The Mason City Council has rejected a plan that would have added a three percent ticket tax and a five percent ticket tax on the Cedar Fair amusement park. The proposed taxes were aggressively fought by the park, claiming that it would hurt business. An article in the Cincinnati Business Courier can be found here.
I am inclined to agree with Kings Island on this one. Having lived in California my entire life, I am all too familiar with increasing or adding taxes in order to boost revenue for something as vague as …

OnPoint! the Cedar Point blog just released their PointCast episode 1. Basically it is a video version of what they talk about in their blog. In the first episode they visit Kings Island and talk about Diamondback. There is nothing groundbreaking that they cover, but it is fun to watch Tony and Tyler mess around. There is also a lot of season pass promotion which seems to be a good idea if you live there.

Diamondback had its preview day yesterday, and is offically opened as of today. From what I am hearing, there is a line that streches from the enterance of the ride to the Eiffel Tower and then back to the splashdown area. O yeah, the queue is completely full on top of that. From everything I have heard, it is worth the wait.
The reviews starting coming yesterday and the ride was compared to Nitro and Apollo’s Chariot, and some said that it was easily better then both. I can’t review it …

Kings Island has posted a bunch of new photos of Diamondback testing. The photos include our first look at the water splash and also the water scoops (for you geeky ones out there). The trains look great, the ride looks great, I really have nothing bad to say. Well, nix that, I have one bad thing to say; I’m not going to have the chance to get to Kings Island anytime soon.

You can check out the rest of the photos here.

Prowler and Dimondback are moving quickly with their construction. Power’s website posted a bunch of new pictures of the progress being made on the coaster, which you can see below.

Meanwhile, Dimondback has been topped off. This coaster is coming together very quickly and looks very promising. You can check out some of the other updates with this coaster on it’s website.

Kings Island today announced Diamondback, their 2009 B&M hypercoaster. Diamondback will be 230ft tall,  have over a mile of track, 10 total drops with a splash down finale – not to mention one twisted layout that is sure to turn heads.
I must say I am very impressed at what I see and will definitely be there opening day.
To check out all the stats and some juicy renderings, go to www.kidiamondback.com.

We all know a hyper is coming to Kings Island for 2009, but they already have track on site. The coaster is rumored to be named “Mustang” and features a deep red track. This is going to be a home run for KI. The coaster will also be the first traditional hyper to feature a water splash. Blueprints for the ride can be found here.
KIExtreme.com has posted a bunch of photos of the track pieces that have shown up along with some construction progress. It should be fun watching this …