FUN&ONLY!

Good stuff! I really have no idea what they are going to name this thing now...

It would be LRT in this case. “Late Ride Time” I guess it really just depends on what the park feels like calling it.

It stand for “Exclusive Ride Time”

Busch Gardens Williamsburg getting two Intamin launch coasters in potentially back-to-back years makes me wish even more that Cedar Fair still worked with them. I know @Maverick44 feels the same way!

I have always liked Airtime Thrills because he discusses things that other coaster channels never talk about. I think he deserves more subscribers imo. Also, Kings Island is definitely a “have” park!

I think they will deliver the packages to the news stations tomorrow and a public announcement date will soon follow. I doubt the park will try to line the arrival of the package with the contest winner up with the news station’s packages. For all we know, someone across the country could win this retweet contest, and mailing it could take forever.

If it is the 15th or 16th, the announcement date will probably be announced sometime this week. With Mystic Timbers, they set the date about nine days in advance, so I see them announcing the date very soon! Assuming it is the 15th, I could see them announcing the date tomorrow on their social media and sending teasers to local news stations. That would line up with the timeline of Mystic Timbers. The 15th is also a Thursday, so that matches up to!

Whatever they are doing, I want this to come to KI!

Maybe this is a hint... tape and teasers... hmm... maybe Don ran out of that magical tape on the teasers and needs more...

I would like that, but knowing Cedar Fair, they would probably leave out the vertical spike element in order for the ride to run three trains. Maybe Intamin could work something else in to allow the coaster to run three trains, but I am not sure. Pantheon can only run two trains of twenty people, and that is not enough for Kings Island, especially if it is situated at the front of the park. Nonetheless, even without a vertical spike, I am sure that any Intamin launch coaster that we got would be absolutely amazing!

Trust me, I don’t! But anyways, how many signatures do you think is the magic number before the park spills the beans? 2,000 or more?

Thank goodness, but a Vekoma SLC would still be better than anything Intamin has ever... never mind! LOL! I stopped myself @Maverick44! But in my honest opinion, I think the park needs a good Mack or Intamin launch coaster next, preferably Intamin.

I bet John Materese reads these forums, not to mention that @Hawaiian Coasters 325 provides him with information related to Kings Island, specifically the 2020 project. Who knows, maybe one of you is John Materese! Or am I secretly John Materese? I guess we’ll never know for sure.

I watched a similar video a while ago too, and it looks really cool! I will leave a link to the one I watched below, and they start talking about the switch track at 1:30.

Maybe they are updating the blog post...

Maybe they want to see how much people want them to announce the coaster! Maybe at 1,000 signatures, they will set an announcement date!

Only if Kings Island could get something like that. We don’t have very good launch coasters.

I wish they made a POV video. It looks like a great launch coaster, but I wish Busch Gardens did what Cedar Fair usually does with their new roller coaster announcements which includes multiple renderings, POV videos, and other animations.

So if the QR code on the fence leads directly to the Change.org petition, and since Chad Showalter wrote a blog post regarding the petition before any of us even knew about it, I think it was created by the park. Not to mention the born in 1972 in a small town outside of Cincinnati! Somebody may have already mentioned this though. I didn’t quite feel like reading through ten pages of this stuff! LOL!

Wow... I was gone for two days and I never thought that I would miss this much! Thanks to everyone who is decoding!

You are probably right!

This is strange, their website says they used to make promotional videos, but they don’t do it anymore. Maybe this information is outdated like the rest of their website, but I don’t know why Kings Island would hire them for this project if they aren’t going to make promotional videos.

I was looking through the Notice of Commencement for this project, and Kingdom Productions is listed. Kingdom Productions was also listed on Mystic Timbers’ Notice of Commencement, and I think they either made the announcement video or the videos in the queue/shed. This means that we will probably get a ride announcement video made by them or some other type of theming videos. Holovis, who did the theming for Mystic Timbers may have made the queue/she’d videos, though, so I am betting that Kingdom Productions is behind the announcement videos. If anyone has more information on this matter, feel free to share!

That is true @BeastForever, but I always wonder why Cedar Fair has removed all of Carowinds water rides and not touched any of Kings Island’s. I only think Cedar Fair removes water rides when they want that land for future development, and I am not sure that Cedar Fair would have wanted to develop the land that KCKC occupied. If they did, I wish they would have sprung for something else besides Tomb Raider. I honestly cannot think of another park that has had so much wasted investment. Son of Beast and Tomb Raider: The Ride combined cost over 50 million not counting inflation, and I can only imagine what we could have today if that money was spent more wisely. I like what Cedar Fair is doing to the park by trying to build up Kings Island’s lineup. I think Paramount worked with the wrong companies.

Double post, but I think there is an app called Ride Forces which also has an app for smart watches. This allows you to track the g-forces and the speed of a ride with your phone or watch.