silver2005

^I ride Vortex pretty similarly. After the train crests the 2nd hill, my hands are firmly on the restraints until the MCBR due to how forceful it is. I let my body go with the flow until after the batwing and then hold on again for the helix and for the brakes as they're now stacking more often and stopping on that first set of block brakes is a super hard stop. If you want some nice visuals on Vortex, try to look to the side when you're on the loops and/or batwing and try to look down the corkscrews. I also like to look straight up when Delirium is at full swing.

Or just avoid Dayton altogether. I-75 seems to be perpetually under construction, at least every time I've been through Dayton.

@Magenta Lizard- It could be a rehearsal for the Off The Charts! show that opens a week from today. They have live instrumentation including guitars, drums and horns. They had tryouts months ago. silver2005, who plans to be at the park that day.

Will KK even have the money to do a Twisted Twins refurb so soon? They only get something around $1.5-2 million a year from here on out, right (assuming things elsewhere go their way)?

UC covers pretty much the entire tri-state area. They've gone as far as places like Florence, KY, Middletown, Ohio, and parts of Indiana. UC also has a hospital in West Chester. The Air Care operates out of Butler County Regional Airport, though they do tend to stay around the Clifton hospital. They could get to KI pretty quickly from wherever though.

I imagine UC Air Care might be involved with that kind of thing as well.

Well, its kind of obvious which movie to go with. Who else would you call?

I remember AT marketed Thirteen by saying guests would have to fill out a waver before riding trying to hint to how intense it was supposed to be. They also labeled their big ride projects as 'Secret Weapons'.

It was likely a stall that stopped it in the loop. If you look at the trains, they don't look like the most aerodynamic trains ever built, that's for sure. For a ride which does all those twisting maneuvers and loops (14 inversions), the trains looks pretty bulky, and the UK can be a windy place. I do see bits of forums talk about how it stalls semi-often, but the ride usually stops until its fixed.

Something tells me Smiler's days are numbered after this. Gerstlauer is going to be feeling this for a while, too. What a bad event.

This stuff is only further fueling my disgust with the park. If the park does all this and doesn't claim responsibilty for anything, let alone the incompetence of how they handle things, why should I expect anything better from the rest of the staff? To me, its showing that they're taking their situation for granted, like they can go about and treat anyone the way they want because they have the government funding. Its like they are just happy with the park being open and not going above and beyond that. They're squandering the opportunity they've been graciously given by the Commonwealth. Its sickening to me. Their actions feel like a big middle finger to the public and the taxpayers despite anything good they might be doing.

Yeah, I want the park to get out of the government's hands ASAP and be successful, but they've done little to show that'll happen. And until evidence of that happens, I will be enjoying myself at many other parks.

Because no other site cares to look beyond the rides. They only care about being able to go and getting on Lightning Run. They couldn't care less about the other aspects of why KK exists, like a government entity running an amusement park by borrowing money from the bank using taxpayer owned land as collateral or how out of touch Ed Hart is. Why did KY dump all this money for KK when there is a myriad of other better things they could have done with that money? Its stupid and something I won't support. And what does the park have to show for it? Bad PR, weekly ride inspections, bad attendance figures, rides that take more than 2 years to reopen and still miss their opening date, and a park that relies on politics to operate.

Well, Vekoma did have the help of the NASA level engineers to design Stealth, so I imagine Firehawk is pretty safe.

Sometimes when I extend my arms to go for the Superman style, they start to feel tired due to how the g forces affect them. Make sure to hold on to the grips for the brakes, its a very hard stop.

Well, its kind of laughable when they had this coaster already sitting in the park all the time they've had it, had more than 2 years to get it ready, and miss an opening date. They got the other re-opened rides that were supposed to open today going.

They might have had that decision long before they made the announcement. They just did everything closer to how and when they wanted to unveil Banshee. Even at that time,it wasn't a ride the park was happy with having sit there. Also, they did answer a lot of questions and the people they banned said some pretty nasty stuff if you recall.

Except Kings Island was then getting ready to demolish it, a ride which clearly caused them discomfort in more ways than one, while KK has boasted pridefully about this May 30th opening for T3 for quite some time, not to mention had more than enough time to get it ready. They did get around to answering them on FB.

Small correction. Not even about 10 minutes after I posted that, the Kingdom's PR has several cut and paste word-for-word responses apologizing for the delay on several of the comments asking about T3.

I've noticed other than that one response, KK has been dodging questions on T3 on their FB page.

T3's opening just been pushed back again, June 6th now according to the website. At least its on a Saturday...

T3 Update- In response to a comment, KK has confirmed T3 will open June 3rd. It isn't mentioned anywhere else though. Expect some angry guests this weekend.

In the spirit of optimism about T3- I wonder if its just that Kentucky Kingdom found time to test it, just not when the park was open? They might very well make tomorrow's opening, its just they didn't feel the need to share that info.

Whatever it was (I haven't seen any issues with Macks, care to elaborate? I've searched pretty hard and didn't see anything) it didn't stop SEAS from adding one in Tampa.

^Last I checked, Intamin wasn't the only other manufacture than B&M.