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I'd think the waterpark bathrooms are safer as they are solid masonry all the way around. Though the underground shelters are the best of course. I've seen other shelters that haven't been mentioned but can't remember where. I want to say there's one in SD&THC? Posted from the backless BlackBerry mobile device.

Yes it's labelled. The entrance to it is in one of the trailer props by the exit area of the station. There are also shelters in the waterpark. The back store room of the small shop inside the gate serves as one, along with the changing/bathroom areas.

There is one problem with the theory stayed earlier that stating that line jumpers will be removed will stop it from happening. There ARE signs. At the beginning of all lines and often times stand alone signs throughout the queue. It is also in every map brochure. People choose to ignore these warnings, just like they ignore the no smoking warnings. Until people start seeing and hearing about these rules being strictly enforced, they will continue to ignore all signage pertaining to the park's rules. Posted from the backless BlackBerry mobile device.

Well, I got rained out today. It's been raining since about noon and is supposed to continue till 9 ... park closes at 8. So .. no second visit to KD for me, right now at least. We'll see what next week holds!

Is this a Cedar Fair policy, or is this a new policy? I don't ever remember this being the case after a rain storm? I don't understand it either. I believe it's a Cedar Fair policy. Probably for safety reasons that would make more sense under the skid brakes (where there was a possibility to shoot through them when they were wet) to keep trains from crashing into each other.

What you can't see (that I could when Rex was shooting this) is that Jackson was standing just to my left the entire time and practically dancing up and down waiting for his chance to do that!

^ Exactly. I'd absolutely eat in the park if it were more reasonable prices, more like the equivalent of what you'd find outside the park, especially for the chain restaurants. If you were feeding a family of 4 at LaRosa's, you'd actually save money by leaving the park and paying the $10 parking fee again to go to an off-site LaRosa's! I have no problem at all buying merchandise in the park because things like t-shirts are very reasonably priced (I haven't paid over $18 for any of my shirts, and I tend to buy multiple shirts at every park I go to) but they'd make more money off me if I ate there too. I spent quite a bit of money at Holiday World. I bought a shirt and a handful of other souvenirs, two snacks, a full meal, and fudge. I don't even get snacks at Kings Island. I'm not paying $5 for a soft pretzel that I can get at the cafe in Sam's Club for under $1 or $6 for a funnel cake, but I definitely will pay $2 for a caramel apple, $2.50 for homemade fudge, and absolutely $2.50 for a funnel cake!! I will be buying funnel cakes (probably in multiples) every time I go to Holiday World! Speaking of every time I go to Holiday World - I'm making at least two more trips this summer, and I think next year I will be getting a season pass there. The only thing right now stopping me from going there more often is the cost of admission. Though the ACE discount is very good, a season pass still takes at least 3 visits to pay for itself and I wasn't sure I'd make it there at least three times this summer, but now I know that I'd make sure I got there enough time to make it pay for itself since it's such a great park. And they will make more money off of me with each trip than any Cedar Fair or Six Flags park will make this entire year from me.

Grr, now you've passed me on Diamondback rides!! I'll have to go a bunch next week to make up for it. It feels weird having not ridden it in over a week when I've been at parks all week.

Ride it at night. I was really surprised at how different the experience is at night.

Goodness, she's tall for her age! Average height for a 3-year-old girl is only 37 inches! Those two rides have a 40" requirement. So she'll be a pretty tall girl when she grows up! Just think, that means by next year she'll probably be enjoying Runaway Reptar and Shake Rattle n Roll!

Yeah, I was expecting Drop Tower or Skyflyer or something, lol. I especially liked the comment about a child landing over by Chick-Fil-A. That made me chuckle.

For the most part, I don't eat anything at parks. I usually will either leave the park and drive thru outside the park, or take a cooler and leave it in my car. The latter is what I did at KD on Wednesday (though I didn't really eat anything out of it since I spent 3 hours in the park - I just snacked on strawberries on the way home) and will do again tomorrow because I'm trying to save some money. I am vehemently opposed to spending outrageous prices to eat mediocre food that can usually be found outside the park within just a few minutes' drive. Holiday World has so far been the only park that has been able to attract me into eating there, with their low prices and good quality food. I do not eat in the park at Kings Island or Cedar Point either.

Lightning behaves in mysterious ways. It may have hit a part of the coaster not designed for that - just because the top of it is the tallest thing doesn't mean that's necessarily where the lightning will go.. Anyway, looking at the Sandusky Register's webcam, it looks like they're already hard at work on Millie. There's a crane up at the lift hill. As long as it isn't something they'll have to order and wait for parts for, I wouldn't be surprised to see them have it up and running for CM. http://www.sanduskyregister.com/registercam/

^ I was hoping to try that but my mom wasn't up for it.

Well, I just looked up some GAdv fansites and it looks like I will not be getting a ride on the world's tallest and fastest coaster. It's expected to be down until mid-June.

GAH!!! I hope they have it up by Monday because that's when I'm supposed to be at SFGAdv!!

I'll probably be back at KD tomorrow (took a coaster break today to catch up on lost sleep) so I'll try to go up the Eiffel Tower and grab some photos of that area.

I've been assigned my seat on Millie pretty much every time I've ridden it. Must just be when I visit! I've never been assigned on Magnum and been assigned once out of 2 rides on Maverick.

That was a highly entertaining video! I especially love the ending. And Jackson's random "Best coaster ever!"

Whoops. That looks like it's going to suck. They've only got 8 days before the beginning of quite possibly their largest annual event, and a lot of people aren't going to be happy (and may not even show up, since it's on-site registration) if Millie is still down. I would still attend because I appreciate CP's complete collection, but I will be very, very sad if it's not running by then.

.... WANT! What sort of conditions have to be in place for that to happen?

Which, according to Jeff Gramke, have zero effect on the speed of the train.

I forgot to add Millennium in there, but all the rest of them I named have separators too. Millie sometimes pulses and sometimes assigns.

Poor Tom, we're never going to let him live that down!! We'll see how he does on Woodstock Express at CP next weekend.

I don't see an issue with schedule this event for a weekend in June, like the weekend after Coastermania, if there's an issue with Music in the Parks overlap. This is when Kings Dominion is having their enthusiast event. I didn't really enjoy the middle of the day Saturday and didn't mind that a group of us left for a couple hours to do things like fool around in Wal-Mart because I can't stand it when the park is so crowded you can't walk down the midways without being shoved around or having to wiggle between people. I actually went to the park in junior high for Music in the Parks day and I remember that I didn't ride anything but Racer because all the rides had such long waits and my group would have missed our check in times waiting for just one ride. This was in 98 so there were a lot fewer coasters and flats to choose from. Even King Cobra was running up to a 2 hour wait!