DeltaFlyer

Here you go. In my opinion, Definitely a Giga.

Ran this through Bluebeam. Scale is actually 1" = 40'-0". I did this by referencing the footing schedule which gave me the diameter of the piers. What is called out there as 36"Ø shows up on the plan as exactly 1'-6", meaning the scale was off. This means that the lift length is approximately 335' by my measurements. At a 45° lift angle, that means that the height would be around that same number. If anyone is interested in how I came to that conclusion I can post an image. And no, I am not an "Engineer Wannabe".

Same thoughts after riding the Blue side of Racer. Just looks like a lot of the brush has been hauled off. Doesn’t look any larger than it was. Have we ruled out a launched B&M? Doesn’t have to be a Wing, would love to see one that is normal hyper trains.

They just began startups. Heading that way shortly to see what I can see.

Can confirm. Definitely cut in half.

I tried the Brewhouse this weekend. I had heard mostly good things about it, so my younger brother and I went there for dinner on Saturday night. We moved through the line to order fairly quickly, I believe it was about 7:50 when we had our locator and sat down. We were not given a receipt, nor were we asked if we wanted it. He ordered the chicken tenders and I ordered a pub burger. It took 7-8 minutes, and he received his order. I did not. They did not take our table locator. His chicken was very burned/overcooked, and did not taste good. The tater tots were cold. He didn't want to wait on a supervisor or to be "that guy" that complains about the food on the second week of operations, so we let it go. I figured by food would be out shortly. After about ~30 minutes of still not receiving my food, I went back up to the register and asked what was happening (I could see plenty of people who ordered Pub burgers after me receiving them). The young woman at the register had to ask a server to get a supervisor from the kitchen. He came out and I told him I was still waiting on my food after we had received half our order. He asked for my receipt, which I did not receive, so I gave him my locator number and he went back in the kitchen to "check on it". No supervisors were out in the dining room, and there was a line of people at the register at this point just waiting to speak to one of them about various issues. Another 10 minutes went by (by this time it is 8:30). The supervisor that did eventually come out was not the same one as before, and he again disappeared into the kitchen to "check on it". A few minutes later I finally got the meal, delivered by the first supervisor. I was highly disappointed in the service and the lack of supervision/customer care. However, the burger was juicy and flavorful and the tots hot and quite good. That being said, I think I will wait a few months before returning.

I asked Alan Schilke last year at IAAPA if that was him. I was told it was not. In fact, he said it was insulting to Mr. Grubb that people thought that was him, as the gentleman in those photos was a bit older than he is.

Noticed that yesterday! So happy to not have to look at gum, spit, and dried vomit while waiting there (for now).

I’m fairly sure that was where the movers hung in years past. They were taken down last year when they set up the larger stage and trussing on IS.

9:33pm... still working on the clearing. Why the urgency?

Just got off Beast.... can confirm the clearing extends to the brake shed. Maybe ~80 feet out from the left side of it.

I didn’t think you were serious.... but there is literally several excavators at work right this minute. Field of Screams is so exposed.

Props to the admins for getting that taken down so fast.

I talked about this a little (a lot) in my first post on this site, though FH ended up demolished. Tony Ravagnani does some pretty awesome work. I've done several Cedar Fair projects with him.

It is entirely possible it is used for something other than a coaster. Flat rides and normal commercial buildings can also use 480V power. The new "Plaza" and associated buildings some people are talking about could have something to do with that. Also, with Firehawks's queue still remaining, wouldn't it be more likely to reuse it for a flat ride queue than a new coaster? It would be the right length for something like that.

There are several pieces of construction equipment out behind Racer near the Action Theater. As I recall there were several dozers and excavators. Not necessarily. The park buys what is called "Primary Power" from the utility (Duke). This means the power comes in at about 14,000 Volts to a demarcation point, and from that point on it is the parks responsibility for distribution and any further step down. That is in comparison to "Secondary Power" where the customer purchases the power already stepped down to a more reasonable 480V or 208V for commercial or 120/240 for residential. When purchasing secondary power, the utility provides the transformer and transformer pad, and it is the customers responsibility from then on. Since KI is purchasing power at 14kV, they own all of the distribution equipment that is in the park, and are responsible for maintaining it. Kings Island is basically a small city- it makes sense for them to have their own equipment. It is highly unlikely that Duke would own that transformer. If you go back and look at the KMAA drawings you can see that the EC was responsible for providing the transformer and not the Utility. I can see no reason why Firehawk would have been any different. If they left that transformer there, they intend to reuse it. It does not make sense to demo that entire structure and leave it perfectly intact along with the underground conduit if it were being intended to be relocated or removed. It has also been ~4 months since Firehawk's demolition was started, and probably 2 months since it was completed. I doubt the Utility would want their property sitting around that long if it was theirs. Source: Experience as an MEP engineer

Also interesting to note that Firehawk’s Transformer and Transformer pad has been left in place. I would assume it’s intended to be reused for something, whether that is a coaster, flat, or other building isn’t possible to say from that. It is still significant that it’s still there, though. Most of the other site utilities seem to have been removed, so it would have made sense to go ahead and remove it as well, but it was carefully undisturbed. I’m sure that some of the storm drains were left as well, and that is what we are seeing with some of the cones out there.

It is the transformer that powered the ride/lift motor. No sense in removing it when something may go there that uses 3-phase 480V service....

No, there is definitely a new building going up. I thought it looks like a bridge or maybe a small pole barn.

Taken through the gate for the corn maze under racer. You can see the clearing here... I don’t think ET is open but I will look.

I also just noticed that there is a structure being built back in the woods already, it looks like a bridge or a small pole barn.

There is an insane amount of clearing. Active construction. Most of Dino’s Alive trees are down. Saw this while riding Racer. It stretches behind racer from the maintenance buildings all the way to the action theatre. I will try to get a photo... somehow. But I think this all but confirms it. Too long and narrow to be a Dive Machine.

No, a THIRD cone. If it wasn’t confirmed, it is now.

Here is all I can see through the fence. I’m not tall enough to get over it, even jumping. No teasers, no posters, nothing over here. All I can see is the dirt and some cones which I assume are marking/covering some storm drains.

I can’t see anything through it....