StXBomber

Since I work on the ride, I guess I am the expert on it. Yes, OL:FoF is now officially just FoF. They dropped the OL part about 2 years ago because of copyright issues.

lmfao He's an italian chef, loves PKI, and just so happens to be the author of the unofficial guidebook to PKI!

While this was happening, I was trying to tell people that had waited more than an hour to ride WWC that they could not ride, and then run up that massive line in the rain to close it off, but then I got to take shelter in a small building for WWC and watch TV and play Uno and tell ghost stories about the park!

Will the one at B&N at Kenwood be going on for a few hours? I work an open that day and will not be in the Kenwood area until about 4:30-5. I cannot make the other one at Kenwood, because I am working all day (yes, park open to park close). I hope to see you on the 13th!

Yes, great pics of WWC! I should have my pics from KBF and SFMM developed soon, would you be able to host them for me?

1. Dominique pushed it down 4 clicks, when it only went down 1 at first? She shouldn't have done that! 2. People say back seat is better at FoF, but I do agree with you, I personally thing Front seat is the best. 3. Beast crew is an awesome crew. I've worked it one time at night when they REALLY got the crowd pumping. They held a screaming contest and guess who had to judge it? Yours truely. My ears were ringing for about 15 minutes after it. I never knew that people could scream so loudly for a basketball!

FoF ride time: 3:40. YEAH RIGHT! Why do newspapers mislead people and use load time with their ride time? We all know the ride is really just a minute long!

Beast Freak, what do you mean by "perched above the crowds"? Would there be any chance I could join? *nudge nudge*

yeah, skyflyer is the best pay ride I've been on, I think it's better than slingshot.

Disney: kids park Universal: florida is much better, and already been to FL one Pics: yes X and Xcel: yes back in cinci: yes Scream best ride I've ever been on: YES!!!

Will do! Aaron, expect an article from me next week! We finally finalized my plans for the next 3 days: Thursday: Knotts Berry Farm for some Xcelerator action Friday: Some sleeping action Saturday: SFMM for some X action. Yes, only one day at SFMM, and its a saturday, so I will not be able to ride all of the rides, but we are buying the fast-pass things at the door, so that should help. Well, hope to be back in Cinci on sunday night (late) with a bunch of great pics from the parks, and thoughts about them too!

Hello fellow PKI-ers! I am currently in beautiful southern california! This is a heads up on a TR I will be making that will compare Knott's Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain to PKI. Our plans are sketchy, but as of now it seems like I will be at KBF on Thursday, and SFMM on Friday and Saturday. These are best hopes though, and not sure about Thursday and Friday. Saturday will be spent at SFMM no matter what. Be on the look-out for my comparisons (and pics) within the next few days (prolly whenever I get back to cinci and have scanner access again). And of course, I'll be wearing my SoB shirt on my trip to SFMM. This is StXBomber, signing out from So Cal.

So structural engineers figure out the track layout? I always thought it was mechanical! Structural is for me!

VH1 Vibe Review: Scale is from 1-10, 10 being the best. Costumes: 2 The costumes looked like they were bought at goodwill. At the start, everyone is in what looks like tinfoil pants, which reflected the sun right into the audience's eyes. They changed about half-way into it, but some were still pretty bad. I don't think I've ever seen so much purple clothing before in my LIFE! One guy had purple pants with a star on his butt. Songs: 3 One for each of the good songs in the whole thing. The other songs were all pop, which I absoultely HATE. Singing: 1 Of those 3 good songs, 2 were slaughtered by the bad singing. Especially the song "Elevation" by U2. Good song, horrible singing. The taped backup singers were better than the lead singers. Dancing: 9 The redeeming point of the show. Amazing dancing throughout the whole thing. The one good song that was not slaughtered was the best, because 1. it had no words, and 2. it was pure dancing (my kinda music!). Breakdancing was thrown in there, and I liked this part! The other part I thought was very nice was when they went Brittney Spears-like and danced with chairs. OVERALL GRADE: 4 Definatly not a got-to-see show, but if you like pop, purple, and pretty girls (only one of these I like), then you'll enjoy the show. Other people obviously agree, because many people left in the middle of the show.

ummm.... have you been reading this forum? We've ALL been talking about it! Look around the forum!

Lets end this now... Did part of The Racer come from the old Coney Island park? Some say yes, others say no. WHICH IS IT?

I will be working at FoF on that day, and if you want, meet me at the Flying Eagles at 4:10 for one ride on the eagles (then I must leave)

I was not one of the cleaners, but I did watch them and keep them entertained while they cleaned (I couldn't help because I was off and done with work for the day). I'll pass along the complements to my crew!

And lets not forget the classic "let's stick wads of gum on the alien heiroglyphics!"

LMFAO!!! Jeff would get a kick out of this! Send me a copy!

It seems all of our complaining about the FoF hanger paid off, and last night the hanger was cleaned out and sprayed down. As we all know, that hanger really needed a good spray down!

My nametag says Brad. And it probably was me, cause when its getting close to my break time, I check my watch non-stop. And if it's true that I was gone by the time you got in the train, then it was most likely the case. Also, I saw our very own ItalianChef! I can now say I checked his restraint, and asked if there was any money in his bag (standard procedure). Thanks for stopping by Charles! It made my morning!

And sorry about the stapling. We normally only save those for people on our crew. And yes, I do work at FoF.

FoF needs no retheming, just being back how it used to be! It sounds like it was so cool! (I found out how the theming used to be today, can you tell? lol)

I would add a new area in the back of the park behind Racer. It would be called "Fort Cooper". The area would be FoF + the area behind it. FoF would be rethemed back to it's origional luster (ride ops in old custom uniforums, old lighting effects + fog effects in station). It would be just as it was when it opened, except the current trains would remain. The whole area would be themed FoF style, with a military feel. There would be costumed characters in alien costumes walking around the park and MIB-like military people as their escorts. A new rollercoaster would be added, it would be a 5D coaster (a new type of ride I designed) and would be the first of it's kind. The name: "UFO Escape". This would be a sequal to FoF in a way. You enter hanger 19 and find that something has gone horribly wrong. The old cast from the FoF video are on the TV screens, trying to track down an alien that is on the loose. It turns out that they had recovered yet another UFO, yet this time, the UFO was on a recovery mission in search for the UFO in hanger 18. These aliens came prepared. At one point of the video, the lights go out and the video would end(as they do at FoF), but this time actors would come out in alien costumes and base employee costumes and the aliens would take over. This could happen from every 30 minutes, to 5 hours (based on how long the wait is). This way, the audience would never see it more than one while in line. Of course, this seems like the whole area is themed around FoF, well that's because it is There would be other non-alien themed rides that will be in the area, but they would be air force themed.