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2 hours ago, brent said:
Yes, surprisingly it seems like the overall GP reaction on media sites is negative at worst and apathetic at best. Sure there are extreme “lives” and “hates” but there’s an awful lot of “seems like a taller Diamond Back” for a new addition. Can’t be the reaction the park was striving for.
Which media sites are you checking for GP reaction? The initial Twitter post about it looks like it's getting about 80-90% positive comments, with most of the negative comments coming from the same people over and over again. Their posts since then regarding track showing up have had no negative comments. Plus the huge crowd at the announcement seemed fired up, and a couple national news outlets (CNN and USA Today) ran stories on it.
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12 hours ago, IndyGuy4KI said:
IndyGuy4KI's personal thoughts. I think they did not want to go higher because they do not want to go above the Eiffel Tower. I could be wrong, but I think that drives it more than not beating CP.
4 hours ago, collin.klopfstein said:Maybe, but the first picture they've shown of both Orion and ET together is at an angle that favors Orion. I still think it's just matter of they wanted a giga because we wanted a giga but the price of steel was too high to make it something ridiculous.
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It looks way more like a taller/faster/mcbr-less Apollo's Chariot than Diamondback to me.
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10 minutes ago, Turtlepower said:
It's a giga.
Are there taller and faster out there? Yeah, but not by enough to really matter. It's tall and fast like it's supposed to be. It will probably be reliable and lines will be short. 1 out of 7 in the entire world, and it's right there at KI.
Just in terms of coasters, I'd take a park with Orion, Diamondback, Banshee, Beast, Mystic Timbers, and Flight of Fear over any east coast park not named Cedar Point. Add an RMC in 3-4 years and it's close.
And also, just speaking strictly coaster lineups, is anyone closer to boasting top 3 steel AND top 3 wooden at any one park?
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It's a giga.
Are there taller and faster out there? Yeah, but not by enough to really matter. It's tall and fast like it's supposed to be. It will probably be reliable and lines will be short. 1 out of 7 in the entire world, and it's right there at KI.
Just in terms of coasters, I'd take a park with Orion, Diamondback, Banshee, Beast, Mystic Timbers, and Flight of Fear over any east coast park not named Cedar Point. Add an RMC in 3-4 years and it's close.
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7 minutes ago, FUN&ONLY! said:
Do you think the giga will have an above ground tunnel? They added one later to Leviathan, so it probably was not on the blueprints. Do you think it is a possibility with our giga?
Someone mentioned looking at the MT blueprints and they did not show the tunnel on the turn around, so it's a possibility.
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3 hours ago, Fye Coasters said:
Better photos. Sorry for the double post.
That little orbiting design resembles the helix. I'm wondering if it will have some kind of theming in it like a planet or moon the ride will orbit around.
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22 minutes ago, APE said:
Y’all are just setting yourself up for disappointment if you think it’s going to be any more than what’s been uncovered on the blue prints. The previous two coasters have come out the same as the leaked blueprints did.
Not only that, but the darn thing is already being built! Clearings been done for months, a lot of footers have already been poured.
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Just a reminder that this picture, including the 355, was drawn in 1956 and was not a KI creation. Just a Christmas/sci-fi themed picture for FoF during Winterfest.
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56 minutes ago, collin.klopfstein said:
makes sense, first ever roller coaster about being high lol
Finally a theme that will make sense to me.
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2 minutes ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said:
Haha John Matarese should see that! I'm sure he'll be embarrassed! Lol
Just don't show it to him or he might make you sleep on the couch tonight!
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34 minutes ago, MrSourNinja said:
I just wana know why we got another helix... It's such a bland element and Diamondback already has one...
I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised here. The Diamondback helix isn't really a good comparison. The Project X helix comes after a 140-ish foot hill which is taller than the 2nd hill after the drop on DB, right before the turnaround so it will be going in with much more speed. It also ascends about 110 feet in the helix. I'm guessing it will be overbanked at the top and feel something like a gyroscope. Oh, and it will be weaving through it's own supports on the way down. To be honest, it may even end up being the signature element of the ride just based off so many of the fence posters emphasizing gravitational pull or positive G-type elements. And hey, if nothing else that helix on The Beast isn't too bland.
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18 minutes ago, EngineerX said:
Food for thought: Why wouldn't they just file all of the prints at once vs in phases? Considering the first set shows the entire layout, what is left to hide by not filling all of the below grade prints?
I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason that isn't the least bit entertaining.
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They didn't go the direction I thought they would with what appears to be state abbreviations. Idaho, Nevada, 2 Arizona's, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, and whatever "HR" is. What does it mean? Does it even mean anything?
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30 minutes ago, ohiocoasterfan said:
I like Omega as a name
Omega 296? Omega X?
