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For Sure: Kings Island Cedar Point Possibly: Kentucky Kingdom Dollywood (I get in free for working at ki) Holiday World (also get in free for working at ki) Valleyfair Mall of America Mt. Olympus Six Flags Great America Kings Dominion Carowinds Want To Go To But Don't Know yet: Hershey-park Dorney Park Michigan's Adventure Worlds of Fun Six Flags St. Louis Busch Gardens Williams-burg Busch Gardens Tampa Universal Orlando Sea World Orlando Fun Spot America

Hi guys! just recently published a TR from the parks last operating day of the season! Be sure to check it out! http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=72570&p=1752026#p1752026

So after working literally every weekend at the park I decided to take off the whole last weekend to visit the park. My goal was to hit the park Saturday night with a friend, and then go all day Sunday. Unfortunately i only got around to the Sunday appearance. The park was pretty busy mainly because for some ODD reason, it was 75 degrees in OCTOBER! Fast lane line's like normal where packed since you get a free Fast lane when you renew your pass. Banshee and Diamondback where still running with B&M Goodness (and a slight rattle), while Beast and other rides where giving moderate rides like normal. Mystic Timbers continues to rise and change the skyline (ever so slightly). I am sure hoping that this gives night rides that rival Beast's. The first drop already looks insane. White water's entrance (right around the train crossing) while be sure to give some great pictures of the first drop (as it does now) unless some trees are placed in front of it................ I would like to point out that Timbers will be extremely close to the log flume. I really don't want to see the flume gone (its my home ride and I've worked there two years), but i mean its REALLY getting close to it. In other words the park looked great for ending the 2016 season and i have just a thought about what i would like to see for the 2017 season: - NO BINS AT DIAMONDBACK!!!- I have heard a rumor about this but i forget where i heard it from, but in my opinion I hope this happens as I think it would speed up capacity/ Dispatch -Vortex Paint Job- Hopefully the park gives the ride a nice new paint job for its 30th birthday. I would like new trains but that;s like asking B&M to build a forceful coaster................just kidding. - LED Light packages- Heard a rumor that Monster and Zephyr might be getting new Light packages for next year. Hope to see this happen as it could bring "new light to the area.......... -Future of Extreme Sky flier - As Cedar Point removed their sky flier, could KI's days be limited? A nice flat ride or small coaster (if the removed Congo and the amphitheater) could fit here (Maverick 2.0 cough B&M cough) -Not 2017 Related but both of Beast's lift hills have the new signs at the top. The second lift actually has a sign that says "DANGER PLEASE KEEP YOUR HANDS DOWN". Anyways enjoy the videos/ pictures and this will be a long 6 months of an off season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8vdUMWgew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zitb3dWbCTM Well hello there. You Must be that new gate coaster thats at every Cedar Fait park now. No? Okay..... Banshee in the mornings? I think yes! "swing for the fences" Just dont hit the banshee Two rides. One I love riding, one i hate. Any guesses? Well hello Stinger you seem up and running...................oh wait. Such a photogenic coaster. Dropping my jaacket off in my car, so glad i dont have a season pass lol. Whats that over the trees? Is that?..........it cant be..........Mystic Timbers? Seems like they are about to start station work. Prelift section is done First of many Airtime hills this drop though. I think i found a new wallpaper. "GCI Goodness" Well hello there, are you a slippery snake? Not so raging rapids of white water canyon, although its warm enough for it top open.................. Construction More construction, Footer markings are painted and ready to be drilled and poured. Old fort Coney, i mean old fort Missouri Jane BABY TRAINS!!! More construction. I think ill take one more round trip on the train. Pictures like this are important. Whats that over there? not the snake. the SHED!? The tree's are taking over. and reaching new heights. It's even catching fire! kidding. I think i'll be back soon. There's something missing in this picture..... FOUND IT! Two things i love, breakrooms and Bengals football! WHODEY! I think its time for some more B&M Goodness "And she's climbing the lift hill to heaven" Yep, shes ready for the off season See what i mean, WWC entrance is going to give a great view! Airtime! More Airtime and bringing it on home Dive! Dive! Dive! Just how massive this drop is. Helix for days lol One good ride, one ride that will beat the hell out of you, and one ride that "I dont know the park wasted money on this" If only it was night. There's the famous three again...... More diamondback pictures (with a tiny Mystic Timbers in the background) I really do hope the Tomb Raider building gets a ride in there sometime soon. More pics of that snake thing. Yes that is Mystic Timbers from the Beast Queue! Glad the park refurbished the ride and gave it a new paint job! Two years back and running better than ever! Over or underrated you tell me. I found it amusing on the dry runs for employees Hm......................... If this is what's in the shed i DO NOT WANT TO RIDE. hopefully a nice flatride goes in here. A Gerstlauer sky roller or a Monodial Top Scan (seems to be the Cedar Fair cloned ride now) would look great here honestly. If i remember correctly, last time i took this pic (earlier this year) there where queue rails..... Well they didnt mess around taking away the haunt lines/theming except this lol Hope to see some new lights on this puppy next year. Eh. surpised it wasn't broke down honestly BACKLOT! Twisty Premier ! "Here lies the streak no one liked" oh wait wrong park. i meant "here lies my unloved son" "Backlot's the best lot" Well hello there again, i spy a nice wooden coaster in the background. Eh? Kersplush Fountains and a nice beemer. what else could you ask for! Maybe not in the rain buddy.... If they could move Slingshot to another location this spot would be a great photo op for Banshee "removes tree if in No Limits" Photogenic! Well goodbye then Swinging to the dawn of time HELP IM STUCK IN A TREE Nice little details, for HAUNT, this guy actually moves around. Great photo op from right here! see? RIP to a once moderate ride. I remember one day, some guy came up to me at Linus Launcher (This year) and asked me where Son Of Beast was , i said it's over in Action Zone, but you won't get as far as the station................... i then told him the ride was gone. Eiffel tower views anyone? What's that empty land back there................. Xbase with no restrooms. Rivertown Snoopy Vortex The sun had set on the season. Thanks for a great season KI. and to all the crews i worked with during the summer (Banshee, DBack, Beast, Vortex, Flume, Train, East pie (Snoopy)) Thanks for making this summer the best summer yet! Hope to be back next year for #WhatsInTheShed

