Hey I found some of this stuff interesting and I thought Id share it with you guys. Its some follow up on what happened to some old PKI rides. Remember the Screamin Demon? Well that is now located at a park in Angola Indiana called "Fun Spot" Its a neat little kiddy park. Its up by where my grandma used to live, about 5 hours from here and 1 hour from Michigan. I plan to go up this summer and check it out. It is now called "Afterburner: The all American Coaster" Remember the monorail to the safari ride at KI? Well IM sure most of you know this, it was bought by Jim Bonaduche (I dont know how to spell his last name sorry) of Jungle Jims Grocery Store in Fairfield Ohio. For years he had built a monorail station and the cars actually sit out on station track now in their station but no track has been built. But guess what, you have a chance to ride this piece of KI history too! Jungle Jim is constructing a monorail track around his store!! It will have 3 stops. A station above Starbucks, it will supposidly go underground and stop in a mock wine cellar, and stop at the other end of the parking lot in the huge station house. Jungle Jims is like a theme store! It is very well jungle themed and a lot of fun to shop there. www.junglejims.com For those of you who havent been there I reccomend you check it out. I have no idea when the monorail will open though. I just thought those of you who didnt know this would find it interesting.

Last I heard, he got fined because he ran the tram without a license.

I doubt it will ever work, it's been planned for years, and yet everything just sits.

He never ran the tram, there is no track to run it on, jsut the track that holds the trams in teh station. I think eventually he will get it to work considering the supports are put up in some places. I talked to him last summer and he said they should get it up and going in the near future, one of their biggest problems though is that it will be a maitenance nightmare. But how cool is that to have a monorail moving through the small city of Fairfield?

Screamin' Demon up untill this year was located at Camden Park in Huntington,WV. It has been taken out cause I guess it was beyond repair.

-Jake

Are you sure? I have a newspaper clipping from Angola Indianas local newspaper about how Screamin Demon was being moved from KI to there.

Scremin' Demon is indeed at Camden Park As the Thunderbolt Express. its been SBNO for over 4 years though, and removed in November 04.

Hmm, my mistake guys, sorry about that. Well anyways there is one in ANgola Indiana of the same make and it is very cool.

The one at Fun Spot in Indiana was the first protype Arrow launch loop. My mistake.

I never rode screamin' demon but looked very basic.

Demon was very basic I rode it back in 87.The only good thing about it was if there was a show at Timber Wolf that you wanted to see but didn't have tickets you were able to watch part of it from the Que line.

I always thought they shut down SD when a show at TW was going on.

I remmember the Demon from when I was alot younger.. I think they took it out to put something else in it's spot. Anyway thought i'd say that yeah it was basic.. but back then.. it was somethign to behold indeed. before all of these hyper coasters and rc's with 7 or more loops etc.. I love coasters and thrill rides but even I won't ride the demon/thunderbolt/whatever it will be next.. simply becaus e i won't ride anything that goes backwards.. (only thing I won't ride is a backwards ride.. makes me sick). My sister rode it then though when it was the demon. I've not been to Kings Island in years and I do so miss it. I'm nostalgic these days.. and love pictures and such of the old KI that I grew up with going every year with my cousins and family. I think my mom even has some old pictures from those days.. I think i was like 8-10 I'm 29 now so thats about 20 years back of pics.

The Screamin Demon was the first looping coaster I ever rode. I rode it the 1st year it was in the park. It was quite scary for me at the time, but once I rode it I was fine. For it's day, it was a riot, but a coaster like The Vortex dwarfs it now.

Did Screamin' Demon operate one year with The Vortex ? If so, i can see why it was taken out the following year.

^^ Yes, it did, but they probably already knew they were going to remove SD as Vortex was being built, although I am sure that Vortex probably had a big effect on SD's ridership.

I know what happen to the flying eagles...

^^^ Me too!!! LOL!