https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t24NTopV4Wg

 

What about reusing part of the crypt building for an indoor/outdoor temple themed roller coasters, sort of like this "Jungle Rush" rollercoaster from Australia. I think they could do a little better with theming, as the walls are a little blank in certain areas. But I think the height of the box might help for some of the lift sections. I know it seems a little similar to soap box racers, but I think they could change the layout enough to make it a unique experience

That is a very interesting coaster. As far as theming goes, I don't know if the current Six Flags would do enough theming to do justice to using the building. 

17 hours ago, CoasterJack said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t24NTopV4Wg

 

What about reusing part of the crypt building for an indoor/outdoor temple themed roller coasters, sort of like this "Jungle Rush" rollercoaster from Australia. I think they could do a little better with theming, as the walls are a little blank in certain areas. But I think the height of the box might help for some of the lift sections. I know it seems a little similar to soap box racers, but I think they could change the layout enough to make it a unique experience

I think this would be a good idea, especially since the abandoned Crypt building has been an eyesore just sitting there only to be used at Haunt. It makes me wonder if they actually have a future plan for that building.

I sort of remember a comment from Mike Koontz somewhere that the cost to remove the building was too high for any immediate removals as it is used for haunt and storage. I can almost guarantee that there isn't any future plans for the building....if there was since it's closure, it likely would have been done by now. The cost to alter the building for anything in the future may not be something Six Flags is willing to take on in the next several years.

I'd like to see the park at least try to paint it so it is less visible, but that might also "too expensive" for some in the budget(cuts) department 

There was a time when Kings Island had four indoor ride through attractions operating at once. Flight of Fear, Tomb Raider or The Crypt, Action Theater, and the kids dark ride all brought something different to the park, and together they created a level of variety that made the indoor lineup feel complete. When you compare that to today, where Flight of Fear and Phantom Theater are the only true indoor rides, it is easy to see how much that part of the park has shrunk. A third indoor attraction would not be unusual for Kings Island. It would simply move the park closer to the variety it once offered.

Phantom Theater is a great addition, especially for families, but it cannot represent every type of indoor experience on its own. Kings Island used to offer several different styles of indoor attractions at the same time, and there is still plenty of room for something with a different style or tone. An interactive ride, a more modern concept, or a lighter themed attraction would fill a space that the current lineup does not fully cover, and it would give guests another option that fits outside the coaster focused offerings.

This is where Action Theater naturally comes up. The original ride is gone and the inside is now used for a haunt, but the type of attraction that once operated there filled a role the park no longer has. Kings Island already has many haunted houses, so using that space only for seasonal events does not bring much to the main season. If the park ever found a way to bring back Action Theater in some form, or create a new indoor attraction with a similar purpose, it would reintroduce a style of experience that is currently missing.

Adding another indoor ride would not repeat the past. It would simply expand the lineup in a way that feels natural for Kings Island. A new attraction inspired by the spirit of Action Theater, or a completely new concept altogether, would round out the park in a meaningful way and bring back a type of variety that used to be one of its strengths.

I feel like something similar to NightFlight Expedition could work for the TR/Crypt building. It could be indoor/outdoor and expand towards the train and Diamondback behind the building. Wouldn’t be to the same scale as Dollywood I’m sure, but in concept I feel like it could work. 

Another theater show could be cool in the AT. I’m just down for as many dark rides they want to invest in. 

One issue with adding something like Night Flight Expedition to Kings Island is that the building itself is at least double (maybe even triple) the size of the Tomb Raider building (100' x 100'). I can't get a good measurement of the NFE building, but it's quite a bit larger. For reference the entire Phantom Theater building is about 160' x 180', Action Theater is about 160' x 130', and Queen City Stunt Coaster is very approximately 375' x 250'. All of this to say: it would be very difficult to put a coaster of NFE's size on that plot while effectively using the Tomb Raider building.

I really like the idea of updating Action Theater with modern technology and reopening it on a full-time basis. The biggest changes I think the park would need to complete before that would be the addition of a Vortex replacement coaster and a completely new queue line experience. The current queue is so far out of the way both physically and visually. It was better presented before WindSeeker with its plaza, but now even WindSeeker is less visible behind Kings Mills Antique Autos. I personally wish WindSeeker could have gone in Area 72, but either way its presence doesn't help to show off Action Theater.

