The Interpreter Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Apparently among the people who care are B&M and its designers and Kings Island. The designer and the owner! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calakapepe Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 But I didn't say a pretzel loop, like superman. I have confidence that Banshee's element will indeed be quite comfortable anyways. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jr for Birdy Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I prefer the pretzel loop, sue me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executioner822 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 and the fight begins... team pretzel vs team batwing!!! (regardless of what b&m and Kings Island say... this is just for fun, not being an a-hole) actually what about a pretzel wing? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upstop Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 yummm. pretzels. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChainDog Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 In a few years when the park has expanded to behind Banshee they can put a pretzel stand under it... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamondback96 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 also really feeling it would be awesome since they're going with a cemetary theme, if they put a mosoleum/tunnel at the bottom of the pretzel loop... yes im calling it a pretzel loop, you want a batwing go see Vortex. and then play the Banshee scream in there so its not too annoying to people in the line and adds a cool effect for the riders. just a thought Kings Island calls it a batwing. Therefore, a batwing it must be. Be that as it may, there is still an undoubtedly small, but clear difference between our "batwing" and other batwings. Which is why I call it a pretzel knot regardless of what the official status is by KI. The designer calls it a Batwing, therefore so does the park. So it must also be capitalized? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm on team pretzel loop 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calakapepe Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 In a few years when the park has expanded to behind Banshee they can put a pretzel stand under it... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Or sell something else... since it's named something else.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanna Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm on team pretzel loop Is this the part of the ride where it speeds up? I'd love to know the dynamics of it picking up speed in the second half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuskin Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Batwing Pretzel Stand in the making on this, page 116, the Banshee Construction Progress thread. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upstop Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 The pretzel is threaded!!!! Yay!!!! Go Clifford Jr.! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 looks like they are back working on the 2nd wing of the batzel lowing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gplez90 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron88stang Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 looks like they are back working on the 2nd wing of the batzel lowing. batzel...I like it. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChainDog Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 They could have bat shaped pretzels... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upstop Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sD4czM_gDak/TMSjWHuWC3I/AAAAAAAAAfc/H9xcc2ex6HU/s1600/chexmix.jpg 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executioner822 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 batzel? for some reason i picture the joker saying this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medford Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 looks like they've "threaded" the pretzel batwing. two sets of supports and some track left and the Batwing will be "finished" 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProdigyRider Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 As described by most enthusiasts, a batwing contains a half corkscrew or twist, half loop, half loop, then another half corkscrew or twist. A pretzel loop does not include twists, imagine it as an upside-down loop. Banshee's Batwing http://cache.rcdb.com/gr805l6i6fg0009dn20000.jpg the pretzel loop from Tatsu http://cache.rcdb.com/5e301is76080023q3c6ej0.jpg The only other difference is the track is the inverse of normal in pretzel loops. (The track is designed to be inverted, but isn't at the bottom of the pretzel loop.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 One support and two pieces of track installed today. Link to gallery 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterMyths79 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 What is the 2nd longest inverted coaster since Banshee is 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcwizard13 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 What is the 2nd longest inverted coaster since Banshee is 1 http://rcdb.com/rhr.htm?m=2&t=1&d=5 rcdb, ever helpful. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatterEaterLad Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Pyrenees is the second longest inverted coaster at 4,048.6 feet. Source: rcdb.com Edit: darn, beat me to it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBEASTunchained Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Banshee's Batwing from a different view..... "Riders will see nothing but sky as they climb the Batwing element on the new Banshee roller coaster. The world's longest inverted roller makes its much-anticipated debut in April at Kings Island." - Kings Island's Facebook page (Photo Courtesy of Kings Island) 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnofthedead Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 You mean the Shoestring Knot?......LoL 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryoj Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 I still say it's a norwegian loop as its a dive loop into an immelman. lol Pretzel knot I can see as a factual description. B&M also calls Montu's a Batwing and there is a fairly clear difference between theirs and ours. Pretzel loop is just not the same. Irrelevant though as the park is going to call it a batwing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calakapepe Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Definitely not a pretzel loop. Ouch.. imagine.. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coasterama Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I'm surprised not much progress (visible progress) was made today, considering that there won't be much time for progress due to the incoming winter storm Ion. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Ooh they should put in a food cart that sells orange and black iced bat shaped sugar cookies and blue and red iced batwing shaped sugar cookies (cookies shaped like the wing of a bat, not like the roller coaster layout lol) I think that would be really awesome and I would totally buy them even if it was $5 a cookie lol 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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