PKIDelirium Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Mini TR: Kings Island Thursday, July 12, 2007 "Me One, Employee ZERO!" This was totally unexpected. I had planned to go the next day, Friday, but I did a spur of the moment quick run to the park Thursday night instead, there from about 7:45 to a little after closing at 10PM. I get there and approach the front gate. Big sign: SOB is closed for repairs. LOL! That didn't take long to break! I went through the metal detectors quickly and entered the park, walking over to Action Zone first to take a photo of the big POS. Well, I got a photo of the front gate sign, a photo of a still-closed Drop Zone, and a photo of the SOB entrance blocked off, and then my camera totally died from dead batteries. Great. I went "light" today, so I only had my wallet, phone and camera. No camera case with spare batteries. ARGH! Making it worse, the Drop Zone photo and the photo of SOB's entrance aren't aimed very well because the screen had already died from lack of power, forcing me to guess with the viewfinder. I stuck the dead camera in a locker and went to Firehawk, where I stuck my hat and phone in another locker and got in line. One hour later I was riding in the right side of the station in the yellow train. Item of interest here was a guest, after hearing the station mic man call it the only flying coaster in Ohio, piped up what about Geauga Lake? Mic man fires back well they don't have it anymore because this is X-Flight! I found that funny... Anyway I got my Firehawk ride and then rode Vortex, where the kid in line in front of me plops down in the loading side seat, forcing me to literally vault over the train and slide in from the unloading side. Annoying... After Vortex I checked IJST. Too long. I then headed down along the pond to the Eiffel Tower and into Nick Universe, where I got a quick ride on Beastie. I refuse to call it Fairly Odd Coaster anywhere other than my ride count lists! Still the best wood coaster in the park! I then took a gift shop run to On Location in Action Zone and KI Keepsakes on I-Street. Employees at AZ flat out refused to get down the display hat that was the only remaining stock of the Delirium hats. Boo. After finishing there and going to I-Street, I had a gloating moment when I found another one there within my reach, and even more gloating when the cashier rang it up for $0.00 because it had no price tag! Oh yeah, the 30th Anniversary tan hats that they have in the KI Keepsakes shop (The former Glassblower location) ring up as $3.50 and then have 50% taken off of them. Hell yeah... After that, I left the park and got a BK Big Fish on the way out. Overall not a bad stop at the park considering the short time I was there. Flight of Fear was closed all day too, that was a bummer. Rides List Firehawk Vortex Fairly Odd Coaster Haha. This was the last photo I got before the camera totally died. Curses! Oh well it was getting into crappy evening lighting anyway. "Look at me, I'm a dead Intamin. Blame SFKK." LOL! "Hey guys Son of Beast already killed itself so we have to fix it!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scruffy Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Well sorry to hear about SOB and Drop Zone being down. I wonder what is wrong with SOB? I got to smooth rides out of last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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