FUN&ONLY! Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 39 minutes ago, Orion742 said: It sounds like the weekdays are just walk ons this year! I agree! The park has never looked better! I think Fury 325 is better but I feel like if you put Fury at Kings Island it just doesn’t work I think Orion is perfect for Kings Island and is my second favorite Giga behind Fury. Not all weekdays have been walk-one, but many have been recently due to storms and now excessive heat. While it can be fun to marathon rides on a dead day, I personally enjoy the atmosphere more when there is a more healthy crowd. Also, if Kings Island was dead on every weekday, Cedar Fair would likely consider slashing operating hours on weekdays. Good attendance is not a bad thing but rather a good thing for Kings Island. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted June 14, 2022 Author Share Posted June 14, 2022 11 minutes ago, FUN&ONLY! said: Good attendance is not a bad thing but rather a good thing for Kings Island. Can't get a new coaster if they are not making money. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted June 18, 2022 Author Share Posted June 18, 2022 How is the park today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 ^Let's just say it has the making to look like it will be a money maker today LOL. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeastFarmer Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 10 hours ago, IndyGuy4KI said: How is the park today? I didn't hear that the park had been ill... 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 54 minutes ago, BeeastFarmer said: I didn't hear that the park had been ill... Many of the rides, both young and old, were suffering from heat exhaustion this week and were taking frequent breaks 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted June 19, 2022 Author Share Posted June 19, 2022 These guys got a rollback because of an estop. PSA: please do not climb the fence to try and retrieve an article. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 ^can you report if the violators were escorted from the park? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted June 19, 2022 Author Share Posted June 19, 2022 2 hours ago, disco2000 said: ^can you report if the violators were escorted from the park? Didn't see that part. @electricsun saw the guy climb the fence and start to get in the water when we were going up on DT. By the time our cycle was over, he was out and the ride was e-stopped. Not sure what happened in between. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Amazing that people don't know what fences and restricted area signs and do not climb signs mean..but also kinda surprised we don't see it more often... But back to the title of the thread lol. Kind of surprised the park isn't busier today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDMC01 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 @IndyGuy4KI: By "rollback", do you mean went back down the lift, stopped on the lift, or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted June 19, 2022 Author Share Posted June 19, 2022 41 minutes ago, MDMC01 said: @IndyGuy4KI: By "rollback", do you mean went back down the lift, stopped on the lift, or something else? The boat pictured was stalled right there. With no waterfall, it was floating forwards and backwards until the waterfall water was turned back on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDMC01 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Oh, ok. That makes sense. Didn't realize the waterfall water propelled the boat forward to finish the course. Though it's unfortunate what caused this to happen, what a cool and unique ride experience to get. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robt Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Why was Diamondback closed on Sunday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Diamondback operated on Sunday. It had some Father's Day activities in the morning and got a late start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robt Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Operated… late. I was there open until 1230. No trains were moved from storage during that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 It opened around 1pm. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad_1138 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Diamondback as of 5:20 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion742 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, chad_1138 said: Diamondback as of 5:20 Wow! Were all the rides like this?? Edited June 22, 2022 by Orion742 Wrong spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted June 22, 2022 Author Share Posted June 22, 2022 No line at fountain ERT. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coasterteam Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 46 minutes ago, IndyGuy4KI said: No line at fountain ERT. Shh!! Don’t let the others know!! Keeps the line short that way 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad_1138 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Orion742 said: Wow! Were all the rides like this?? Pretty much yes. 5 minutes for The Beast was our longest wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 On 6/19/2022 at 2:34 PM, IndyGuy4KI said: These guys got a rollback because of an estop. PSA: please do not climb the fence to try and retrieve an article. For being a light crowd today, we had lots of inconsiderate guests. Guests vaping while on rides and in no-wait queue lines and vaping/smoking in other areas of the park. Seemed higher than normal for a light Tuesday. A guest exited the Congo boat and proceeded to walk along the concrete channel despite repeated loud announcements by the ride op to get back in the boat. Finally got back in where the fence is at going back into the station. Usually the Saturday stuff, not a random low crowd Tuesday. Fortunately no reports of Snoopy being left locked in a car in the parking lot. But yes, as others reported, most rides were fairly short waits today. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver2005 Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 For some reason Beast has been dispatching half empty trains when it has a 40+ minute wait. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion742 Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 18 minutes ago, silver2005 said: For some reason Beast has been dispatching half empty trains when it has a 40+ minute wait. Is it super crowded today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver2005 Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 Not really, maybe a bit for a Monday, but still, that's pretty bad for a ride with long dispatch intervals. Dispatches have been slow overall with at least one person training at nearly all the bigger rides. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coasterteam Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 (edited) Edit: See new thread here Edited July 2, 2022 by Coasterteam This reply was moved to it's own thread 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion742 Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 55 minutes ago, Coasterteam said: While I don't intend to advertise, I developed a twitter bot that automatically posts a few interesting things relating to Kings Island. I am posting this in the wait times thread as it seems somewhat relevant to the overall discussion. (if necessary, I can start a new thread entirely too) 1. Every morning, the bot will post the operating hours of the day and when the park will open. If the park is not open, it tells you when the next operating day is and when the park will open. 2. Whenever the park opens or closes, it tells you either how long the park is open for and when the next opening date will be. 3. During operating hours, the bot will post wait time updates once every hour, at the half past mark. (10:30AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM, etc) until close. 4. Alongside these operating hours, the bot will post snips of the official Kings Island webcams (found here: https://www.visitkingsisland.com/live-video) The wait times run off of the same data other wait-time sites use - like queue-times, thrill-data, or isitpacked. The images are still-images fetched from the video feeds directly and sent as media. The reason I developed this bot is solely so myself and others can see current wait-times in a quick way, how busy the park is, and other info right from twitter whenever I'm scrolling through it. Hope you'll find it kind of neat like I do, as you may even be able to see yourself if you time it right. Feel free to give it a follow if you want to see those kinds of updates on your twitter timeline, handle is KingsIslandBot My long-term goal is to have it also post end-day statistics in a visualized format to get an idea of how busy the park was for any given day, similar to how thrill-data and queue-times do it. The Beast is down again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coasterteam Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 4 minutes ago, Orion742 said: The Beast is down again? Been down a lot lately 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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