Quick Question about Winter Chill out. Do you have to be part of a coaster club in order to go?............. Looking into trying to go this year for the first time!

RCDB has it listed as Steel. Im interested to see this to

Well they kinda have to move fast (they where working last Sunday) since they are 3 months behind.......... Here's something for ya

Our height sticks are pretty accurate as we have to measure them each morning with a ruler to insure the right height. And another thing. YOU CAN DEFINATELY SEE MYSTIC TIMBERS FROM THE PARKING LOT.

My thoughts on splash mountain is like this. We stay open unless: a) to cold (which hasn't happened this season ) or b)not enough riders. Grant it we close down for the night around 8-9-10 somewhere around there but be sure to say hi if you see matt anywhere in the evening! he could be at flume, linus launcher, diamondback, beast, banshee or vortex also take my advice, if you plan on riding alot of the big rides (yes i know youll have the little ones), buy fastlane, HAUNT SATURDAYS ARE THE WORST TO GO TRUST ME.

Yeah as a rides operator i can say this. from August till the park closes the numbers on crews and numbers for the day go down as associates go back to school. I cant speak for food, but us ride operators are still trying to give the guests (and the theme park enthusiasts) the best day ever, even if we are understaffed or pissed off//tired.

I like it. Twisted streak?

LET ME SAY THIS. I never thought of how tall this ride would be until i walked into the park, heading through Snoopy, and heading to the log flume for work. over the tree's IN SNOOPY, you can see the lift top. THIS THING IS HUGE. anyways here's some construction pics from the park's snapchat (photo creds to the park's snapchat)

Considering the fact that we now have track on site, and the color has been chosen..................any start place to take guesses on names? lol Centurion has not been used yet..........

Honestly. Imo. I'd go with a B&M giga. One that will break furys heightbrecord. I'm pretty sure that we could see the station where Dino's is now, and work it's way over to the graveyard of son of beast. But wait. We all know. RMC is going to be buidlihg a giga for the park. I wish.

I believe that they are trying to reduce the amount on footers/concrete in the reservoir. Im interested to see at what points are White Water and Timbers interacting. I know where the first tower for watching/ train shed and patch station are are two interactions (one gong into tunnel and one going out of tunnel).

Joker track pieces are on site! photo cred to Texas Thrill Seekers on twitter!

Beast has a new lift sign! and an "island for footers" for Timbers in White Waters reservoirs. photo cred to the parks Instagram Photo cred to Kicentral on twitter

Banshee is my number one because this was the first coaster i followed construction and everything like a hawk and was the first ride i ever went to opening day for and waited more than an hour for lol

1. Banshee 2. Maverick 3. Storm Chaser 4. Millenium Force 5. lightning Run 6. Top Thrill Dragster 7. Thunderbird 8. Diamondback 9. Gatekeeper 10. Raptor

A friend of mine showed me a video about the truck at the park and it is not an RMC truck.

Hi guys! so after editing a couple youtube videos and going through and deleting multiple duplicate pictures, I thought it would be time to post a medium sized TR from my trip to the park First off this was my first time at the park since 2014, back when Mantis was closed and rougarou transformation was taking place. I would like to start with a couple reviews of the three main coasters i wanted to hit no matter what: -Valravn: HOLY COW. This was my first dive coaster and boy oh boy, I dont know what was better, getting in the front row after a 10 minute wait for ERT, or seeing TONY CLARK HIMSELF on station Master! Loved the somewhat airtime on the hills and the selection of inversions but i stick with what someone told me while working Vortex saturday night, Valravn is a one trick pony. -Rougarou: I was waiting for this ride as i never rode a floorless coaster and wanted to see how it felt differently since the last time i rode it, it was Mantis. Needless to say i was somewhat surprised and impressed and i hope more parks decide to start doing Standup/Floorless conversions.