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This was the perfect ride to get on around 2:00pm when it got hot and you wanted to cool down. I think there was a blast of cold air somewhere in the ride. Good times.
I have a deep kinship with this ride. We have the same birthday. And it was my first experience with immersive horror. It probably had a greatest impact on my childhood and love for horror than anything else. I started riding it at around 3 or 4 years old. It also set my standard for theme parks (the preshow must be as good or better than the ride itself). My cousin wouldn't ride this thing until she was 13 because of the Maestro in the queue. The sound design was revelatory & the ride's tone was camp perfection. AND this is the best POV, imo.
🎆Thank you so much for this blast from the past! I was searching for the ride, thinking of childhood memories at Kings Island. I was hoping for some pictures but wasn't expecting the entire POV ride! I am so grateful that you captured this amazing ride before it was gone. 🎇
It looks exactly as I remember it. The summer I got my driver's license my friends and I went to KI almost every day M-F. We stayed away on weekends because it was too busy. We would usually ride Phantom Theatre 5 or 6 times a day. It was our go to cool off ride because it was air conditioned, and there was almost never a line, you could just walk right in and get on a buggy immediately.
This ride scared me as a kid, but now looking back at it, I can see why. The scooby Doo variation was fine, Boo Blasters is fun, but I wish I could go back in time and experience this ride again.
This was the BEST ride EVER!!! Especially to show how brave you were at age six… I rode it over and over and over again with my best friend at the time. Such a big part of that era of my life. Thank you for this video!!!
Such a fun ride. It was actually one of the best concepts to be used in the building. Hopefully they revamp the building back to a new generation version of phantom theater.
Interesting thing about the boiler room scene is the boiler is still at the park. It was located in Slaughterhouse before being moved back into storage.
I shared this to some of my amusement park pages, I hope you dont mind, this is definitely the best one for Phantom Theater I've seen, thank you so much
Man a hot Summer day, this ride and Wild African Safari Monorail were the go to! There was ice cold air inside The Phantom Theater and except for the end where you went through the boiler room scene and they opened the boiler and you were hit with exhaust heat, the rest of the ride was ice cold! Thank you for this. Brought back a lot of memories.
Thank you so much for posting this! This was my favorite ride as a kid. I really hope they take a hint from the popularity of the Phantom Theater Show this summer and bring the ride back!
Next to Disney's The Haunted Mansion, the Phantom Theater was one of my favorite amusement park dark rides. The people who runs Kings Island nowadays should've still kept it around to this day, especially for the Halloween Haunt event.
Thank you for sharing, this was my favorite ride in that building (that I can remember) I miss it wish they would bring it back or at least change the stupid Boo Blasters that never work
I remember being so terrified to ride this when I was a kid. After my older cousin's pressured me onto it, I was only afraid of the maestro. That "what are you looking at" moment had me so shook!! Memories...
I remember when the Maestro goes, "What are you looking at," and some scared little kid, who obviously never went on the ride before, yells at him, "F*CK YOU, MAN!" Everyone laughed. I knew from that moment that if this kid could be brave enough to ride the ride, I could too.
I know rt?! one of the very few bad decisions for KI...I dunno whatthey could have done to save it or tomb raider but yea...dark rides dont last long there lol
I absolutely adore this ride. As a kid it at first gave me the heeby jeebies, but after going on it again and again I absolutely loved it! The caricature performers, the music, the sights and sounds. I miss this ride so much.
This ride was such a huge part of my childhood. It was like a ritual to ride it first after getting into the park for my friends and I. Going around that first turn always just let me know I was at PKI and it was going to be a great, long day. "LEAVING SO SOON??"
The people running in at the beginning, the guy in the plaid shirt is Jason Priestley. There was a whole half-hour behind-the-scenes special made before the park opened that year, to promote the ride, and Kings Island got him to host it, while BH90210 was still a big thing on TV.
