Posters: Something that the park could possibly do would be putting vintage style posters around the CM that would advertise the different rides food options in that land. They could even be made by Made To Thrill. They already have a poster for The Racer, one for the Blue Ice Cream, and one for the Coney Mall area.

Color scheme: Another thing the park should do is give some of the buildings in CM a new color scheme. The one I think would look really cool would be a red and white (and maybe a little bit of blue) theme. They could paint red and white stripes on the top of the Dodgem building. The big letters on the arcade building that are currently white could be colored red, with the blue walls changed to white and would have a red outline.Think of something like in the image above, but recolor the blue parts to red and put lights around the edges. They could also WindSeeker a red and white theme, and maybe redo the ride's logo to give a more carnival/midway feel to it.

Bring back the old entrance sign: For those who don't remember, there used to be a cool entrance gate that separated CM from Oktoberfest (now known as Adventure Port).I really can't think of any logical reason why the park even removed it in the first place. It looked so charming. During the Haunt season the park would even change the sign to read "Coney Maul."It was so unique and charming. However, for some reason the park felt like they didn't need it anymore . I honestly think they should bring it back. Please tell me your thoughts on this part.

Vortex replacement: I'm gonna try to make this as short and as simple as I possibly can, since this subject has definitely been discussed a million times on this site. I honestly think the park should go with a Gerstlauer infinity coaster, like a miniature version of Hangtime at Knott's Berry Farm. Nothing too extreme, but not too tame either. Maybe a few inversions. If possible, a height requirement of 48 inches, since the park is missing a family coaster with inversions due to Vortex no longer being there. They could give it a cool light package to make it look very photogenic at night.

Backlot Stunt Coaster retheme: This idea is more of a maybe. If the park were to retheme BSC, I think they should make the ride vehicles look like vintage hot rods. Maybe the police cars that you pass by after the helix could be replaced with vintage cars with possible fake spectators standing on top of or peeking out from inside, watching and cheering you on. They could also repaint the helicopter to look like a news chopper that is trying to capture the race live, or a police chopper telling you that you've entered a dangerous restricted area and that you need to leave immediately, only to get interrupted by some explosions, resulting in your vehicle making an escape into the sewers. You would still come out of the giant billboard, but now there would be a camera on the que line bridge that would take a picture of you as you're busting out of the billboard. Depending on why they removed it, they could bring back the splashdown effect that the ride used to have during the first few years it was open. However, I currently don't think it's mandatory to make BSC fit with the style/theme of CM.

That's all the ideas I currently have in terms of a retheme of CM. Please let me know what you think of all of this and if you have any suggestions.span widgetspan widget

You could argue Orion is themed to Ohio becaue of space exploration, Ohioan Neil Armstrong, and the Air and Space museum in Dayton but that hasn't been confirmed by the park.

Banshee also has some Cincinnati ties with it being a creature of Irish folklore and Cincinnati having Irish immigrants years ago.

With the fact that the legacy Cedar Fair Peanuts license expires at the end of this year and isn’t removed (and that peanuts merch was put on sale at the park recently) some people have talked about snoopy and the peanuts leaving the park in favor of the Looney Tunes. He’s my ideas for a looney tunes area in the park.

Here’s my ride name replacement suggestions (although it really doesn’t matter which character goes to what ride for the most part) 

Charlie Brown’s Windup- Gossamer Ghoul Spin

Joe Cool’s Dodgem School- Michigan J. Frog Dancing School

Woodstock Express- Bug’s Bunny Express (Or Beastie if you want a throwback, but it wouldn’t fit with the rest of the theming) 

Snoopy vs Red Baron- Foghorn Leghorn’s Flight School

Woodstock Whirlybird- Daffy Duck Helicopter Tours

Character Carousel- Remains the same basically 

The Great Pumpkin Coaster- Elmer’s Opera (Theming based on the What’s Opera Doc? short)

Surf-Dog- Duck Dodgers: Galactic Adventure

Peanuts Off-Road Rally- Looney Tunes Road Rage

Snoopy’s Junction- Bugs Bunny Express 

Linus’ Beetle Bugs- Lola’s Lady Bugs

Snoopy’s Space Buggies- Marvin The Martian’s Space Buggies

Kite Eating Tree- Sylvester’s Tree House

Franklin’s Flyers- Taz’s Tornado Twirl

Snoopy’s Soapbox Racers- Road Runner Run | Theming remains the same with Acme crates and supplies placed around the ride area. With the audio system, I can definitely see the “meep meep” sound effect being played when you reach the deadend track.

