jamesdillaman

^ Let the fanboy flame wars begin! -James Dillaman

well I haven't been on a large sampling of b&m's or intamin, but Gwazi is the worst GCI I've been on. -James Dillaman

no. do you own anything on beta max or those big video-discs?

Wow, those are awesome pics What type of camera do you use? Those are truly as you stated some angles I've never seen before. Props are due. -James Dillaman

Boo Son of Beast reopening. Horray Beer! -James Dillaman

^ That happens all the time, especially when they do their "mini marathons" like 3 modern marvels back to back all linked by some common thread, or 3 Infamous Murders, or one of my personal favorites: Perfect Crimes? -James Dillaman

^ No! You obviously didn't have a question to respond with, pete! Do you love coasters more than your gf/bf?

^^In response to the picture thing, your photo doesn't appear on the new passes. The photo comes up on the screen of the ticket-taker whe your pass is scanned. An added measure I believe to keep you from using someone else's pass that you find by making yourself look like the person. -James Dillaman

I think a good dark ride would be great. Granted Blazing Fury is a darkride hybrid, but they don't have what I would consider a good darkride. Mystery Mine also looks like it will have some darkride aspects to it, though. I don't know, maybe a launched coaster of some type would be good, instead, just to round out their collection. -James Dillaman

^ I found out about why the train was still closed! My friend called me and told me the whole story: A tree blew over onto the train tracks, forcing them to evacuate the train. Because of this, they also closed down the Beast to proactively prevent a similar fate, as a tree falling on the track would cause a horrible accident. They instructed the Beast crew to take all three trains off and ont to side track, meaning that they had no intenion of reopening the ride, as before they could, they would need the entire track to be walked to check for sticks and branches affecting the track. Adventure Express was down due to a hung train, which happens more often than one would think, apparently, according to my source close to the operation of that ride. Drop Zone, Face/Off, X-Treme Skyflyer, and SlingShot were all closed due to high winds. Drop Zone, X-Treme Skyflyer and Sling Shot I know for a fact opened later in the evening. Not sure about Face/Off. Son of Beast was of course also still closed, but that's understandable. Besides this, the 10 of us that went all seemed to have a great time. We had a few good rides on Racer, a couple good ones of Flight of Fear, and a wicked back seat ride on Top Gun. Italian Job: Stunt Track the effects were only half working for our ride, and we didn't get any fire, which was dissapointing, as we were looking forward to the warmth. Vortex's line was unbelievably long all day, most likely due to the lack of other rides open, but the fearfest attraction lines were surprisingly short, with us only waiting an hour each for the asylum and the circus clown one, which was by far the best one. All in all once the wind died down it wasn't very cold, and we had a great night. -James Dillaman

a sock j/k! Red tee-shirt, blue jeans, black boxer-briefs

Okay, the whole gang's meeting at my house (except for whomever wants to meet us at the park...) I've arranged a possible walkup the exit ride on the beast at night, a rare treat if you've never done it, and it should be a good time. We should be at the park around 1:00. PM me soon if you want to meet up and be part of this. -James Dillaman

A bunch of my friends and I will be going to PKI on Saturday (The 28th) to get some last rides in before the offseason. I'll be sporting my super-warm TPR hoodie and anyone else who may be going is welcome to say hello to me. I won't bite, promise We'll be getting there around 1:00 (ish) and staying until whenever. -James Dillaman

Just got it (i know, out of the loop hardcore, but hey!) Here's my MKDS friend code: 446758 574897 -Add me, I have most people on this list! -James Dillaman

^Well barry, sometimes when a man and a woman like each other very much.... j/k Congrats to you both, hope everything goes well and good luck balancing your life with a newborn -James Dillaman

Sweet! Can't wait, I need more GCII credits! -James Dillaman

^OMG Flipdude, you should have fatty patch-jacket robb make an appearance in one of your comics -James Dillaman

Cincinnati has no love in this thread as of yet, so here's my favortie picture of the skyline taken from the kentucky side of the river. -James "It's only about half the skyline, but it's pretty" Dillaman

Top Gun @ Paramounts Kings Island, Friday night October 20th @ 10:00 pm -James Dillaman mmmmmm.. Arrow....

Hey, I'm taking a friend to Fearfest at PKI tonight. If any of you are going, look for me. I'll be sporting my new TPR hoodie! And hoping that crowds are better on friday night than they are on saturdays.

They hate it when you laugh at hell... James Dillaman

Hahahahahahahaha hahahaha Haha... Ow!! my brain hurts great stuff, you have a knack for this sort of thing! -James Dillaman

Home park: Paramounts Kings Island Best coaster there: Adventure Express

When is GCI going to build one of their twisters with underground tunnels? With their tight turning radius, I think the possibilities are incredible! That aside, nice to see some grading being done at the site. I'd imagine footers will be dug once the site is graded. -James Dillaman

Sad, sad. Let us mourn the loss of another great park. This has shaped up to be a sad year indeed. -James Dillaman