Hawaiian Coasters 325

Here's today's "Steel Beast" concept using the general area @Maverick44 came up with. This time, the coaster's station and queue is right next to juke box in front of BSC. (FLP stands for fireworks launching pad since they'd have to push it back a little bit)

Photo found on this site https://centurionstoneofiowa.com/product/stack-smoothgray-2-2/ Full credit to them. This stone is called Centurion stone. That would be perfect stone for in the station and queue as well as the entry plaza. Centurion is the commander of an army and the station and queue area could be the Centurion's palace. The slogan of the ride could be similar to outlaw run's slogan, but instead of "The good guys always win" we could do "Everyone wins in this war." Or they could do what they did with MT with the "ride into the unknown" thing and do "Control your own army."

Today's giga concept Centurion. Replaces Congo Falls and Timberwolf! The left side of AZ is given an amazing entry plaza with a castle themed station and a kingdom themed queue. In the queue there is water wheels like what you can find in a Kingdom as well as torches on the lift hill as the lift hill lights. Torches are also on the station walls and are lights in the queue.

That's Ryan from Canada Coaster Fan. RMC Trex giga would be interesting, but I'm not sure if RMC would be willing to jump right to a giga not too long after building their first hyper (Steel Vengeance). My theory right now is that Fred Grubb was in Ohio because of SV problems so he took a break and went to KI and talked with Greg Scheid about a possible future RMC project for KI. I don't think the RMC is for the next coaster though. KI did something similar with GCI. I don't 100% know the source, but someone said that Greg Scheid told them that they started talking with GCI not too long after Prowler beat out Diamondback for best new ride for 2009. Right now I'm predicting the giga to come in 2021 and then we get a topper track woodie in the back of coney mall in 2024 using the old Action Theatre as a station. Imo the topper track fits the best at KI since KI likes have a big wooden coaster collection and they'll probably want to add more woodies to their collection. I think if they were to do a topper track that they should shoot for the tallest and fastest wooden coaster records so they can have those records once again and they could try and make the woodie big enough to rival Voyage, El Toro, and Lightning Rod.

Today's Power Force concept

My idea is a dark ride themed to a cave tour. It could be called "The Cave of Discovery"

Here's a good teaser, Over The Racer and through the woods, to the finish line you go. Also, we are officially at 100 pages on this thread

Probably for a future flat ride on the flight commander pad. Mike Koontz said at Coasterstock during the q&a that they currently don't have plans for anything major for the Dinosaur's Alive area.

Here you go! Today's concept replaces Congo Falls and Timberwolf and goes over Bat and goes back behind Banshee. I give you SplinterCat

If they remove Invertigo, they are removing Congo Falls as well. Both of them don't get good ridership. Invertigo only gets a line because the capacity is horrendous like all boomerangs.

Today's giga concept. Steel Beast.

G I G A all spread out through the shed.

Imo, I'm starting to think Kings Island's giga should be secluded in the woods. I think the station should be similar to Wildfire at Silver Dollar City where it's wooden theme, but is a b&m coaster. I think that would fit a secluded in the woods giga feel. I think if they went generic and called it Steel Beast, they should do that.

Today's giga concept is Power Force. This time it comes with a new entrance/exit to Adventure Express. The break run would go over top of Adventure Express.

Back on topic. For this concept instead of doing a tunnel under I-71, it crosses over KI drive and does a long tunnel with elements (similar to Hades 360) under the parking lot. The name is Ground Hog.

Neat concept. Imo it should be taller and faster than Fury 325.

I just heard on the giga speculation thread that Mike Koontz said something about that a giga should come to Kings Island. Is that true?

Last year Don Helbig joked around saying that they're getting a giga in 2080 to make the enthusiasts mad.

Probably Don just trolling with us. I hope it doesn't mean RMC.

Where's that located?

Here is my spin on @Maverick44 concept of overwatcher. Instead of a second lift hill, I put a launch (dark orange) where it would reach it's top speed of 115 mph. The main question is what would happen in the long tunnels? Imo it would be the greatest part of the ride where it would be very similar to what Hades 360 does in it's tunnels, but better at going 108 mph. They could do is have LED lights in the tunnels.

I actually think your concepts are really neat. I think doing these concepts are fun.

Actually, if you go deep into when they were designing Beast, a second lift hill was needed to make it through the double helix. I actually don't think a turn is needed. I would rather it go straight into a drop like what the other gigas do. I know these are fun and I'll be putting my own spin on your concept soon using the same area where it has tunnels under I 71.

It'd be a very crazy nightmare. I go by KI drive and I-71 every week and that area gets lots of traffic and if they had to close that road to construct coaster tunnels, the Kings Mills/Mason area traffic would be nuts. There are also lots of business buldings in the area. I also don't think Rivers Crossing Community Church would allow this since that's where people drive to get to church on Sundays. I don't think it should have a pre drop imo. B&M doesn't really put pre drops on their hypers anymore. I think a drop after cresting the top would make more sense imo since right after you reach the top you are pulled down an exhilarating drop. I also think that a giga should have enough speed that it doesn't need a second lift hill imo.

My current 6 year plan has sorta changed. 2019 - Planet Snoopy Expansion along with more Coke freestyle stations. 2020 - Flat Ride Package/2021 hype 2021 - B&M giga replacing Dinosaur's alive connecting CM to Xbase and Xbase to Oktoberfest 2022 - Off year - New food stand, and new restrooms on the left side of FOF on the path that connects Xbase to Oktoberfest also the removal of Invertigo and Congo Falls at the end of the season 2023 - Soak City Expansion/2024 hype 2024 - B&M launched Floorless (think a floorless version of Hulk at Universal, but a different layout, but similar concept) replacing Invertigo and Congo Falls to spruce up the left corner of AZ.