Woodstocks Airrail- Tweety Bird Flight

Charlie Brown’s Rushing River Log Ride- Kenton’s Cove Keelboat Canal | Only ride I’m not connecting to the Looney Tunes branding, the name being a reference to a legacy attraction. Ride remains the same except for removal of peanuts sculptures. 

Sally’s Sea Plane- Porky’s Bus Ride 

Linus Launcher- Tasmanian Twister 

Boo Blasters on Boo Hill- Stays the same. Just kidding, if you know me you know I’m gonna suggest Phantom Theater 2! 

Peanut Showcase Theater- Looney Tunes Theater | Inside is refurbished into a small theater that plays Looney Tunes shorts on loop throughout the day (a indoor break attraction that requires minimal staffing) 

Beagle Scout Acres- Rethemed to Bugs Bunny Burrows 

Really I’d feel indifferent to any retheme of the children’s area since I’m physically unable to ride 80% of the rides. The only rides I feel like this would really benefit would be Soapbox Racers since I can see the road runner theme working really well for that and I also like the idea of a movie theater since I love attractions like that at parks. Also my only gripe with the current snoopy theming is the generic pop music in the land, I’d love for them to make it more cartoon specific. 

Even though I mostly grew up on the snoopy theming, basically all the themes of the kids area has just been “[B-Tier Cartoon Character’s] crazy spinner”, so to me as long as the kids are having fun it doesn’t cheapen the park if the looney tunes theming is added to this location (Which is not the case for me if DC was given a retheme of a current area, even if its Action Zone) 

I do wonder what the logistics of this would be considering the Peanuts license expires without renewal this year. I think on its own, considering that the peanuts branding is admittedly minimal, it’s a project that could easily be completed in the offseason and for cheap considering they could keep all the rides (plus added bonus if boo blasters is getting/was planning to get a redo in the 2026 season), but when this projects being done to 8 or so parks, I wonder if this would be feasible for Six Flags to do versus what it would cost to renew the Peanuts’ license. I would love the kids area to be like the Sesame Street lands at Seaworld parks or any of the Disney or Universal kids lands, where families can ride a lot of attractions together, but also like obviously I’d prefer that since I won’t be riding Peanuts Off-Road Rally as it is (believe me I tried many many times)

1. Yellow shows the new area for the buildings to be built. One of them can be a new restaurant, the other can be a new gift shop.

2. Purple shows the new Food and Wine Festival area that is being worked on now. 

Drop Tower - Lex Luther Drop of Doom

The Bat - The Dark Knight Flight

Delerium - DC Super-villains Swing

Congo Falls - Aquaman: Power Wave

Invertigo - Two Face: The ride

X-treme Skyflyer - SuperGirl Skyflyer

Timberwolf Theatre - Removed for 2025  coaster?

please think outside the box

1) Twisted Pipeline: a White Water West slidewheel. The second in America. The only other one being Medusa's Slidewheel at Mt Olympus. The ride I used for the overlay is one at Chimelong Waterpark in China. Let me say it fits really well and would be very unique for the park

2) Little Miami cliffs: a cliff jumping experience similar to Mountain Bay cliffs at Canada's Wonderland. Guests would have 3 different levels to jump from

3) Miami River Lookout Landing: a large multi story play structure more than twice the size as the other one (splash landing) would feature more thrilling slides, 2 large buckets, multiple dumping/splashing equiptment that would make for a very fun experience for people all ages.

4) Little Miami waves: a kids wave pool with smaller waves for those who aren't quite ready for the large waves of Tidal Wave Bay. 

Both the play structure and mini wave pool would replace the current smaller wave pool like KD did for Coconut Shores

5) Beach Street: a food truck inspired dining location with multiple food offerings like walking tacos, pizza, seafood, etc as well as a stage with live music on select days in the summer just like KD. Would replace the current pirate ship play structure. However, the additions of the mini wave pool and bigger play structure would make up the loss of that.

Remember, this is just a concept. Nothing has been confirmed by the park, but this was fun to make and it took a while which is why I'm releasing this at almost 2 in the morning lol. 

