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[PKIDelirium]

Trip Report Parmaount's Kings Island - May 8 2004

After a lateer-than-usual start, we got to the park at about 4PM. The parking lot was packed! buses everywhere! We got parked up close (my dad was with us, PKI's handicapped parking rocks!) and got through security and into the park. I went staight to the Tower, and got in line. The first thing I was was that the lower base of the tower around the elevator doors had been painted a nice, rich green just like the tower's original colors. The new elevators are a green color on the outside, unlike the old red ones. I looked over, and there is Jeff Seibert loading people into the car! I wouldve said Hi but he left before I was ready to board. THe next car came down and I got in. THe control panels, which I had read that they were still the old panels, certainly were not. They have an LCD display showing the direction of travel, and the current level. Up and away we went, with a great view out of the all-glass-side-window elevators even the two sets of doors have windows on and around them. I got off at the top, and happened to look at the floor. YIKES!!! There is a gap between the car and the elevator, and you can look through it 300 FEET STRAIGHT DOWN!!! yikes! so I quickly crossed over it and went onto the deck. After half-filling a roll of film, I went back down. After quickly meeting my parents, they headed to Hanna-Barbrea while I headed into Action Zone. They reminded me to get some water, so I would stop in AZ. They were going to go to Festhaus to eat, but they said it was dirty and smelly. When I got into Action Zone, I immediately went and checked the line on Son of Beast. Unfortunetely, The line was all the way into the overflow queues by Top Gun's line after the tunnel. So I decided to check back later, because I REALLY wanted to ride Sonny today. So I headed back out and stopped at the Dippin' Dots stande by Xtreme Skyflyer and got a bottle of Coke. After wrenching the Coke open and starting on it, (Dammit, I'm hot and thirsty and they super-glue the #%@%@ bottles shut!), I headed to Adventure Express. I got in line and it moved fast. Not very long to begin with, about a htird of the weay into the covered bridge. I got to the station and got in line for the back seat. Just before my train got in, I finished my Coke and ducked the bottle into the trash can between the lines for the last two cars. Of course, my mom called as soon as I sat down and pulled the bar down. So I rapidly told her to jump off the Tower and wait until I got off, and I would meet them in Hanna-Barbera for lunch. But because of my position, I could not get my phone fully back into my pocket, so I had to hold my hand over my pocket the whole ride to avoid losing my wallet. Well, this was a bad idea. Not only was my pocket not closed properly, requiring me to keep my hand there to avoid losing stuff, I felt like burping through the whole ride from that PDB bottle of Coke! Plus, I was in the BACK SEAT. So I got off feeling quite unwell, and headed toward the Busytown Grill.

On the way toward Hanna, I finished up my film (Digital camera in repair shop, GRR. Oh well, That's what Photo CD's are for ) SO I got to Busytown Grill, and ate pizza, ehh, cardboard that my mom had brought from I. Street LaRosa's. As soon as I had that and a bottle of milk down, I beat feet over to Nickelodeon Central, found the Reptar lines to be WAY too long, and headed into Rivertown.As soon as I got into, nice, cool Rivertown, I headed up WWC's exit to look around. It had been years since I was last down there. SO I walked all the way down the exit (I swear, It's longer than Top Gun to get there), and went over to Tower 3. After getting change for the water gun controls, I

proceded to mercilessly

soak the next 10 rafts

that went through

BWAHAHA! Afterwards, I

hiked back out the exit

(bleh) and headed for

The Beast.

darn! Lines are not ym

friend today. Beast has

a line which is

WAYYYYYYY too long for

my tastes. So I decided

to immediately take the

scenic route to SoB,

goin through Coney Mall

and Oktoberfest to

Action Zone. On the was

through Coney, I ahd

actually gotten in line

for the Eagles and

waited a couple cycles

before realizing it was

going to take freakin'

forever. So I just

hopped out and resumed

my hike over to Sonny.

After beating my

personal record for

flying through Coney

Mall to get to one end

or the other, I got into

AZ and entered SoB's

line. Ack, still out to

the tunnel, but I am not

going to leave until I

ahve ridden SoB!

OK, SoB has a VERY

BORING line to wait in,

and leaning against

those fences on the

ramps with a 40-foot

drop behind you is very

uncomfortable. I got to

the station and got in

line for PSV 13, middle

row. Boarded five

minutes later, right

side, just me. Tossed my

hat over to the right

against the fence,

secured pockets, and

away we go! Before the

lift, I pulled a VERY

goofy look for the

camera, I mean, BAD! Up

Up and

awayyyyyyyyy.......

WHOA! THIS ROCKS! DOwn

the drop, up and around,

then, just when I'm

bracing myself for the

spine compressor errrrr,

helix, It became smooth

as glass! That new

tracking is really

first-rate!

OK, end of the ride

still has that

speed-bump feeling, but

otherwise, great! I got

off and actually tried

to slip into an empty

seat further back, but I

couldn't find one. So I

got off and got my

onride photo, one small

and one keychain. Then I

met my parents between

there and DoT, and then

my mom went somewhere

and my dad and I headed

toward the On Location

shop, but DoT distracted

me, so I got a driver

ticket and boarded.

Well, with my dad

watching and my mom

started watching in a

minute, this was a BAD

DoT ride! I had

discovered late last

season is October that

if you turned sharp

enough, you could slide

the rear of the car and

do a skid-turn™, so I

started doing that on

nearly every turn, going

first toward the outside

and starting a far turn,

then jerking left and

skidding sideways, then

straigtening out right

before hitting the

inside barrier. Well, I

got off and my mom was

standing there looking

at me VERY nastily, an

then chewed me out for

doing that, because

fromher angle, it looked

like I had nearly hit

one of the other cars

behind me each

skid-turn, but, really,

I had plenty of room. SO

I got chewed out some

more, (mental note:never

do DoT again unless I am

alone.) SO We went to On

Location, didn't find

anything, and went to

Emporium. My dad got a

white Delirium hat, and

I got a TR:TR Hat. Then,

we left.

If you ever see anyone

doing skid-turns on DoT,

it's probably me!

[Dane]

Fix your 4 word lines at the bottem please.

[PKIDelirium]

uh,. how? a second ago, the whole thing was like that?

[ZosoBeast]

They must have put a newer control panel in since I visited. Even the Tower op who posts here said it was the older control panels! Will have to check them out my next visit!

[PKIDelirium]

yup, those are brand-new panels!