You must admit PKI is trying to become a theme park. With parades,

redoing BB, and "hollywoodizing" The Beast, this is going to be a turn around

year for PKI.

I will go with the other rumor of a indoor mouse like Kennywoods Exterminator and it will be themed to Italian Job.

I can see PKI building a wild mouse, but not indoors.

I can't see it either, but I will look again in a year.

I haven't heard anything about parades?!?!?! They should bring back the Clown Marching Band! That was soooo cool and entertaining. Does anyone know why they stopped it? -adam12

Floorless in 05'

I think it will be about 165ft and have 5 to 8 inversions. It will go next to fof in an extension of coneymall! It will NOT be themed and it will be the best coaster in the park!

or maybe they will burn down SOB and build the new safari ride!jk lol

Pki needs to get something big and with great capacity!

If PKI is going to become a "theme park", it needs to lean how to serve its customers. When I go to PKI I feel like a needle in a hay stack. Disney World sets a good example for PKI and if PKI wants to become a theme park, it needs to make its customers feel special. I personally do not see them improving in that area, so in their best interest, they should stay an amusement park. They are good at building thrill rides and big coasters, they should stick with that. Before Paramount purchased Kings Island, they provided a much higher level of customer service and offered more services to make your day more enjoyable even though they were an amusement park. If you look at this site http://pkiconnect.tripod.com/1974_Park_Guide.htm this information is pre Paramount You can see that they even provided a service that would take all your items you purchased through out the day and hold them till you decided to leave. Just little services like that made your day much less stressful and enjoyable.

–adam12

What more do you want? Too many people come into the park to have some warehouse holding everyone's belongings, first of all we have plenty of lockers and it would just cause problems (people saying they had money missing etc.) Now here's just a few examples of how great our guest service is: 1. Beast Power Hour nuff said, 2. An actual person hands out Gold Pass Fast Pass tickets instead of a machine like other parks. 3. Very little automated speils, most are said in person (especially Train and Tower), 4. Greeters (including the photo people at the entrance of the park) 5. Games Speils (if you can call it that) 6. The New Parade. 7. The five star amenities in Boomerang Bay, 8. Entertainment while waiting in line (Tomb Raider preshows, Beast documentary, QTV, FOF Preshow, Action Theater Preshow, SDATHC que line, etc.) 9. Food Venders in line and carts through the park, 10. The Parent Swap policy ....The list goes on and on.

You haven't had the "Disney Experience" or you would understand. -adam12

You haven't had the "Disney Experience" or you would understand. -adam12

What the hell is the Disney Experience? I've been to both parks and was not that impressed.

Everyone is happy and wants to make your stay a plesant as possable. When I go to pki, I feel like just another ant on the farm that paid $50.00 to enter. If that makes any sense.

This is what PKI needs! Only twice the size....

HYPERSONIC XLCâ„¢

The Xtreme Launch Coaster.The thrill ride of the new millennium! HyperSonic XLC is the only compressed-air launch coaster in the country. 0 - 80 mph in just 1.8 seconds.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www...DUTF-8%26sa%3DN

PKD has one why can't we?!?!?! -adam12

Because Cedar Point has one that's better, much better.

If you have had the HYPERSONIC XLC Experience you would know why.

It's my understanding that if Paramount doesn't build more than one then it had problems. According to RCDB it was closed for a good part of the 2002 season, also Dragster which seems to be a similar ride had many problems last year.

Yes, normally takes a park at least one full season to work the bugs out.

For PKD, it was more like 2 or 3 seasons. But now, it runs pretty well.

Three words: Giga Wild Mouse. MAKE IT HAPPEN PEOPLE...

How about a launching strata wild mouse!

BRILLIANT!!!!

16 Inversions...BRILLIANT!!!

Seatbelts instead of REAL restraints...BRILLIANT!!!

BRILLIANT!!!!

