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I was unfamiliar with "Big Bear Mountain" so I watched a POV for the Dollywood ride. I am now thoroughly intrigued by the phrase "family thrill ride" which, while I'm admittedly only a roller coaster casual enthusiast, has come to define a certain niche coaster that isn't worried about record breaking hills and gut wrenching inversions, but is getting back to the old idea of fast, smooth, plenty of G-force and just plain fun. It's always been my favorite coaster, and while I love Racer and Beast like old friends, they are both fast and weightlessness inducing but would never be called "smooth" lol. So it has to be argued that Kings Island has the two extremes, but really nothing that approaches this idea of a BBM type experience. I think CF knows that, is aware of the popularity of this type of ride as of late, and that suggests to me it's a niche that the next big addition will seek to fill. Word is an official announcement is coming in the next month or two. Where would such a ride go? I'll call it right now. If this is the direction they went, it goes in one of two areas. First, as many have speculated, would be to wave goodbye to Invertigo and build this as a sprawling, rolling attraction along the front of the park, possibly taking over the Congo Falls plot and extending all the way to the service buildings and concluding near the water park. That space is valuable for an upfront welcoming attraction and the service buildings can be relocated. Second option, which would be my preference, makes better use of the wooded areas between The Bat and extending to the park's far SE edges (parallelling Orion but running longer). I absolutely, positively am against any more significant depletion of the park's wooded areas and I think a low slung, long and fast BBM type coaster snaking through mature wooded areas would be specatacular and intense. There's little back there except service roads which would not need to be impacted or rerouted. Theming? Stay with me. It's already low profile and one would assume, twisty and shifty. A dark track. No lights. Jet black track and rails. I hate to say "ghost train" and lump it in with Banshee with the spooky factory but something along those lines, "Midnight Ride" or something like that. Or give a nod to the park's neglected German theming and area heritage, "Headless Horseman" as a thrill ride zipping through the woods, dark shadowy reaches of the park etc. Perfect option for a ride that continue to run in October.