Very true!

awesome pics...thanks!

Nice pics, man. Thanks a bunch.

Must we not forget the permanent entrance to "The Asylum" will be installed. -Hauntguy

Permanent as in, we can walk past it and plainly say, "Hey, that looks like an entrance to a haunted house", in the middle of May?

Permanent as in (as both myself and coastersRZ noted when we walked by on saturday evening) they are putting in a cement sidewalk to the building. The Asylum sign has been removed.

i think that like every friday night starting memorial day weekend they should open asylum. that would be awesome!!!

=]

by the way nice pic donniejb.

great new pic!

Looking good can't wait

It's comin along good, but hopefully the area around it will have grass or concreate or sumthin' before Memorial Day weekend.....

I CAN'T WAIT!!!

I hope it's grass and not gravel underneath the ride. It be nice to hear how much more of the ride has changed since last weekend. More red paint, que line etc.... I would say they will have to start testing the thing here very shortly, to have it opened by Memorial Day weekend.

I think they should theme it.

i could be wrong but i think those big doors on the front of the station are supposed to resemble hanger doors.

Yep, I believe that your assumption is correct. I believe that they are giving the station a hangar theme, which will fit in well with the whole military base feel that Flight of Fear already has. They will also be painting some of the neighboring maintenance buildings (at least that was the plan as of earlier this month).

I seen opening day that some of the colors was close to the ones on the FoF building.

Yea Firehawk is gonna be great. I can't wait to see it start testing. Way to go Kings Island you did what many people thought was impossible. Remove a coaster and build a coaster in a few short months.

Re: Year round haunted house...

You know, haunted houses always scare me... and not in the way you may think...

Many years ago, several people died in a permanent haunted house attraction at Great Adventure. It was terribly gruesome and horribly sad. Also, fires are not uncommon in stand-alone haunted attractions. I can think of a handful of news stories right off the top of my head where people were trapped by fire in haunted attractions.

I've never been a fan, mostly because haunted houses are too predictable (oh here' comes a dark corner... wonder what's going to happen?) But the older I get, the more concerned I get about putting myself in a fire trap.

(Hint... cargo netting, fenced in corridors, dangling muslin, smoke machines and hot light bulbs are a lethal combination.)

I always wonder about the insurance concerns a haunted house attraction raises.

Shaggy

And, deffinately if you looked at some of the premiums for say Jaycees (sp?) you would be confirmed on your thoughts! They get checked by the fire chiefs and other authorities numerous times!

How the people die in the haunted house at Great Adventure?

And there has been a small fire on Psycho Path before when a piece of prop rope caught fire.

Haunt operators just need to be more responsible. Alot of times, it's all about $$$... if it's close to the haunt season and money gets low, haunts won't bother with flame proofing. I know this is NOT the problem at KI... I know for Cowboy Carnage is was sprayed down with retardent every night!

It's sad that these are the ONLY haunt articles to make the news and thats how people think EVERY haunt is. They assume that if one haunt burns down and kills a few people that all haunts will/could. I have seen haunts literally take torches to EVERYTHING and NOTHING catches a flame! -Hauntguy

There was a very tragic fire at Great Adventure back then, and those who could not get out perished. Many changes were made in the park industry because of it, and it was many years before walk through haunted attractions again became popular in parks.