silver2005

Oh, another benefit with Millennium Flyers to note- they are great trains to photograph in motion.

Didn't PTC also refute that in saying they were okay with running trains backwards?

High five! I ride those 2 rows often as well. You can specify me from the UC gear I often wear.

Save the trees by killing them to create the coaster? silver2005, asking questions in lieu of another member.

And WindSeeker to boot.

The trains on Coastersaurus are smaller versions of the Millennium Flyers since it is a kids woodie (smaller as in slightly narrower). I imagine GCI could cook up a slightly larger front on their full scale Flyers.

This is an idea of what the trains could look like. This is a train used on a coaster recently fitted with the Flyers- Coastersaurus at Legoland Florida. Picture from GCI's Website.

I think I may swing by for this since I'm working on opening day. At least to get my 71st coaster credit.

I imagine the first tunnel would be hard to hear one another given its all concrete (thus the sound has nowhere to escape, it just bounces around) and its the tunnel taken the fastest, and would result in one of the most nonchalant on-ride photos ever. Tunnel 2 would probably be the easiest. The helix tunnels will be the real challenge.

Also, my Skyline is in a less populated part of town. I can imagine waiter/waitresses at the more popular Skylines (Clifton during the school year, downtown) haul even more in tips.

^I work at a Skyline restaurant, not at KI. I'm comparing those tips to the kinds of tips KI waiters/waitresses make.

Alas, KI will finally be a home for the greatest wooden coaster trains ever.

This conversation is why I define things for myself and don't let designers' product labels tell me otherwise (coughRMCcough).

If I were to go top 5, I'd go something like this- 1. Flight of Fear 2. Backlot Stunt Coaster 3. Adventure Express 4. Beast 5. Banshee

^I can second that working at Skyline. I think part of it is lack of tips working a full service restaurant which the meal plans incentivizes not leaving tips because you're not paying at the actual restaurant. I don't think a full service restaurant should be on a meal plan of any kind. Good servers make bank on tips. I've seen waitresses at Skyline pull in a few hundred dollars on busy days from tips. Why work at Kings Island when you can go down the street at Outback or Blue Ash Chili and haul in money? I don't see why a good server would work at KI given the alternatives. I bet a lot of those waitresses and waiters are doing it for the first time. Going on a tangent, for a full service restaurant, the selection is pretty limited. Sure, it's better than most of the rest of the park, but KI is a pretty low bar to get over in terms of food. Having eaten actual Montgomery Inn food at the original location and the boathouse downtown, its not quite up there, but its a closer margin of error than KI's representation of LaRosa's (which, the Reds, Coney Island, and the Cincinnati Zoo get LaRosa's much better, the Reds even offer calzones). When it was WINGS under Paramount, they got Montgomery Inn down a lot better. I don't know what in the world KI does to the LaRosa's sauce and baking, but they do it completely wrong. At least they get Skyline and Graeter's right...

Well, Intamin, B&M and Morgan have coasters they refer to as 'hyper coasters' by model name that are under 200 ft (Steel Eel @ Sea World San Antonio, Hollywood Dream: The Ride at Universal Studios Japan, Goliath at La Ronde, Goliath at Walibi Holland, Expedition Ge-Force at Holiday Park). What about those?

Wish I'd found out about this sooner. I don't have anything prepared.

1. KI isn't CP 2. KI hasn't done anything for a college alumni base in a while (they did do a UC day at KI for a few years during the Brian Kelly era)

I never understood the argument that the shuttle coasters don't count.

^Some of us have them, but there are also some of us who think (myself included) that the food quality and poor food service isn't worth that option.

I've been having issues in typing posts recently and it only happens here. The cursor randomly cuts out and I have to re-click a bunch to re-establish it.

All coasters go through clearance tests before they're opened, even if they have no tunnels, inversions or crossovers.

I agree with TombRaiderFTW that they are ridiculously cheap. One part that makes these programs work better is exclusivity. Ex.- the idea of letting only a partial train of people from the Fast Lane line in and filling the rest with regular guests. But the idea that CF doesn't limit FL like they should and the adding this relatively cheap alternative for season pass holders is opening Pandora's box. They're truly selling themselves short on this. If season pass holders have so much given to them as part of the pass (FL+, the meal programs, etc), they're going to spend less in the park. They already spend less than non-pass holders without those programs in effect by essentially getting their money up front for all these items and now turning it up to 11 with making them more affordable than they should be.

They might have to run clearance tests before finishing the tunnel.

^^For some reason, I thought there was a small amphitheater there, or at least some sort of pit that was filled in. The earliest clear memories I have of KI was after the monorail was retired. However, I do remember Rivertown, HBL and Coney Mall from back then fondly.