silver2005

Haven't we had this conversation a million times now? Is this site stuck in a mobius loop of threads?

I still want Behemoth/Talon/Mantis style colors for the B&M. Or maybe even something l like Raging Bull. A really dark purple, blue, or black would work, too. One thing you could do with blue is for the first hill, start with dark blue at the base and let it fade to white as you get to the top , go back to blue as you go down and keep the rest of the track blue. If it's green, I just don't want it to match Raptor and Hydra. Not a fan of that combination on such a big coaster. Kingda Ka is an eyesore. Black or gold supports would be good, or if you want it to pop, a deep magenta (see Walibi's Goliath). Just not red or anything close. I'd also like to see some LED's go up the lift a la Fury 325 and Valravn. Considering it's likely to be around Banshee, it would be a nice combination of lighting packages. A tunnel of some sort would be nice, maybe lined with chasers to enhance the feeling of speed.

Oh the things you read on KICentral.

I knew that, I was just verifying if they were still in Utah/the US or not since I knew they were apart of that Japanese firm, which has been answered.

^That doesn't mean they're buddy buds with CF yet.

HUSS also comes to mind. Also with Intamin, there are more than just Intamin coasters at CF parks. Does S&S or Vekoma make Arrow parts? If S&S, are they domestic?

Well, obviously, the giga will be Santa themed with the mention of deer, which will tie in to Winterfest quite well. The X-Base tie in is with how NORAD tracks Santa every Christmas, which will obviously lead Flight of Fear to be permanently named Flight of Cheer. Holiday World, eat your heart out.

You have no idea...

I honestly don't think HP would be building that early as they already have the dilemma of having to make a temporary entrance with that also on the docket and their hyper is mostly towards the front of the park. EDIT: Then again, they did ship in the Skyrush track early and let it sit for most of the season before going vertical.

UC's last day is April 26 with exam week being the following week. XU, NKU, and MU finish even later.

That's track that hasn't been processed completely yet. That color you see is rust, how it looks before its primed and painted. Though, not all of it rusts like that, some of the track will be grey as well. That's probably the newer track produced, I'm guessing before the rust sets in. The thicker spine track are on all hypers and gigas at the bottoms of the bigger drops.

I know what @pianoman is hoping for with the fountains.

The original Tiques had pretty big and elaborate stations, too. I think its that big to keep the entire queue covered and be able to have multiple cars stacked in the station.

Also, CF has just tore down a few other Vekoma's rather than relocate or sell them, including Knott's Boomerang and Stinger at Dorney, both of which are normally really good for relocating.

Uhh...

The plant makes track for international projects as well.

I trust RCDB as a source, so I think they'll be fine here.

^^They knew that beforehand with the forensics report from the 2006 accident. The 2007 re-furb was just CF's own band-aid approach to save it because of the kind of ride it was. Just look at how little was done for that refurb including the trains they acquired for it.

Another example of Kings Island waiting to tear something down until construction on a new ride is ready to go- look at how long Son of Beast sat SBNO. They didn't tear it down until Banshee construction was ready to get going.

Oh how I wish its dark ride music to re-theme Boo Blasters. Custom shed or Flight of Fear music would be gnarly, too.

Same goes with taking Firehawk photos from the ground.

Just a reminder- if anyone goes to the plant for pictures, do so without trespassing on their or nearby properties without permission from the respective occupants.

Canada's Wonderland and Carowinds both call their 300 foot B&M's as giga coasters. Giga is also going by computer terms as another name used for hyper coasters was mega coasters, (referencing megabytes and gigabytes, hence why 400 foot coasters are often referred to as tera-coasters). The terms are only in reference to the height, not necessarily the layout.

B&M has done duel stations before, but more along the lines of Firehawk's station. Its only on a few of their flying coasters, though, I can't imagine they'd not utilize it on other models. With the capacity B&M hypers offer, I don't really think 2 stations or a duel station is necessary. B&M flyers have the excuse of lengthy loading times at least. Also, you can't really say what B&M can and can't do with a giga since they've only built 2. Two is not a trend. Also also- I remember a time before Leviathan that everyone was saying B&M would never go over 250 ft. They've also been delving into different inversion and element types and shaping as well (ex. notice newer B&M's don't have the pre-drop after the lift anymore). They're certainly changing, just in more subtle ways than everyone wants them to.

Concerning food- I wish Kings Island had somewhere with an actual decent burger. Juke Box's are really sub par, Reds HOFG aren't that much better.