Here's the picture. Enjoy and let me know your thoughts!

My concept for a Phantom Theater revival is to have it set after Encore, in which something changes in the spirit world. After the Phantom Theater returns for its encore, demand from both the living and the dead causes someone to bring back the Phantom Theater, reopening it to the public somehow and ushering in a new era for it. The living owners of the building housing the returned Phantom Theater would have ties to Kings Island’s storyline really set up by both Area 72 and Adventure Express’s refurbishment 2 years ago. The storyline connects Flight of Fear, Orion, The Beast, Mystic Timbers, and more already. They could go with a story that some people connected to the Miami River Company saw the Phantom Theater return only to vanish again and tried to break the curse that keeps the Phantom Theater from only returning once every 50 years and they contact possibly CHAOS Labs or even Madame Fatale to see about doing something about the curse because of all the smiling faces who enjoyed the Phantom Theater when they saw it too.

Eventually, they overcome the hurtles required to bring it back and contact the spirit world in order to aid in making that happen. And riders would experience the grand reopening of the Phantom Theater, rather than just an Encore. All new scenes and animatronics would show a performance filled with more energy than ever before and even introducing new elements such as some featuring Larry, naturally. I was born after the original ride closed so I never got to ride it sadly but still, the dream for enhancing Kings Island to make it even more fun would involve Phantom Theater’s revival as a key project. But they can go even further. They can tie in more things that already exist along with a revived Phantom Theater into the storyline for Kings Island. That includes the haunted houses. But will a Phantom Theater revival actually happen? Not for a while. Between the merger and all the cost cutting measures lately and the elimination some positions in Six Flags this year, I doubt they will be focusing on it any time soon. That said, many dark rides are cheaper than a big steel roller coaster like Diamondback, Banshee, or Orion. And they already have the building, ride vehicles, and omnimover system. Personally, if I were in charge of Kings Island’s future direction, I would heavily emphasize the art of storytelling, something that appeals to all ages and demographics.
 

Such storytelling would also include turning Soak City into something more unique in theme, likely dividing the water park into areas themed to various bodies of water. You could make the case for retheming it around Ohio itself given the Ohio River and Lake Erie. Let me know what y’all think about my concept. The backstory I propose isn’t perfect in my perspective. It’d be better to introduce some new faces who have nothing to have with Area 72 or the Miami River Lumber Company who are nerds really into the supernatural.

1. Vekoma is starting to resurge to America after a long time. Started off with their Family Suspended coaster, with Circuit Breaker and Big Bear Mountain, I could see the possibility that Cedar Fair will hop on the Band Wagon and add one of these to the park, and for Kings Island to finally have a chance to ask for a Vekoma Madhouse for there park.

2. Madam Fatales been inside that building for a decade, Kings Island needed to replace that maze with something else. Mike Koontz wanted to see that building to house a new ride inside. The Madhouse can easily fit inside without even striping or tearing down the building, and can decorate the outside to make it fit in River Town. Which brings me to evidence 3.

3. That building was design to build a flat ride even if the walls are up. You can thank Paramount on this one, They manage to build a Huss Giant Top Spin inside to hide what they're building. You can do the same with a Madhouse. They might dig a few feet under to fit the Motors that spin the house upside down, and pour new concrete for the support of the Room and Gondola and electrical wirings, but they could manage it.

4. The last evidence is that it will be a people eater like a B&M coaster. With Pre-shows and even more theming, it can easily bring and move riders in this ride. Every Madhouse must have a Pre-show or shows to tell what is going on, and importantly to make sure that it doesn't delay the ride for it. And even more cool is that it has no minimum height for kids to ride, But they're will be a minimum height for guest to ride alone, somewhere around 48' inches. But it will not only bring all the family to ride, but also can give kid a chance to ride some of the rides that goes upside down. Being a illusion ride, it can give the kids a head start on going upside down before the real deal.

5. Need I said that Snoopy's Soap Box Racers has a package deal for Kings Island.

That's all the evidence that I think a Vekoma Madhouse might come next year. If I'm wrong don't rant about it, after all it's just my prediction. But you can post your opinions or ideas in reply. Thanks for reading and remember my catchphrase. "Keep the Madhouse WILD!"