(ALSO DOES THIS COUNT AS A NEW CREDIT!) -Maverick: Last time i rode maverick was with the old hard shell OTSR. BOY OH BOY my top ten list will be updated. This is in the top 5 hands down! Anyways enough of talking and heres my latest youtube video and pictures! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQVJOa6e9g8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOazS998vAM Perks of being a cedar fair employee, Employee parking. PLUS A great view of Gatekeeper Heading back towards the front of the park. Midcourse and coming home BUT The main of three reasons for coming up here is this little birdy Insert ejector airtime........................oh wait nevermind. Twisty and forceless Well hello there. Oh HELLO TO YOU, my unloved son..............................................oh wait wrong park "Stand up to your fears" R.I.P. To my first and only stand-up Loud and Forceful (finally Cedar Fair did something right lol) just kidding. Looking back at one birdy but heading to another........... I think i see the v-bird behind R-bird OH, heres the V-bird. My first Dive coaster! Block tests. Always love doing these at KI Tony Clark boys and girls! (he never liked my tweet) Like someone told me "You ride one dive coaster, you've basically rode them all" Looking towards the next thing of the three i wanted to hit. A mystic.....................Werewolf Long Live mantis but i idont want to stand up to a rougarou Met up with a couple KI Flume crew co workers and started towards the back of the park but had to take some pics since the clouds where leaving. H20 Dragster................oh wait wrong part of the park. LOVE the airtime and the walk on line In other words to describe this............MAMMOTH Decided to skip Gemini since i already have the credit Adventure Express 2.0 just kidding. Fun for kids, little painful though My unloved son..............WAIT wrong park again. decieded to board the train and ride over to the midway and got some ooks at Mean Streak...........i mean an RMC project (i have heard something from an employee that doesnt work there anymore) and i did see the RMC truck but did not respond quick enough to get a pic Part of the lift that's gone. Wax museum was open but the streak?.......i don think you'd get as a far as the station Ghost town and getting startled by the cap guns being shot off Looking down at slingshot and Gemini, Well hello there Dragster holy airtime heaven. Two great Intamins in on e picture (should be three but ya know STR is gone) Hills for days Another ghost town? i think they have a rougarou problem yeah..... i think they MIGHT have a rougarou problem. speaking of rougarou, hello there. Loved the pictures from the train. Unfortunately as i just looked through my phone, the offride video of rougarou from the train was not in my video but i will get it on a separate Rougarou video. Station. Loved the last overbanked turn one trick birdy. Airtime "Welcome back millenium force riders please exit to your right and have a cedar fantastic day" here they come. airtime? OHHHHHHHHHHH Airtime for all you track enthusiasts out there. ready to go whats a trip to cedar point without a Millennium force logo pic! Heading back towards the front to ride the two beemers before heading out. My only other B&M invert i've rode other than Banshee Loved the repaint, and kinda wished they could re profile the ride with new track and modern invert cars (Banshee trains) Walk onssssss last ride before heading out walk on also. Thanks for a great day Cedar Point! Ill be back when the RMC opens lol.

