Lets Talk about what ride or rides that Kings Island should get for the 2011 season.

Let's try using the search feature on this site...

EDIT: Mea culpa. Read on!

Oh Terpy Pat's new to kic's site, welcome as you can see in the upper right hand corner there is a search window!

I did a welcome earlier...

^^^I did try to search, and didn't find anything. Would someone **cough cough** Terpy**cough cough** like to be assistance?

Terpy just searched and the 2011 thread has apparently been moved, deleted or cast aside (I am 99.9 percent certain there was one). Let's watch Terpy apologize:

Terpy: I'm sorry, I'm wrong. Let's discuss 2011 ride(s) at Kings Island!

(There is a 2012, 40th anniversary thread still out there)

In case anyone's wondering Great Coasters International has been teasing a new design they're working on on Facebook:

The last one was uploaded just today. While there is a very high probability this is not for Kings Island, Cedar Fair has been on a GCI streak and I thought it's worth discussing where this might be for, since it hasn't been announced yet.

Reminds me of boulder dash.

Sure does look like familiar terrain....

I can't recognize that terrain at all. Anyone care to enlighten?

Come on support your local Wood Coaster Geniuses! haha I would rather see a GG coaster in ki's near future! Wow 2012 would have been my 15th season at Kings Island

I'd actually rather have a GCI then a GG at KI....GG's are harder to maintain, and less family oriented.

I think that a water attraction for BB would suit.

I'd actually rather have a GCI then a GG at KI....GG's are harder to maintain, and less family oriented.

Personally, I think KI is pretty well covered in the family coaster department- Top Gun, Adventure Express, Racer, Little Bill, Reptar, FOC, and Backlot. I wouldn't mind having a kick-butt woodie, especially maybe in an area formerly occupied by KI's biggest "inside" joke...

Well what did we just get? A kick-butt hyper. I would be surprised to see them go with something extreme again.

Sure does look like familiar terrain....

That took you a little while, old Terp said dryly...

I got it, I was just afraid to say it at the risk of starting another coaster rumor. But now it's said and done, and now this is gonna become a madhouse. While I can hope that's correct, all I can see are headaches in this rumor.

ALL I said is that that terrain looks familiar....and, indeed, it does....

Sometimes I have to be smacked up side the head before I catch onto an idea, but if this is a rumor about what I think it might be, this is why this is my FAVORITE place on the Internet (or some other places, for that matter)...

ALL I said is that that terrain looks familiar....and, indeed, it does....

Yea, and I still remember you and your Night Row comments from 2 years ago....

Sometimes I have to be smacked up side the head before I catch onto an idea, but if this is a rumor about what I think it might be, this is why this is my FAVORITE place on the Internet (or some other places, for that matter)...

Amen!

Just because a company might pitch a proposal does not mean a buyer exists for it...(see, for instance, a certain hypercoaster pitched to a park in Mason, Ohio in the Paramount Parks days)...or that it won't be bought later by another park owner more interested in the purchase and/or more financially able to take it on.

See also, Renegade, Prowler, and the would be woodie at California's Great America....not to mention, the fact that when this supposed ride would open Kings Island could be under different ownership and different management interested more in short term investment and value rather then long term cost...

(source: Google Maps)

To sum up my thoughts on this...

The other popular census is that this is intended for Silver Dollar City. I looked on terrain mode on google maps and there is a location that fits that terrain, however, it's about as big as that park and half a mile away.

Look at the last GCI Concept picture, at the bottom of the appearent lift hill. See where there is a break in the supports? That matches almost perfectly with the maintenance road that's underneath SoB's structure, the one several of us have walked under for tours.

I'm now fairly positive that this is for Kings Island, however I have been wrong before, many times!

My guess would be YES. We are CF's third most visited seasonal park (source, page 10), so, if anyone's going to get a new coaster during CF's hard times, it's going to be us. Here's hoping! It looks like another Prowler... would they dare to reuse the SoB concept?

March 16, 2010. And events thereafter.

My guess would be YES. We are CF's third most visited seasonal park (source, page 10), so, if anyone's going to get a new coaster during CF's hard times, it's going to be us. Here's hoping! It looks like another Prowler... would they dare to reuse the SoB concept?

It should be pointed out that those numbers are not official attendance figures, and that much has changed since 2007.

Houston, we have a rumor!

ALL I said is that that terrain looks familiar....and, indeed, it does....

This is why your my favorite member on KIC Terpy.

Let's also not forget Cedar Fair tried to stop the Intimidators from happening...then again, they did spend $10M on a water ride that they've wanted for years...gah confusion!