Benjamin22
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1 hour ago, Driver8rws said:
Doesn't the "station" seem incredibly small?
Is that all of it? Just the one "hangar" shape?
Most giga stations aren’t that big (considering how the trains aren’t particularly long). Also it doesn’t really need to be wide considering there will almost certainly be a ride separator keeping the number of people in the station limited.
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Here’s a photo from today’s behind the scenes tour!
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The photos are just going to get sadder and sadder
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I sure hope so, some times the rides I get on that ride are painfully unbearable.
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Parks usually don’t add a new coaster for their anniversary. I’m assuming we’ll see a new coaster in 2023.
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Hershey is just a great well rounded park, great rides, great atmosphere and especially great food. The new Hershey Chocolate Town will only elevate the guess experience. Can’t wait to visit next year!
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I get so much dread whenever I see a new post in this thread, I’m not looking forward to the inevitable post where we start to see Vortex come down.
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3 minutes ago, brenthodge said:
Anyone think tomorrow will be a wash-out cancellation? They only closed one night last year due to weather and it was a weeknight before Christmas. Assume it will go on since it’s probably a “prime night” being the day after thanksgiving, but be interesting to see if there’s a rain cancellation or reduction in hours.
Last Saturday it rained and the park was a complete ghost town, doubt it’d be much emptier then it was that night.
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I would love to see backlot retheme however theming it to a junkyard wouldn’t be that good imo. My main gripe with this coaster is how ugly it is especially for a coaster that’s in the middle of the park. Theming it to a junkyard wouldn’t do a lot to fix this issue imo.
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Just now, Kodistict said:
Has any one noticed these supports near the drop? Could they possibly be for the bank into the brakes?
I think those are just supports that are laying in the ground until they need to be put up. They’re not actually supporting the ride
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1 hour ago, Hueney020 said:
Unfortunately I don’t see that happening. The antique cars really bottlenecked that area if a new coaster was to use that ride house. Like others have said Cedar Fair likes to have big turnstile lines and that house would not work.
They could expand the bottom section of the ride house if it was necessary, I don’t find it to be impossible. However with the recent direction Cedar Fair has been heading with theming I’d suspect they’d just want to start over with a new station and new queue house.
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31 minutes ago, upstop said:
Kings Island should invest in the property as an offsite resort. Hotel, motel, camping and resort water park. There’s lots of land over there.
Does anyone know if Kings Island has a non-compete agreement with Great Wolf Lodge? I know they were partial owners at one point.
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1 hour ago, LuckyluvsKI said:
This is our first year with passes and winterfest. Does it get busier the closer to Christmas or does it vary?
I’d guess it will get busier toward Christmas however weather also plays a huge factor in how busy it will be. Yesterday for example the park was a ghost town because of the rain.
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5 minutes ago, kikid74 said:
I know they don't have ERT for Winterfest, but do they open the gates earlier than the posted opening time? I don't remember if it was last year or two years ago, they started scanning tickets at 430 (for a 5pm opening), and let people onto International Street. Then folks for Mystic Timbers were stopped at the end of IS and allowed back to MT at 5pm. Any experience with this this weekend?
Friday they let everyone in about half an hour early, yesterday they didn’t.
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1 minute ago, Shawn Meyer said:
Are you talking where guests actually boarded the trains?
Below that area there used to be a queue house that was used during The Bat but not during Vortex.
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^ I doubt the station will be reused but they could theoretically use the queue house below the station and further expand it.
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This post from wild gravity travels shows Area 72 construction. (Credit goes to Wild Gravity Travels)
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Had the Snow Day Buffet, I highly recommend it! Much better then International Streets buffet imo.
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Just saw Orion from 71 south, wow this thing is huge.
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If I recall correctly after the first drop on the blueprints there was something that was labeled HotShot which is a company that is involved in photography.
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15 minutes ago, tuxedoman52 said:
Which track might you be referring to?
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Earlier in the thread @BoddaH1994 posted a photo that showed Vortex’s train cars, the lift hill motor & in the bottom of the photo there’s some Vortex track.
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New GCI hybrid track design!
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Action Zone retheme
in Kings Island
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I’ve always felt it’d be cool to just theme it to haunted/spooky area and call it Haunted Hollow. However I’d also be excited expanding Oktoberfest into Action Zone. But the area definitely needs a retheme of some sort.