AmyUD06

Is this a joke, too, that I can't tell because its not labelled as such? Please explain in detail how any decision regarding the future of Dragster would in any way effect the thus-far-non-public-and-without-any-timetable Volcano replacement plans?

If you're limited to weekends, Sunday will be your best option, outside of basically every weekend you've mentioned. Holiday weekends, even Easter, always draw crowds to parks. I'm glad you don't care about the water park, because it is always beyond packed. I'm talking two hour wait for the lazy river and an hour wait for the wave pool (yeah, their wave pool has a queue line). I'd go on a non-Holiday Sunday and budget for the skip-the-line if you need it. I also gotta ask, where are you in NJ that Hershey Park is an 8 hour drive?

LOL and these are the people who wanted to take over Cedar Fair...

Source?

I swear to god did everyone's brains collectively turn off with this announcement? Dragster already frequently ran only 4 or 5 trains (there are 6) with no impact on throughput. It's never going to be an upcharge; it still processes almost 1,000 people per hour, which is just slightly behind Steel Vengeance, Maverick and not that far behind Millie. Are those going to become an upcharge attractions too? Why not just upcharge for everything in the park and don't charge an admission fee?

The same insurance companies that continue to insure rides that people *died* on, and who realize that things are more nuanced than "one terrible incident = shut it down forever." I also wouldn't be surprised if Cedar Fair was self-insured, at least in part. The world didn't end for these types of rides when the cable frayed and whipped someone in the face in 2004.

Yeah, though this is disappointing and perplexing given the outcome of the investigation, if it results in any kind of improvements I won't mind. That said, perhaps the announcement is just a precaution and they're going to be reworking the queue during the season with hopes of opening it later in the year. Gotta keep the hope alive.

Thank you, CF, for rejecting this.

See the in depth discussion we already had here.

Gotta laugh at the tagline..."One of the most anticipated rides in the US." I forgot this even existed haha. Nice to see B&M going with retractable vertical fins for the magnetic brakes, like Intamin, rather than the fixed horizontal fins they've used in the past. Nice addition to the park, definitely.

Friday will have lower crowds than Saturday, depending on the weather. Really you'll be fine on either day in July. Haunt is a different story, but you didn't ask about that haha. FL+ will be SUPER effective on either day. On every coaster that it's offered on (which is all of them except for Bat and Woodstock Express), there is only one where it doesn't dump you right into the station (Flight of Fear). No Cedar Point-esque "30 minute wait after the merge" nonsense here. It's also valid on pretty much every non-kiddie flat ride in the park. Its even valid on some slides in the water park! You really can't go wrong with FL+ at Kings Island. Waits themselves with FL+ should be one or two trains at most, except for Orion and Beast...plan on maybe 15 minutes at each of those, but possibly just a station wait. Mystic Timbers' FL line might get backed up too, but only if the grouper sucks. Oh, and Beast, once it gets dark will probably be closer to 30-45 minutes with FL for a non-front row ride.

They're there, just way down the list (where they should be, honestly). Cornball Express is #214 Superstition Mountain is #366 Hoosier Hurricane is #395

Agreed. I found Twisted Colossus to rather sub-par, and really only better than Wicked Cyclone out of the 5 RMCs I've been on.

Awesome news. I knew it would end up at one of the Gene Staples-owned parks, and didn't really see where it could possibly fit at Indiana Beach or Clementon (even though I would love having another Schwarzkopf so close).

I can't recommend rope-dropping BGT. When I was there the same week last year, the only thing operating at opening was Cheetah Chase - everything else had a sign posting an opening an hour or two later. That was on a mid-week day though, maybe weekends are different. I think option B is probably your better choice.

I think it's a combination of those factors, and the reputation that Vekoma earned here after 30+ years of making rather uncomfortable rides.

Ah...haha yeah.

Maybe I missed something, what's the other one? The standard boomerang?

Probably sometime after their next taxpayer-funded bailout.

...to replace Ride of Steel.

I'm absolutely shocked, shocked I say!

Couldn't have said it better myself.

It's being discussed in the thread dedicated to this topic. Check there, lots of opinions.

And one train running.

Looking through BGW's site, I do not see any of the following Platinum Season Pass add-on options: -All park, season long skip-the-line. -Any kind of dining plan. -Any kind of drink plan. I'll pass, thank you very much. I know I'm in the minority here, but I greatly prefer Kings Dominion to BGW and don't care at all about theming or stupid ride names that CF parks may have. I'm also a fan of rides that are finished opening in a timely fashion, not a year later, and all of the park opening at the same time. I also fail to see how "operating procedures" or "employee quality" is better at SEAS parks than CF parks on the whole. The improvement in food would be nice, but overall, I'm quite happy with the way things are at CF parks now.