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I wish I could go opening day, but I'll be at Thunder Over Louisville! I'm looking to be there the following weekend though. Hope you all have fun and may you have many rides on Diamondback!

I would love to see some more pictures of the new queue area, the sign they are putting up, as well as some pics inside the station. Answer my prayers Don! But as much as I want that to happen, I realize Don is probably pretty busy getting ready for opening day and we may not get to see all that goodness until we see it for ourselves on April 18th! Hey, a guy can hope can't he?

Thanks for the video! I'm guessing 1980 as well, given all the evidence in the video.

Yea its definitely stuck still. Which, IMO, isn't a bad thing. It gives the park experience in fixing major problems/breakdowns that will happen during the season. Its better that it happens before it opens then after opening weekend and have it closed all day or possibly all weekend. The Curious George inside of me is wondering whats going on though...

Looks like they did move the train back into the storage area.

I was about to reply touché, my friend, but I see them moving a train over now!

Transfer track is moved over right now...testing may start in a bit!

I would imagine they wouldn't leave it like that. They will eventually "pain" the other side.

Was that an intentional punn? I rather enjoyed it either way.

I wish we could see inside the station to see what preparations are being made before the first official run of Diamondback. It would be interesting to see I think.

Yes it seems to be stuck. Its saying 9:05 on my screen. Great pics btw. Can't wait till the 31st!

I luckily got someone else's tickets that isn't able to go! Hooray for me and my guest! I'm sure were all in for a real treat as we look up and see Diamondback towering over us. As this is my first KIC event, I've never seen a park in a dormant state before, this is going to be very intriguing! Looking forward to seeing everyone there. Off topic: Are we going to have nametags to identify everyone?

I would gladly take 2 of them! I sent you a PM!

Thank you sir, I laughed out loud on that one. Much needed laugh. I do wonder what's going on though.

Ugh, I'm so jealous. Hopefully if someone decides not to go and is ever so kindly to give me their tix(after I pay of course ), I can join the fun! Otherwise, stop rubbing it in my face! Haha, just kidding! The hammerhead looks intense, I can't wait to see what its like in person.

Thanks! Let me know!

I didn't catch this in time to purchase tickets. If anyone who has purchased 2 tickets and finds out they aren't able to attend, please PM me because I would love to go! Thanks!

I don't ever recall going to ride The Beast, and it being closed because of a mechanical malfunction or whatever the case may be. Too bad I can't say the same for Delirium. I'd like to see the ride statistics for both of the aforementioned rides to see what it says about downtime, etc.. I would bet The Beast has one of the best stats for low downtime. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!

I'm 24 and I've never ridden a B & M hyper, sadly. But I can only imagine how great its going to be. In my opinion Magnum has some good airtime hills considering that's one of the only coasters that has such that I've ridden, so I'm sure DB will be as good if not better.

That's my favorite pic yet. This view somewhat helps put this drop into some perspective. April 17th can't come sooner!

You can't see the webcam on the all mighty ipod? It works nicely in pocket internet explorer on my 2 year old winmo 5.0 phone, even better using skyfire. no flash support on apple products. same on my iphone... You should be able to view it. I am posting from my iPhone right now and have a second window up watching the webcam right now. I think it's java instead of flash.

I'll be spending the long off season on here no doubt as I check this forum 3-4 times a day during my free time! Thanks for warm welcome everybody.

Greetings! First off I'd like to say that I have followed these forums for over a year just lurking and have really enjoyed this forum. So much so, that it has hyped me up into being a first time buyer of a Season Pass. I purchased Platinum passes for the girlfriend and myself! Its because of this forum that I bought these(and also had something to do with being some of the first at riding Diamondback). I also anticipate talking a few other friends of mine into purchasing a season pass as well. I'm 24 and have been to Kings Island every year for about 10 years atleast once. The passed 4 years, I've gone to Cedar Point as well. My Dad has roots visiting Coney Island as well as KI. He is a Beast Lover like most of us. So I must carry on the tradition! Enough of the boring stuff, I just wanted to say hi, and thanks for inadvertantly making me buy season passes you jerks lol! I hope to see some of you all next season!