASTunchained]

It should be very interesting to watch the removal of Splash Dance, and the addition of the two new rides, from this perspective!

[homestar92]

Don't expect as much action as we were used to on the Banshee cam. Flying Scooters can be installed in just a couple of days, if that. Even still, it's nice to be able to watch in when there is action happening.

[BoddaH1994]

The razing of the water maze should be interesting to watch too.

[BlondyRidesOn]

It should be cool seeing the theater get razed as well.

[GODZILLA2877]

Is Kill Mart going to be turned back to the arcade?

[GODZILLA2877]

I'll probably just ride the two new rides at least once next year because I'd rather ride Banshee over and over and over............

[malem]

^^ Unconverting and reconverting that building each year would be a lot of work. My guess is that it stays a show building. With the Troika returning nearby with a new lighting package, it will be interesting to see if the area around it gets spruced up for the summer.

^ Assuming that you are not a junior, you won't be riding Snoopy's Space Buggies at all (unless adult companions are accommodated and you are with a child of the appropriate height).

[calakapepe]

And those restrictions are sometimes even bypassed by patrons that do not have kids of their own. I've heard stories of adults offering or asking to ride with someone else's kid because they wouldn't otherwise be allowed on.

[ki95]

It should be cool seeing the theater get razed as well.

My guess is that they're going to do what they did for the Nickelodeon character meet & greet, remove the stage, sets & seats but keep the structure

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[dtk1378]

And those restrictions are sometimes even bypassed by patrons that do not have kids of their own. I've heard stories of adults offering or asking to ride with someone else's kid because they wouldn't otherwise be allowed on.

That seems kinda creepy...

[ProdigyRider]

^^ Unconverting and reconverting that building each year would be a lot of work. My guess is that it stays a show building. With the Troika returning nearby with a new lighting package, it will be interesting to see if the area around it gets spruced up for the summer.

^ Assuming that you are not a junior, you won't be riding Snoopy's Space Buggies at all (unless adult companions are accommodated and you are with a child of the appropriate height).

True about the workload for the arcade, but wouldn't it be odd to have a building, right next to a ride and right on the midway be closed through the summer?

[The Interpreter]

Son of Beast for several years.

One side of the turnpike cars for many years....

Tower Gardens current state?

Son of Beast's station still?

The Crypt's building?

The new building beside Beast's brake run?

Club Blood's building?

I'm sorry, but to someone that doesn't frequent Kings Island often, these things are, at best, tacky.

What's one more?

[BeastForever]

I probably despise the look of Club Blood's building the most during the regular season. I wish they would at least just cover up the graffiti with a curtain or something during the summer.

[The Interpreter]

Just as the old Batman: The Ride queues made those parks look junky....

[TombRaiderFTW]

^ Especially at Six Flags St. Louis.

I like Haunt, but leaving the arcade set up for Haunt is excessive. Unfortunately, I think they're going to leave it that way, as I'm pretty sure they repainted the actual front of the building.

Son of Beast for several years.

One side of the turnpike cars for many years....

Tower Gardens current state?

Son of Beast's station still?

The Crypt's building?

The new building beside Beast's brake run?

Club Blood's building?

I'm sorry, but to someone that doesn't frequent Kings Island often, these things are, at best, tacky.

What's one more?

Better add the Action Theater to that list, too. I don't think it shows anything during the regular season anymore.

I used to look down on Kings Island in 2008 for not being the same as it was during the Paramount years, but at least Action Theater showed Spongebob 3D, The Crypt existed, Son of Beast's station served an actual purpose, the arcade was an arcade, etc. I realize that there are reasons that those things aren't around anymore, but there are now more and more buildings in plain sight that are empty and not accessible by guests for all but the last five or six weeks of the season. I agree--it looks tacky at best. It didn't bother me as much at first, but I don't think I like the level it's at now.

[The Interpreter]

At least at NJFTP, it's an entire section of the park shuttered off--where Batman and Robin: The Chiller, the bumper cars and Frisbee were...

[dtk1378]

Seems excessive to keep that arcade shut down, all the arcades always seem very busy and are good alternatives during pop up rain showers. I would think the arcade brought in more money than Kill Mart, plus the scary façade would be way off theme wise for Coney Mall. Of course that hasn't stopped them in the past...

[coasterfanatic83]

If they were to leave Kill Mart set up like that all year, it would be by far the most egregious one yet. Right in the middle of Coney Mall, one of the most iconic sections of the park... I would be shocked to see that happen. Hopefully the good people at Kings Island will see that too.

[MarkB.]

If I recall correctly the guy that gave us the lights on tours of the 3 haunts on KIC day stated that the arcade/Killmart building was given to the entertainment group for a new haunt. So I think that means the arcade is to be no more. With that said---- A non disguised haunt building will be kind of strange most of the time.

Later,

Mark

[PKIVortex]

I hope they at least cover up or take down the visible stuff on the outside of KillMart.

[BloodBlade21]

La Ronde is getting Maison Rouge, a season-long haunted attraction, for 2015. Maybe KI is doing the same thing with Killmart.

[Spectrum91]

^^ Unconverting and reconverting that building each year would be a lot of work. My guess is that it stays a show building. With the Troika returning nearby with a new lighting package, it will be interesting to see if the area around it gets spruced up for the summer.

It is a lot of work, but Kings Island removed two of their "built annually" mazes (Holiday Horror and Slaughterhouse), which required complete construction and then deconstruction every season. I'd hope that with those two gone, the park is willing to utilize those resources to take down / put up Kill Mart annually instead.

[dtk1378]

Maybe they can put a new basketball game there in front of where Kill Mart is, I think the park is lacking basketball games and really could use a new one. Maybe a slam dunk game.

/sarcasm

[shark6495]

I don't mind a building like a secondary arcade being used, but what worries me is that part of the park already lacks a lot of stuff that with the arcade being gone it will appear even deader...

[coasterfanatic83]

Get it? Deader? B-dumm, tiss.

[KIfan73]

I believe the park said something to the tune that they were going to cater more to families. I'm afraid they are.

[Imperial79]

Well it looks like they are starting work on it, digging up some of the dirt!

[The Interpreter]

What it? Where?

This thread is about KillMart. There?

Terp, who likes to ask questions.

[dtk1378]

Judging by the webcams it looks like they are referring to over where Snoopy's Splash Dance currently is, I saw some people working on it earlier. Also, thread is about the cameras being moved from Kill Mart to where the construction of the two new rides is taking place, it's just gotten kinda off-topic.