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I say it was Big Mike himself. Because he's like that.

Nice TR. Thanks. Was that video something you can buy from the park?

^ Ah. Sorry, I don't watch TV. /Guess I should have Googled it first.

That's really good. Lame, but still really good. Honestly, they should use that.

^ Thanks, Mark. Interesting stuff. Like I said, this is a park that really starts my brain going about how I could fix it. It has potential. It's just not quite there, at the moment. I'm glad we went, though, for sure. Yes, indeed, there were cows. And cows make everything fun.

I think a small-ish hyper would work quite well where the jeep ride was supposed to have gone. I would just theme it into Toon Lagoon instead of JP.

Good job, cprocks, it is indeed the Applause Award fountain at Holiday World, which is adorned with plaques noting all of the previous winners. And it's your turn now.

^ Interesting guesses, but no. I wonder if the date means anything...?

I wouldn't make it that easy. (It would be really funny, though.) Anyway, nope, it's not Knott's. So who would have a plaque for another park in their park...? Hmmm....

Indeed so. As both a pedestrian (I don't actually even own a car any longer) and a fat-ass American, I can tell you with some confidence that it's now a bit of a vicious circle: No one walks, so nothing is ever designed with pedestrians in mind--making it difficult to walk anywhere, and keeping us all in our cars. Been to several of these same parks myself recently. I love both Indiana Beach and Holiday World, but Steel Hawg and Perilous Plunge are weak and out-of-place additions in my book. Anyway, thanks for the TR!

Okay, I'm gonna try a hard one. Well, I think it'll be hard. It can be difficult to say with these things.

Well, that's a shame. Sorry, I couldn't resist. In all seriousness, though, I think pretty much everyone saw this coming. Hopefully, one way or another, some good will come of it.

I can't believe no one has posted this yet: absolutelyreliable.com

Just to be clear, we did enjoy ourselves. No, it's not the best park ever. But it also wasn't the worst. It's the kind of park I'd love to inherit, because I see some really easy ways to make it a lot better. We spent about four hours there, then moved on to Holiday World. Misty (aka, Speedmetal) is supposed to be posting a HW TR soon, but we'll see. A couple of other things I forgot to mention about SFKK: The Giant Wheel's entire queue and load area is built on top of a network of metal grating three or four feet off the ground. It's really odd. The name of the Enterprise is apparently "Ride The Enterprise," judging by its sign. Which I find hilarious. (It's listed as "The Enterprise" on the park's website.) The advertising throughout the park is ridiculously distracting. "Hold On To Your Buns." The park's "main street" is five feet long. Sure, you don't have to have a "main street." But it just kind of felt like this park does have one--it's just comically short. And, finally, we never made it over to the Looney Tunes Movie Town area of the park--but this picture makes me wish we had. "Main Street" The Giant Wheel's metal grate home.

