Beast Bash, October 7, 2006

   

Saturday, October 7th was Beast Bash at Kings Island. This was an American Coaster Enthusiast event that ran from park open to after park close at midnight with night rides on The Beast. There were plenty of awesome perks, like backstage tours, and front of the line access to all the FearFest attractions, despite them having hour plus lines! Did I mention that there was a full moon that night?

One of the first events of the day was the backstage tour. The first stop on that was at the landscape shop. All these buildings are located up front between Nickelodeon Universe and the employee parking lot.

Outside the landscape shop, was the removable numbers for the floral calendar located next to the Eiffel Tower.

Next stop was over at the maintenance building. The park has already removed the third train from Adventure Express and the Vortex and has started winter rehab on them.

Here is the back of one of the Vortex trains showing the locking mechanism.