silver2005

As long as the weather holds the way it is in the forecast, it'll be Reds/Pirates on Thursday and Kennywood on Wednesday. Hey Reds, I know you can't find a win with a metal detector right now, but could you not suck in Pittsburgh so I can actually stay the whole 9 innings?

If we get a giga, it'll definitely be a B&M what with the last 2 gigas in the chain being B&M and CF's lack of confidence in Intamin.

^Vortex also has a lower height requirement than Banshee or practically any other of the looping coasters at KI.

Well, I'm feeling pretty good about having ridden Great American Scream Machine (NJFTP's,which, I rather liked) now with the news on Viper. I think malem or someone usually gets hold of and posts the ridership numbers for each season. I think Vortex still performs near the top of all the KI rides if my memory serves me right.

I've been watching the Pittsburgh forecasts like a hawk, and so far, it looking good for both days as far as Kennywood is concerned. Tuesday has looked consistently better than Wednesday, but Wednesday is cooperating. Ideally, I'd like to do the Reds/Pirates game first, then Kennywood.

Same here, and I'm astonished to not be seeing the carousel picture on the error page.

Any good stops for food between C-bus and Pitt?

What, RMC would just re-track with Iron Horse a layout that was just bunch of helices and 0 air time? No thanks. Even if SOB's layout were smooth, it was boring. Other than the first drop and loop, what was so exciting about it?

Paramount should have waited about 5 years when Intamin (before parks realized they sucked) brought their plug n' play woodies (see El Toro) into the picture and then SOB might have been very good.

If it gets relocated, I imagine it'll relocate as separate rides unless some park actually has the cash and space to take on both tracks. I imagine there would be some new supports needed as well if some of the 2 tracks share supports.

After much toiling, I finally got my shifts covered at work for the Pitt trip.

I've only ever gotten Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You. I've also gotten bats exponentially more than the other two. I've only gotten both snakes and trees once, and the trees was when the front screen was down.

Inverted coasters have less moving parts what with the lack of swinging. You can make tame ones (see Flying Aces, Vekoma and B&M have built more family friendly inverts). The idea of the inverted coaster came about after Arrow tested to see if suspended coasters could take inversions safely (with most innovations, one of the first questions about it was it's ability to go upside down since looping coasters were HUGE in the 80s and 90s), which, they can't, thus the need to eliminate the swinging. As we've seen through recent history, it was quite the launch to other innovations such as flying, 4D, wing, and floorless coasters. Just look at how much of the Vekoma and B&M portfolio of inverted coasters were built between the original inverted coaster SFGAm's Batman: The Ride's introduction in 1992 and, say, around 2003-2004. Arrow essentially died because they couldn't keep up with the innovations. See Ron Toomer, Drachen Fire and their many bankruptcies due to not delivering on certain innovations.

^Vekoma still makes suspended coasters.

Yeah, I'm getting a lot of water ride posts from parks in my FB news feed.

Because pretty much every other designer has something Arrow did at some point and there isn't really a niche market within that which S&S can exploit.

BTW, here is the group that plays Off The Charts. https://www.rivercitycincinnati.com/

I saw the 90's show in the Festhaus for the first time, and I have mixed feelings. Some of the singers are genuinely good, but most of them can't hit intervals and miss key changes while there's a lot of clashing going on in the vocal chords (music chords, not the muscle). Also, Madonna's Vogue in a family theme park? Really? (which, they butcher, it was grating hearing the female singer perform it so over-dramatically, its a much smoother performance from Madonna on that song). Also, if you can't get the singers to sing up certain octaves that drastically change the chord structures by having them down the octave, cut the song please. They also didn't really get the vocal stylings all that well either. Off The Charts was refreshing to listen to after hearing that show in the Festhaus.

So I have a question- why does KI hold auditions for instrument players when the Off the Charts band is third party?

You will need a locker for your stuff for Rouragou.

I saw the first Kentucky Kingdom billboard in Cincy. It's on the west side of town near the I-74 interchange with North Bend Road (visible on North Bend Road going south).

On the line length discussion- Vortex is one of the best line chewers in the park, up there with Banshee, Beast and Diamondback. A wait out to the queue entrance is probably only 20 minutes. I sure don't hear this discussion when Banshee is a walk on during weekdays.

If you guys ever want to see what Rozzi's is really capable of, get down the the WEBN Fireworks on Labor Day Sunday in Cincy on the Ohio River. They have a wide array of colors, shapes, precise timing to the soundtrack, and goes on for about 20 minutes, way more than they show at Kings Island.

Today started like a normal evening summer visit, then ended up as a rainy Haunt visit. I'm more soaked than 5 rides on WWC with the rain that poured mid-ERT. Had a fun time regardless.

I'll be up in a bit. malem, I'll text you when I get there.