israel09

How complicated is a modern coaster's control panel. What different functions can it perform and what all does it display. is there an lcd screen with detailed information or anything. any interesting buttons?

yeah i noticed about Flight of Fear when we were sitting in the back of the very last car and the operator asked to trade seats with these other people

cool replies, I usually like the very last seat on the train, it tends to get the most "yank" from the rest of the train. hmm, whats makes 5-1 on The Vortex so special?

never done flight deck from the front, will have to try it. Flight of Fear in the front felt extremely faster,lol

lol you guys are so goofy, lol. ok so can you guys explain to me the numbering , does that mean 5th car/ left side The 5 refers to the fifth car. The one 1 refers to bench 1 or the front seat of the fifth car. Thanks for being a good sport! Terp, who is seldom seen in the middle cars of any coasters other than Arrow loopers... ohh, ok, I thought it the 2nd number meant the exact single seat within a car.. Thanks!

lol you guys are so goofy, lol. ok so can you guys explain to me the numbering , does that mean 5th car/ left side

Anyone want to provide any input on this matter, lol. what do you prefer, very last car or the very front?

lol, silly

Exactly!. lol, is the smoke still there at night?

LOL!!! nice I didn't notice that, haha I love this forum, lol

Anyone agree, it may not be intense but the fun factor is awesome, esp at night and the last car.

Yeah after positing this I thought about how K.I spreads in every direction and Cedar Point is almost just one long path. Although the walk from the main gate , all the way back to river-town is a bit of a hike. lol

Why isn't there any kind of transportation system at Kings Island that spans the length of the park . Similar to the ChairLift at Cedarpoint?

Okay, last season I was about to board Vortex and the people exiting the car in front of me were to small children look to be about 5-6 years old. I was like "wow". i thought the car was empty when it pulled in because I couldn't not see them over the restraints . so what was that about? i didn't think you could be that small and ride Vortex

Well, I would have to say mine was when I rode Diamondback for the first time with my friend awesome Jessica from college. it awesome because we had never ridden anything with that type of seating before so it was a very insecure but awesome feeling. this was more because it who i was there with not really the coaster it self. and thanks for all the amazing answers , i read everyone. they were really insightful

LMAO nice

Anything that made the ride memorable or great?

LOL my bad . I meant. The park had recently installed lighting along certain areas of the track on The Beast during the 2009 season. that would ruin the experience of the night ride. Were those lights active for the entire season or were it just a short term thing

Did any they ever return The Beast back to it's original lighting conditions (darkness)?

I remember there were a collection of hats near or on top of one of the building on Adventure Express, lol. are they still there lol

Anybody wear glasses while riding. Do you have any trouble keeping them on. i've successfully ridding Racer while reading them .that bout it sooo? any feedback? lol i'm paranoid about my glasses, due the fact if i were to loose them they cost over half a grand to replace (my eyesight sucks, lol)

As a previous security officer from years gone past, I don't ever recall getting a call from ride ops for someone taking a camera such as a SLR and definately not an DSLR (as technology like that was not as affordable then as it is today) onboard a ride little lone remember having to do a report for someone stowing one in a bin and having it stolen. *off subject* I've had to do a report for someones shoes being taken (faceoff) so, it really doesn't matter what you trust to leave behind while riding. (shoes, plush, fanny pak, sunglasses...and yes purses(women do it)) And, right now, Tomb Raider & FOF comes to mind from back then as the only two stowable zipper pouches on rides for articles to be secured while riding. The worse place to leave something behind in my oppinion was Delerium. Those metal boxes scream (prize box) as it's like, first come first serve for theives. Back to my point...back then I can recall the countless (dozens) of phones that certain rides would produce while people were riding. (We all got the call to walk the phones back to "the clock" and then on to guest relations) The Beast in my book was the worse for getting your phone loose out of your pocket (but at least when it fell out, it was still inside the car) and Face Off shows no mercy for phones. Just look inside the secured fence area under the first drop, it's like a cellular grave yard. The bad thing about that is that they can't be retrieved until after the park closed. Even then, I only saw one that survived as we couldn't put Action Zone to bed until those people got their phone back. I admit that Firehawk crushed my phone and glasses in my pocket so no ride is safe in my book and that brings up my point...(FINALLY!) Todays phones are so much more powerful than they were 5 years ago. They're portable, they have better Megapixels pictures and supreme HD quality video features that can record hours instead of 15sec at a time. They are usually attached to your belt so you don't see them when they get on the ride or people keep them in their pockets. They take good enough photos for people to use on their facebook, myspace or scrapbooks back home. So, once the car gets out of the station, it usually results in a free for all for guests to get them out and record what they want until they circle back in the station. So these folks still takes pictures but assumes greater risks with their phones/camera at hand while folks like you israel09 who want to have the 'big guns' for photo opportunities but can't do both: ride/photography because of theft and KI assumes "NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ARTICLES LEFT". ***I suggest like that of Firehawk and I'm not sure lockers are still there at the beginning line at Tomb Raider, KI should invent or provide a quick change locker for people to use to secure those sort of small items so that we all can rest a little easier when ridding a ride or having to worry about theft or the destruction of our property that we carry on our person while riding. I would love to see some pics from the park with your camera...sounds like a wonderful hobby or do you make a living doing this? If you have a season pass, make a day of photography or break it up into parts: morning/afternoon/night to get all aspects of light and activities throughout the park and then stow it in a locker in between shoots and ride your butt off. Don't forget to smile. Thanks fro the long reply,very detailed and everyone else has been given good input too, this forum is awesome. Yeah i was thinking about the lockers too, but remember only seeing them at certain areas in the park. yeah an extra person or a day just for photos sounds like the best ideal. even if i could get the camera on a ride (which i wouldn't) i don't trust myself whit having enough muscle to hold the camera in place to keep it from banging against something. I can barely bring my arms back down during airtime. lol. The photography is just a hobby though, I once had some great pictures of the park with my point & shoot, but i got distracted and forgot to re-button my pocket on The Racer and yeaaa, lol. that didn't work out to well. never saw it again. So i have no photos of my own of the park ,lol except for ones my friend shot with her camera.

Has anyone every taken an SLR or an DSLR camera to Kings Island. how do you manage to get on rides with.You can't just stick it in your pocket. I wouldn't leave it in the bins at the station, too many "sticky fingers" at the park,lol

Does any know why the on-car video cameras on Flight of Fear was removed, and why dont they have this on more rides?

Thanks for all the great replies