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I'M GOING TO CEDAR POINT ON AUGUST 4TH!!!

I'M FINALLY GOING TO CEDAR POINT!!!

THERE'S A CHANCE THAT THEY COULD MAKE THE BEAST EVEN LONGER???

WHAT???

Oh, Flight of Fear launch tunnel. How I adore you <3

(Image taken July 27, 2024)

Now this is one hell of a park entrance.

(Image taken August 4, 2024)

Does anyone have recordings/know where to find recordings of the character voice lines in the station for Steel Vengeance? I want to hear them all lol

Here's my new credits from yesterday's trip to Cedar Point!!!

Raptor - #48

GateKeeper - #49

Magnum XL-200 - #50

Gemini (Blue) - #51

Maverick - #52

Cedar Creek Mine Ride - #53

Steel Vengeance - #54

Millennium Force - #55

Rougarou - #56

Valravn - #57

Corkscrew - #58

(Alas, my phone will only allow 10 photos, so I can't put in Corkscrew's :()

(All images taken August 4, 2024)

STEEL VENGEANCE!!! RAAAA!!!

It would be a crime if I didn't talk about this awesome ride on national roller coaster day! The best way I could personally describe SteVe is "Iron Gwazi on steroids." It truly is remarkable! I could ramble on about this coaster for hours, but I'm sure nobody wants to read that. That being said, if you ever get the chance to go to Cedar Point, go on Steel Vengeance! You will NOT regret it!

(All that being said there likely will be a post about the lore of FrontierTown, because it is extensive and wonderful and my brain has latched onto it, so don't be surprised if that ends up showing up at some point lol)

(Images taken August 4, 2024)

BUSCH GARDENS TAMPA IS TAKING OUT SCORPION!!!

NO!!!! 😭

I'm cooking up a new KI lore post at the moment! This time about Mystic Timbers' timeline! Stay tuned!

Welcome to the newest edition of the ✨KINGS ISLAND LORE!!!✨ Mystic Timbers edition!!!

It's been a while since I've done one of these, huh?

As always, my posts about the Kings Island lore will be under the tag #kings island lore. If there's anything you want to know or any questions you have, feel free to let me know! I'm always happy to talk!

Now buckle up, because we're going through the entire timeline of Mystic Timbers!!!

The story of Mystic Timbers - much of which can be heard via the radio of the truck at the ride's entrance (high-quality videos exist on YouTube if you want to give it a listen of your own!) - starts in the year 1982 when the Miami River Lumber Co. purchases forest land just northeast of Rivertown, taking note of the railroad (K.I. and Miami Valley Railroad) in order to transport timber. They get straight to work clearing out the area to build the mill when they come across the foundations of an old wooden shed that once stood on the grounds. Thinking that they've gotten lucky (that's one less foundation they have to put in!), they build a new shed overtop of the foundation of the old one.

A year passes - we're now in 1983 - and construction has finished. Everyone's ready to start working proper when the superintendent of the company disappears, leaving no trace behind beyond a scribbled note next to the coke machine in the workshop that reads "DON'T GO IN THE SHED". Regardless, the mill opens the next day. It was around 2:00 pm when 13 workers who were loading a haul into the shed had an encounter something of paranormal nature (likely with the Mystic Timbers tree, but it's never expressly stated what they encountered) and subsequently ran for their lives, some of them hopping in a truck and accidentally smashing it against a tree by the front gate (we all know what truck that is!). Only 4 out of the 13 people definitively made it out, with the whereabouts or fates of the other 9 unknown to this day.

From here, the lumber company & the surrounding area became overrun by a medusa-like growth of vines as the forest seemingly came to life and nature moved in to reclaimed its land. There was a total of 66 men and women who entered the lumber company and were never seen again during this time. Not long after it opened, the Miami River Lumber Company was shut down, condemned by the authority of Department 47, a fact which we learned via a sign posted on the entrance to the "Abandoned" scare zone in 2023.

The Bureau of Paranormal Activity naturally took an interest in the plant-based paranormal activity of the area and converted the now-abandoned lumber company into an off-base substation (designated "0017") in order to do research the strange goings-on of the lumber mill.

