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- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 30
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Working Ahead Of Time versus Orko
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- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Vinaigrette versus The Daylight Saving Time Change
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- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 31
And now deeper into Kings Island for our full day ... and a surprise! You'll see.
So this is the Great Pumpkin Coaster, which we had always thought used to be called Lucy's Crabby Taxi. Not so. Kings Island has apparently never called this ride Lucy's Crabby Cabbies, nor has twin park Canada's Wonderland. There is a ride by that name at Canada's Great America, though. Also, we'd thought the ride was restricted to accompanied adults but nope, I was welcome on it by myself and got a credit I'd just assumed I could not.
Woodstock Whirlybirds, the sky tram ride over Planet Snoopy. (Kings Island rates both a Planet Snoopy and a Camp Snoopy.) I realize they have to go with the flying character they have but would you trust Woodstock's flying? Especially when Snoopy has been the world-famous whirlydog?
People lined up in Camp Snoopy to take in ... uh ... the world's largest Samsung 5G phone?
And here's another Woodstock-named ride, Woodstock's Air Rail. Which is maybe a better fit for his flight patterns. It doesn't do any inversions --- this is a ride kids are supposed to get on, after all --- but it's got a nice fun tangle.
So we went to Mystic Timbers, one of the handful of genuinely long waits we had the whole trip, and what should we see but some guy with a Pinball Pete's T-shirt! Way too far away for us to ask what the deal is, although it's probably as simple as he had been at Michigan State or University of Michigan and now was at an amusement park.
There's the Mystic Timbers station; you get a little sense of how busy the park was that day.
Sol Spin here is a centerpiece of the new Adventure Zone region of the park. It's the same spinning ride that's the heart of Kennywood's new Area 412
Part of the Adventure Zone theming is ripping out old Tomb Raider theming and putting up these old-style travel posters for places you can't go.
Oh, and they have this plaque commemorating Robert G Rinckel. The dedication date implies this has been there every time I've visited but I haven't dug out old photos to see if I took pictures of it in its old setting. Note the tiny American flag by the side.
The new entrance to Adventure express, with a gate that no longer looks so Tomb Raider-y and also has a side entrance that's less stylish.
Adventure Express working to promise a world of adventure and discovery for what is really a mine train ride.
Nice long covered bridge that obscures the ride for people lined up and also hides the queue from riders.
Trivia: From the fight with Jack Benny on 14 March 1937 through a Big Show appearance 26 November 1950, Fred Allen was a guest performer on 65 broadcasts. Source: Fred Allen's Radio Comedy, Alan Havig. (I am startled it's that few, but I suppose that's a bias created by his appearances on old-time-radio shows being well-preserved and often played by old-time-radio stations and podcasts; that's still only like four guest-appearances a season.)
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine Volume 56: Uss vs Themm & Thees & Thoos!, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly, Editor Stephanie Noelle.