Couple things Looks like an RMC truck stopped by KI? Photo cred to KICentral on twitter. Other is my youtube video from the dueling banjos outside of the log flume. A new video on construction from labor day will be up soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoMajF56OlQ

For those who wanted to go to the park on Saturday night the park was open to the public and the people left from toyota, but from open until 6 the park was closed for Toyota. Looking forward to the next couple of weeks with a couple video shootings for Haunt and the last day of operation. AND a nice new touch, the banjo/guitar skeletons that where formerly at the train station are now in front of Flume near the exit and THEY PLAY DUELING BANJOS!!!!!!

Correct, no lights and if there is its like a strobe light for like 2 seconds. Little do people know, they still own ALOT of stuff. I've seen Scooby Doo Ghoaster Coaster cars, and various boomerang pieces like the kangaroo on the surfboard.

Double post but who cares.Some pictures from the employee Dry run last night. Always fun and some of the mazes i have never been through are AMAZING. But first a couple things: MYSTIC TIMBERSIS PERFECT FOR RIVERTOWN. You can literally see it from ANYWHERE in Rivertown. My thoughts on the two mazes i went through: -BLACKOUT: I can now see why this is what was considered the best maze in the area. You can LITERALLY see nothing.All though if you run into a dead end multiple times you probabily have the wrong person leading your group -Field of Screams: Located in Coney Mall, in the middle of nowhere, behind Dinosaurs Alive and thats all im saying about this maze................ She is sleeping...............Not for long A view of racer i dont think is seen every now and then Another view to Looking down Nightmare alley where they have robotic people hung from trees and they MOVE. Timbers is rising..........Have you felt it? "SHIP TO AZ" "SOB" R.I.P. This crate is located outside of Beast's entrance Car parts. More car parts. There she is again, More SOB homage. Dinosaurs Alive......................i mean Field of Screams entrance. Waiting in line for it. Literally all the way behind Dinosaurs Alve Panoramic view of the maze on the left, and a house on the right. Don't know why the house was there. Probably just for scenery. The house. And one of the best things i love about haunt, is BLOODDRUMS. a must see show and they've mixed it up this year with New Music than i think the past years since the show first started.

Heading to the park tonight for Dry runs for employees and will upload my thoughts on mazes. Also will provde SOME pictures of interesting things around the park. ALSO debating on going to the park on friday night for opening night and meeting up with some TPR members.