I think now more than ever, your advice to wait until last minute to buy your annual pass is very good advice. I hadn't planned on buying one for 2025... But then the desire to go to haunt 2024 suckered me in last minute, and I figured it was smarter to go ahead and get the 2025 pass than just buy the day ticket to go to haunt a couple times... So I did it. And I already regret it. I definitely won't be getting one for 2026, unless by some miracle we learn the 2026 attraction is gonna be a lot bigger and better than we think.. I drive four hours one way to go the park... And I buy the pass... Spend the gas and hotel to go at least 6 or 8 times per year... And every single year I feel less appreciated, and like I'm getting less and less for my money. Honestly I think this year I bought it more for 2024 haunt, and cedar point and some of the other cedar fair parks this year... I may not go to kings island more than once if at all in 2025. I'll be spending that money for a different park, like holiday world or Dollywood for 2026. I just feel like kings island cares less about what we want, and more about how little they can get by with giving us. It's been that way a few years, and it's only getting worse. The park closing earlier for more of the year, less daily operation, weaker and weaker ride additions , less focus on guest experience and more focus in financially milking us to death. It' just doesn't feel like the same park it used to be. It looks the same, it's got the same name, but it sure doesn't feel the same. Just my personal opinion.
It is good advice if you're only buying the pass, and maybe drink plan. We go so much that we end up with a platinum pass, premium drink plan, meal plan, and all season fast lane plus. That makes each pass around $1,500. I don't have expendable income like that, so I utilize the payment plan, and if you renew your pass in August, it's cheaper. Coming off $200 is easier than $1,500.
@Frankenberry I never said it was 200 bucks. I said I pay $1500 per pass. The $200 is just buying the platinum pass. Oh yeah, the first payment on the payment plan is either 175 or 200, I forget.
I'm just surprised that the 4 bench to 3 bench modification was done in house. I would have thought that they would have just bought new trains. Even more surprising is that all these years later they never decided it necessary to re-build the queue house loading lanes to align with the 3 bench rolling stock.
I remember!!! I was riding during those years! I remember the little lake that surrounded the station. I also remember riding right after rope drop and they would run the ride with all trims wide open. Ahhh…those were the days. 😊
PTC trains are so classic and synonymous with wood coasters. With Gravity Group doing recent work on The Beast Timberliners would make sense, even though I have never ridden a Timberliner train. The killer on PTC trains are the seat dividers. The restraints don't bother me though I remember the buzz bars. PTC needs to try to design a lighter train.
Don, you made one heck of a hockey announcer! You almost have that Mike Lange about you. Just missing some of those Mike Lange sayings. Should have used "And he beats Casey, LIKE A RENTED MULE!!!" Absolutely love a good, excitable hockey announcer! Your hockey announcing was great.
No changing trains, please. PTCs have that certain nostalgia factor. If anything, keep dividers and put back buzz bars? Wishful thinking, I know 😅 It seems like every retrofit with Millennium Flyers and especially Timberliners, didn’t make the ride any better and in some instances, worse (Wildcat at Hershey, Wildcat at Lake Compounce, Gwazi, Thunder Coaster at Tusenfryd, Hades, and the aborted attempt to put Timberliners on The Voyage after a season of testing during the 2010 season, as a few examples)
PTC trains are fine with buzz bars, but the ones with the bars we have now are terrible. If the park wants us to suffer with restraints that aren't buzz bars, then millennium flyers would be a great improvement over the PTC trains.
I really wish it was Kings Island that went to Herchend instead of KK
AMEN!
Six Flags gives me an uneasy feeling. I guess because of what happened with Geuaga Lake
Hearing Don give those calls is awesome! Dude def would’ve had me jumping with that enthusiasm.
I think now more than ever, your advice to wait until last minute to buy your annual pass is very good advice. I hadn't planned on buying one for 2025... But then the desire to go to haunt 2024 suckered me in last minute, and I figured it was smarter to go ahead and get the 2025 pass than just buy the day ticket to go to haunt a couple times... So I did it. And I already regret it. I definitely won't be getting one for 2026, unless by some miracle we learn the 2026 attraction is gonna be a lot bigger and better than we think.. I drive four hours one way to go the park... And I buy the pass... Spend the gas and hotel to go at least 6 or 8 times per year... And every single year I feel less appreciated, and like I'm getting less and less for my money. Honestly I think this year I bought it more for 2024 haunt, and cedar point and some of the other cedar fair parks this year... I may not go to kings island more than once if at all in 2025. I'll be spending that money for a different park, like holiday world or Dollywood for 2026. I just feel like kings island cares less about what we want, and more about how little they can get by with giving us. It's been that way a few years, and it's only getting worse. The park closing earlier for more of the year, less daily operation, weaker and weaker ride additions , less focus on guest experience and more focus in financially milking us to death. It' just doesn't feel like the same park it used to be. It looks the same, it's got the same name, but it sure doesn't feel the same. Just my personal opinion.
It is good advice if you're only buying the pass, and maybe drink plan. We go so much that we end up with a platinum pass, premium drink plan, meal plan, and all season fast lane plus. That makes each pass around $1,500. I don't have expendable income like that, so I utilize the payment plan, and if you renew your pass in August, it's cheaper. Coming off $200 is easier than $1,500.
@@Spike-sk7ql You're not getting all that for 200 dollars even if you buy it in august.
@Frankenberry I never said it was 200 bucks. I said I pay $1500 per pass. The $200 is just buying the platinum pass. Oh yeah, the first payment on the payment plan is either 175 or 200, I forget.
I'm just surprised that the 4 bench to 3 bench modification was done in house. I would have thought that they would have just bought new trains. Even more surprising is that all these years later they never decided it necessary to re-build the queue house loading lanes to align with the 3 bench rolling stock.
I remember!!! I was riding during those years! I remember the little lake that surrounded the station. I also remember riding right after rope drop and they would run the ride with all trims wide open. Ahhh…those were the days. 😊
PTC trains are so classic and synonymous with wood coasters. With Gravity Group doing recent work on The Beast Timberliners would make sense, even though I have never ridden a Timberliner train.
The killer on PTC trains are the seat dividers. The restraints don't bother me though I remember the buzz bars. PTC needs to try to design a lighter train.
Don, you made one heck of a hockey announcer! You almost have that Mike Lange about you. Just missing some of those Mike Lange sayings. Should have used "And he beats Casey, LIKE A RENTED MULE!!!"
Absolutely love a good, excitable hockey announcer! Your hockey announcing was great.
I hope whoever's idea it was to handle the closures the way they were this year was FIRED! That is NOT the way you treat your loyal park guests.
I’d love to see The Beast on Millennium Flyers
No changing trains, please. PTCs have that certain nostalgia factor. If anything, keep dividers and put back buzz bars? Wishful thinking, I know 😅
It seems like every retrofit with Millennium Flyers and especially Timberliners, didn’t make the ride any better and in some instances, worse (Wildcat at Hershey, Wildcat at Lake Compounce, Gwazi, Thunder Coaster at Tusenfryd, Hades, and the aborted attempt to put Timberliners on The Voyage after a season of testing during the 2010 season, as a few examples)
PTC trains are fine with buzz bars, but the ones with the bars we have now are terrible. If the park wants us to suffer with restraints that aren't buzz bars, then millennium flyers would be a great improvement over the PTC trains.
Timberliners would be better.