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I knew there was something weird about the train colors!

Same. I always thought its placement mean they wanted to expand the waterpark to both sides of voyage.. but I think Pilgrim's Plunge may have hurt that plan; and then it was clear with the addition of Thunderbird that there must have been a change in future expansion ideas. (This all just assumptions btw)

Looks like they are in the process of putting the highest support up right now

We got beyond the 2nd hill today~ One more support to complete the 2nd highest crest on the ride!

It seems like a couple people didnt read the article.

I think it would be realistic to expect something a little less heavy than 'the shed' for Orion. But, to expect it only in the line in that building before the stairs. I will be surprised if anything os notable in the station, let alone the actual ride beyond some audio. I would guess some sort of 'debriefing' sort of environment, talking about the impending meteor, thanking us for volunteering etc. I hope anyways. It'd be nice to bring show room queues back to the island :p

I love Kentucky Kingdom's internet presence haha They've had interactions with even Universal because of their nonstop meme-age :p I also love that they acknowledge the roughness of T3 when they advertise that ride on Instagram :p

So, the huge empty space where FH used to turn into the station, there wasn't anything in that location in the blue prints right? I just realized that's gonna be a huge empty space lol

You'd probably only need 30 minutes between other shows to use the same performers. They only have to change and then perform, the floats can be taken care of by a different team. The summer had the parade.. 1 hour after HRN ended, and then.. idr what time their night time show started.. but i wanna say it went at 9pm.

The performers I've spoken to are quite relieved that there isn't a WinterFest parade this year lol Not to undercut you, just surprised those are the opinions you've found!

Agreed. And honestly boo blasters is rather poor in quality. But more indoor, air conditioned rides mean less people will leave when it's rainy, and more people will stay longer if it's hot. I agree with your water park opinions :p

Ah, okay thanks. I just didn't understand the reference. I googled it seeing it was a movie, but still didn't get the reception of it. :p

Citizen Kane?

Luckily, coming from the south, almost nothing is seen on 71. See my signature XD.

That's cause it isn't a wave turn lol. And we know for a fact that it isn't since we had the blueprints that showed it curve to the left. People are just calling it that.. maybe for clarity, or because there likely will be almost floater there. Personally, it looks like the entrance and exit to that banked turn will have unexpected (for most) floater. But 'wave turn' is more concise I guess :p Wave turns normally look like a sideways bunnyhill from a skyview; even with weaker airtime than this. If I'm understanding this correctly.

Oh no! Hopefully someone buys it again this time, but can outlast this current owner's successes. KI will need to expand SC if we don't have another water park option in the immediate area. We already run out of seats with the many we currently have.

Glad they released the time lapse! They know everyone likes to have that after the fact.

Six Flags will be first I bet lol

Looks like we didn't crest the horizon from the webcam's perspective :p We'll definitely have that happen when we are on the observation deck though.. at least the lower one.

Anyone know the elevation change from DB's lift to Orion's? I tried to find a topography map and it didn't go very close.. but it seems like it might be a 50ft ish difference?

Sorry, I should've also asked for how we know this. Did I miss an interview? Edit- but thanks for the number. (Im sure its been said earlier; ive been very busy to read every page) I was able to find a DaytonDailyNews article using the number. Im excited to have a near 90° drop at the park finally! I've always yearned for something truly steep at the park. This counts to me!

I agree, a steepness mention would've been cool. I also think they shouldn't've given the height of the lift hill. Shouldve just left it at a 300ft drop. Do we know definitively the drop's angle?

Haha the track looks thicker than Diamondback even though it's waay further away than it

They probably did; But I'm not completely positive. But the video is out there, we can't post it here, but to pretend that we didn't see it seems nonsensical. If you actually didn't see it, that's your prerogative. I don't like that they probably trespassed, but I can't control them. This is an issue with the park and police if they want to punish them.

Looking at the video, it looks like the trees next to Chaos building are gone. Its all cleared out. Someone had pointed out the markers there a couple weeks ago.