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Someone may have pointed this out earlier (or I did), but for the sake of new conversation, Yukon Striker is the only rollercoaster in the Cedar Fair chain that has a water fountain in the station in order for people to dump out their drinks before placing them on the new ride storage bin system. Do you think that the reason there is a water fountain in the station is for the giga to have a similar ride storage bin system? I know Amusement Insiders pointed this out in a video long ago, but I was just thinking about it again today because I didn’t know if anyone had put more thought into it...
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It would be sooooo cool if would could get a custom IMAscore soundtrack like we did for Mystic Timbers!
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2 minutes ago, warriordog10 said:
not the warning.....the tor warning was canceled. a watch is issued tho but there are no tornado warnings currently .
I misspoke, but thanks for correcting!
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9 minutes ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said:
Those of you who are on here who live close to KI, i hope you all are in your safe place. Tornado Warning in Warren County right now. Texting from my basement.
Thank you... unfortunately the warning has been extended until 2 AM! On the other hand, I wonder what a night ride on The Beast would feel like right about now...
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34 minutes ago, collin.klopfstein said:
Totally off topic but I’ve never ridden millennium force so I’ve never seen the station. The station looks amazing
The theme music is just as impressive!
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Is it possible, based on the blueprints, that this new ride will have a storage system similar to Yukon Striker’s new overhead storage system? I don’t know if this has already been talked about, but I was just wondering about it!
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38 minutes ago, DustinTheNow said:
Hey! I’m gonna be working on a video tonight breaking down the elements of the coaster using my no limits model. Anything specific you guys want talked about? Anything that would be interesting to you?
I can’t think of anything of the top of my head, but I am looking forward to seeing your video!
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I just don’t see us getting a ground up RMC topper track or I-Box track coaster anytime soon because Cedar Point is super close and literally has that as their signature attraction. It also just came last year!
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I hope the supports have good contrast to the blue track! I am not a fan of how the track color and support color on Leviathan look almost identical. However, I love Banshee’s color scheme with the blue/purple supports and the red/pink track (I am not sure those are the actual colors), but I am not a fan of Diamondback’s color scheme because the yellow has been faded for years. On the giga, I am personally hoping for white or black supports as I think those colors would look great!
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Just now, fryoj said:
Not sure why we got 2 minutes of walking down the street there, but ok
Yeah, he zoomed in on some of the track, but the camera was so shaky that it was impossible to make out what any of the labels said in the video!
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http://www.wildgravitytravels.com/kings-island-2020-and-hersheypark-2020-track-update-2/
Edit: The article is a lot more helpful! And yes, you can make out MCT on the track label, so the blue track is for KI!
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You also have to wonder how many people complain to guest services and on social media over worthless things, and often times they are the ones in the wrong. It would be hard for the park to implement a solid guest feedback program when most of the submissions would be spam or junk. All of the meaningful complaints would be buried in tons and tons of junk responses. I do think @fyrfyter had a solid complaint that the park could improve on and is helpful for the park to hear about, but I know there would be people who would abuse a feedback program.
One of my relatives who worked at the park, in guest services, told me a story about a time when a man was so angry that he threw a pen holder at her, so she had to file an assault charge. Also, a man once demanded a refund because he got bird poop on his new car while it was in the parking lot. Those are the kinds of responses the park has to deal with constantly, and some of the good criticism is lost with piles of those dumb remarks.
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2 minutes ago, BSBMX said:
You're right about what the MC stands for, but I believe the T is just for project T of the mega coaster series. The Hershey track is labeled MCR, so it's project R of that series. Not sure about project S, but since industries skip certain letters that could be confused with numbers (I for 1, O for 0, S for 5), so that might explain why we don't see any MCS track. OR, it might be a legit project, just skipped for the time being.
MCT is guaranteed for Kings Island as the track labels match up with the labels on the blueprints!
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I was about to comment about that, but you took the words right out of my mouth! Thanks for the good find! Now all we have to figure out is the colors for the supports!
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Actually, from this photo, we can tell the bottom of the track will sport a different color! I am not sure if it will be grey like it is now, or if the bottom has yet to be painted! Unless it is just the glare!
Edit: After studying the photo more in depth, I think that the track is just solid blue...
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3 minutes ago, collin.klopfstein said:
Better picture of the track at CSF. All credit goes to coaster media.
THE WATERMARK IS BLOCKING THE LABEL AND WRITING ON THE TRACK!
EDIT: It may still not be clear enough to read!
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2 hours ago, bkroz said:
This is obviously going to be an awesome ride. But just to be a negative Nancy for 10 seconds, I feel the slightest bit of disappointment that it's another giant Cedar Fair B&M of swooping drops, soaring turnarounds, etc.
I feel like Mystic Timbers put us on a good path to having coasters from smaller manufacturers, with more-than-just-a-barn-for-a-station theming, and with personality. X-Base (quasi-dystopian, questionably-governmental flight and technology research testing facility) totally lends itself to an epic, different kind of coaster with amazing personality and re-ridability!It seems like the perfect area to have a twisted, compact Mack coaster like Walibi Holland's Lost Gravity, diving around set pieces and props, right? Something nimble, bright, colorful, and twisted, with some iconic, spinning, light-up sculpture (this example isn't what you expect, but is perfect) in the middle of the layout "tearing space and time," and pulling props toward it.