I went to Kings Island today and they are bringing this back on June 4th! I just wonder if it's temporary or permanent, but I think it's the former for the 50th anniversary. I can't wait to ride this again, this was one of my favorite rides as a kid. I just wish they would do this with other rides that aren't around anymore, especially King Cobra. Even though it's only been two years, I still miss the hell out of Vortex too. I wish this park didn't always cannibalize itself by getting rid of their own rides all the time.
I went up there and saw the sign opening weekend. It's going to be in The Paramount Theater starting June 4th. I'm just surprised more people aren't talking about it or reporting it. I think this is a big deal, unless most people don't care about this as much as I do lol. I grew up riding this ride, so I'm personally happy as hell it's coming back. I can't wait to ride it again.
@@bsbgirl85 this is the best news ive got all yr. I rode that ride in the early 90s. I just turned 37 yesterday and something just made me want to look up the theme park rides i remember that made me love dark rides so much. Thank you so much for this
Hey! It truly was the best ride! It brings back so many childhood memories. I did a little more research after reading your comment. It looks like they are bringing it back as a show rather than a ride for the summer. I’m thinking a theatrical type show with the music and characters from the ride. Probably actors portraying animatronics, hopefully a few natural pieces of history will be involved too. Hell, I would pay 5k for that bargain basement Omnimover. Fun fact - I went back to Kings Island last summer for the first time in 12 years. I rode boo blasters a handful of times for nostalgia only. It’s so sad. Anyways, when you’re waiting in line in the hallway. Shine your cell light into the boarded up windows and look through the cracks of the fake wood. You can see the con-caved busts still in the wall. :)
What! That's a little disappointing, I was looking forward to RIDING it over seeing a show. That board saying Phantom Theater is coming back didn't say anything about it being a show, but I guess it makes sense since it's in the building where they usually have shows. I was looking forward to the ride nostalgia, but if that's the case then I will see the show. I still hope it's worth it in that form.
Totally my favorite ride as I kid. My parents would volunteer at the park for church fundraisers and mom was staffed at this ride in the loading area. She said the shift was a killer because you were constantly walking on the loading platform. I also wrote a short story based off the ride when I was in school. Definitely a special place in my heart for this ride.
This was one of my favorite rides when I was younger. I was 11 when it first opened and I would ride it probably 2 or 3 times each time I visited the park. My family used to go once a year with some of our family friends. Our yearly trips pretty much stopped though after I graduated high school in 2000. I've only been to King's Island 5 or 6 times since then. I remember going and they had replaced it with a Scooby Doo ride for a while but, I never cared for it.
This ride terrified me as a kid. I wish I had a chance to ride it when I was older. I was only 11 when it closed, I think the first time I rode it I was like, 8 or so.
I was absolutely fascinated with this ride when I was about 5 or 6. I rode it at least four times in one trip on multiple occasions. I could recite the dialogue lol. When they switched it to Scooby Doo I was devastated.
We took school trips here. This ride came out when my daughter was two, I thought it would scare her, but she made me ride it over and over. Watching this make me miss when they were little, she's 34 now.
I have so much nostalgia for this ride, and i've never ridden it. I didn't grow up in Ohio, but my entire family did, and when I visited Kings Island for the first time ever this year, I kept hearing about this ride, so when I looked it up one day, I thought it looked so cool, and i'm sad i never got to experience it.
they should make a phantom of the opera musical themed dark ride with like a mirror bride animatronic crashing through a fake mirror and spooking the guests
I just watched the official one and yours has a better view of it, their audio is cleaner. Yours is more authentic to the experience but ít is nice being able to hear the words more clearly in theirs.
WOW, this took me straight back to my childhood and a few of my teenage years before it was shut down. It was one of my favorite rides in the park because when it was hot outside, it was still freezing in that theater! 😂 It also takes me back to sitting there when the coal scene comes around and the heat blast hit you. This is great!!! I'm going to go laugh about it with my Mom later!!