Disclaimer: THESE ARE NOT MY PREDICTIONS, THESE ARE MY OBSERVATIONS AND THOUGHTS FORMED USING BASIC LOGIC AND POPULAR GUEST AND ENTHUSIAST OPINIONS. AGAIN, THESE ARE NOT MY PREDICTIONS OR WISH LIST

Near future (2-4 Years)

• Vortex plot roller coaster or area rejuvenation
  • Could include a Backlot overhaul or retheme
  • Likely will be a new roller coaster in the plot but could add more to the area
•  Soak City addition / overhaul
  • Soak City is in need of a new attraction and has been for many years especially with the recent attraction removal
  • Some have speculated an overhaul of the waterpark which could rename it entirely and give it a retheme
• Phantom Theatre return
  • With the park running the Phantom Theatre show from last year again this year, it really poses the question about it's reappearance. Many have speculated that it could be re-added to replace the rapidly aging boo blasters
• Action Zone ride removal
  • It has been said many, many times that there is a high chance that either Invertigo, Congo Falls, or both could be removed soon. While I am hesitant to place this in the near future category, I went ahead and did it anyway under the stipulation that it would be going to bring an Action Zone retheme with it in the year(s) following.
• More GG Beast retracking / reprofiling
  • Many have speculated that The Beast still needs some more track work done in more sections of the ride and that it will come soon
• Banshee Repaint
  • Banshee is one of the only remaining rides that is in dire need of repainting. Many speculate that it is only a matter of time before it gets it's much needed repaint
• Blue Racer Retracking
  • Confirmed by the park

Future (5-7 Years)

• Action Zone overhaul
  • Action Zone is in dire need of large scale rejuvenation.
  • Depending on what may be removed would determine the scale and future of the site in terms of new attractions and the overall infrastructure
• Planet Snoopy overhaul
  • Similar to Action Zone, Planet Snoopy currently could use some TLC, not to the scale of Action Zone but still something based on most people's feedback and thoughts.
  • Many opinions seem divided on keeping it Planet Snoopy or making it camp snoopy
• Tomb Raider Building
  • Could be demolished
  • Could be used
  • Nobody knows
  • I certainly don't know
  • But whatever it is
  • It could be done in the next
  • 5-7 years
  • The building is a complete mystery

Beyond (7-8 Years)

• A King Cobra or Son of Beast resurrection
  • With Cedar Fair's recent focus on nostalgia and being that SoB and KC were beloved rides at the park (well at least for most KC was), there is a high chance that the next new roller coaster after The Vortex replacement could be a resurrection of one of these rides
    • King Cobra would likely be a B&M Surf
    • Son of Beast could be:
      • GCI Titan track based ride (Ex: Zambezi Zinger)
      • Ground up RMC
• End of Life for a ride
  • With the age and costs associated along with other factors, there is believed to be a high chance that one or two of the following rides are removed: (Remember, this is 7-10 years out)
    • The Bat (With it's recent issues, it could have a shorter lifespan)
    • Flight of Fear
    • Surf Dog

If there is anything I may have missed, please let me know! Feel free to elaborate below!

What would your ideas be?

My Ideas:

NU- Themed as " A Nick Christmas" - Simply A nick themed christmas area!

RT- Themed as " A Country Christmas"- Christmas done like it is the Country!

CM- Themed as " An Old fashion Christmas"- 50's Style christmas!

IS- Themed Just as it was this past year!

I would also Try to have more flat rides open. Maybe even The Racer if possible-?

SDATHC- Turned into Scooby doo and a christmas caper( I belive it was in plan for 2005-?)

- with new audio and decor.

>IR would be open

> WWC into a paddle boat ride-? If possible

> Themed Characters in the different areas

> Carrige ride

> Train ride to North pole, Getting off meeting Santa, Elves,etc.

> More shows

> No goofy Paramount Logo on the Effiel Tower

Most of the other ideas used in 2005 were great, Some were not. But whatever, give some feedback please

Now that the main season is over for Kings Island, and now that we know we're getting RiverRacers for 2025, I want to know what fans of the park either want or expect the park to add over the next few years.

