Kawana

What is going on with these drop rides? Is it an effect of wear and tear, or is it a design flaw?

Also, and this is directly from a Supervisor on BLSC, when it's been raining they only run one train to try to lower the amount of stress put on the track.

Ha ha ha. Last year my girlfriend and I rode SDATHC and we couldn't have felt more out of place if we tried.

Yeah, but when you can't wait, you just can't wait right?

Great TR. Thanks for the photos. And yes, to me, those last two look animated.

Welcome to the forums. I'm glad to hear that you made it home safely. I got out of Mason just in time to have a pretty easy trip home.(relatively speaking) Now that I think about it, I think that last train ride was my first too, I always seem to be near the end to but not lucky enough to be on the last train. It was nice meeting you and getting to talk with you.

Wow. For someone who had never ridden Tomb Raider that's a pretty harsh review. If you had never ridden Tomb Raider, what exactly disappointed you? How could you honestly compare The Crypt to Tomb Raider? How much more did you want from the ride? CF has to take into account that while there are probably people who can take a longer, more intense ride, the sane thing to do is to keep it relatively short. I could see if the ride went on for 5 minutes or more that some out there would love it, but the general public might have issues.

Wasn't really a bad day, just a soaking wet day. I got lots of good rides in. When I think about it of the 10 hours the park was open, and the 8-8.5 that rides ran, I was pretty lucky.

Um, on The Beast they wanted you to show before you boarded, but on Invertigo, I tried to show them my pass and they didn't really care. Not sure if that's due to a crappy day or what, but I tried and they just let me ride. Actually on my second double on The Beast, another guest rode with me and they didn't check his pass so who knows? I would make sure someone sees your pass just to be on the safe side.

Yep that's the one.

I knew the rain might be coming but I took my chances anyway because you just never know. I arrived at the park at around 10:30 a.m. to see someone finally manning the gold pass gate. My first stop was Invertigo. I was about two trains from boarding when the coaster was shut down. The reason we were given was that there was lightning in the area and that it had to clear a 5 mile radius of the park. "No big deal, I'll wait it out here" I thought. Well, about 50 minutes later it started raining harder and I was out of there. At that point I thought the day would be a complete loss. After talking to a very nice older gent on the Yellow Crew, I headed to FOF only to be greeted with a two hour wait. "Next." It was then on to the Crypt. The line was just out of the building so in I went. 25 minutes and one intense ride later, I was done. Luckily it stopped raining so I was off to The Beast, which had absolutely no line. However, no line didn't mean no wait on this day as every coaster with the exception of Firehawk was running only one train. After showing my pass, I was on twice and it was great. I love the middle seat!! On to BLSC. I was just about to the bridge after a 20 minute wait or so, and boom here's the rain again. I got drenched but as people left, I inched closer to the station and the rain let up after about 10 minutes. After an empty train, it was about 10 minutes an I was on. Now I thought I could sneak in a ride on Vortex before the meanacing skies did their worst. Boy was I wrong. Two trains away from boarding, Vortex was shut down. After about 10 minutes an upper level person named Brian informed everyone to seek more adequate shelter. That freaked me out a little, but I got out of there as soon as I could. I was certain that the park would be closed at that point as it was nearly 4 and the rain was falling very hard. I made the executive decision to leave for the day and was on my way out when I was pulled to the "Bank a Ball" game. After a nice chat (and about an hour of rain) with the game people and a couple other guestes I saw The Racer send out an empty train. Off to The Racer, and a pretty nice ride on a classic coaster. By this time the rain has stopped for the rest of my visit, but not the rest of my day. So I hit up Invertigo 2X with my pass, and SoB with moderate waits on both due to the one train op. Interesting side note, Delirium did not operate the entire day. Venturing over to Firehawk I get extremely lucky as the line is just out of the station and quoted at 30 minutes. With both trains running, it doesn't take nearly that long, and I'm on in less than the 30. I decide to try FoF again only to find that it's shut down for a "mechanical problem." By now it's around 7 so I end my day with a trip on BLSC. Once again it shuts down, but I wait it out, and get two rides in after a 15 minute wait. I end the day with a double ride on The Beast and when I return to the station, there's no line at all. In through the trap door, and up to the station and I'm on the last train of the night. As I'm looking at the mystery construction, the Tornado sirens go off. At this time I'm met by a security guard telling me to leave via Nick U. It's weird to see no one in the park, and the games and such are still running as was the music and sound effects for SDATHC. All in all it was a productive trip even with the rain. Dinner at BK and I see on the news that Oxford is getting hammered by the storm, and it's heading right towards Mason. After waiting a bit I decide to try to make it home before the storm hits 75. I've never seen so much lightning and the rain was just crazy. I made it home safe and sound to my waiting package of random shirts from Woot. Thanks for reading.

