Queue TVs

Vince982 said:
I prefer just music, and sometimes we don't even get that.

Try working in Frontier Town with country music on an hour and half loop in the morning, two in the afternoon, and hour and a half in the evening.

I agree KI needs better monitors, and the ability to here the music.

GL had the same set up in the mid to late 90s, I don't remember what was on it, I was 7 or 8 years old at the time, but I remember the picture was pretty shotty. I remember one or two in the queue for Double Loop and one or two in the Wolfbobs and maybe Corkscrew - yes I remember Corkscrew just very vaguely.

Kennywood's is not bad because you can see it and if I remeber it has audio too.

I remember the last time those TV's in the line's at KI worked, were during the Beast 25th birthday. Were the park make a 25 to 30 min thing about the history of the ride. All the times I've been there most if not all the TV's don't work or there screen's are covered in gum.

I think CP's way is better, with music in the lines. The time seems to go by faster.

It would be a waste of money. The way the Maverick one was treated by the guests just shows CP should not add que T.V.'s. They are nice in RCT2 though!

LOL, just what we need, guests watching TV instead of moving their butts through the queue lines.. Great... ;)

Dvo said:
Kings Island's tv's bring a shiver down my spine. I spent too many summers grinding through that horror. It started with re-runs of Dr. Katz (an animated series with Jon Lovitz as the main character's voice)...

I believe you have Dr. Katz and The Critic mixed up ;)

How old do you think you would have to be to work as a line DJ? Sounds like a fun job to me. . .

Cedar Point does not staff the DJ Booths an their own, they are staffed by an outside DJ company (forget the name of that company =/).

They are? When did they start that, because Live E use to audition and hire DJs. It must have been within the last season or so. A few years ago a friend of mine was a DJ at Millennium.

And to answer the question, its 18 years of age.

I am a patient person, except for when it comes to waiting in lines. Esspecially at Cedar Point. I get tired of people watching. Which I do, and can't help. I get tired of looking at the same people over and over, wondering what they are like. Listening to their conversations. I would much rather look at a tv, no matter how dirty or un kept it was.

Ok thanks. :)

I like the people who wear funky clothes at CP then get in line so you have to stare at them the whole time and it gets sooo old.....

All I know is that if i hear that "On My Own" song one more time, I swear to god, i'll never step foot into frontier town ever again...

Josh M. said:

I believe you have Dr. Katz and The Critic mixed up ;)

Whoops... now I'm even more confused. Because I'm 99% sure it was Dr. Katz, but at the same time I really thought I remember Jon Lovitz.

Dvo said:
Although during Fright Fest this year they actually played some halloween-themed stuff.

I don't know that it was an improvement though. It was all like .. B (or C!) movies from the 80's and a few Halloween-type music videos. We were trying to figure out what one was while in line for the Beast and it was a quick glance of the Linkin Park logo that led us on a YouTube search at home before we figured out what it was ... because there was no sound. Seriously, the TVs without sound are actually worse than the Dr Katz reruns.

As for the radio idea, I think it would be good, but ONLY if they managed to come up with a playlist that's more than an hour long. Have at least 48 hours of unique music available for play so that you aren't hearing a song more than once or twice in a week. I worked in the water park at KI for two summers and to this day I cannot stand the Beach Boys after hearing Good Vibrations 15 times per shift.

I did think the park-wide soundtracks during Haunt were really good, actually. In the 2 days we were there, I didn't notice blatant replays and they had some really good music. They played one of my husband's and my favorite song, Spooky by Classics IV (from 1968), as well as Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Rob Zombie's Dragula, so they had a really good mix of modern, oldies and classical. They could take that idea to create the are playlists ... have a nice mix of genres to appease everyone without driving us all crazy!

Touchdown said:
I enjoy how (when it works) the rides have soundtracks from the time they opened. I especially love the Magnum tracks because I have a soft spot for bad 80s music.

Bad 80's music?!? Bite your tongue!

TV's always seem to lend themselves to advertising over entertainment, mostly in the last decade. If they brought the TV back - you would be seeing adverts for Pepsi, Stayfree, and Credit card companies... I go to CP to get away from that kind of thing... Keep that in mind before you ask for a TV. The checkout lines are getting filled with them at meijers and walmart as well.

^^You know its bad, I know its bad.

Doesn't stop me from enjoying it though :).

80s music is the soundtrack of my youth. There is plenty of good to go along with the bad and the ugly.

^Most of which is not played in the Magnum queue. The Magnum queue set is almost 100% bad 80s music.

^ Yeah, but you are never in it long enough to really listen to it.

Jay, I do agree with you about the TVs at Meijer. They replay the same advertisements over and over. I think it makes the waiting even more annoying.