Are you hoping for an Intamin blitz coaster like Pantheon? Maybe something new from Vekoma or B&M? Do you want something in The Vortex plot, or out in the Action Zone area of the park? These suggestions can be as realistic or as wild as you'd like. Maybe you think Kingda Ka will get relocated to Kings Island after its (rumored) closing.

Be as creative or detailed as you like! Feel free to respond to this post with your suggestions

Thank you for your time!

What improvements or additions would you like to see in areas like rides, attractions, dining, infrastructure, and guest services?

Do you think there will be a new section added to the park? If so, what kind of theme or attractions would you hope for?

This could include: 

- The return of the “Station Master/Outpost 5” audio that used to play in the queue and station 

- The return of various jungle sound effects that were included throughout the beginning ride 

- Updated show scene and lighting elements in all of the tunnels 

- A refresh of the final lift hill with functioning effects and upgraded audio 

What do you think? Is there anything in particular that you do/do not want to see?

A permit was filed on Masons website for a master blaster ride. What does everyone think about this. https://aca-prod.accela.com/MASON/Cap/GlobalSearchResults.aspx?isNewQuery=yes&QueryText=Kings%20island

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Hello KIC members. We are happy to announce that Kings Island has greenlighted our project "Kings Island: 50 Years of Memories". We know many of you are thinking right now "Wait, Kings Island hasn't been open for 50 years?" and you are correct. In order for our project to be completed in time for the premiere in the Spring of 2022, we must get things started. Making a film can be a long tedious process. The distinction of our documentary is the backdrop will comprise of home movies provided by past employees, industry leaders, and park guests. Many of these old clips are 8mm and Super 8 film that will be restored to the highest quality possible and upscaled to current standards. This type of restoration is a long and detailed process as we go frame by frame.  Kings Island is very excited about this project just as we are. We hope you will share this information with friends and family who grew up going to Kings Island.

Click here to submit your home movies or photographs of Kings Island

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Make sure to follow our hashtag #KI50movie 

We will leave you with this quick presentation/teaser trailer we put together. We hope you enjoy it! 

https://youtu.be/bLvZEc8cxNY

***UPDATE  11/22/18

Just wanted to provide an update on the project. 

• The film is now listed on IMDB along with the poster for the film.  Click Here
• Our diverse team has grown to 17 wonderful and talented people.
• Our website is currently being built and should be up soon.   www.KI50MOVIE.com
• We are currently working on multiple pre-production chores and finalizing our fundraising campaign.  Look and listen for us on tri-state radio and television programs promoting the project over the winter. 
• We are still in need of home movies and photos from over the years. (You must be the owner or have the rights to any submissions. Please do not submit photos or video you found on the internet)
• We will be announcing an open call for former employees of Kings Island in hope to start filming interviews during the summer of 2019 and 2020. (Unfortunately, current employees of Cedar Fair will not be able to be interviewed)
• We updated the project logo....Look at the beginning of the post 

*EDIT* Exchanges should be reasonable

S&S free spin (bigger model)

S&S hyper (Steel Curtain)

Mack multilaunch

Mack spinner 

B&M Dive

B&M wing

RMC hybrid ground up

There’s pros and cons to each. The free spin isn’t a groundbreaking ride and could be seen as the same thing as SFGAM’s Joker, but is cheap, don’t take up a ton of space, and are good rides. The hyper isn’t reliable but isn’t like anything in the area. The multi launch is very expensive but has a good ROI and a good ride. The spinner doesn’t have a ton of cons, but I don’t see them adding it. The dive could be seen as a Valravn ripoff as well as the wing with GateKeeper, but they’re GP magnets. RMC would be an enthusiast magnet, but I doubt CF works with RMC for a little bit. What are your thoughts?

It's that time of the year again. The 2022 and 2023 additions and improvements notice has been filed with Warren County. Please see below for the first page of the document. 

What stands out to everyone so far? Obviously, the big standout here, for me, is once again B&M. We saw them listed on the 2018 notice and that ended up being Orion (announced in 2019). This time around though, I think it is very possible this could be maintenance work and maybe not so much a new ride. Of course, the possibility will always be there.

Let's Discuss!

I don’t think it’ll happen unless they demolish Peanuts Playhouse and utilize that whole space but even I’m not sure they’d want to have something built right next to Picnic Grove where they host a lot of events.

Thoughts?

(I said 4th/5th because some people consider Surf Dog a coaster while others do not)