Hawaiian Coasters 325

It already went vertical

**DOUBLE POST** I rode blue Racer and it seems like they already have a ton of footers dug out. I saw it on the turnaround.

Don't we have a runway kinda hidden in the ground, but able to see from Firehawk?

Like FOF. Also, I like how the Xbase plaza is lit up at night. I wonder if they add some cool lighting to make the plaza better at night when this new coaster opens!

Here's a little concept I made on what an teaser/announcement poster could be like. Note: this was made by me and not by the park so this is NOT me trolling like other people have done.

Banshee is usually pretty empty because of capacity being high. I actually know a lot of GP who really enjoy Banshee. In fact, Banshee this year from what I have seen has had longer lines this year than past years.

On space theme topic, my church is doing a space theme VBS this week! Here is one of the decorations. Also, the LED lights in the background is the same color as our track!

Someone told me that he thinks the name will be Zodiac which was a former ride at Kings Island. Zodiac is also mentioned in the antique cars posters. Zodiac also has stuff to do with space.

I'm wondering now is what would the height of this coaster be if they were building it on a higher elevation? Also sorry for double post

One thing I thought of is this drop would be only like 5 feet shorter than Leviathans drop which I've watched povs of Leviathan and the drop looks amazing on that, so I'm guessing you won't notice too much of a difference between this and Leviathans drop.

265 feet is the lower deck. 275 feet is the top deck. 296 feet is about 20 feet higher than where you are standing on the tower if on the top deck. If on lower deck, it's about 30 feet higher. I'm guessing this giga and WindSeeker from viewpoint would look about the same height wise.

I wonder if they will classify it as a hyper or a giga coaster. YouTube comments seem to be mixed. I'm leaning towards giga because the drop is 301 feet and the park stated they asked CF for a giga coaster. So it's basically "they asked for a giga, they got a giga!" Simple.

If I remember correctly, GateKeeper didn't really have a teaser campaign. I think the only teaser was on Disaster Transport's final mission poster where it had the light blue feather logo talking about the future.

They'd market it as a 301 foot drop if I were to take a guess. Heck, maybe they'll just say it's 301 feet tall when only the drop is 301 feet tall.

Speaking of theming for this coaster, I hope they go all out in theming for this kinda like Copperhead Strike. The Quonset hut in the queue says prop building on the blueprints, so hopefully that means some type of prop. Like maybe a spacecraft prop could be inside it. Maybe could be part of the reason they aren't going all out in the coaster stats and layout because of them spending a good amount of money on the theming.

I'm sure opening weekend for this ride will be crazy busy if the weather is nice like the openings for the last two coasters. I wonder if they'll use the chaos building as an overflow queue like how they used the crypt building for MT. But that probably won't be enough. If I were to take a guess, the line will stretch to the Eiffel Tower.

Speaking of illegal activity at the park, I found this YouTube vlog from this well known YouTube family vlogging channel. It was uploaded like a week ago and mainly consists of them filming parts on rides. Let me say I was not happy when I saw it.

No I'm using this because clearly Kings Island doesn't allow drones over the park at all.

This is Kings Island's drone policy found on the website.

I don't know. I believe all they did was ask him to get off the stage and he complied and went on his way.

If we get a Mack coaster, I would love for it to be something like Blue Fire at Europa Park. But with a double launch and not a MCBR.

I saw a guy yesterday run up onto the off the charts stage before the show and sat behind the drum kit to get a picture. Let me say the sound guy wasn't happy and got him off the stage quick, but he wasn't ejected from the park.

I hate to be that guy, but we have a thread on the next coaster at Kings Island.

As you can see, the footer digging machine is out where the first turn is.

Just rode Racer and saw the footer digging machine out in the first turn area.