MEakins

Cedar Fair's biggest problem with Cedar Point is location. Cincinnati is more centrally located to service, St Louis, Louisville, Lexington, Cincinnati, Dayton, Indianapolis, Nashville and Huntington to name a few. While Cedar Point is a wonderful theme park full of top thrill roller-coasters, the location limits the clientele to the Northern states. Kings Island is accessible to many Southern States as well as the Northern reaches.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div> A major difference between Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH and Kings Island in Mason, OH is that Cedar Point is water locked and cannot expand any further, while Kings Island still possesses many acres for expansion.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

If I could make one enhancement I would bring back Winterfest. I remember going to Winterfest as a Teenager and I loved it. My friends and I wold go just for the ice skating and cider.

Yesterday, my family and I went to Kings Island in Mason,OH. We visit this park routinely and this years new attraction, Dinosaurs Alive, was high on my children's list of must see attractions. We paid the $7 for the combination tickets which included a ticket to view the animatronics and a ticket to view the Dinosaurs Alive movie. During our walk through the Dinosaurs Exhibit, we noticed numerous dinosaurs that did not function at all, several dinosaurs whose sounds were obviously malfunctioning and even a couple of dinosaurs who had holes in their"skin" where movement was wearing a hole. Overall this was a disappointing experience for my wife, myself and our children. Our youngest was ready to leave the park after her disappointing trip through this exhibit. We still had our tickets to the movie, which replaced the 4D Sponge Bob Square Pants movie and I told my daughter that it would be better. I wish I had known that the new Dinosaurs movie would not be 4D as Sponge Bob was. The movie was also very disappointing as it was blurry and had little interesting content during the 10 minute showing. There is more hype surrounding the new exhibit than there is actual functional content. Parents beware!