Its not a rip off of the haunted mansion. These are called haunted house rides, or dark rides, they are all around the world, and aren't just "haunted mansions rip offs" some existed before the haunted mansion, the haunted mansion just has way better effects than most of them.
@@kampiestarz I know my reply came off a little snotty, but I worked at a amusement park that gets people comparing Disney to it all the time, and act like Disney is the only amusement park in the world and everything is a rip off from it, so I'm just saying how this ride isn't one.
@@mrknowhere6457 sorry I got defensive. I really loved this ride. It was my first dark ride I ever went on. I do like how when it came to adding to Tokyo, that they don't have a haunted mansion but a much better Mystic Manor. I do like the inspiration that comes from all theme parks. I'm a Cedar Point fan myself. Not every ride needs to be an adventure. Some can just be fun. This was fun.
I feel they should keep boo blasters, cuz idk how the kids would feel with this in the kids area, and I kinda like it, but they should bring this back but in the area near the bad and the banshee. Make it a spooky area for the thrill seekers!
Instead of a ride that glorified satanism, why didn't they make a ride about the Lord? KI wasted a golden opportunity, especially since they have church groups come every weekend.
Yea sure... I guess we could have put Jim Bakker in there... you know like committing adultery with Jessica Hahn and fraudulently using tax free church money to pay her off. All the scary ghosts could be replaced with Tammy Faye and all that gawdy make up
To be honest, a lot of the media that the devout Christians say is somehow worshipping the devil oftentimes are very effective PSAs as to *not* do the things that are against the Lord. They tell you Satan is indeed real, and any dealings with him will damn your soul. That vice and villainy, even small vices if they are out of control, lead to great suffering. The good and pure are saved and the corrupt and evil are punished. People standing up to great evil because it is the right thing to do, despite hardships and how horrifying it can be. Ignorance is evil and knowledge/wisdom are good. And the people perpetrating these vile acts are clearly not who the audience is rooting for. I can't think of a more effective method of persuading young people not to do blasphemous actions than through horror media. Besides, Phantom Theatre is no more scary than a child with a blanket over his head yelling "boo!" If this was something to do with the Saw films or A Serbian Film then yeah, perhaps that shouldn't be in a children's theme park. But these designs look straight out of old school Scooby Doo.
Seriously? Its people like you who give religious people a bad name. This ride doesn't glorify "satanism", its literally just a cheesy old fun haunted house ride with a few spooks. Kings Island would never make a ride about something religious, not everyone is religious. When you make comments like that, you make all religious people look bad.
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This ride is exactly what Kings Island needs now.......I'm so underwhelmed when we visit.
This was the perfect ride to get on around 2:00pm when it got hot and you wanted to cool down. I think there was a blast of cold air somewhere in the ride. Good times.
I think the mummy case, right? But the furnace was hot.
Yep the mummy blasted you with cold air. The rabbit out of the hat blasted heat.. and so did the coal furnace.
Facts
The coal from the furnace was so hot! 🔥 Great memories! So glad I found this video 😁
I have a deep kinship with this ride. We have the same birthday. And it was my first experience with immersive horror. It probably had a greatest impact on my childhood and love for horror than anything else. I started riding it at around 3 or 4 years old. It also set my standard for theme parks (the preshow must be as good or better than the ride itself). My cousin wouldn't ride this thing until she was 13 because of the Maestro in the queue. The sound design was revelatory & the ride's tone was camp perfection. AND this is the best POV, imo.
I'm so glad some form of video exists from this absolute favorite ride Kings Island used to be an absolute treasure
My childhood 🥺😭 I wish I could relive my childhood so I could have fun all over again. PLEASE BRING BACK PHANTOM THEATER!!!!!!!!!
