johnjniehaus Posted Sunday at 01:00 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:00 AM It's sad when the former PR guy conveys more information than the current PR people do. Last winter I found out about the Kings Island show auditions from Theme Parks by Don and told my sister and her boyfriend who are music majors about it and my sister told me she couldn't find anything from Kings Island about having auditions. I told her to trust me that I had a source better than the Kings Island communications and about a week before the audition was scheduled was when the actual PR made an announcement. My sister said that a lot of people they go to college with said they would have auditioned but were unaware about the date and time or didn't feel they had enough time to prepare. All I'm saying is that I don't even bother reading the KI blog articles or reading their press releases anymore because I'm not going to get any information I'm interested in or want to know anyway. Tower Topics and KIC have been much better sources of information since the public relations changed at KI 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIBeast Posted Monday at 06:21 PM Share Posted Monday at 06:21 PM I am going to express some disappointment in the closure of KK. As we have seen previously, an announcement was made so that guests could get one last ride and this was not done. I would not have made a special trip to ride on it, but I'm betting there would have been several of their loyal guests that would have done so, similarly to what happened with The Vortex. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmartCat7162 Posted Monday at 08:06 PM Share Posted Monday at 08:06 PM On 11/15/2024 at 10:43 PM, Vortex1987 said: Exactly. The problematic hydraulic launch combined with the fact that Cedar Fair now runs the Six flags parks when Cedar Point has Top Thrill 2 makes me seriously wonder if that Ka was being axe'd because A: The problems with the hydraulic launch and the maintenance nightmare and B: So that Cedar Point can still be the king, so that they can have the tallest and fastest coaster in North America, not Great Adventure. It keeps Cedar Point the king and it cuts maintenance costs due to the costly hydraulic launch. Its a win win for Cedar Fair. Cedar Point will always be the golden child and Ka's removal will keep that true. This is exactly why I despise Cedar Fair. I get why people want to say they want to keep Cedar Point king. But I don’t think they would remove a whole ride unless the maintenance was just so much money. If you look at ride stats it gave on average less than a million ride a year which is awful capacity for a park that big. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnjniehaus Posted Tuesday at 07:02 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 07:02 PM 22 hours ago, SmartCat7162 said: I get why people want to say they want to keep Cedar Point king. But I don’t think they would remove a whole ride unless the maintenance was just so much money. If you look at ride stats it gave on average less than a million ride a year which is awful capacity for a park that big. To be fair, top Thrill Dragster probably seldom if ever operated with a single train but when I went to Great Adventure in 2022, Ka was one train ops and opened late. When Kingda Ka most likely was one train ops on a regular basis and considering was down for half the season on multiple occasions, that can really hurt the annual ridership. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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