Being a spooky abandoned place with ghost stories now, the Miami River Lumber Co. became a hotbed for urban explorers and dumb teenagers who wanted to check the place out for themselves. While many are eventually deterred by the security guard who's on duty there for the sole purpose of keeping these people out of this highly dangerous paranormal hotspot (which begs the question for many of these explorers: Why would an abandoned lumber company need a security guard?), those who make their way in soon find themselves drawn to the shed, encountering the monster(s) that lie within. Presumably, as the riders, we too are among the unfortunate who were drawn to the shed. It's unknown what our fate is - if we survive the creature at the end or not - but what is known is that there's 3 different stories as to what's in the shed: a bat, a snake, and a tree. Whatever the real answer to the age-old question of "What's in the shed?" is, though, is up to your own interpretation (I'm impartial to the tree myself).

Then in October 2023, something new happened. Those 66 missing people returned, albeit forever changed into monsters themselves. Outsiders would step into Rivertown only to find themselves in a small abandoned lumber village that's haunted by something mysterious which has seemingly come from the forest themselves. It's believed that the human-shaped, chainsaw wielding, flannel-wearing monsters chasing you around are what's left of the old lumber yard workers from the past, but there's no way to truly know for sure. All that is known is that they seem to be evil in nature, and you should probably run for your life.

And that's everything on the story of Mystic Timbers that I've gathered so far! I hope y'all have enjoyed this stupidly long ramble about a really cool wooden roller coaster! Again, if you have any questions/things you'd like me to clarify, feel free to let me know!

UNTIL NEXT TIME!!!

KINGS ISLAND IS BRINGING BACK ABANDONED!!!

I CAN FINALLY GO THROUGH THE ZONE WHILE IT'S ACTIVE!!!

LET'S GOOO!!!

PHALANX MAZE!!!

THERE'S GONNA BE A PHALANX MAZE!!!

Before yesterday, I had never been stopped right under Invertigo's vertical loop in the queue before, but MY LORD-

That is beautiful :)

(Image taken September 1, 2024)

It will forever be funny to me that everyone on Facebook who's talking about Kings Island bringing back Alien Abyss is like "I hope it doesn't have the pitch black section! I hated that part!"

BRO WHAT DO YOU MEAN??? THAT'S THE SCARIEST BIT OF THE MAZE!!! THE PITCH BLACK SECTION WAS MY FAVORITE PART!!!!

PHANTOM THEATER VEHICLE SPOTTED OUTSIDE OF BOO BLASTERS!!!

(Image taken September 1, 2024)

Honestly, it's a crime that IMAScore never released the music for Orion on YouTube. Every time I walk into Area 72, it's like a WHOOSH of dopamine because of the beautifully majestic music playing over the speakers. The music is so perfect for Orion and I want to be able to beam it directly into my skull the same way I can with the Mystic Timbers music lol

Am I the only one who finds it interesting just how much Alton Towers decided to change the description for Burial Grounds from last year?

Here's last year's Burial Grounds description: "The Unchosen, a cult obsessive of modern-day fanatics obsessed with the lore of the Beornen invite you to their sacred sanctum of ancient burial grounds. Keep your pace amongst the desecrated realm of unearthed bodies, flaming shrines and monstrous deities. Stay too long and they will choose you too - are you ready? Burial Grounds is a free-flowing outdoor scare zone shadowed by the mighty Wicker Man where you'll encounter the rejectors of modern-day society fulfilling their terrifying primal instincts.”

And here's this year's: “Burial Grounds is a free-flowing outdoor scare zone shadowed by the mighty Wicker Man where you’ll encounter the rejectors of modern-day society fulfilling their haunting primal instincts.”

They just...cut out the entire beginning of the description and changed "terrifying" to "haunting." Which is particularly strange to me considering how much effort last year they put into specifying that the characters we interacted with in Burial Grounds were the Unchosen, NOT the Beornen. The description they put out this year, however, could easily imply that it's the Beornen that we're encountering.

Now for the real question: Will we still be encountering the Unchosen in Burial Grounds, or will it change and we walk through a Beornen ritual instead?

Good news! Siren's Curse is a woman! Feminism win!!!

KINGS ISLAND LORE MASTERPOST!!!

(Post last updated 9/29/2024)

KI lore intro & ATLAS Substation Overview Map

Project X Initiative

"Beast Day" Implications (more of a short ramble than a full lore post, but I thought it'd be good to put in anyway)

Mystic Timbers Timeline

GUESS WHO'S GOING TO HAUNT!!!