They did turn it into a show at least
@@Foxy02016 yes but it's not the same. The live show is nothing compared to the ride
🎆Thank you so much for this blast from the past! I was searching for the ride, thinking of childhood memories at Kings Island. I was hoping for some pictures but wasn't expecting the entire POV ride! I am so grateful that you captured this amazing ride before it was gone. 🎇
It looks exactly as I remember it. The summer I got my driver's license my friends and I went to KI almost every day M-F. We stayed away on weekends because it was too busy. We would usually ride Phantom Theatre 5 or 6 times a day. It was our go to cool off ride because it was air conditioned, and there was almost never a line, you could just walk right in and get on a buggy immediately.
This ride scared me as a kid, but now looking back at it, I can see why. The scooby Doo variation was fine, Boo Blasters is fun, but I wish I could go back in time and experience this ride again.
This was the BEST ride EVER!!! Especially to show how brave you were at age six… I rode it over and over and over again with my best friend at the time. Such a big part of that era of my life. Thank you for this video!!!
I loved this ride when I was a kid! Thanks for posting, it made me very nostalgic.
Nice job! This really brought back a lot of memories.
Such a fun ride. It was actually one of the best concepts to be used in the building. Hopefully they revamp the building back to a new generation version of phantom theater.
Yeah, Boo Blasters actually isn't bad, but Phantom Theater was definitely better.
Interesting thing about the boiler room scene is the boiler is still at the park. It was located in Slaughterhouse before being moved back into storage.
I miss this ride (and Flight commander) so much.
I shared this to some of my amusement park pages, I hope you dont mind, this is definitely the best one for Phantom Theater I've seen, thank you so much
Man a hot Summer day, this ride and Wild African Safari Monorail were the go to! There was ice cold air inside The Phantom Theater and except for the end where you went through the boiler room scene and they opened the boiler and you were hit with exhaust heat, the rest of the ride was ice cold!
Thank you for this. Brought back a lot of memories.
Roller coasters are great, but this theater filled a niche that the park needed! Dark, cool and scary. Miss this ride
I miss this ride. It’s a shame they didn’t just update it. It looks so cheap now.
It wasn't even an update. It was an entire takedown. It's now a cheap shooter game
The mummy scares the fuck outta me
Thank you so much for posting this! This was my favorite ride as a kid. I really hope they take a hint from the popularity of the Phantom Theater Show this summer and bring the ride back!
Next to Disney's The Haunted Mansion, the Phantom Theater was one of my favorite amusement park dark rides.
The people who runs Kings Island nowadays should've still kept it around to this day, especially for the Halloween Haunt event.
I actually asked them about the animatronic figures a few days back and they said that they still put some out.
@@LegitRcplk I see. Still, they should've kept the ride itself operational to this day.
@@JoshuaModerwell Yeah man I agree
@@LegitRcplk Yep. Why the Phantom Theater had been closed down in 2002 is beyond me.
@@JoshuaModerwell paramount thought they just had to have a cheap Scooby Doo ride
Thank you for sharing, this was my favorite ride in that building (that I can remember) I miss it wish they would bring it back or at least change the stupid Boo Blasters that never work
I remember being so terrified to ride this when I was a kid. After my older cousin's pressured me onto it, I was only afraid of the maestro. That "what are you looking at" moment had me so shook!! Memories...
This ride brings back the best memories!
The Rest is Basically a Goofier Version of Haunted Mansion.
I cried on that ride back in the 90s
I can’t believe they got rid of this they should know that a theme park is not perfect without a haunted house
I know right, so many parks got rid of pretty much every haunted house dark ride they had and replaced it with stupid boo blasters.
Yeah Plus I don’t like six flags anymore
Yes a man of true culture!
I remember when the Maestro goes, "What are you looking at," and some scared little kid, who obviously never went on the ride before, yells at him, "F*CK YOU, MAN!" Everyone laughed. I knew from that moment that if this kid could be brave enough to ride the ride, I could too.
It was you, wasn't it? You were the kid!
@@bluejaymama9252 ........yeah.
