PHOTO TR: Cleaning out my closet. Lot's of old pictures

[triggernel]

CP had FASCINATION!?!?!

 

I definitley would have spent a good part of my day there if they still had that.

 

Too bad

[thrillrider]

More.....

Afew more shots from cedarpoint. Here is the monsters of rock show they used to have. This was the most popular show in the park. Due to cedar points budget, this show will not happen anymore....shame.

As you can see, people loved this show.

I will always have a soft spot in my heart for ocean motion. Why you ask?...Because it has Boobs!

Evil skee ball.

I know that cedar point like it's garbage cans, but for gods sake.....

Remember when gemini used to run all 6 trains?Ever wonder what they did to the othe 2? Well look no further.

They are sitting in the mean streak junk yard.

Gemini wheel porn.

[CorkscrewFoley]

When I was at Halloweekends back in '05, I am pretty sure they had all six train running. Still, I'm about to show how old I am, I remember going, what maybe 1980, maybe 81, and Gemini's queue spilled right out onto the midway. Might have been testing still...

[thrillrider]

Yea, they took two trains off as soon as they added air gates to the ride. I think that may be the same reason they are only running 2 trains on mean streak this year.

[thrillrider]

A few more kings island booklets.

 

I will have lots more tommarow.

Kings island 2003-2005

Edited July 19, 2010 by thrillrider

[braztaz]

3003?

 

booklets from the future!

 

say, do you think you have anything from kings dominion or busch gardens europe? not to be a bother, but since it's my home park i thought it'd be cool

[thrillrider]

I do.

I will post them soon. I believe I have some park maps, and post cards of big bad wolf.

 

Thanks for looking.

[thrillrider]

wow, Cedar Point's changed so much!

 

You have a really big closet

 

 

Lol....you have no idea.

[thrillrider]

Here is a postcard from bgw.

Big bad wolf at busch gardens.

[triggernel]

Those TTD banners look Awesome!

 

That would look sick on my bedroom wall

[thrillrider]

Thank you.

 

I have a few more that I will post real soon.

[thrillrider]

Just a short update today.

 

The year the silver bullet was open, I had to make a trip to check it out. So here are a few booklets that I received at the park. I also included a post card from california adventure.

 

I will have more pictures, either tonight, or tomorrow.

Knotts map and guide.

Park map

Booklet.

Inside of the booklet.

Back side.

Disney, california adventure post card.

Backside.

[KDCOASTERFAN]

I was suprised that they got rid of the theme of that area, and replaced it with action zone.

 

The investment into Action Zone was meant to be a chest-thump warning shot to SFKK that they planned to keep their domination in the market. The former Six Flags regime had big plans for Kentucky Kingdom, but Paramount wanted to make sure those plans never happened.

 

Keep in mind, too, that the Adventure Village themeing had been left to rot thru the American Financial Corp ownership, and was looked rather haggard by the time the animals moved out in '94.

 

Interestingly enough, not too long after Paramount used significant investment to intimidate Six Flags from major new development at their Kentucky park, Six Flags used the same tactic (and just as poorly executed) to try to challenge Cedar Point with their newly-flagged and over developed park in Aurora.

 

Did AFC have ownership of the entire chain or just KI? IIRC the owners were Taft,KECO,Paramount & now CF.

[tedten]

This thread is fantastic.

 

Two questions about your SF Great America post.

 

1) What do you mean about taking the police car out of the que line? It's been there every time I've gone, the last time being in 2007, (going again for the TPR day!)

 

2) What show did you see in Space Shuttle America that you didn't like? I saw at least 2 different ones. I thought the dinosaur one was fantastic and had amazing 3-D effects! The other was an "ok" space themed one where you traveled through some sort of time traveling/dimension hopping space tunnel thingy.

[thrillrider]

1. I may be cofusing the cop car with another batman coaster. After going on all of them, I may have got them mixed up. A few six flags I have been to have taken out the cop car when they painted the ride.

