To begin with, Guy and myself knew that the middle day of our three day trip up north was going to be crowded. We hoped Friday and Sunday would be slack (and boy, were they ever) so Saturday we had a plan. We wanted to ride the infamous Mean Streak at Cedar Point followed by a 4 hour drive to KI where we would get some pics and ride both the Beast and Son of Beast at night. That would be three of the most maligned coasters of all time in one day. Our plan was a success and we took some really good pics, many of which I have already posted. For the purpose of this post, I will concentrate on our time spent at King's Island.
We arrived at the park around 5:00 P.M. and walked over the entire thing taking pics before we even rode a coaster. Around 7:30 we finally got in line for the Son of Beast, one of the lowest ranking wooden coasters in the world despite its 200 foot tall lift hill and 80 MPH speed. We waited about 10 extra minutes for the front and had an outstanding ride. The ride was a little bumpy and devoid of any airtime but still fun and fast. Following this we jumped straight on Flight Deck (formerly Top Gun). By this time it was dark so we headed back to the Beast. There we found a lengthy line (about 30 minutes plus an extra 20 for the front seat) but the ride was definitely worth it. After our ride, we still had about 30 minutes before the park closed (we had already spent about 45 minutes eating some Skyline Chili....the world's best so they say) but we decided to head on out since we wanted to be rested for Holiday
World the next day.
This was the most crowded we had seen the park in our numerous visits. We have never spent an entire day here, but next year with the addition of the new hypercoaster Diamondback, we may have to try to work it into our schedule. The park has the top ranked kids area in the world according to Amusement Today mainly due to its unheard of total of 3 family oriented roller coasters. The woodies are excellent, particularly at night. There is a flyer, Nighthawk, which offers a unique experience for this section of the country. As a side note, Guy TIVO'd an episode of The Brady Bunch in which they visited King's Island during its opening year of 1973. The episode was great (minus the horrible acting) showing a number of really old rides (they were new then) as well as some great footage of The Racer which was the parks only roller coaster at the time. My, how times have changed.
In summary, we had a great time at the park. We did not intend to ride much since we have ridden everything there multiple times. However, we still had a nice relaxing few hours following our insane Millennium Force laps the night before, and the insanity we knew was coming the next day at Holiday World. King's Island is a great place which will get even better next year as Cedar Fair is seeming to put lots of money into it.
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