@@YokozunaNumber1 I couldn't survive Scooby Doo's Haunted Castle and remember saying "I HATE CHU, FRED!"
The phantom in the queue line used to scare the shit out of me as a kid 🤣 Good times, amazing ride- even better memories!
Me too! I felt like it was always making eye contact no matter where I was in line! 👀
I cant believe they got rid of this!!
I know rt?! one of the very few bad decisions for KI...I dunno whatthey could have done to save it or tomb raider but yea...dark rides dont last long there lol
Bring this ride back
I couldn't agree more!
I absolutely adore this ride. As a kid it at first gave me the heeby jeebies, but after going on it again and again I absolutely loved it! The caricature performers, the music, the sights and sounds. I miss this ride so much.
This ride was such a huge part of my childhood. It was like a ritual to ride it first after getting into the park for my friends and I. Going around that first turn always just let me know I was at PKI and it was going to be a great, long day. "LEAVING SO SOON??"
Oh the memories. Thank you so much for uploading. This was wonderful.
It looks like maestro is giving an encore performance on June 4th.
BRO. I was so little when I rode this, I thought I dreamt it up lol.
I was six the year that this ride was built and I remember taking one look at that Maestro and screaming my head off all the way through that ride
I hope Kings Island can bring back this ride instead of the generic boo blasters that sits there now.
LOVED THIS, I remember it blew cool air....loved to ride it just for that reason alone!
That was the best on summer days!
6:26 always scared the shit outta me 😂😂
For real!
It was so hot!!!! 🔥
"LEAVING SO SOON!?!?"
Best ride of all time \../ thank you so much for the flashback
Wonderful! this ride was so inspiring,A great walk down creepy cobweb filled memory lane...Your awesome!
Thank you for taking me down memory lane
The people running in at the beginning, the guy in the plaid shirt is Jason Priestley. There was a whole half-hour behind-the-scenes special made before the park opened that year, to promote the ride, and Kings Island got him to host it, while BH90210 was still a big thing on TV.
The musical show at the phantom theater is a good brake from the heat outside, I got to watch the show 2 days ago
I remember this and the smurf one.
I went to Kings Island today and they are bringing this back on June 4th! I just wonder if it's temporary or permanent, but I think it's the former for the 50th anniversary. I can't wait to ride this again, this was one of my favorite rides as a kid. I just wish they would do this with other rides that aren't around anymore, especially King Cobra. Even though it's only been two years, I still miss the hell out of Vortex too. I wish this park didn't always cannibalize itself by getting rid of their own rides all the time.
Who told you there bringing it back?? If this is true omg ill cry
I went up there and saw the sign opening weekend. It's going to be in The Paramount Theater starting June 4th. I'm just surprised more people aren't talking about it or reporting it. I think this is a big deal, unless most people don't care about this as much as I do lol. I grew up riding this ride, so I'm personally happy as hell it's coming back. I can't wait to ride it again.
@@bsbgirl85 this is the best news ive got all yr. I rode that ride in the early 90s. I just turned 37 yesterday and something just made me want to look up the theme park rides i remember that made me love dark rides so much. Thank you so much for this
Hey! It truly was the best ride! It brings back so many childhood memories. I did a little more research after reading your comment. It looks like they are bringing it back as a show rather than a ride for the summer. I’m thinking a theatrical type show with the music and characters from the ride. Probably actors portraying animatronics, hopefully a few natural pieces of history will be involved too. Hell, I would pay 5k for that bargain basement Omnimover.
Fun fact - I went back to Kings Island last summer for the first time in 12 years. I rode boo blasters a handful of times for nostalgia only. It’s so sad. Anyways, when you’re waiting in line in the hallway. Shine your cell light into the boarded up windows and look through the cracks of the fake wood. You can see the con-caved busts still in the wall. :)
What! That's a little disappointing, I was looking forward to RIDING it over seeing a show. That board saying Phantom Theater is coming back didn't say anything about it being a show, but I guess it makes sense since it's in the building where they usually have shows. I was looking forward to the ride nostalgia, but if that's the case then I will see the show. I still hope it's worth it in that form.
