That video cracked me up.
*Warning: this video will have swear words*
Now for some information to some "newbees" who do not know about Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom:
The First Years:
The park opened on May 23, 1987 leasing 10 acres (40,000 m2) at the Kentucky Exposition Center property. An extension of the State Fair, it closed before the end of the season. One of the original rides was a rollercoaster called Starchaser. The owners filed bankruptcy and auctioned off the rides.
It remained closed through 1989, when Ed Hart and a group of investors purchased Kentucky Kingdom, and it reopened for the 1990 season. Starchaser was sold, but still onsite at the amusement park, and Hart purchased the indoor rollercoaster. Additionally new rides were added like Tin Lizzies, The Enterprise, Whirling Dervish, and The Vampire which some are still in operation today. In 1992, the Kentucky Kingdom made a large expansion and opened the Hurricane Bay water park.
Six Flags:
At the end of 1997, Kentucky Kingdom was sold to Premier Parks for $64 million, and opened as Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom later on June 21, 1998. In 1999, corporate Six Flags decided to retheme the expansion side of the park as "Gotham City," renaming and repainting several rides. Sometime in the same year, however, the idea was shelved and the rides retained their original names. In 2002 the ride Twisted Sisters was forced to be renamed to Twisted Twins upon a threat of a lawsuit from the band Twisted Sister. Before the opening of the 2007 season, Hurricane Bay was rebranded as Six Flags Splashwater Kingdom.
Kentucky Kingdom is one of the main tourism attractions for Louisville as in 1997 it totaled more visitors than Churchill Downs.
Trouble (this one will be a timeline):
June 21, 2007: A 13-year-old girl, by the name of Kaitlyn Lasitter, from Louisville, Kentucky had both feet severed above the ankle by a snapped cable, caused by an unidentified ride malfunction on the Superman: Tower of Power ride. In reaction to this accident, at least nine similar rides around the world were closed for inspection at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Sweden, Kennywood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
and at parks run by Six Flags, Cedar Fair, and PARC Management.
July 3, 2007: The victim's family released a statement stating that her right foot had been successfully reattached.
July 13, 2007: The victim's family filed a lawsuit for unspecified damages against the park claiming that the park did not properly maintain the ride.
November 29, 2007: A judge in the Jefferson Circuit Court said that Six Flags could dismantle the ride beginning February 1, 2008.
December 1, 2007: The ride's cable was still in storage awaiting lab tests.
February 1, 2008: Superman: Tower of Power begins getting dismantled. As of March 2008, the tower was gone.
February 29, 2008: Twisted Twins, Mile High Falls, Zepellin, and Turbo Bungy are not listed in the park website, because the section with those rides (Northwest Territory) will not be open for the 2008 season.
May 7, 2008: SFKK slashed gate prices. A park spokesman said that Northwest Territory is done for, and will be turned into something. Nothing is announced about the fate of the area.
May 11, 2008: Rumors begin spreading around that SFKK will become a water park only place like Cedar Fair did with Geauga Lake the year before.
July 17, 2008: Rumors are that Northwest Territory will not reopen next year. It will either be fitted into something new, or the park, as a whole, will eventually close and become a water-park only place.
September 16, 2008: Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom sued Intamin AG (the manufacturer of Superman: Tower of Power) because of the Lasitter accident the year before.
April 25, 2009: The 2009 season begins and Northwest Territory was not open.
July 3, 2009: The trains for Twisted Twins were sent to Six Flags St. Louis, which is not a good sign of the coaster reopening.
July 5, 2009: Rumors are that the Screamin' Eagle wooden coaster will get a rehab in 2010 which might involve repainting the ride and putting the Twisted Twins trains on it.
July 9, 2009: Rumors are that Mile High Falls had a problem and may just be scrapped this winter.
July 11, 2009: The lift chain for Mile High Falls has been removed.
August 1, 2009: The drop cars from the former Superman: Tower of Power have been sent to Six Flags St. Louis.
September 2, 2009: Rumors begin to spice up that for the 50th anniversary of Six Flags, the rotation program will restart and that SFKK will retire their signature coaster, Chang (B&M Stand-Up), and relocate it to SFGAm.
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