Benjamin22

The thread is just terribly named, what they’re asking is if B&M will ever build another coaster at Kings Island

Probably the newer Vekoma trains, maybe repaint it and re-profile portions of the track?

It’s just a themed pathway really with a bunch of scare actors, it’s not better then a maze of course but it’s definitely nice to have as you’re walking between rides/mazes.

Kings Island still has the most scare mazes though in the chain correct? They might be tied with Knotts.

Is there really room though with those buildings currently there?

It’s a 30 million dollar coaster, if the attendance doesn’t change much then I see us moving to at least a 4 year cycle considering Cedar Fair has indicated that they will be making less large individual investments. And since it appears they’re going to move back to the one coaster a year (maybe two) I don’t see Kings Island getting a coaster every 3 years.

I wonder what happened, sounded like something was wrong with the train or seats.

Only way I see us getting 3 year coasters is if Orion is successful and draws in a noticeable increase in attendance, if not I foresee us going onto a 5 or 6 year cycle.

Cool that they launched the web store, I remember back a few months ago they were talking about adding it, glad they went through with it.

I mean in my opinion they provide nearly identical experiences, large inversions no airtime. Dive coasters at least “hang” you over the drop & wing coasters provide a more unique experience (especially if they’re launched)

I don’t see the purpose of a floorless coaster when we already have Banshee. A launch wing coaster or a dive coaster would at least provide a more different ride experience.

Mike Seems to be doing a fantastic job, this year was probably one of the best years when it comes to additions in my opinion with the several all around improvements that were needed. Does anyone know how much it’d cost to repave the entire parking lot (I’m aware they’d likely only repave the most used portions)

I don’t know how I feel about a dive coaster, they’re fantastic supporting coasters but I’d kind of prefer a Launched Wing coaster after riding Thunderbird. As to where they should put it I say take out Invertigo and Congo falls and bam you have a fantastic front entrance coaster. I’d be incredibly upset if they remove Vortex for a cookie cutter Dive coaster, not worth it imo.

Here’s what I think would be nice 2021 - Flat ride (A Screamin swing would be perfect but I’m not getting my hopes up) 2022- Water Park investments 2023- Family rides? 2024 - Maybe a Dive Coaster in Action Zone where Invertigo and Congo falls is? Id love for Action Zone to be gone (One less paramount scar) and be rethemed to a haunted area, Haunted Hollow sounds like a cool area name.

I hope they don’t push the whole Orion, The ride thing a lot. I don’t see why that’s necessary. Kind of like Volcano, the blast coaster.

A 5 hour line on Millennium force? Most of the time you can almost walk into the ramp... maybe you just went on a really bad day.

One of them (The one closest to Vortex) seems to go down more often then the other fountain. They were both down on Thursday.

Most likely, but it never hurts to call customer support to confirm. I know you’re able to activate your Platinum pass at another park so I’d assume so. It’s the same price so it shouldn’t Matter.

I really really really hope IMAscore could do the score for this ride, but I don’t have my hopes up.

It’s intamin so probably not

We really don’t know why this giga is the way it is, considering it’s the same price as Fury (If not more) and it’s a 1,000+ ft shorter definitely gives me an impression that the price of steel or something has gone up a decent amount. This giga already was pushing the budget, that 13+ ft isn’t noticeable to anyone but Coaster enthusiast who want to bash a ride because it isn’t the best coaster ever built

I scratch my head a bit from their line of reasoning, out of their 2 main arguments one of them is severely flawed. They argue that most Coaster enthusiast feel a giga is 300+ ft above but from I’ve been able to tell most enthusiast agree that this is indeed a giga coaster. I get the height of a giga coaster is one of the aspects that makes it was it is but you’re not going to notice a 13’ ft deference.

I’ve always based it off of the hyper definition, either 300 ft tall or 300ft drop. The park seems to agree with this mentality.

I don’t expect there to be long lines, Fury 325 usually is almost a walk on the 4 times I’ve been to Carowinds.

Anyone know the song they used for introduction video? Thanks.