teenageninja

Building pad could be a new haunt attraction.

Without knowing your size it's hard to say. Cedar Point's rides are notoriously more difficult to fit than the ones at Kings Island.

With the price of steel being as high as it is, unlikely we see anything 400+ with any significant amount of length. Also, putting the highest point at the middle or at the end is a nightmare for brakes. Please don't let Cedar Fair buy Kennywood. It's a great park and I'd hate to see it lose it's charm. Also, it would be neglected with it being so close to CP and KI.

The park will always try to staff Rides first, then food and merchandise. Would you rather have a restaurant closed or a ride?

Don't know if this has been said before, but the length of the clearing is roughly the length of The Racer's footprint, just kind of interesting.

There must be a separate set of "leaked plans" than what I've seen then.

It's impossible to tell at this time. We have the distance between the footings, but we don't have a descent angle or the radius at the top of the drop. We can use historical data to take a guess, but that's all it will be, a guess. As for your assumption above about the first hill being an overbanked turn, there is quite a bit of distance between the drop and the turn around, so I would assume there is some sort of airtime hill or element between. There is also a good amount of distance between the turnaround the "treble clef". Basically we know nothing.

Because when people started plotting the points for the footings, they noticed that it would take a steeper lift hill to get to the numbers they had in their heads.

Mystic Timbers is my favorite ride in the park and it's not even close. Everyone needs to step back from the edge.

Could possibly be KI's excavator as well.

Gordon, Even though I am a mechanical engineer by trade, I don't have enough details to properly solve this problem. However, I can assure you that those billboards are not designed to handle the load of a rollercoaster track.

That would be way too heavy for a sign like this.

But with this attitude how will we ever get out of the shadows of Cedar Point!

Toronto is significantly larger than Cincinnati, I won't debate that. Charlotte is probably similarly sized if you spread out the market. Using Cincinnati and Charlotte's actual population probably isn't a great marker when both parks are not located in the city proper.

This new coaster is going to be called Everything sponsored by Einstein Bros. Bagels.

I'm going to argue a bit with these numbers. The greater Cincinnati area, including Dayton, NKY, etc is far larger than 301k.

And route the Flight of Fear line where? No thank you.

Re: T Shirts For what it's worth CincyShirts and Homage have had Kings Island apparel in the past.

I was just about to do this.

You have to know the reference point at KI to know how to map these.

I think you are thinking of Delirium. However, TR:TR and The Crypt suffered a lot of downtime in general.

Vortex is unlikely to get removed until you start to see it have frequent mechanical issues. Parts are pretty readily available and despite it's short line times, is one of the most ridden rides in the park. I do wish they would replace the trains with the new Vekoma trains though.

I work for a company that makes forestry clearing equipment. They can do some serious clearing in the course of a week. My assumption is that they have a guideline of when they need to have the forestry cleared prior to grading of the ground as well as the pouring of footings. Surprised how close they have this going towards The Beast, but excited about it nonetheless. I also believe those maintenance buildings will be moved.

It's part of how the ride works, though. The cars run on something like a cam. Would require additional hydraulics to raise and lower and would be a lot more expensive.