 

2. The show we saw was some kind of space/ science show. The show E-stopped twice, the doors kept opening and letting the light in. If there were any effects, they were not working. The stairs going into the theater was not air condition, and it was sweltering hot. The sound also kept cutting in and out. Add in the fact that the employies that were working on this ride could not give a crap about anything, that made it a bad show.

[PREMiERdrum]

I was suprised that they got rid of the theme of that area, and replaced it with action zone.

 

The investment into Action Zone was meant to be a chest-thump warning shot to SFKK that they planned to keep their domination in the market. The former Six Flags regime had big plans for Kentucky Kingdom, but Paramount wanted to make sure those plans never happened.

 

Keep in mind, too, that the Adventure Village themeing had been left to rot thru the American Financial Corp ownership, and was looked rather haggard by the time the animals moved out in '94.

 

Interestingly enough, not too long after Paramount used significant investment to intimidate Six Flags from major new development at their Kentucky park, Six Flags used the same tactic (and just as poorly executed) to try to challenge Cedar Point with their newly-flagged and over developed park in Aurora.

 

Did AFC have ownership of the entire chain or just KI? IIRC the owners were Taft,KECO,Paramount & now CF.

 

Taft sold the parks to the newly-formed KECO entity in 1984, but KECO sold the parks to AFC in 1987. KECO continued to run the parks thru a management contract with AFC. Unfortunately, budgets were tightened and tightened and things got to be in the shape that they were in right before the Paramount purchase.

[thrillrider]

Next up, I have an old booklet from Michigans adventure 1992.

The cover. I miss the old logo.

Inside the first page.

Inside the book. This was before shivering timbers was built.

Back side.

[sspaz1000]

Just caught back up on this thread. Love the old brochures.

 

Nicole

[tedten]

The show we saw was some kind of space/ science show. The show E-stopped twice, the doors kept opening and letting the light in. If there were any effects, they were not working. The stairs going into the theater was not air condition, and it was sweltering hot. The sound also kept cutting in and out. Add in the fact that the employies that were working on this ride could not give a crap about anything, that made it a bad show.

 

Hahaha. That would definitely make it a bad show! I wonder why they were having so much trouble with it?

Keep this thread going. I love threads like this and Shane's amusement attic. Great stuff, Thank you!

[thrillrider]

A really cool update today.....

 

I found some post cards from the gravity group. They are cards of several different gravity group coasters, and a timberliner post card as well.

 

 

Enjoy....

Timberliner post card front.

Back

Front

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Front

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Front

Back

[thrillerman1]

Dave those are awesome postcards! I would love to have you post them (and any others you have) in my Postcard Paradise thread so they could be indexed for people to easily find them again in the future. Great stuff!

[thrillrider]

Today has been a crazy day, so not much has been posted. I do have a letter that was sent to me about 8 years ago from conneaut lake park. I had contacted the park about info, and they sent me a letter and booklet. I am still looking for the booklet, but here is the letter.

 

I love small parks like this. There is not one large corporate park out there, that would invite you into there office to say hi.

[saginawhxc]

I had forgot all about the old MA logo till I saw that. I remember going sometime around that time with a friend and his family. They spent all day in the water park and I spent all day going back and forth between Wolverine Wildcat and Corkscrew. In fact I believe they were my 2nd and 3rd coasters and that was the day I think I started down the road with my obsession with roller coasters.

 

Once again this is all awesome stuff.

[thrillrider]

Today I have an idelwild park map from about 5 years ago. The park has not changed much if any in 5 years. I have an old booklet from holiday world as well.

 

I also included a few park books. I have one from paramounts kings island, and another from six flags. The six flags book is cool, because it has every ride listed from every six flags park. You check them off as you ride them. You can even rate them and put down what you thoght of the ride. I think they still sell these in the parks.

Idlewild park.

Park map....not much has changed.

Holiday world 2004

Hours and rules.

A six flags check list book.

Back of book.

I got this book after cedar fair took over the park. They were almost giving these away.

Back of book.

[Tezee]

Is smoking not allowed in all US parks?