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16 minutes ago, rlentless said:
I'm going to predict the "Rotor" as the next poster. Just for the heck of it.
You got it!
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Final prediction for today: Drop Tower, with the number 5.
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10 minutes ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said:
Interesting. I came up with this. We'll see if I'm right.
Now Go to KI
But if you're reading the signs, you're already at KI.
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2 hours ago, EngineerX said:
Riddle me this. Is it cheaper to fix a coroplast sign with an extremely specifically designed tape, or reprint the poster?
Why would they continue to make mistakes and not proofread their work?
Again, these "mistakes" are significant.
I guess it depends on who is actually doing the printing. If KI is doing it in-house, then it seems like it would absolutely be easier to print a new one up.
If it's not in-house, and they're having someone else print them then that might change things a little. Maybe they purchased signs from one company with intentionally incorrect information so that if there were a leak of the signs they wouldn't have their marketing campaign spoiled by the internet? Then had the stickers printed by someone else, put them on the incorrect posters to make them correct?
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18 minutes ago, shizzzon said:
Yes for real.
They removed VR on iron dragon at Cedar Point.
I rode it a few times. I had to hold onto their headset if they didn't want me losing it.
Think it's a high potential to lose lots of money plus falling objects on ride possible.
Plus it slows the operation down a lot. I love VR, but they would be better suited with actual special effects if they want to do something different.
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5 minutes ago, Rallyomalley said:
Saw some guy on reddit saying he wrote a python script that came up with Moonwalking.
It will spell "Moonwalking".
Explanation: I interpret the spacing of the letters as _ _ O _ W _ _ K I _ _ from the picture provided in this thread by /u/strmtrpr15. I then wrote a short python script to check 466551 English words and tell me which ones fit the pattern. Of the five that match ("hoodwinking", "ironworking", "moonwalking", "woodworking", and "woolworking"), only "moonwalking" seems to fit the theme.
Credit to u/sticklefront.
Which is great until tomorrow when they replace 3 of the 4 signs already up with totally new letters. And it doesn't account for the fact that we don't truly know how many characters there will be.
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46 minutes ago, Jallie79 said:
I have a hard time believing that the first 2 posters were misprinteed. Especially now that the FoF poster has changed. If the Bayren Kurve poster changes tomorrow, I all but guarantee that the changes are significant.
Is anyone able to post every version of each poster in one post to look for clues as to what has changed? I have pics the way they were yesterday around 1700 when we were there.
So I would agree with this point. After changing 2 signs out the first day it seems like whoever is doing the sign hanging would get it right, if for no other reason than to keep from having to make that walk out to the far side of XBase.
But given the fact that the number of people who know that these signs are changing is so low, the question is: why are they changing them if it's not because a mistake was made?
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5 minutes ago, jdawg1998 said:
Throwback to a few days ago and the onslaught of attacks on KI for delivering horrible teasers...
Yeah, if it really is new2020ki the marketing team better have some good resumes.
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1 hour ago, XBeastGirlX said:
Cosmos@KI
cant think of many words that would fit in the space and with the theme
Could be based on popular opinion of the ride so far: #EconomyKI, #LetDownKI, #NoGoodKI, #LowCostKI
or: #BigfootKI, #ExploreKI, #LiftoffKI, #OutpostKI, #PandoraKI, #UnknownKI
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Is Kings Island the new #1 ahead of Cedar Point?
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I will say this: Cedar Fair has closed the gap between the two really fast, and the argument can be made that either one is better. I thought the park had gotten really good in the mid 00's under Paramount as mainly a theme park. What it lacked in big rollercoasters it made up for in smaller coasters and flats that were well themed. When CF took over and stripped away all the theming, shut down SOB, Tomb Raider, and Action Theater in the first few years I felt like the park was at it's low point.
Today the argument can be made that they have such a diverse collection of coasters that they could be considered top 5 in wood AND top 5 in steel, and are the only park that can come close to claiming that.
The food has come a looooong way in the last 2-3 years in my opinion.
Their Fast Lane system beats the hell out of CPs since the latter tends to dump you off 15-20 minutes away from the station on a lot of rides.
One of the biggest advantages I think KI has that hasn't been mentioned is the layout of the park. Interestingly both parks are listed at 364 acres, but because the park has chosen to build so many out and back style coasters situated around a central hub KI has far less land you have to walk. This means there's several spots where you can go from one ride to the next (like the DB/MT/Beast trio, Orion/FF) within a minute or two. CP has very little of this, and the majority of my time spent there is spent riding then walking to and from their top rides that are all pretty spread out.
Nobody beats CP in terms of record breaking intense rollercoasters, and the lake view isn't bad either. But yeah, as of 2020 I'd say I prefer KI.