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From the official site: "Enjoy FREE PARKING, exclusive perks, discounts, and more with your 2023 Gold Pass. All Passholders: Enjoy FREE visits the rest of this year and UNLIMITED visits in 2023 at Kings Island." So you're good for this year, yes.

Also, has profanity always been banned? Seems like a strange rule for 2022, at least outside of kid friendly events like Trick or Treat.

I would like them to add "trying to scare other guests" to that list. I saw it a couple times last year and was like "No one is impressed that you can startle someone when you're obviously just another guest" Also, I really wish they would stress to guests that places in line can't be saved for your group. Most of the line jumping I see is when multiple people walk through the line to meet up with someone that they sent ahead. Sometimes rather large groups of people.

The only restrictions are Fright Lane and Winterfest. Should otherwise be good for rides during Halloween events.

That's what all the black lights are for. Helps with the cleaning. ...I preemptively apologize for this post.

Its quite possible to be honest but I think you have to raise the pass prices quite a bit to make any noticeable difference. Disney's approach is probably more pricing out people who aren't willing to spend extra money inside the park, imo.

The description for Hover & Dodge are Carowinds is humorous. Never thought I'd see "they are prone to malfunction" touted as a ride feature.

I'm a little disappointed that its not something more ambitious but its neat that its based on an old ride. Layout looks pretty good, so I think I'll plan a trip to check it out. I guess it makes sense that the first full titan track ride with infinity flyers is something more conservative (not especially large and no inversions).

I've been happy with my two visits to Jukebox this year. They have the better fries (outside of the new fries at Coney BBQ) that I've had. The Beast burger I had was good. The patty was pink like this picture but it didn't taste raw at all (its a mix of pork, bacon and beef).

Apparently Prestige+ at Carowinds is $75 cheaper. If it did include the extra perks at all parks, then that would be something people could exploit. But since it specifically mentions the 15% discount for all parks separately, I suspect you only get regular admission/parking and the discount and not the front of the line pass, preferred parking, etc? I probably won't get this but the bring a friend tickets do sweeten the deal. If you get one this year and two next, those are (arguably) worth $120.

From the ordering site: "Enjoy 2 meals every time you visit in 2022! Only a 4-hour interval is required between meals." The main site says "Enjoy lunch and dinner" which implies 2 meals as well.

I will echo sentiments that a new indoor eating option somewhere at the farther end of Coney Mall would be welcome. And also that Action Zone is the one area that needs an overhaul the most. And that the offerings at Festhaus need to be rethought. They have schnitzel this year for the 50th. How about we get some bratwurst?

This is the first I've heard you can get 3 meals at KI. The site clearly says 2. Though I certainly don't need 3 meals on any visit.

Yeah it is pretty much every time, but honestly its understandable. The average rider doesn't know about blocks and most coasters at the park don't do the same thing. As far as stopping at the top vs the slow climb, it seems like the slow climb also has the benefit of timing the trains to pass each other.

So a water slide in Canada managed to catch fire? If that doesn't prove global warming, I don't know what will.

Like KI Guy said, minors are not protected from discrimination. This is well established in the law. Even the government does it. That's not ever going to change. I'm not for a chaperone policy, except as a last resort, but there is nothing wrong with saying that teens cause trouble. There's a big difference between talking about the well established differences between teen behavior and adult behavior and talking about racial differences or whatever it is you are implying.

I understand what you're trying to say but the effect would only really be noticeable on light days and then you risk more seats going empty because people aren't getting to the station in time. On any other day, the time it takes to walk the switchbacks is too small to notice compared to the overall wait. Honestly, any time a bunch of switchbacks are open that don't need to be, I just check that I'm not cutting in front of someone and safely climb through the railings and no one minds.

Happy to see this. Sundays were a great time to go when they had it in the past in part because crowds were low. Though I suppose that's not guaranteed to be the case this year. The two sundays I went last October were busier than I expected.

I tried but since the shirt pic isn't completely flat, it would take more know-how than I have. However, I can tell you that the track and the lower part of the mouth are essentially identical. As far as the top, many of the scales have the same shape and shading. It's definitely a copy/modify job. I still suspect some lazy person was assigned to make a logo for some merchandise. All we have is a single pic someone posted of a shirt.

That's my understanding as well. It's also not an exact copy (seems like they made modifications or recreated it) but I don't think trademarks have to be. I think you could get away with this sort of copy if its something completely unrelated to a rollercoaster but that isn't the case here. Though there's a good chance that this isn't the ride's official logo and is just something that someone slapped together for a t-shirt. CF might just send a letter and the shirts would likely just disappear.

Attachment broken? Found it on reddit though https://imgur.com/a/GGDNI3K#bwnhyZS

I personally do miss the hike, tbh. Venturing far into the woods and then smelling that water. That was part of the experience. I also do remember the snakes, but had forgotten about them until they were mentioned here.

Keep in mind that they have no log flume anymore at CP. Snake River Falls is good but at least Congo Falls has that double down with a little airtime. I would like to see upgrades to WWC but I still prefer it to Thunder Canyon. The waterfalls are great but that's all TC has. The boats are so big that they don't really spin and the rapids do absolutely nothing to them. My last ride on WWC, two of us weren't even on the side that hit that rapids yet we hit one set so hard that we got completely drenched from the splash.

A couple weeks ago, in the guest-controller section, the little girls in our raft were taunting the ride op to hit us and he went "Okay, 3-2-1 ..." then of course nothing happened. So I just assumed the ride ops had no control over those. Honestly I would love to just get hit by several times in that section like Captain Nemo mentioned. It's kind of a bummer to not get hit with anything there, which was often the case even with the guest controls there, since the average person, presumably, only wants to hit people they know.

It seems like it to me too but it could be in my head. Its not like FoF was ever not rough. I actually love the ride but wish it were more feasible to fix.