Orion742

Sorry I’m trying not to annoy you lol but have you used it at the SOB location yet?

Speaking of which, if anyone is going tonight and is getting the lantern It would be cool to hear what the SOB crate interactive point does.

Personally I think this lowers our chances of a modern Vekoma thrill coaster in The Vortex plot, at least for a while. Kings Island is not going to debut a new coaster one or two years after Cedar Point got a model that will ride the same and feel almost the same. It’s like if Cedar Point built GateKeeper in 2013 and in 2014 Kings Island built a wing coaster. The park was actually looking into a wing coaster for 2014 but since Cedar Point was getting GateKeeper they decided on an invert. I do believe this makes 2026 our year with Cedar Point getting back to back major coasters and the parks not liking to do major additions in the same year. I think the park is saving The Vortex plot for something special and I can’t wait to see what it is in the future. I do think the park is going to have to get very creative with our next coaster. Should be very interesting.

I highly doubt that. Maybe in 2026 but I really don’t see CP and KI getting the same ride when KI is marketing it as Ohio’s first racing water coaster. It’s like if both of them added Top Thrill 2 in the same year and they both said the worlds’s tallest and fastest triple launch strata coaster. It doesn’t make sense to add the same ride in the same year when they’re only 3 hours away.

Or maybe they have plans for The Vortex plot of land and the end of Coney Mall before they want to do anything with Action Zone.

Do you remember where you saw that?

I saw that. The other scare zones seem to be staying so my best guess is the path between Rivertown and Coney Mall but we’ll see. When I tried to pull up the Haunt map to see where it might be the calendar & map page only shows the calendar and I don’t see the Haunt map. Also I noticed how when you click on rides or shows it just takes you to their normal pages. Seems like those aren’t available to view yet.

I hope KI can get Snoopy’s Soap Box Racers open for Winterfest. It should be able to run in colder temperatures. Many modern Vekoma rides do. Also it only has one train which would make maintenance easier. Excited for Winterfest this year!

I really like your ideas and I do agree the area could use a bit of a refresh. I’d really like to see the top half of Coney Mall back by WindSeeker split into new section of the park with The Vortex replacement. Personally I’d like to see either a Mack Xtreme spinner or Mack Stryker coaster and not another family coaster because I feel we have quite a bit already but that might just be me. I don’t have a specific idea for a new area theme but I would like to see BLSC rethemed to that back section as part of the new area. Along with the new section in the back half I’d like to see some work done on touching up Coney Mall to freshen it up as well.

The chaperone must accompany the minor(s) at all times now.

This is a perfect addition for Soak City! I just love the color scheme of RiverRacers. It’s really going to pop on the skyline. I also really like the splash river junction expansion. I’ve been calling for a family set of water slides and that is an amazing addition. Well done KI!

So only season passholders can purchase them?

Sticking with Mack, a Mack Stryker coaster would be a fantastic addition. It could still be inversion focused but be the modern launch we need with ejector airtime.

If you had to choose one addition from the surveys Kings Island sent out, which one would you choose?

I am not a fan of this concept. I love The Beast but they should keep it the way it is. Extending it might ruin its charm that I love. This is not the best way to use The Vortex plot of land. It should be used for a new coaster. Just retrack The Beast with more precut track if they want to do some work on it. Our two launch coasters are great but I still feel we need a modern launch coaster of some kind.