Kings Island's Flight of Fear was almost a Star Trek themed roller coaster

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

From the article:

[Joe] Leonard’s journey to the project began when he was the set designer for the park’s live shows in the days when Kings Productions was still the owner. After the Paramount takeover, Leonard was moved to Charlotte and put on the company’s Design and Entertainment team. When the opportunity came around to design a ride for his home park in 1994, Leonard jumped at the opportunity to make a pitch—although the initial ride had a much different theme.

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This is pretty cool - I had never noticed that they cleverly prevented people from seeing themselves in the mirrors (granted, I've only been on FoF about three times).

Star Trek would have been cooler, but probably would also have resulted in a massive, post-Paramount overhaul.

2008-era Cedar Fair would slapped some "Star Track" (Trak?) signs on it and created new characters like Captain Hawk.

Not sure what was worse, Drachen Fire or this thing when it opened with the OTS restraints

Yeah, but when they switched to lap bars, I couldn't get enough. We had that for ERT at a BeastBuzz and it was amazing.

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I remember they had signs in the station saying that wearing earrings was prohibited.

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