16 Inversions...BRILLIANT!!!

Seatbelts instead of REAL restraints...BRILLIANT!!!

Mile high drop...BRILLIANT!!!

250MPH...BRILLIANT!!!

No Restriants At All....Brilliant!!

Plus a train where you JUMP the track....Brilliant!!

I DO HAVE A DEATH WISH

Anyhoo, back on topic. I would think that PKI could put in a larger Hypersonic XLC at PKI since now the technology has had the bugs worked out of it. See Dodonpa, located in Japan. You can find it at www.rcdb.com. Although, I would prefer something with length to it. Which brings me to my next point. Although I love the theming for the proposed Addams Family Vertical Drop coaster, it just doesn't do enough. PKI already has enough short coasters aka FOF, Face/Off. Now, they need a good, long, steel sit down type or a full circuit inverted coaster.

XLC Bugs worked out of it, it's not running. I read on CB it didn't open with the park.

This is what PKI needs!  Only twice the size.... 

HYPERSONIC XLC™

The Xtreme Launch Coaster.The thrill ride of the new millennium! HyperSonic XLC is the only compressed-air launch coaster in the country. 0 - 80 mph in just 1.8 seconds.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www...DUTF-8%26sa%3DN

PKD has one why can't we?!?!?!  -adam12

Believe me, you don't want another Hypersonic Wait You'll See!

The capacity is the bottom of the barrel....Can you say 8 people per circuit?????

Yes, that's right. EIGHT PEOPLE!

Can you say more downtime than a broken Otis Elevator?

Can you say WAITS that border on the ridiculous?

And lastly, 17 seconds people! Waiting 3+ hours for 17 seconds is, uh....well...I WON'T DO IT AGAIN.

On the other hand, waiting 3 hours for an 18 second TTD ride is a much different story~~~I've done it and will do it again! Don't compare apples to oranges....Hypersonic and TTD are two different animals. Sure, the 'elements' are similar and I believe inch for inch, HXLC goes faster than TTD. But that launch and the height on TTD just can't be duplicated.

Hypersonic Wait You'll See is/was a fun ride. But not for the wait. Not for me.

Has capacity issues and downtime issues to this day.

UGH!

I'll agree with that. However, the park does have the 3rd and 4th longest rollercoasters in the world (Beast and Sonny). Wait...what happened to Steel Dragon 2000? It's not on the RCDB list anymore. The site says it's been SBNO since late August.

I think either the next coaster or the coaster after that that the park builds will be a good, long people eater. Something like a B&M or an Intamin would do just that. However, with the new "Hollywoodizing" scope the park has, I'm anxious to see what the park's next roller coaster move will be.

When I visited PKD last summer, I waited 30 min to ride Hypersonic.

I didn't wait 3 hours+. I personally liked the ride.

Same here i cant wait to see what kinda coaster PKI will put in IF they do put in a coaster! I would like to see The Addams Family Coaster it looks cool and the Theming would be outta this World But on the Minus side the ride itself would be Very SHORT.So whatever Coaster move The park makes should be a good one!

I don't think the ride would be incredibly short, but the vertical

drop idea would be awesome.

Whatever the park gets, it will be great.

True! But dont you feel that PKI needs a nice long Steel Coaster? i do but the Addams Family would be a great idea and be very cool!

well the Addams family idea is neat, but they won't get a Vertical Drop. I don't know who has been following coaster news, but a Vertical Drop looks extremely promising for BGT next season, so 2 in one season is slim to happen. There are other types of B&M coasters out there, and i think PKI should grab one, doesn't matter what type, they need a B&M.

Yeah a Nice B&M would be awsome i wonder what kinda PKI would get!

They need a B&M roller coaster that "roars" like Mantis at CP.

I love that loud B&M "roar"!

Yeah Mantis is a Kick A$s coaster i dont know about you guys but iam getting sick of Vortex being the only Steel coaster at PKI ...i want a Nice LONG steel coaster maybe a Flyer?