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  1. I had a night ride around 9:50 last night and Banshee does make a great night ride! There was no fog as has been speculated but that may change as the season goes on. In my opinion though, Beast still has the park's best night ride.

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  2. Where is this program displayed in the park?

    A large amount of the rides in the park now have this it seems.

    I found FUNTv to be a fantastic addition. The fact that it will,hopefully, be updated all the time leaves me very excited. This is much better than any other queue entertainment the park has ever had. Sure the news might just be celebrity gossip, but it's something different.

    the skull is under the #3 Tombstone in the Banshee queue.

    I actually saw one time where it was under tombstone #2, so maybe I should've bet you Budda ;)

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  3. First off, Media Day was fantastically organized! It was the first media day I have attended and it was a fantastic experience.

    Second, I had 5 rides on Banshee and they were all excellent. Banshee is more than likely my favorite invert and favorite ride at Kings Island. It is one of the most perfectly paced rides I have ridden. The lack of a MCBR and the fact that this thing doesn't let up until you hit the final brakes is incredible. The first drop is one of the best I have ever been on, the next two inversions are huge and probably the least forceful part of the ride, then it hits the zero-g roll and it is perfectly forceful the rest of the way.

    Banshee is a fantastic addition to our park and the renovations it led to for Action Zone are proof that Kings Island might be experiencing one of its best years! :)

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  4. Visited the park over the last weekend and rode Gatekeeper 5 times. Rode all 4 "corner" rows, with back left being my favorite. I really liked the ride, there IS airtime as far as I could tell, but it is barely felt due to the restraint system. Back left offered some nice forces and felt as if being yanked through some of the inversions which I loved. Overall, I feel it is a great addition to the park, if only for what it did to the former DT area and the front gate. That area of the park looks so much better now without the box o' disaster.

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  5. Speaking on the topic of dive machines, I made my first trip to BGW this year and went into Griffon with low expectations.

    Wow, was I wrong.

    The first drop is one of the best first drops on any roller coaster I have ridden. Followed by the immelman which made me slightly gray out (forceless I think not). Then the second half which has another great drop and immelman and a few pops of ejector air.

    It blew my expectations away and I am glad it did. I preferred Alpengeist so you can guess which type of coaster I am hoping to see. :)

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  6. I would say that carts is a pretty miserable experience. I was mainly located at Street Skyline until last Thursday (my last day). When other locations need people and we had an excess, we were sent wherever. I worked the cart right by the bandstand twice and the time ticks on very slow. You have no one to talk to and nothing to clean that would keep you occupied. So what do you do, stand in front of the cart with maps until someone wants to buy something! Those 2 shifts were pretty painful, but I can say that working at Street Skyline was an awesome first job and I'm glad that I got a chance to work at KI.

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  7. From reading various sites, I've read (and this is purely from the internet and second hand) that some cops from the area that did not investigate heard that the restraint did not fail. IF this is true, one would wonder how she could come out. Allegedly, the woman came out during the double down. Is it possible that the woman's stomach could come out from under the bar during the first "down" and then the rest of her body to come out at the second "down"? It seems very hard to imagine it happening. Like a few, I find the eyewitness is not 100% reliable, has anyone else heard about if the restraint did in fact release?

  8. Hi all, in 2 days I will be leaving for a fantastic trip through Virginia! On the trip, we are going to KD and BGW, so I was hoping for tips for the parks. We will have enough time for all the rides, so I'm not concerned about that, but I was wondering what the best places to eat are? What is the best approach to the park, best seats on rides? Really anything that could improve our experience would be great! Thanks!

  9. Former Cincinnati Reds pitcher and Reds Hall of Fame member Tom Browning will be available to meet park guests, sign autographs and pose for photographs Monday, June 10, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm at the Reds Hall of Fame Grille.

    The exciting news on facebook doesn't pertain to the construction.

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  10. Obviously, I am no authority on the case, but my guess as to why they would disassemble the Milly train and winch the Maverick train is because of the nature of the rides. Maverick is in the first half of its course, as shown by the horseshoe roll. I assume that when it is pulled to the second launch, it can be launched from there instead of winched the rest of the course. With Milly, it is about half way through its course. I'd imagine it would be quicker to just disassemble and reassemble the train instead of winching it the rest of the way.

  11. I voted Intamin, wood, sit down, yes.

    My dream for the section would be an Intamin wooden coaster, such as El Toro, including an inversion. While that is my number 1, an Intamin ride such as Maverick would be great too.

    Realistically, it is probably a B&M.

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