KingsIslandJonasGirl

Sweet...Well now I feel abit better:)

Hey Just wanna say im sorry for arguing with you...Are we cool?

Hey Guys... Tell me what you think I should ride when I go in a couple days. Thanks yall~Love and big air hugs KingsIslandGirl

Ok...I give up...Im not doing so hot on trying to get my point across. Sigh... But oh well...I tried. Well they might not want us to know that they changed anything yet cause I guess thats the way Cedar Fair rolls...Lol They are probally like evil laughing in their cave which they call The "Cedar Fair Offices" Bahaha Well I hope Paramount will see Kings Island and take it back...I have an idea... We should make Cedar Fair leave then Paramount would look at us and say we should come back! I know it sounds bad but in my head it's an awesome plan and It works:) *Evil Laughing* Who wants to hear my plan?

One of the reasons I asked you to stick around on these boards is that I knew something like this was coming. One day, you'll look at this post and laugh. As I said, there is one and ONLY one Giant TopSpin on the planet. It is our Crypt. Because it is larger, taller, and holds more people than any other similar ride, it operates completely differently. As such, it use pre-programmed ride cycles that have been approved (I would suspect) by HUSS Rides, the German manufacturer. One would suspect that there are only four ride cycles approved for the ride: the original, one-flip Tomb Raider cycle, the four-flip Tomb Raider cycle, the nine-flip Crypt cycle, and the current two-flip Crypt cycle. The ride is not manually operated (that is to say, no one in a booth has the ability to control the ride with a joystick or anything), and since these is one cycle that is currently used on the ride, it is that one cycle you have experienced. If you asked someone checking your seat to change the cycle, they may say "Sure!" as a joke or just to mess with you. First of all, how would they change it? They're checking restraints and hang out at the base of the ride while it's running. The only way to access the ride operator booth is to exit the building and climb the stairs along the back wall visible from The Beast's queue). And besides the fact that they can't make it to the ride operator booth in time, the ride does only have that one approved two-flip cycle. Once you know more about the industry and ride manufacturers and the ins-and-outs of the amusement park business (which I am no where close to knowing), you'll recognize that there is only one cycle on The Crypt. I guaruntee (you heard that right, folks, guarauntee!) that you have had the same ride experience as everyone else every time you've ridden it. I know you'll think I'm wrong, but PLEASE trust me on this. One day if you stick around here, you'll see. Ok...I was kidding about the asking to change the sequence. But... What Im trying to say is that I have lived here all my life I was born here and I have been going to Kings Island since I was born...And I really mean since I was born. And my dad and my step-mom Jenn rode it when it was tomb raider and then I rode it again last year 2010 and I rode It the year before in 2009. Then I rode it 3 times on July 14th of this year... Please dont get me wrong but it was sooooo way way way different than what you describe. Im not trying to start a argument about it...But this is how it was to me when I went a couple weeks ago and if compared it to the years past...It is sooo different.

For the record, that's the same ride cycle that was (still) in place last night. I know because I rode it last night after Coasting for Kids was over. Ok...But its aways different when Im there...Cause I ask them to make It a different sequence...And they do.

You don't. Just stop posting in it, and so long as no one else posts in it, it will disappear. The board here is in chronological order, so the most recently active topics are displayed first. Every time you post in this topic, it brings it back to the top of the list. Don't post in it for a day or so and you'll see no more of it unless you go looking for it. An administrator can also manually delete it if he thinks that's the best course of action, but if you want it gone, just don't post in it. Oh...Ok Thanks so much...

How do you delete this post?

I would also suggest not posting like this. That's like me starting a topic with "My Kings Island Trip Report" and then the post only said "Let me know if you want me to tell you about it!" or if my topic was called "My best pizza recipe" and I simply said, "It's realllllly good guys! I'll make it later and tell you if my friends like it." It's like... Do we want to know what's changed in The Crypt? Yes...That's why we clicked on the topic was to see "ride enhancements to the Crypt." So yeah, we'd like you to explain your reasons on why The Crypt has changed. That's the point of this topic. If I was really, really, really excited and desperate for information, imagine how annoyed I'd be by the post I quoted above. It's like, why didn't you just explain your changes instead of asking if we wanted you to? Now I have to wait until you log on again and take the time to explain, blah blah blah... But that said, people here are not trying to be rude. It's just that the ride you're describing is what has been for the last two years. Understand that you're saying things like "getting close to the goddess' face and hanging over the lava pits," but the ride is concreted into place. Therefore, it has been the exact same distance from the goddess since 2002, and the ride has always always always flipped backwards towards the lava pits. One possible explanation is that perhaps you had to wait in a longer line for the ride this time, and thus your eyes adjusted to the darkness and allowed you to see them clearly despite always having been there. I'm surprised by my friends who never, ever, ever see the goddess on their first ride. She is not difficult to see by any means and is slightly lit up at various points during the ride, but perhaps people just don't look for her so they can't see her. As well, the ride's queue line got new lights this year, and some of the LED lights in the former lava pits were turned back on. So I think that people are under the impression that you're just noticing those small changes to the theme, when what is really longed for on this community is a change to the ride cycle (the program that the ride's computer commands it to run - number of flips, hangtime, ride length, etc). IF you suspect a change has happened on the ride cycle, please describe it to us. To help: since 2009, the ride has started lifting backwards (away from the goddess), revolved around the room once, locked into place, then flipped forward one time. It then slows and reverses direction, revolves around the room once towards the goddess, locks into place on the second time around, and flips down towards the lava while locked in place (in other words, it flips twice, and both are slow, locked flips, not quick spins of the gondola where the seats are). If that is different than what you experienced, please give us detail on that. If not, it is possible you are just seeing some things for the first time and that the ride is not different. And like Avatar mentioned in another thread, just let the "Updates On The Crypt (AKA Tomb Raider The Ride)" topic die. Just don't post in it and it'll move back in the board history gradually. That way we can keep all the Crypt talk in this thread. Ok...Im sorry Now I feel upset now... Im sorry I made you mad...Im just trying to get my point across...Nobody ever believes me!

