GiveMeTheMusic
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I know I'm gonna be in the minority here, but I liked it better when Paramount owned it. Very little Cedar Fair has done with the place impresses me. I haven't been since 2012 though, so haven't ridden Banshee yet.
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Marvel Characters at Kings Island
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I know I'm gonna be in the minority here, but I liked it better when Paramount owned it. Very little Cedar Fair has done with the place impresses me. I haven't been since 2012 though, so haven't ridden Banshee yet.
lebeau
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I have been a few times and still haven't been on Banshee. I'm usually there with the kiddies.
Paramount did more theme which was cool. But they usually just let effects wear out and break. Cedar Fair doesn't seem to care about theme very much at all. They just run the place as a nice amusement park. It's well maintained and I think better managed than the Paramount days of old. But I do miss some of the flavor of the Paramount days.
What I miss most of all are the old days when we had Hannah Barbera Land. Enchanted Voyage was the bomb.
GiveMeTheMusic
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Dude, I can barely recall the Smurfs ride that replaced Enchanted Voyage! Phantom Theater pwns all.
Cmdr_Crimson
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The Beast is Still a BEAST...That's all..I'm done back to the OP...
lebeau
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Kings Island went downhill the minute the Smurfs moved in.
It's probably because I was in my 20s but I was underwhelmed by Phantom Theater. Cheap, Mansion knock-off. But in retrospect, better than Boo Blasters.
I would love to get a boat ride back even if it could never hope to live up to Enchanted Voyage. That's my main beef with Phantom Theater. They took out the boats.
Ranch Dressing
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Sure.
As long as its not specifically called "Marvel", you would be shocked how much perpetually Universal has outside the Orlando area, let alone east of the Mississippi.
But please carry on, I'm enjoying this.
lazyboy97o
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Is perpetually something one can possess? Or are you one who thinks the SEC posts fake documents?
danlb_2000
Premium Member
Maybe he meant property?
lazyboy97o
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I was thinking 'exclusivity.'
CDavid
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If you are suggesting that Universal has rights to virtually all Marvel characters outside of the Orlando area, and indeed covering the whole of the nation east of the Mississippi, then you are correct. However, that is not in dispute (excepting one or two posters who attempt to spin the contract's terms).
What is at least curious is what possible basis exists for permitting a meet & greet at King's Island for three characters of the Avengers "family". Perhaps a case can be made that Iron Man is not used in a "more than incidental manner" by Universal, but he remains part of the Avengers, along with Thor and Captain America.
Nothing more than thinking out loud, but have any Marvel characters ever appeared at King's Island previously? A license granted prior to the Universal agreement seems more than unlikely, but hard as it is to believe, could somebody at legal within Disney just not have done their homework and permitted this? Disney has been known to show product names in films (Caterpillar???) without obtaining authorization.
GiveMeTheMusic
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Kings Island went downhill the minute the Smurfs moved in.
It's probably because I was in my 20s but I was underwhelmed by Phantom Theater. Cheap, Mansion knock-off. But in retrospect, better than Boo Blasters.
I would love to get a boat ride back even if it could never hope to live up to Enchanted Voyage. That's my main beef with Phantom Theater. They took out the boats.
It was a hilarious, cheap but loving Mansion rip-off. So cheesey.
And I agree - boats would be preferable.
Interested to see what next year's dark ride for Knott's is going to be. I could see them replacing Boo Blasters if something good enough came along.
Magenta Panther
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Geez, but it's easy to get you stirred up. Sucker.
Yeah! If he's a superhero, then Donald Duck must die!
And this guy too!
71jason
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Is there an Orlando equivalent? More for the "& such"...
Matt_Black
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Geez, but it's easy to get you stirred up. Sucker.
Yeah! If he's a superhero, then Donald Duck must die!
And this guy too!
He admits it! What sort of "Disney purist" as MP claims to be would want to eradicate both Donald Duck and Goofy?
Skip
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So overjoyed I'm not the only one who remembers and loves Phantom Theater. What a lovely little ride - very impressive for a regional amusement park, and while it did shamelessly steal from the Mansion, it did it quite well in some spots (see its enormous pepper's ghost illusion for the theater itself). Sure, the animatronics weren't the best, but it had a really genuine charm to it. You could tell the designers had a lot of fun creating the cast of characters, and they all exuded personality.
It's a shame it got kicked out for Scooby Doo... which was a cutout-laden mess. Boo Blasters is no better.
Magenta Panther
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Thank god you have no sense of humor. This wouldn't be nearly as much fun.
Matt_Black
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Said the pot to the kettle.
I have a question for you. Can Disney build a marvel store in Virginia and have a virtual reality ride in it? Can they charge for the ride? This is specifically covered in the contract.
WildcatDen
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Depends on how cold the water is.
WildcatDen
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Hopefully Banshee is the reason to come back. You know, something new. Something record breaking.