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RMC has done re-tracking jobs without their new track designs. As for GCI, they have done several as well, including for Cedar Fair (Mean Streak is one I believe). They haven't added Millennium Flyers to anything outside of their own coasters though. Gravity Group would make sense because some of those guys were from GhostRider's original design team at CCI.
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^^I figured as much, both logically and looking at the rendering angle. They got a lot of space to play around with there.
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Also- to KI- plant a few trees around Soak City while you're at it.
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Hopefully they'll repave the parking lot with the new parking tolls.
Fellow fans of the classic rides at Kings Island- I want you to close your eyes and take a deep breath, maybe put on a relaxing tune. Our favorite rides are safe.
I love this. I always saw KI's slide collection as being small and out of date. Love the drop door concept and the shorter inner tube slides look fun as well. I'm a huge fan of having a feeling of free fall on slides, which is why I missed the Fast Trak slides. I will have to get used to seeing a slide only about 20 ft short of Racer's height, though.
Won't be at KI next season for reasons beyond my control, but I will definitely look forward to this in 2017!
Thank you Kings Island and Cedar Fair!
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I imagine BB1 is a pretty happy guy right about now.
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^Dark water slide anyone?
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I'm thinking it'll be a slide complex similar to what KD and Worlds of Fun have recently added. Still putting my money on a new front entrance as well.
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700 WLW will be covering this as well as a live Tweet from a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2015/08/18/kings-island-announcement/31948395/
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T-minus 1 hour.
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Probably invitation only. Maybe at the top of the Eiffel Tower or some other small space. Or backstage somewhere they don't want guests.
Kings Island replied to a guest on Twitter that guests will be able to attend.
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Holy plot twist Batman!
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For those heading to the park- traffic might be heavy-ish. The Western and Southern Open tennis event is sold out for today's matches.
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Here is my guess. This is going a lot of my gut feeling, but also in what I want/don't want to see (in other words, heavy bias).
- Racer will not be torn down
- New front gate and/or fountain rehab (fits what CF has done with CP, Carowinds and KD)
- New thrilling flat or dark ride
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That is by the Paradise Island fruit stand by Diamondback behind the Eiffel Tower.
Looking at the webcams now, and that stage is not there at present.
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I am also hearing rumblings that two things that have been at the park since 1972 that virtually everybody has experienced will be removed to make way for something new.
I find a bit intrigue in the part I italicized. Perhaps its not a ride, but some other thing like the main entrance or the fountain that'll get a makeover or something. Maybe a spruce up of the Eiffel Tower or KIMVRR?
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So what attractions that aren't either Racer opened with the park?
All I can think of are Scrambler, Monster, Viking Fury, and the Grand Carousel. And I'm not even sure about Viking Fury. Not sure if Dodgems would count since it was originally in a different location and therefore technically it was a different ride, since it probably had a different configuration.
Viking Fury is not a ride that was there in 1972.
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^I now have an awful knot feeling in my gut as I read that. I'm both nervous and excited at the same time.
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^^The building is called Action Theater. It once had films in combination with seats that moved to enhance the experience.
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Enthusiasts need to come up with a re-wording of Andy Williams' It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year' for when announcements come (and for the start of theme park season as well).
Can't wait!
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^There's only 1 other giga not in a Cedar Fair park, currently in Japan, Steel Dragon 2000 at Nagashima Spa Land (also the longest coaster in the world).
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^Oh, the irony of describing Leviathan as 'the behemoth steel wonder'.
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^Six Flags has normally announced stuff for all their parks at the same time, at least going by the last several years. Usually takes place in late August/early September.
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With all this talk of Cedar Fair utilizing virtual reality, I know a certain building between The Racer turnarounds which would benefit greatly from that if they are up to getting the moving seats working again.
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Well, there is a Cedar Point, Illinois. I sometimes get directed there on Google Maps instead of the Sandusky park.
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Tropical Plunge - NEW for 2016!
in Kings Island Central Newsroom
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The Cincinnati Enquirer is usually off and on when writing Kings Island stories, but the one for today's announcement is a decent read.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2015/08/19/kings-island-announcement/31948395/