My favorite and most missed ride in the park.
Me too! So many memories!
This ride was so legendary.
Totally my favorite ride as I kid. My parents would volunteer at the park for church fundraisers and mom was staffed at this ride in the loading area. She said the shift was a killer because you were constantly walking on the loading platform.
I also wrote a short story based off the ride when I was in school. Definitely a special place in my heart for this ride.
This was one of my favorite rides when I was younger. I was 11 when it first opened and I would ride it probably 2 or 3 times each time I visited the park. My family used to go once a year with some of our family friends. Our yearly trips pretty much stopped though after I graduated high school in 2000. I've only been to King's Island 5 or 6 times since then. I remember going and they had replaced it with a Scooby Doo ride for a while but, I never cared for it.
This ride terrified me as a kid. I wish I had a chance to ride it when I was older. I was only 11 when it closed, I think the first time I rode it I was like, 8 or so.
Miss that :) I actually remember when it was the Flintstone ride lol
Remember getting sunburnt at the water park and then the ride shutting down in front of the blazing hot air furnace? Good times 🙃 👍
Rode this many times when I was a kid. We would go in there to cool down when it was hot outside.
I was absolutely fascinated with this ride when I was about 5 or 6. I rode it at least four times in one trip on multiple occasions. I could recite the dialogue lol. When they switched it to Scooby Doo I was devastated.
We took school trips here. This ride came out when my daughter was two, I thought it would scare her, but she made me ride it over and over. Watching this make me miss when they were little, she's 34 now.
"Halt. I am the centurion " - love, the Centurion
0:43 I like how the dude behind all of them is wondering what the fuck did I just witnessed
I have so much nostalgia for this ride, and i've never ridden it.
I didn't grow up in Ohio, but my entire family did, and when I visited Kings Island for the first time ever this year, I kept hearing about this ride, so when I looked it up one day, I thought it looked so cool, and i'm sad i never got to experience it.
they should make a phantom of the opera musical themed dark ride with like a mirror bride animatronic crashing through a fake mirror and spooking the guests
What I wouldn't give to ride this ride again! It was so much fun!
Was that Jason Priestley at 0:43?
Miss this ride! Why did they have to ruin it?
Greetings! May I use this footage in a video I'm making about unique dark rides? I will give your channel full credit.
Wow, what a cool video!
I just watched the official one and yours has a better view of it, their audio is cleaner. Yours is more authentic to the experience but ít is nice being able to hear the words more clearly in theirs.
I made out with so many girls in junior high on this ride. so many. what a great ride!
My man! Such a great ride!
It kind of looks like the phantom manor
The Phantom Theater has returned. But not phisycllay.
So Are The Props Get Resused?
Goat content 🔥
I miss this ride every time I go back to KI
This was so good
Was this inspired by Phantom of the Opera by any chance?
WOW, this took me straight back to my childhood and a few of my teenage years before it was shut down. It was one of my favorite rides in the park because when it was hot outside, it was still freezing in that theater! 😂 It also takes me back to sitting there when the coal scene comes around and the heat blast hit you. This is great!!! I'm going to go laugh about it with my Mom later!!
I swear I remember a big end scene on stage with the opera singer again
Best rip off of the haunted mansion. I went on it 3 times in a row when I was in 9th grade LOL
Its not a rip off of the haunted mansion. These are called haunted house rides, or dark rides, they are all around the world, and aren't just "haunted mansions rip offs" some existed before the haunted mansion, the haunted mansion just has way better effects than most of them.
@@mrknowhere6457 I can't make a joke? Used to work at Disney World. I loved this ride when I saw it.
