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Going to best buy to get a great deal on a Nikon D3500

Going to best buy to purchase a Nikon D3500, I’ve heard they have a good sale.

On this day last year, the final big piece of FH came down and today the last piece of Orion went up.

His web site: https://bradross.com/ How we know.

Glad they got track work completed yesterday because it is snowing pretty good here right now.

^I still have my fingers crossed that the park comes up with something to sell...they really don’t have to go all out like they did with the SOB plaque. I would be happy with a small piece of track packaged the same way the SOB bolt came, with just a simple certificate...that way there would be no big commitment on their part and no big overrun cost worries.

All I know is that the minute the park decides to sell off her orange and blue bones, I need to be informed so I may add her alongside my SoB plaque. Also, I would not be surprised if somehow the park gave a nod to the past like they did for SoB when Banshee opened. Can’t rule out the possibilities. I could see a sweet Vortex marker nearby whatever goes in her place. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, it looks like they've installed the lockout area fencing for the first drop.

Still hoping trees could grow in that hill more around Diamondback lol

Looks like a fenced lock out area to me. Lots of coasters have them in areas where the track gets very close to the ground. I believe Fury does. Diamondback has one too.

Is it just me or does it look like there is a rectangle thing at the bottom of the first drop?

Clearly not shot with a Nikon D3500

New KIBlog post about the track completion. https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2020/january/track-work-done-on-kings-islands-orion-roller-coaster

Here’s one I just made: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It snow, but it melt that quick, global warming is coming to us.

I just hope the quantities aren't super limited again if they do it. I have one of the SOB plaques and I believe it was 1 of 250, but Vortex is way more important to me.

The lineup was announced for Spirit Song 2020!

As of 1045, what appears to be the white crane from Orion construction is sitting out in the far corner of the parking lot to be staged for shipping.

Answering your question!

Man I missed alot yesterday. I was sick so i slept all day.

Working..

Awesome find! Wow. Son of Beast was insane....

Well Wild Gravity Travels wasn't the only facebook page that messed up earlier today. I don't know If anyone has seen my page before, but I run Cedar Fair Photo Fanpage. Anyway, I made the mistake of posting that Orion was finished too. However, I don't think I'm that well known yet. I only have 500 likes. Hopefully, after reading this post, some of you might look me up.

WCPO has a little aerial footage from the helicopter today in here.

I'm still laughing from this burn.

There was a severe “jolt” at the top of the hill following the large drop. It.was.bad. So they re-banked and re-tracked that portion of the ride.

Remember KI once had helicopter tours over the park as an upcharge attraction. So there was no ban then. Worth noting, the copter pad was located approximately where Firehawk and Orion's ques are (will be) located. Here's some nostalgic photos for you - courtesy of yours truly - that show the construction of the pad, and an overview of area where Orion has been built. Looks a bit different, wouldn't you say?

I’m assuming the next step is installation of electronics and sensors.

I love The Bat for several reasons. But once it reaches the end, that spot would be great for an RMC (better than Vortex's spot IMO)

Oh I was being silent, only liking posts from Don and Chad. Later someone sent me a snapshot of the post they sent to someone where I was referred to as an “kiss asses”.

I thought he was referring to this but now I understand what he was referring to, my bad.

Wild Gravity Travels doubled down and made wild claims about the park and park officials. Clearly, you did not do that as you’re showing remorse.

Not just you, if you look at the webcam you can also see it. My best guess is that’s from the wooden planks (or what ever that was) that the large cranes sat on during construction.

One of the best campgrounds ever built in my biased opinion

I mean, The Park can contact the FAA, and then you answer to the FAA.

Personally, I hope The Bat is around for many more years to come.

A correction to what I posted - SOB media day was around April 28th and it soft opened to the public that weekend after modifications were made following media rides. It ran that weekend and was then closed indefinitely for further, more extensive, modifications to that same area. It did not “officially” open- according to the park - until late May (26th.)

SO hoping John can say the same thing about you!

The patch jobs it had from that early period in 2000 is what I was referring to. In the report (I did a college paper referring to it as part of the 2009 accident), it described that stuff the park (as part of the forensics investigator's argument that the ride should have never been opened at all) did to it early on and seeing the cranes in the video (which is dated June 24th, 2000), I just assume that's what they were there for. The video is kind of a snapshot of that early period of its history. I remember it being closed on and off its first few years. I remember it wasn't until around 2002 or 2003 that it started to operate somewhat regularly (I went a LOT from the mid 90s to the mid-2000s). Anyways, its cool seeing stuff from KI back in the day. You may continue with your regularly scheduled Orion discussion.

I don’t have any knowledge of the patch jobs done after the 2006 issues. Truth be told, I was over SOB by then. I guess they probably had to usher in a large crane for the loop removal etc - but not necessarily one of those large semi- permanent ones with the box type structure. I thought you meant after it ran for media day (when I first rode) and they ripped out the curve leading up into the rose bowl. BTW - for posterity - SOB never quite ran for the public as originally designed and built. It’s a real shame because media day rides were far superior - albeit was too extreme for the GP. I’ll never forget that experience. Such a shame... doomed from the start.

If you go to 3:20 you’re able to get a decent ish view of the landing pad area.

I took out all the 5 year planning discussion and made it its own topic. What great conversation. To be continued over here:

That would be implying it wasn't pointless before....

I don't have a problem with them turning off the camera for the liability concerns mentioned above. And really, I'm 40 years old and have a job and two kids -- I can't be staring at a webcam all day in hopes that I might, at the right minute, see a piece of roller coaster come down. But I do wish KI would see that there might be something to be gained by taking pictures or video of the demolition and posting them somewhere...Instagram...here? Demolition of a ride isn't sexy, especially when there isn't a replacement in the works. But it's the end of a historic ride. I seem to remember CP documenting the demolition of Disaster Transport and the Space Spiral, and there was video of SOB's main hill coming down. Feel like some sort of documentation about Vortex, especially its loops coming down, might be proper.

Man those pictures are really hard to look at! Also looks like the filter or whatever they had on the DB cam is gone.....unless its just the weather doing it.

It hurts more than I thought it would to see the station torn down. Nothing lasts forever...

That's kind of the idea.