Well it made up for it today. It rained pretty hard at numerous times today at the park. Made for a pretty crappy day, though I did get 5 rides on The Beast.

Exactly my thoughts. It may have been a free upgrade to those who bought a regular season pass, but what about the Platinum Pass holders? There was no such upgrade available to them. On a related note, I visited the park on the 3rd and, lo and behold we had an attendant at the Gold Pass lot.

Then why offer the lot as an incentive? I worked hard for those nickels, CF!!!

Ok. Thanks a lot. That helped determine if I was going to try to get to the park early or not. Not it seems. Hooray for double rides though!!!

I looked at the Gold Pass perks booklet online and I saw that Tuesday the third is a Double Ride day, but is there also a early ride time? I couldn't tell one way or the other.

Except that the zoo really isn't that close to Fishers (where I also currently reside...) But kwana, did you ride their Zimperlan (spelled wrong, too lazy to look up) coaster train??? No we didn't. The prices for the ride tickets (in my opinion) were insane. I think it was around 2.25 for one ticket. We looked at it, but it didn't seem like it would be very exciting. It sounds as if it's more for kids and families anyway. There was a 4-D motion theatre there as well, and the show was the exact same Spongebob show that's being played at KI. My girlfriend had read reviews about the zoo and was under the impression that the train was not worth the money, so we didn't ride that either.

What on earth is going on with the gold pass lot? It wasn't manned on my last trip either.

My lord. That is really staggering. We're not all Rockefellers CF, how about showing the common man a little break?

No wolves that I can recall, but there were wild dogs, which is pretty close, eh?

Please bear with me as this is my first photo TR. Hopefully you all like it. My girlfriend Erin and I left Dayton around 8:30 a.m. This was my first time out of state in a while. "> We arrived at around 11:20 and got a pretty good parking spot. Early the zoo wasn't too crowded, but as the day went on, it picked up considerably. "> I was surprised at the animal exhibits and the vastly sparse selection of animals present (compared to the Columbus zoo), but I will say that each animal was awake and moving about, so that was nice to see. "> "> "> "> "> The zoo was very clean with numerous employees around picking up litter and branches etc... We had the chance to see an elephant show, so I didn't want to pass that up. "> The food prices were way more reasonable than KI, so we each had the cheese pizza combo meal. "> Across from where we ate, there was this neat old clock that had all the gears visible and had a larger clock that was also run by the smaller version. Pretty cool. "> We hit the dolphin show, which I'm glad was included in the admission because I wouldn't have paid for it and we were down to about an hour left. From there we went to the neighboring White River Garden, and strolled around there for about an hour, but left quickly as a wedding was about to start. Here are some shots from the Garden. "> "> "> All in all, it was a great day, and I'm glad I went. I'm also glad to be able to share a few pictures with you all, and I hope you enjoy.

According to KI's website, it's $5 + a $5 deposit. Also, it still says Paramount's Kings Island, so I don't know if it's been updated....

Are the lockers in Boomerang Bay still $5? Thanks for the help.

Thanks much... It's good to see that KI has/had tried to preserve a little history and give a little shout out to the 'Nati.

I've scoured the search results, and I can't find anything to answer this question. What is Losantiville? Other than the name of the train staion's "village." Was it an actual town, or is it just fiction? Thanks for the help...