silver2005

Its acceptable to have the bar up a bit to allow for airtime yet keep you safe, right? That's what I'm getting at. I try to keep it up a few notches where its still completely safe yet I get ride ops on those rides that consistently insist on stapling me. That's why I didn't feel much weightlessness on Valravn. Call me crazy if you guys want, but I experienced what I experienced. Personally, Valravn is my least favorite B&M at CP and 2nd B&M from the bottom overall with only Mantis pre-floorless conversion below it.

Ride ops seem to be encouraged to push down more when they check the restraints when I try and leave it up a notch or two. Every single time on Banshee, Thunderbird, Valravn and GateKeeper.

Being a smaller guy, its hard for me to not get stapled in the seat by those newer B&M vest restraints like on Banshee, GateKeeper, and Valravn.

So what's it like to have been upside down on a coaster 3,000+ times (including the other coasters you likely ride significantly less with inversions)?

With a little tweaking, you could just do a straight end to end route. Just move the Action Zone station a bit to the left and the Rivertown station a bit to the right. Just enough to avoid Drop Tower and the Eiffel Tower.

If I take entirely back roads, it'd be 60-75 minutes with all the lights and slower speed zones and poorly timed lights I'd have to navigate. I do know a way to skip I-71 going up Madison Road and getting on at Red Bank, which takes me past the bigger bottleneck areas during rush hours. Madison Road, though, has a LOT of lights and 25 mph zones. Driving through Oakley and Hyde Park is nice though.

I live on the west side of Cincinnati in Delhi Township. On an empty highway with forgiving lights, I can make the park in 35 minutes. However, more realistically, its about 45-50 minutes. Going up in the mornings or evenings gets me into rush hour traffic which probably bumps it up to an hour at times. I go US Route 50/River Road, follow it to the 6th Street Viaduct, and get on I-71 around downtown Cincy. I have 2 alternate routes though. I can also take a bunch of side streets through Green Township/Dent and take I-275 from the I-74 split and either take it all the way around to I-71 or get on OH Route 126/Ronald Reagan Highway to I-71. Those 2 are about 40-55 minutes. Mileage wise, its about 30 miles for me. About 8 to get on I-71 and 22 to Mason.

Because the bigger acts want some pretty big cuts. For example, I hear Riverbend loses money on Jimmy Buffett concerts.

Valravn's problem is the restraints. There's no room for them to allow any sort of weightlessness since they pin you down to the seat. Only the back seat had anything close to weightlessness. Griffon and SheiKra have the old school B&M overhead restraints, and they have more wiggle room than the newer vest restraints.

^There's been interesting things that KK has done in Cincinnati as well. I've noticed billboards near the less fortunate neighborhoods in Cincinnati (mostly on the west side) and NKY. But those areas are places KI likely doesn't have much of their demographic from, at least on a multi-visit basis. Add onto that the out of state discount and they make it work. However, that was when KK initially reopened. The billboards insanely rare to find on the Ohio side of the river now.

If there's any park that KK is drawing from, its more likely Holiday World than Kings Island. HW fits KK's mold a bit closer. Most Louisville residents I talked to down there were pretty split on which of those 2 particular parks they visit more. KI seemed to be a distant 3rd, and most of those were only once a year type trips for those people.

Intamin ships their track in containers. That might be Premier or Vekoma track instead, maybe even Maurer.

So I have a car situation right now, and depending on how long it'll take, I may have to push back the trip. Everything is still TBA right now.

This is the same chain that named a ride Nighthawk and painted it sunshine yellow and blue.

Internet trolling doesn't always come in the form of an attack. You post things that are wildly unpopular with the view points of a lot of members to get a rise out of people. I've seen some posts that you've had to comb through the site to make a trolling post on, like my time at Coaster-Net and people liking LaRosa's outside the park. I'm a former moderator myself with 6 years experience and know how to spot it. You also make these posts with little to no context with a bit of randomness to them. Your posts are textbook internet trolling.

Except KI isn't getting the shaft as evidenced by everything they've done since acquiring the park, not just the coasters. You just sound ignorant of what's actually going on, but instead, you just sound like a whiny fanboy who isn't getting his way because the park might not get a giga, or an Intamin, or whatever you're fancying Kings Island getting, to the point where you're saying Kentucky Kingdom, a niche park at best, is going to take some sort of significant chunk from KI's attendance from a coaster they can't afford. A vast majority of your posts have been just that despite a lot of members posting stuff about the contrary, none of which you actually make a great deal of effort to refute without resorting to your usual praise of Intamins and parks that have gigas. Believe it or not, most people have the ability to be sympathetic and empathetic in their opinions by taking the knowledge they gain from other people and applying that to what they know. Its how we grow and develop. You act like people can't do that regardless of their circumstance. That's a really crappy way to treat people and it shows you have no respect for those members (or anyone else here right now with the way you're trolling us right now).

Where you're from and what your home park is doesn't mean that person doesn't have a valid point. If you have to resort to discrediting people for stuff like that, it means you don't have a valid argument yourself.

^Are you rooting against KI on a KI fansite? Have fun with that.

^Did you not see the smiley in my picture post? That was meant to be sarcasm.

^Exactly.

Uh...we are NOT doing a Steeler themed coaster thank you very much.

Just got my Coasterstock package. It's kinda cool getting things like credentials and such. I forget, what are the wrist bands for?

You guys saying KI is getting the shaft are completely delusional.

Mack looping trains look cooler than Premier's.

^And the badly designed paths leading up to the equally badly designed bridge on the entrance side of the park.