@@kampiestarz I know my reply came off a little snotty, but I worked at a amusement park that gets people comparing Disney to it all the time, and act like Disney is the only amusement park in the world and everything is a rip off from it, so I'm just saying how this ride isn't one.
@@mrknowhere6457 sorry I got defensive. I really loved this ride. It was my first dark ride I ever went on. I do like how when it came to adding to Tokyo, that they don't have a haunted mansion but a much better Mystic Manor. I do like the inspiration that comes from all theme parks. I'm a Cedar Point fan myself. Not every ride needs to be an adventure. Some can just be fun. This was fun.
@@kampiestarz With so much annoyance at Disney and people comparing your park to it, I can only assume you work at Universal.
Who said “close that door”?
Willard Warbler. :)
This looks better than the Scooby ride they turned it into
Creepy
heeeeyy who wrote the music at the end? sounds like beetlejuice
The musical theme sounds a lot like the beetlejuice theme.
Totally agree!
It's like Beetejuice crossed with the Cryptkeeper's theme. This Phantom's a hack, he just plagiarized Danny Elfman 🫷😒
Can someone comment. Where was this in the park??? I am trying to figure it out lol
It was replaced by what is now Boo Blasters. Same building, layout and building. Phantom Theater was much better.
kid: mom can we go to the haunted mansion?
mom: we have the haunted mansion at home
haunted mansion at home:
If you order the Haunted Mansion from Temu they send you Phantom Theatre.
I feel they should keep boo blasters, cuz idk how the kids would feel with this in the kids area, and I kinda like it, but they should bring this back but in the area near the bad and the banshee. Make it a spooky area for the thrill seekers!
with technology today, kings island needs to bring back the ride. because a new, well old attraction back from the dead. better than the play.
Rode this AND Smurfs
Freaked me out as a kid haha
I rode it, it was the closest thing to the Disney Haunted mansion.
Brandon Walsh looks a little uneasy going in there...
That more scary than what they have today.
Was it a ride of walk through haunted house ? Looks kinda scary but lame.
This used to be the perfect ride to make out with your girlfriend on.
This ride does not look scary but still it looks pretty funny and crazy
the phantom sounds like leprechaun
I always loved this ride! I hate the boo blaster theme even the Scooby theme was horrible.
Man I loved this! Dislike boo blasters
Instead of a ride that glorified satanism, why didn't they make a ride about the Lord? KI wasted a golden opportunity, especially since they have church groups come every weekend.
Because it's good to be bad.
Yea sure... I guess we could have put Jim Bakker in there... you know like committing adultery with Jessica Hahn and fraudulently using tax free church money to pay her off. All the scary ghosts could be replaced with Tammy Faye and all that gawdy make up
To be honest, a lot of the media that the devout Christians say is somehow worshipping the devil oftentimes are very effective PSAs as to *not* do the things that are against the Lord. They tell you Satan is indeed real, and any dealings with him will damn your soul. That vice and villainy, even small vices if they are out of control, lead to great suffering. The good and pure are saved and the corrupt and evil are punished. People standing up to great evil because it is the right thing to do, despite hardships and how horrifying it can be. Ignorance is evil and knowledge/wisdom are good. And the people perpetrating these vile acts are clearly not who the audience is rooting for. I can't think of a more effective method of persuading young people not to do blasphemous actions than through horror media.
Besides, Phantom Theatre is no more scary than a child with a blanket over his head yelling "boo!" If this was something to do with the Saw films or A Serbian Film then yeah, perhaps that shouldn't be in a children's theme park. But these designs look straight out of old school Scooby Doo.
Because kings island has no religious affiliation. Not everyone believes in jesus. We don’t want your beliefs shoved down our throats.
Seriously? Its people like you who give religious people a bad name. This ride doesn't glorify "satanism", its literally just a cheesy old fun haunted house ride with a few spooks. Kings Island would never make a ride about something religious, not everyone is religious. When you make comments like that, you make all religious people look bad.