Obviously Alton Towers' Smiler has its own issues, but wouldn't a wild Gerstlauer be fantastic in X-Base, and unlike anything in Kings Island or Cedar Point? Anyone who's been on a Eurofighter knows they are truly unique in the sensation and pacing. Smiler has an LED screen at its center with mechanical "spider legs" coming from it, and each leg has its own weirdo props that are part of the ride's "hypnotizing" process. It's eerie, but comical, and no one but Gerstlauer could've built a roller coaster that looks and feels right for such a story.
Or, to borrow from my favorite, Verbolten, imagine if X-Base got a multi-launch Zierer coaster. Imagine that we, as guests, are cast as trainees being dispatched to an old, retired, unstable facility back in the woods leftover from the '70s where X-Base scientists were working on experimental interdimensional technology. The coaster might start by just coasting out of the hi-tech station and into the woods slaloming through trees before coming across a massive, rusted, old government warehouse that's all dilapidated. Then, inside, the coaster immediately turns toward the glowing portal and launches into a spiraling, twisting interior of pulsing lights and sounds. The train finally escapes through a tear in time, screeching to a halt back in the old, broken down facility, and that's where a vertical drop track falls, with the ride launching back through the woods to the station.
If it's got to be a B&M (which is understandable! High reliability, high capacity, very showy, feel like "headliners"), how about a Wing Coaster that's intentionally positioned as an OPPOSITE of GateKeeper, keeping low to the ground and spiraling through set pieces, like Thorpe Park's Swarm? It could be themed to a prototype flight experiment that's escaped from an X-Base office building and is tearing through the facility.
Even a Dive Machine would be awesome if it were given X-Base theming, which essentially means it would just need looked at like Alton Towers' Oblivion.
Is this new coaster going to be amazing? ABSOLUTELY. Don't get me wrong. And I'm sure its station will look metal and it'll have a quosnet hut queue building, and it will play high-energy techno-music while you wait, and it'll be blue or gray and have a name that kinda sorta feels like a "secret project" that X-Base might be working on. It's just a little disappointing that after all that famous "Cedar Fair theming lite," it'll be a big, tall steel coaster with airtime hills and sweeping turns and (gasp) maybe an overbanked turn. While I love that Cedar Fair is getting braver when it comes to queue theming, it almost makes it worse when the "build-up" leads to nothing. There's barely the insinuation of a narrative, but then that narrative has no conclusion at the end, which means it might as well have not even been there.
Each of the rides above are rides that set their respective parks apart because just a little extra care and attention was put into them. To my thinking, each is the roller coaster equivalent of a "viral post." You WANT to tell your friends the backstory; you WANT to bring first-timers who will be amazed by the "surprise" element; you WANT to ride again and again. Another big, tall, fast roller coaster will be amazing. But it that what's needed in Kings Island's lineup? Maybe for LOTS of people, it is! I just hope we continue to see projects like Mystic Timbers, too.
I like your thoughts, but they make me feel like we need a completely separate thread for “The Coaster After the Giga!”
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I honestly had the complete opposite food experience yesterday at the park. I went to Skyline Chili and ordered three of what I thought were chili and cheese coneys, but I was surprised to find that when I ate them, they had no hot dog inside. I went up and asked why there were no hot dogs, and I soon realized that I had ordered three chili and cheese “sandwiches” which is just chili and cheese in a hot dog bun. This is probably why my bill came out to be so cheap. Anyways, I kind of felt bad for asking, even though I asked politely, because I was the one who was wrong. I was about to apologize and be on my way, but the kind lady who was working took my plate of food and gave me three hot dogs at no extra cost. She took the extra step to make my experience better when she could have just told me that I was wrong and that there was nothing that she could do!
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Having been at the park a couple times this season, I cannot even tell you how many GP have seen the clearing and think that a giga is coming! I have heard many people “bragging” to their friends that they know what is coming next year! I guess John Materese has done his job!
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Is there any way to tell whether the spine of the track is painted a different color with what we have to work with right now?
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Honestly, there are not many local news stations that go as far to get documents from the city and go to a rollercoaster manufacturing plant to put the latest buzz about an amusement park on the news...
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I really don’t know if this helps, but you can clearly make out some blue track in this video around the 0:53 second mark!
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I guess we are getting a new Vekoma now to replace our old Vekoma?
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I am waiting for WildGravityTravels or Midway Mayhem to do another round of picture taking at Clermont Steel Fabricators!
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Decoding 2020
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I have not been to Canada’s Wonderland to experience the new ride storage system, so I don’t full understand how it works, but if it is anything similar to how plain bins in the station work, it would be on the exit side of the station. When you board, let’s say Diamondback, you step over your seat to the exit side to put your items in the bin. I will probably have to research how Canada’s Wonderland’s system works to find out more about it before I can say for sure...