Chang track at SFGam.

CoasterDemon said:
It's gonna go where Bizarro/Superman is now. It's getting removed because I heard it's sinking... in the sand or something like that.

Wrong coaster numbnuts! ;)

Lord Gonchar said:

It's a fine park...like vanilla is a fine ice cream. Nothing too far to either side. Right down the middle. Easy on the palate. Nothing too outstanding, nothing too horrible. Safe and easy.

It's the kind of amusement park where you can have a sunshine day.....

< ahem > bright sunshiney day.

Eh, I think I'll go for a walk outside now.

I'm with ya, Mike!

:)

Personally Ill take KI over SFGAm. The best three rides at those parks stack up as: Diamondback>Raging Bull, The Beast>Viper, B:TR>Firehawk. And then you add a Sally Dark ride, a taller drop tower, a Disk-O coaster, a Giant Frisbee and it not being a SF park and KI walks away.

Exactly.

For me, pre-Diamondback the park was of little interest. In fact I had not visited since 2001...drove by it many times, but didn't care to stop and visit. Once SOB's replacement opens (2011 at the earliest) I'm sure I'll be stopping by more often.

Even with Diamondback, for some reason I can't find the energy the get in the car and drive down to the park even though we're so (relatively) close.

Rode Diamondback 9 or 10 times with Jeff on media day and once the entire rest of the season...and I still don't have all the credits at the park.

Maybe after 2011, huh?

Possibly. Depends if you like that kinda ride or not.

KI over SFGAm? Gotta be kidding me :) Maybe sometime in the 80's...

Great America has Whizzer, Viper, American Eagle (probably the best 2 woodies in all of Six Flagsdom). And we have all the typical B&M stuff you need.

I guess the dark ride would be a plus, but KI has really fallen in value (for me, that is) over the years. Great America, on the other hand, has come leaps and bounds (cept for taking out Tidal Wave).

It's pretty funny how one little comment that was meant to be funny turns the whole conversation up-side-down and off-topic. Since we are talking about it at length though...

I now understand how some home park fanboys feel. KI was my first large park. I visited KI many times during my early years. I didn't go to another large park until I was about 15. King Kobra was the coaster that got me hooked on coasters. I've always held a place in my heart for Kings Island. I consider it to be one of my favorite parks.

I will admit that a few of their coasters haven't aged well, namely Vortex, but they do have a great lineup of rides. I still absolutely love the Beast, and Adventure Express, and ever since they improved Flight of Fear, it is one of the best launch coasters around. Top Gun is amazingly fast paced. The Racer is fun when in a nostalgic mood. Diamondback is just what the park needed and at the right time too. Stunt Track is kind of cute. Drop Zone is the best of it's kind, imho. The Disco Coaster is great fun. The parks layout is really interesting and it's easy to get from one side to the other quickly.

I've been there a few times since they added the flying coaster, and I haven't been on it yet due to the ridiculous line for it.

Some of you should really try out all of their coasters before knocking the place. It's really a great park.

^I hear that! I was crazy about KI in the 80's. It was my home away from home park. The Beast was still wild and fast, as was Racer. I loved the Screamin' Demon.

Now, with the Racer is missing it's last hill, is black and white, has ratchet lapbars, individual seatbelts, blah blah blah. Whine, moan, I know. It's just not the same to me. Is the blue ice cream still there?

Yes. The blue ice cream is one of my favorite aspects to the park. I remember when I was there as a kid, I had one of those cones. And just as my family pointed out all the blue splats all over the midways... splat!... mine hit the ground, too. I don't know what it was about those things.

I still think they're yummy, though!

I guess that Im a rariety as I visited SFGAm before I went to KI. I always seem to want to leave SFGAm ASAP and generally do not enjoy myself inbetween the rides there, while at KI Im always suprised when its closing already. I dont know if its because my first visit was during one of the darker times at SFGAm (1994) but that park was my one "home park" geographically that never became my "home park" psychologically. Every other one has (Story Land/Santa's Village/Canobie Lake, Busch Gardens Williamsburg/Hersheypark, Cedar Point/King's Island.)

The Beast, thanks to a handful of night non trimmed rides I got on it, still sits at number one on my wood coaster poll (although it now has to share that #1 spot with Voyage after the insane Fall Affair rides this year ;).) Invertigo, the kid coasters and Vortex are the only coasters I dont consider "must rides" every time I go to the park.