Thanks sooo very much:) I will come to you if I need help

I understand... Im a blonde 16-year-old so this was one of my blonde moments that I had yesterday when I made this thread... I just want you to know Im not trying to confuse anyone...This was just my info on the ever changing ride from my point of view from my trips. Im very sorry

Oh..Thank you...Im sorry. Im still trying to get in the hang of things:)

So everyone if you guys want me to explain my reasons of why the Crypt has changed...Please just ask:) And please dont start a riot and freak out on me. its just me giving updates on what I saw and heard and Im being honest about it being sooooo much different than the years before. So ask me whatever ya'll want:)

Hey sorry. I just wanted to make my own updates page...

So everyone if you guys want me to explain my reasons of why the Crypt has changed...Please just ask:)

Hey...Im sorry...This Is a new thread for like my updates just from my trips. I pressed the wrong button cause I did not have my glasses on and I just kept going with this topic.

I hope so too since I might go. I will keep my fingers crossed for you~KingsIslandJonasGirl

Hi Dustin. Im going eather Wednesday or Thusday.lol. I recomend The Crypt. They have a new riding sequence. I rode it like three times when I went on the 14th of this month. I really does not matter I just go on any ride I see or pass by. Hope that helps~KingsIslandJonasGirl

Hi Hi Hi! I can attest it for you:) 1. It means the ride does like the old ride used to in the begining. 2. And the ride hags you over the ol lava pit & ice. Hope this helps:)

Hey Im sorry I kinda freaked out on you. I was just trying to get you to see my point of view. I just want people to believe me without a long disscussion about how Im wrong and people kicking me out. Let me get to the point I was trying to make. Im only 16...and when I first rode this ride it was 2009. It was already changed from Tomb Raider to the Crypt(Please dont correct me I was just guessing). And It was soooo frigggen different from the original let me tell ya. The next year 2010... I went there with my mom. Same freaking riding sequence. Then It's 2011. When I went it was so different the riding sequence was. I told my cuz Julianne that it was soooo different than the last 2 years. Lets just say...I loved it! Sorry I have to rant... but Its true stuff.~KingsIslandJonas PS. I dont mean the stalactites...I mean the # of flips:)

I see. Now that I've read it, I'm honestly a little more prone to believe that you haven't ridden The Crypt much lately, KingsIslandJonasGirl. As of Friday, the ride cycle has not changed from the two-flip, "ferris wheel" cycle that it's had since 2009. The only thing that's changed, as has been pointed out in this topic earlier, is that the old Tomb Raider lava LEDs that used to illuminate the water have been turned back on, giving you something to look at during that prolonged backwards flip. The goddess is just as almost-but-not-really illuminated as she's always been as The Crypt and isn't genuinely "featured" at any point during the ride. I don't mean to be a jerk; that's just how it is. I did not say the goddess was illuminated all I said was we got up close to her dang face...And I know ur not meaning to be a jerk..but from my point of view it was different than ever. I say its changed and I know since i rode it THIS YEAR ON THE 14TH OF JULY! So please dont tell me Im wrong when I rode it 3 times that day! It was better that 2009 and 2010... Thank you very much

Get ready cause it gets alittle better than when Cedar Fair turned upsidedown...lol:) Drum roll please...They do more FLIPS!!!!!!!!

Hey I'm sorry that it was like my other post. im just trying to keep it short. Cause I'm kinda tierd and I've been up and about all day and I'm beat. I'll give you more updates when Im not as tired.Lol.

Hey Kings Island Junkies! I got some updates on our favorite ride The Crypt(aka Tomb Raider The Ride). So I went there on the 14th of July and they did some different stuff to the ride. They added a new riding sequence and alot of other cool stuff. When ya'll get a chance come check for more updates cause Im going later this week!Signing Off~KingsIslandJonasGirl

Any ideas what the enhancements are going to be? Are we going to get a little theming back this year?? Hey Hey Hey! Got an update on the Crypt. They have a NEW riding sequence now! More updates later!