Too busy with pinball to write anything today, so please here enjoy pictures of Kings Island's history.
1985 saw the Tumble Bug, one of the rides brought over from Coney Island C-Town, taken out and I regret that.
I assume this historical walkway was put in in 2022, for the park's 50th year, which means either these plaques were cheaply made or someone's dropping bowling balls on the Smurfs Enchanted Voyage. Gargamel?!
1987: the installation of Vortex, whose closing in 2019 inspired our big last-weekend-of-the-season visit.
We're drawing nearer the 90s here and ... uh-oh, the Food and Wine Festival might be a problem here.
Well, a pause for the billboard again. Note that 1982 saw an expansion of the Hanna-Barbera Land with the Hanna-Barbera Carousel, the Rawhide Railway --- remember beloved Hanna-Barbera character Rawhide? --- and the Scooby Choo, which is just darling.
But yeah, there you go: the setup of stuff for the Food and Wine Festival obstructed some of the plaques. We'll have to come back some other time and hope to get 1991. 1992, of course, highlights the sort of thing everyone loves to read about: changes in corporate ownership.
1987-91 gets its attention here. Vortex, Adventure Express, and then the water park that we have yet to set foot in.
1994: a motion simulator gets into the park. The plaque describes what the place was used for after that, but I don't know if it's still in use.
Mid-90s in the Kings Island plaques, showing off some Hanna-Barbera Land renovations and the intrusion of Nickelodeon Splat City in the neighborhood. Also, the UFO they built to tie in to The Outer Limits. When they lost the Paramount licenses they dropped the Outer Limits name but kept the rest of everything.
1997. Hm. I'm all but sure that Skylab was retired like twenty years before that.
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bunnyhugger still calls it Face/Off because of the value of saying the word ``Face'' and making a slashing motion before saying ``Off'', an in-joke with her starter husband that I've picked up.
And here's the commemoration of the opening of Son of Beast, which only lasted a decade, and at least the second one of these that's mentioned starting Halloween events.
Trivia: The Oxford English Dictionary dates the phrase ``going bananas'' to 1935. Source: Bananas: How The United Fruit Company Shaped The World, Peter Chapman.
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