silver2005

^Why would they do the former with RT Potato Works about 40 yards away?

This may sound weird, but I'm actually thinking of keeping the masks around post-pandemic for use during flu season each year. Knowing how effective they can be, I'd certainly like another level of protection against the flu, especially being that my immune system has some trouble with it at the initial start whenever I get it.

On the night ride front, luckily, its getting dark as early as 8 pm so I should get quite a few in. Also hoping the chance of rain on Saturday might deter some people (plus make the woodies awesome). I also have a plan to kind of double layer my masks for the coasters. I have the standard mask I've been using plus a mask from work (that I haven't used yet, its too thin for my tastes in terms of actual virus protection) that wraps around my mouth and neck which might be better for the faster coasters. The reason being that my normal masks have their ear straps made of a thicker kind of wire that's meant to be untied easily even with tighter and better knots for adjusting, and they occasionally untie, so the extra layer with the larger mask would be of help. Also, Orion will be credit #115 for me. EDIT: FL+ acquired.

^^With what I've seen from the entirety of the response from the US, the 2021 might be for countries not named the USA. I am expecting 2022 for the US.

I've seen even the most optimistic projections be that it'll be until 2022 at the earliest when we can start ceasing all the virus related practices like mask wearing and 6 ft spacing.

After one day of no work completely devoted to just resting my muscles, I'm feeling much more optimistic about going this Saturday. I think I'll probably plan on getting to the park between 5-6 pm. Where would be the best place to redeem an online purchase of a FLP now-a-days?

It doesn't really make sense to build in Michigan because Cedar Point and SFGAm have a hold on all of Michigan's market. MIA is more of a niche park. I will agree that MIA could use more love. I think they could use another 1 or 2 good family coasters and 1 higher thrill coaster (something like a Eurofighter) with some additional flats. The area by Thunderhawk could use some expansion, perhaps make it loop back around the other side of Wolverine Wildcat back to Shivering Timbers. Back to your regularly scheduled giga discussion.

I wish they would have painted the trains in more creative colors than just all purple and yellow. At least have the trains match the color scheme on the track.

For my personal definition, a giga is a coaster with a drop that starts from 300-399 ft up and/or has a 300-399 ft drop with no elements that go above that. For example with my similar application of a hyper coaster with the above applying to 200-299 ft, I include Phantom's Revenge in that category with its 230 ft second drop although you never go up that amount. This is just my personal definition and I don't care how others apply it.

From what I understand, the term giga was coined from mimicking how bytes on a computer are grouped into megabytes, gigabytes, etc. which is why 400-499 ft coasters are sometimes referred to as tera-coasters. I believe early on when coasters like Magnum came into the world, hyper coasters were sometimes referred to as mega coasters, thus, giga was given to the 300-399 ft range.

If Dorney's operation of their mouse is any indication, I don't want one. Normally, wild mice have continuous movement in the station which helps with capacity a bit. Dorney's stops the station and it takes forever to get cars through. They also trim theirs to death so the good sudden laterals and pops of air wild mice are supposed to have are negligible on Dorney's. I'd take a spinning wild mouse though.

I hope I'm feeling better by next Saturday. With these last few shifts at work (mind you, I've been going hard since I got back to work in late May and haven't asked off at all), I feel like my body is hitting the wall in slow motion with how sore I am after shifts. At least I get 3 full days off before I go next Saturday for R&R. I'm literally scheduling my first day off to do as close to nothing as possible.

So, I am finally off next weekend as I am taking a brief vacation. I'm feeling a bit optimistic about the virus enough to make a trip to KI to get a FLP and blitz through the coasters and bigger rides, with much attention on Orion as I've not ridden it yet. Only going for a few hours in the evening to get a DB, Banshee or Beast night ride fix as well.

I want to ask a quick question- does KIC have any sort of relationship whatsoever with Coaster Nation? This is a question coming from the fact that the admins allow a known contributor of Coaster Nation to continue posting in a way to distribute information in a way that could be seen as peddling Coaster Nation.

Someone is awfully quiet all of a sudden...

^Unfortunately, the fact that WCPO acknowledged CN despite their terrible methodology will incentivize them to keep up their bad journalism practices. They just want to get eyeballs on their site.

Here is the WCPO article in question. https://www.wcpo.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/kings-island-mystery-construction-flags-popping-up

Are we going to pretend the park hasn't already left vacant things stay as they are when they left up Son of Beast for as long as they did? I don't think they're that afraid to leave Vortex's spot vacant for longer periods of time.

How about a fountain so the water is circulating as well as the obvious bonus of fountain ERT? They do a good job keeping DB's splash maintained.

I'd be all for bringing back the lake on the first turn on Beast, but I would hope its something that can be kept clean as a problem with the original as well as the KCKC lake was the lake scum and smell.

100-199, particularly with wooden coasters since the lower 100s is about the max height you want on them.

Move in Daredevil Falls from Dollywood for the Crypt replacement.

It doesn't make sense to me for a park with such a small coaster line up to build a coaster so similar to another one, by the same company no less. Also, getting 'news' from Coaster Nation is like getting information off of Wikipedia.

Was it this by any chance? This is Twisted Colossus at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Source CP already RMC'ed Mean Streak, and Gemini is good as is, so unlikely for CP. I'd rather KI not RMC Racer thank you very much.

I know the former Kings Island Inn had a shuttle, but they ran it themselves. Did the original camp ground have a shuttle? If so, who operated it?