Well lets put it this way...if it was known, would there be a fine..

Or are y'all allowed to do track walks w/o any fall protection?

Well lets put it this way...if it was known, would there be a fine..

Or are y'all allowed to do track walks w/o any fall protection?

He's walking on the high brakes. There is a catwalk directly underneath the brakes for maintenance to safely access said brakes.

Photo #6 - I Street

Photo #7 - wild animal safari 1977

He's walking on the high brakes. There is a catwalk directly underneath the brakes for maintenance to safely access said brakes.

Still darn...For the guys on my crew, if they went out and messed with any high up brakes like on gemini or mean streak they had to have some sort of fall protection. Lucky buggers..Hell I even had to wear a freaking hard hat walking low zones..

Why would Gemini/Mean Streak ride operators have any reason to go to "mess with the high brakes"?

We went up there for block checks on mean streak.

Gemini I never went up there but saw maint mess with the photo eyes & brakes themselves. The controls for gemini's mid course trims are actually on the ground, maint helps us with those int he AM

Photo #8 - flying eagles 1977

Photo #9 - Action Zone concept art

^ What is happening in that picture? Does that guy have a super mullet or what?

Photo #10 - KI Theater God Bless Ed Alonzo

Glad to see you back! Excellent pictures so far!

Glad to see you back! Excellent pictures so far!

OMG you're kjkjkj! I remember seeing your Kings Island recreation in RCT3! Are you still working on that?

I look forward to this topic each off season. Thank you for posting all these interesting photos!

glad to see this come back again this year...I absolutely love seeing old(er) pictures of KI's history

Photo #11 - kentons cove keelboat canal 1987 (Note The Beast line)

Now there is a ride I really miss. And who knows, I might be in that Beast line, lol

That is a ride I would love to see comeback!! I loved that ride!!

Glad to see you back! Excellent pictures so far!

OMG you're kjkjkj! I remember seeing your Kings Island recreation in RCT3! Are you still working on that?

Hopefully someday it will be completed! It's been a very long time since I've played RCT though

Back to the topic, I miss KCKC! Especially now that Tomb Raider/ The Crypt is gone, it seems like it was almost for nothing. It was always one of my favorite rides to ride at night before I started riding The Beast.

Sweet Pics! I loved KCKC sooooo much when I was little. Can't wait to see what else you post!

Photo #12 - beast Mid 80's

Cool to see the area where Vortex is after The Bat has been torn down, but before Vortex's construction.

Wow, what a simple layout. It's crazy to think that everyone loves The Beast for just a few long turns and a double helix.

Without the terrain, woods, and tunnel, it would not be nearly as good.

Pretend there was room at CP and it was built there. It would not get nearly as many great reviews and as much love as it does in its current settings at KI. I agree that its layout is nothing special. It's everything but the layout that makes that ride awesome.

But you cannot separate the two. If it were not for the terrain, the ride would not be laid out the way that it is. And it is saying something that it has been the longest wooden roller coaster in the country, for 35 years now. It is still the longest roller coaster (wood or steel) in North America. The second longest coaster in North America is up north at Cedar Point with Millennium Force.

Photo #13 - phantom theater

Goodbye Smurfs.

Photo #14 - 1996

Looks like a blueprint of the park in 1995. Because Thunder Alley isn't there.

Where did you get that time travel machine in 1995 to ride Flight of Fear?

It sounds like a great contraption.

Best regards,

Rhonda Mumford