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I think they might switch to the new style that Kings Dominion and Carowinds use.
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Honestly independent of the length, it still looks like an amazing ride. You’re gonna start off free falling for nearly 5 seconds, get thrown sideways twice, go over an airtime hill insanely fast and low to the ground, and go over a really strong floater airtime hill. Then you have what looks like a relatively intense helix (at least at the entrance, the exit looks kind of floaty) and rise up into another sideways airtime hill. This coaster is still going to be elite, even if it’s not the most impressive.
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Reminds me of the Voyage in that it's outrun is uphill.
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Just now, Maverick44 said:
The links send me to a page that says no results found
That's what I'm saying. "Polaris" gives you two results, "Orion" gives you no search results. Ergo, I think it's reasonable to assume that they're doing some preparation for the website post-announcement.
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So I don't know if this means anything, but when you search "Polaris" on Kings Island's website, it returns to results (one of them related to season passes): https://www.visitkingsisland.com/search?q=polaris
The same search function with "Orion" returns nothing. https://www.visitkingsisland.com/search?q=orion
COINCIDENCE?
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12 hours ago, BeastForever said:
Agreed 100%.
I will never for the life of me fathom why some enthusiasts would take joy in another park receiving what they speculate to be as an underwhelming or disappointing addition...
This isn't like in sports where a "rival" team receiving a good player potentially could diminish their own chances of success, particularly if they end up in the same division/conference/league (ie. Giancarlo Stanton signing with the Yankees in 2017 - instead of the Red Sox; Bryce Harper going away from the Nationals and onto the Phillies).
Had this coaster broken records, it would not have made Fury 325 any shorter, slower, or lower in quality than it is right now (nor any other ride, coaster, or attraction at Carowinds or any other park for that matter).
I'm also tired of the smarmy comments such as the one made by "coasterbruh" legitimately hoping to see people upset. I put those comments in the same category as people actively hoping for certain rides to be removed simply because they don't like them. Such comments are rude, insensitive, and so unbelievably smug.
No one here took enjoyment in seeing Carowinds fans upset/angry at historic Thunder Run being axed in 2015. And why would we? I for one actually greatly pity them for their loss. I know this is slightly offtopic, but what was so devastating about that removal, is not just that it left a very significant gap in what was already a subpar supporting lineup of coasters, is that a ride that can never be truly replaced, or at least not in any time-frame worth mentioning. Imagine walking down the midway of Coney Mall, looking off the left, and not seeing The Racer accentuate all those buildings and rides, as it does so very well. Would it really even BE Kings Island at that point? But I digress...
Simply put, the experience of a ride at one park is completely independent from the experience of a ride at another. Therefore, it should not behoove any well-meaning enthusiast to want the latest addition at their non-home park to be 'disappointing'. If anything, you should hope for the opposite (Count me among those who really would like to finally see the next notable ground up coaster at NFJTP, ya know, the first one since...El Toro in 2006 :/ )
That having said, I'm sure that the comments discussed above do not represent CarowindsConnection as a whole and they're probably mostly nice people...
But as for the individual predicting that this will be the 'weakest' of the three B&M gigas, all I have to is we'll just see that about...
We will just wait and see...
Again though, I think you misunderstand the point. It’s not a criticism of the ride or the park, but of the enthusiast mentality perpetuated by the echo chamber that is the enthusiast community that every new coaster needs to be a top ten world-beater attraction, or else it’s a waste of time. I don’t think he wants the ride itself to be disappointing, but if it disappoints a couple hundred angry enthusiasts, big deal. At least that’s how I read it, I can’t speak for coasterbruh. But having read his comments on the site for years, I feel that it’s a reasonable interpretation.
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2 hours ago, refrigerator said:
People in this forum were trashing the ride when the blue prints leaked.
None of us were really trashing the ride, that comment made by coasterbruh was more of a critique of the enthusiast mindset that if something doesn’t tick all the right boxes for coaster nerds, that it’s somehow a bad investment. No one wants the ride to be bad.
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You wanna start teasing that 2020 addition?
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Just now, Nutterie said:
What reddit post?
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So I know I’ve been wrong in the (very recent) past, but I’ve got a feeling we’re gonna see something from the park within the next hour based on that reddit post. Four weeks out from August 14th today.
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27 minutes ago, collin.klopfstein said:
So I’m guessing no teasers today
Looks like I was wrong. I would have assumed they would have tweeted out something by 12 but that doesn't look to be the case.
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I think tomorrow is the day teasing starts. Essentially it’s four weeks out from August 8th, which seems like a pretty reasonable date.
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30 minutes ago, WindingSon said:
Any particular reason?
KI announcements usually happen in early August, and between Tuesday and Thursday this week would give them a solid month to start the teasing campaign.
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I fully expect teasing to start sometime this week, between tomorrow and Thursday. If I had to bet on it, I'd say Thursday.
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The stupid enthusiast in me wants it to be a water coaster, but I agree with @BoddaH1994 in that's it's likely a larger and improved wave pool.
[EDIT] It could also be one of those Proslide Walls, since they recently removed Tornado.
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2 minutes ago, DustinTheNow said:
Ohh what do you mean? Here’s some models of the brakerun if that helps!
It must be the position of the camera in the No Limits video making it appear steeper, since it looks fairly normal in the screenshots.
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17 hours ago, DustinTheNow said:
It’s basically this one. I’ve just updated colors and added a few more 3D models.
It looks fairly accurate, but is the entrance into the brake run supposed to be that steep?
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Looks like the Fast Lane entrance.
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4 minutes ago, shizzzon said:
It will be funny if they just name it... Giga.
I dont think they'll name it Polaris or Orion. Trademarked names so early dont really get used for name of ride the way I'm seeing it.
It's probably the name of the trains or nothing.
Speaking of rain, our local news said weve had rain 21 out of 23 weekends so far. Weve been waiting 6 months so far for our master electrician to upgrade our house to 200a service... the rain is ridiculous here.
But, I've been to ki 3x this year so far rain or not... I don't care.
Last saturday they blew a transformer around 3pm when first band of storms came in. Didn't effect anything I seen.
‘Hangtime’ was filed in May 2017. ‘Copperhead Strike’ was registered in April 2018. There’s not really a pattern suggesting when they’re gonna use trademarked names.
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So are the grey supports confirmed, or are they just primer?
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Will it really matter if it’s not a “true” giga? It’s based on an arbitrary form of measurement that the public won’t care about, and visually, it will still look like 300 feet. If it was measured in meters, it’d still come close to the giga measurement. I just don’t see why it matters?
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My planet coaster recreation was a little over 5400 feet, and several of the recreations have pegged it between 5200-5500 feet. So somewhere in that range.
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I don’t know if this has been asked before, but are those Firehawk trains confirmed to be going to Carowinds? It’s just weird that they’d still have them and they haven’t scrapped them yet.
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3 hours ago, kirbias1 said:
What on print makes most believe this will be a reverse treble clef? To me, it just looks like the standard turn around that Leviathan has.
The highest elevation on the turn is on the left side, so the shaping is more one-sided than the turn on Leviathan. It also curves inward a bit like a wave turn, whereas Leviathan stays relatively straight until it reaches the apex. I'd screenshot the differences if OneDrive was working on my PC.
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Orion Coming to Kings Island in 2020
in Kings Island Central Newsroom
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Is Orion at a lower elevation than the rest of the park? Comparing it to WindSeeker in the renderings, it looks closer to 276’ than 286’.