If the park can add a new dark ride, I'd really love to see it. A Vekoma Madhouse would probably fit very well within the Tomb Raider building if they don't take it down in favor of a Rivertown expansion. Otherwise, the park can do a lot with the open space they currently have IMO.

I wouldn’t mind even the idea of escape rooms or other upsell type attractions in the haunted houses. Imagine if you buy a fastlane and the escape rooms would be included.

We went to a lot of New England parks this year and several of the parks had an indoor Scrambler with a custom light and music show.  I didn't do the one at Great Escape but the ones at Canobie and Funtown Splashtown were both very good and very popular.

Something like that or something like Cyclone Sam's (their indoor Trabant) at Worlds of Fun would be popular at KI.  It would be a cheaper way to have an indoor attraction.

 

I wonder if the "escape room" model would really work at a park like Kings Island considering how SlingShot, Xtreme Skyflyer, and the laser tag games all went the way of the dodo bird. Maybe it'd be better if Universal's Horror Unleashed do well during the summer months. 

A Vekoma Madhouse would be my choice if the park chooses to keep the Tomb Raider building. Like I've been repeating recently, I'd rather have an area expansion with a new lake in that spot 

On 12/2/2025 at 3:05 PM, Losantiville Mining Co. said:

I wonder if the "escape room" model would really work at a park like Kings Island considering how SlingShot, Xtreme Skyflyer, and the laser tag games all went the way of the dodo bird. Maybe it'd be better if Universal's Horror Unleashed do well during the summer months.

I think if you included them on fastlane tickets, it would increase the value of the fastlane concept and be a decent upsell. Not every haunt would be converted, of course, but maybe one or two as a pilot.

My question with adding that to the Fast Lane ticket benefits would be this: would it be handled differently than they did with The Conjuring: Beyond Fear? I think it could work, I'm just not entirely sold on it being worth the effort. It certainly shouldn't be used as the "major project/addition" for any given year.

Ok another new KI dark ride idea has popped into my head and now I must share it with all of you. 

A space themed dark ride could fit in Area 72 if the haunt barn and maintenance building were relocated. There is enough space at the bottom of the hill next to Orion for those relocations if the park really wanted to make it happen. This would also give Area 72 the third ride that it needs to feel more complete. 

I would use the suspended dark ride system from Vekoma as the conveyor and have the scenes and theming done by Sally Dark Rides. That said, I don't entirely enjoy the idea of suspended dark rides, but I think it would give it a different look and feel compared to PT:ON and my Action Theater dark ride concept. This one could be another interactive dark ride with or without some screens to save on cost. I wouldn't entirely be upset if it were a slightly upgraded SDatHC or BBoBH cutout style dark ride either now that we'll have PT:ON as the "flagship" dark ride. 

The space theme could be either an alien-based storyline or something related to getting out beyond the park's Orion project storyline (or whatever is left of it).

1 hour ago, Losantiville Mining Co. said:

Ok another new KI dark ride idea has popped into my head and now I must share it with all of you. 

A space themed dark ride could fit in Area 72 if the haunt barn and maintenance building were relocated. There is enough space at the bottom of the hill next to Orion for those relocations if the park really wanted to make it happen. This would also give Area 72 the third ride that it needs to feel more complete. 

I would use the suspended dark ride system from Vekoma as the conveyor and have the scenes and theming done by Sally Dark Rides. That said, I don't entirely enjoy the idea of suspended dark rides, but I think it would give it a different look and feel compared to PT:ON and my Action Theater dark ride concept. This one could be another interactive dark ride with or without some screens to save on cost. I wouldn't entirely be upset if it were a slightly upgraded SDatHC or BBoBH cutout style dark ride either now that we'll have PT:ON as the "flagship" dark ride. 

The space theme could be either an alien-based storyline or something related to getting out beyond the park's Orion project storyline (or whatever is left of it).

I think that's enough space to remove two building and recreate from the ground up Opryland's CHAOS

On 4/7/2026 at 8:47 PM, Cedar Fair Fanboy said:

I think that's enough space to remove two building and recreate from the ground up Opryland's CHAOS

I loved Chaos. I could go for that!

3 hours ago, IndyGuy4KI said:

I loved Chaos. I could go for that!

And even CHAOS fits not just in space, but theming as well.