^ Jungle Jack's Landing

We’d driven by SFKK several of times in the past (on our way to Holiday World and such), but we’d never actually gone. Since we had Six Flags annual passes this time, we decided to finally give it a shot. The verdict? Well, it was mediocre. But considering that, going in, I thought SFKK might end up being one of the worst parks I’d ever been to, “mediocre” is probably a victory. One weird thing, though. I knew Twisted Twins was SBNO, but there’s seriously a whole area of the park that’s just closed off and (presumably) rotting. …but she was a little bit skeptical about some of the merchandise inside. And now, Erik’s 5-Step Plan to improve Kentucky Kingdom: 1. Don’t brake Greezed Lightin’ through the station. 2. Buy some sit-down trains for Chang, and then run more than one of them at a time. 3. Install a shooting dark ride. 4. See what can be salvaged over in the Twisted Twins dead zone. 5. Intamin Mega-Lite. Of course, number 5 is pretty much my answer for everything.... Thanks for reading. Bye bye. Smisty enjoyed getting her photo taken with Petunia in front of the park’s biggest gift shop... TPR Vacancy: Guy (or Gal) Who Really Loves Himalayas Oh well, maybe Larry can use it. A good way to get yourself mentioned in lots of TR’s is to totally love something really specific. This one is for Thai. Back across the bridge. We didn’t eat here...but only because we were saving ourselves for Holiday World pizza later. I thought this was cute. Yes, a new ice cream sundae souvenir coaster container credit! Aw...it looks like a shoe. There’s also a Roller Skater called “Roller Skater.” It wasn't too busy when we hit it. I actually kind of like how it looks just a little bit worn. The park also has a really cool old carousel. This is the part of the Belgian Village. There’s still some old theming that hasn’t been totally crushed out. I never really researched this park, and I thought Thunder Run was exactly the same as The Hurlers at Carowinds and King’s Dominion--but it’s actually slightly different. Note Twisted Twins, standing but not operating, in the background. There’s also a Shoot-The-Chutes and some kind of drag racing attraction (upcharge?) closed off, and quite possibly more stuff that I couldn’t see. Yikes. The midway to Thunder Run is really cracksmoking--totally surrounded by wooden fences, with not much on it. Perhaps this is the new route created since they now have the area by Twisted Twins totally closed off? No wonder the Penguin carries an umbrella. The boats do seem to have a bit of a drainage problem, though. (Photo by Speedmetal.) Come on, admit it, that’s pretty cool. (Photo by Speedmetal.) What’s this? Actual theming at a Six Flags? That villainous RapidsNerd and his steam-powered robot army must be behind this! Yes, the ride ops do actually scoot around on that center piece checking seatbelts. So, the best ride in the park might actually be this thing. We did actually walk all the way up to the load platform, since Misty has never been on a Vekoma SLC--but we bailed when we saw the line and how slowly they were loading their one train. (Note that the empty gate that looks like it’s in front of us doesn’t actually lead anywhere.) T2 towers over the wave pool. What the hell kind of name is “T2” anyway? Of course, this is from the same park that brought you “Chang,” so.... Deluge. Yeah, I know, I should have ridden it. We weren’t wearing bathing suits or anything, though. But it did look fun. The water park is located right in the center of the park's upper loop. I’m thinking they used to be separate parks, on opposite sides of the road, that were later connected via bridge because the water park had room to expand and the amusement park didn’t. Am I close? Chang exits into this warehouse-themed gift shop. Obviously, I don’t need to explain the theming connection here. Chang as seen from the Giant Wheel. With some proper sit-down trains, this might be a pretty good ride. Not a bad ride. Rather similar to Mantis at Cedar Point, but I think I like this one better. Still, stand-ups are a rather silly gimmick, in my view. These signs were posted throughout the queue (and that of many other rides). They went all the way to 120 minutes, all clearly based on one train. So which is worse: the idea that they would mislead people into buying Flash Passes by posting wildly inaccurate wait times, or that they might really only run one train with a 120 minute wait? The park’s biggest coaster is this oddly-named B&M Stand-Up. Hey, a Giant Wheel! Maybe this park isn’t so bad.... The park is also really close to an airport. Really close. Of course I’d heard that, I’d just never actually seen pictures of said bridge. You’re welcome. So the park is kind of a figure 8, in the sense that it’s two loops connected by a bridge over a highway. I had no idea this park even had a car ride. It was good, too. There were cows. Is it wrong that this almost felt like a kid’s ride to me? Oh well, a least it was lapbars only and no seatbelts, just as God/Schwarzkopf intended. This picture shows just how weird this park’s location is--as well as our second ride of the day, Greezed Lightnin’. Yay for Schwarzkopf Shuttle Loop goodness, even if it was braked through the station (just as it was when it was at SFOG). I guess I’m just spoiled growing up with Montezooma’s Revenge at KBF. Our first ride of the day, Roadrunner Express. It was fun enough. A fairly typical wild mouse, but I like those. One of these people looks like an idiot. Misty just had to get a photo of me with Green Lantern, since he’s my favorite superhero. Of course, I prefer Hal Jordan--but I guess John Stewart will do. I now know why most parks open at 9 or 10, instead of waiting until there’s a crowd. SFKK didn’t open until 11:00am, and it was a zoo. We parked by the dump station. Is that a bad sign? Seriously, though, this place makes a worse first impression than Kennywood.

Here's an idea: How about something that's not a B&M multi-looper? /Still thinks Hulk would have been Red Dawn Awesome as a launched hyper.

Actually, it was Airtime&Gravity's turn anyway, when you posted out of turn. Just to reiterate the simple rules of this thread: 1. You can only post a pic if you've successfully guessed the previous one (assuming it was properly posted itself), and the person who posted it has confirmed that your guess was correct. 2. You can only guess once for each photo. No "it's either one of the Disney parks or King's Island or King's Dominion." (The exception to this is that you can guess again if the pic poster has posted saying that your previous guess was wrong.) 3. You have 24 hours to confirm that a guess was correct, and the correct guesser then has 24 to claim their turn by posting a new pic. These are all traditional rules of this thread that already exist. I didn't make them up. Not to say everyone must follow them...but if you like the thread and want it to continue, you should follow them. Thanks.

^ Awesome. So who's turn is it?

I wonder if those smudges are from where they removed Popeye's pipe...?

I suppose it could be Carowinds, also. But I like mamoosh's theory.

Yeah, I was wondering about Hotel Breakers' "non-view" rooms. I was going to call and ask about them, but a friend of mine from Sandusky came through with his house for me while I was in the area, so I never did.

^ She doesn't "rare." More like "well done." I'm with Robb: Way too subjective to mean much. /But I have been on Motorcycle Chase. //And Pteranodon Flyers!

That's cool. But what this thread really needs is its own (unofficial) mini-moderator. Someone to keep people in line when they post pictures out of turn, and to remind people (via PM) that it is their turn after they post a correct guess and then never check the thread again. Otherwise, it's chaos for a while and then it dies. Want the job?

^ Awesome! My plan is to draw positive attention to Toft's until it can expand to someplace I'd actually want to live, and then move there. /Been talking up Toft's for years. I guess it just took a photo TR.