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That building in the center of your circle is Carpentry, sign shop and training center as well as the boneyard. I highly doubt they will relocate all of that to accommodate a new ride when there is plenty of available land elsewhere

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I doubt it if it’s considered temporary, they’ll probably take the tent down after use and keep the pad for future use

I haven’t worked in the park since the paramount days however I’m considering a return. My guess is that it’s going to be a storage facility for grand carnivale. The curved supports posted yesterday are more than likely going to that pad, they look a lot like supports for tension fabric structures like this...

This structure was the monorail storage and maintenance facility, you can see all the trains parked to the left. This structure is the only remaining part of the monorail standing today. It now is steel coaster maintenance. Timberwolf stands directly to the left of this building. Take a ride on Drop Tower and you can still see the supports for the transfer table

Actually this is exactly what we did when building Tomb Raider the ride, behind the building on the second landing of the staircase leading to the control room was a massive bank of capacitors to drive the great energy consumption of the motors on the gondola. Every time the gondola would dive you would hear a loud screech come from the capacitor banks.

Markers for where to park cherry picker when inspecting track

It hasn’t been “cut” it has been separated... most likely to make moving easier until they use it for intended purpose. I could even see them donating the train and track to the roller coaster museum if they don’t use it as a prop. Side note: Hey Don, if it’s needing transport some where I’ll do it for free just for the bragging rights, I have a commercial 52’ flatbed

5920 is the extension for King’s Island’s communications center. So if there was an in park emergency any employee would call that number from any phone in the park. It also can be reached outside too, 754-5920. The article speculates that it is related to Cedar Point but I disagree

Unless they plan on building a new facility for Tech Sevices, action theater isn’t going anywhere. You may not know this, but in the basement is Tech Services along with a lot of storage that other departments use.

Seeing how they saved half of the loop I see them using them as a prop for Halloween Haunt

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your mystery track was spotted over the weekend on a farm in East enterprise, Indiana. 38.853583,-84.996994

I will have to dissagree with that theory, if you closely look at those brakes you will see the airbags are inflated to open the brakes not close them, What if there was a blowout in the air compressor, you would have no brakes whatsoever and would therefore would be a flaw in the ride safety system

Do you have any opinion about the removal of the ride since it was your first project? BTW, these are some of the best construction pics I have ever seen. Thanks! we wont get into detail but: lack of upkeep the others were built about the same time and they are still running, so makes you wonder

that was meant to be about king cobra, but dont worry there is still alot that i have not shown yet, the photos i have are very old and have been in a basement for 8 years and some have water damage so i have been busy cleaning them up and trying to restore them

no, 1996 was my last year at the park now i live and work in nashville, tenn 1983 was my first year and this was the first project i worked on

yes i captured all the pics taken here at Kings Island, the ones for over seas was taken by mr. david focke, retired vice president construction and maintenance in 2002

inside the factory at togo international these are not king cobra but another ride being built at the time of visit, this pic is just to show the inside of the factory

thats all for the preview you will all see the rest as soon as i get them all sent to dane to be put in the history section thanks for all the comments

some testing of king cobra outside togo international tokyo, japan before being shipped to Kings Island

a little teaser is about to come!