IndyGuy4KI
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Ground was broken (and construction started) on June 15th, 1970. The park officially opened on April 29th, 1972. The cost of the original park came in at $29.5 million. Incidentally, Diamondback cost almost as much as the park originally cost to build, coming in at $22 million!
Definitely a tremendous find as I said earlier!
It would be cool to know the cost comparison for today on the same exact construction work.
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i've never used sun block on my lips hah. I didnt think id get a burn, but after coming home i did get red on my shoulders.
The sun blocker chap stick seems to work well. I have not had the issue since? I forget to put any on most of the time. Although, it was like the 4th day of spending 4 to 5 hours in the water when it happened.
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Definitely different construction safety laws in place nowadays! Wow for the Eiffel Tower builders! Fearless! I would have imagined they'd have safety lines & carabiners. Nope. Just walking around like there's no 250' drop to either side. Amazing!
I know!!! when I saw them just walking around my stomach did flips..I was thinking to myself...HA! FORGET THAT...I know I wouldnt be able to do something like that...Im afraid of heights too much to do something that brave..
I hope they got hazard pay for that!! I wonder if their life insurance got automatically canceled or tripled in price?
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Can you take baby strollers on the train that goes from the rides to the water park?
I think I have seen people fold them up and place them in the bigger sections near the front and back of a car. I have never done it though.
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if anyone cares, db is testing right now and you can see it on the webcam...i have been watching it for about 10 min now
Yeah, looks like 2 trains. The sun is making it hard to see inside the storage area, but I definitely see 2 on the track.
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Thanks for sharing. The last time I was there I spent so much time in the water and did not sun screen my bottom lip, and it swelled up about 3 times the size the next morning. Hurt a lot and spend most of the day holding ice on it... Make sure you don't forget to sun screen your lips as well. I know you would not think they would get burned, but I learned the hard way.
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I can't wait to ride Diamondback opening day. This will be my first B&M coaster.
This will be my first B&M as well. I hope it holds up to all the hype people have given them!! Cya There!
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Hi everyone! I have been reading on this site since about last July and I figured I would go ahead and register. I usually spend about an hour, sometimes more or less, per day on here. Usually I am catching up on what happened with Diamondback while I was at school.
Welcome to KIC as a member!! Be careful, it will suck you in as you have seen in the above posts!
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More on Saw's somewhat less than perfect media day:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...unch-party.html
It seems the ride scared everyone, just not the way they were hoping.
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Um...my sister just called me and said she saw Drop Tower testing. Could this be true?
Well seeing as that the park opens in just a bit more than a month, I can bet on it that they're testing ALL of their rides. Not all the attention goes to the new coaster lol.
DB Blog confirms all of these posts...
It's that time of year!
March 14, 2009
While test runs on Diamondback continue, other rides in the park are awakening from a long winter's nap.
The trains have been placed on the tracks of several of the park's coasters and initial testing has begun on rides such as Drop Tower.
We hope you're as excited as we are to get the 2009 season started! - Don Helbig
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I just noticed all of the lights hanging off of the station and some heading down the exit ramp. The ares is starting to get its feel! I can't wait to start seeing the queue start to take shape too.
I have a question though because I'm not really sure what the line will look like. You see how there are 2 little parts of concrete sticking out of the big massive slab of concrete? Is the one on the right right next to the end of the exit going to be the entrance and the little part of concrete sticking out on the left going to continue under the lift the up the stairs into the station?
EDIT: Bright!
It is going to be cool to ride DB at night don't you think? They have the station and splashdown lit up nicely. I was thinking the same thing goofy on the queue area, but I have been wrong before..
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When I worked at Flight Deck also they indeed parked one on the lift about half way up and one in the station. I don't ever remember hearing why they did this but after all of the training instruction while being trained to "drive" and learning about the brakes blowing and what would happen, I'm sure the train would be much safer on the lift.
Interesting, never would have thought that?
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I'm pretty sure at the end of the night Vortex parks one train on the bottom of the lift, station and brakes after station. Same with Topgun one train on Lift and one in station.
I don't believe they park any train on the lifts. When they had the campground I used to camp there a lot and was right next to Flight Desk sometimes camping and never saw them park a train on the lift at night. Secondly, Vortex has storage for 2 and I am guessing the 3rd train stays in the station. Flight Deck has storage track for both trains if I am not mistaken.
Yes they do, but when I worked in '07 they always parked one of Flight Deck's trains on the lift. Vortex they left one in the station and one on each of the breakruns. They would put them in the sheds if it was pouring rain or something, but why would they go through the trouble of putting trains in shed if they could just leave them out and save the work.
I never saw that, but the campground has been gone for some time. I agree with you. They are going to be used again in 12 hours why move them. For FD though, I still don't understand why they would not run a train around the track and leave it on the brake run and leave the other in the station? There has to be a reason for that?
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I'm pretty sure at the end of the night Vortex parks one train on the bottom of the lift, station and brakes after station. Same with Topgun one train on Lift and one in station.
I don't believe they park any train on the lifts. When they had the campground I used to camp there a lot and was right next to Flight Desk sometimes camping and never saw them park a train on the lift at night. Secondly, Vortex has storage for 2 and I am guessing the 3rd train stays in the station. Flight Deck has storage track for both trains if I am not mistaken.
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The station is really taking shape, get that queue line and inspection done and they will be ready open the doors!!
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i purchased mine in October......... lol
Mine as well..
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I see a snake coming out of storage for testing...
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Randolph got his first exposure at an amusement park as a 17-year-old in Arlington, Texas, when he got a summer job working at Six Flags Over Texas. He never imagined a career in the industry, saying he envisioned it as simply a way to earn some extra money.
"I got hooked on it. Once you get amusement parks in your blood, it's kind of hard to let go," Randolph said....
http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/....xml&coll=2
I noticed that the article did not give the parks website. I wonder why that is?
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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...
Yes, let it break now, not later. I am wondering if they have to test a car being on the lift for a certain amount of time? Seems like a reasonable test to me in case a car has to be stopped on the lift for any reason during the season.
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Just pulled train # 3 out of the stoage shead. Must be going to test it for a while.
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Having been injured by SoB (and still having back/neck problems to this day, almost 10 months after my visit), I'm not a fan of it at all.
To me the first hill on SOB is great, then it just beats the daylights out of you. I only ride it about every other visit.
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I had a dream that, on a band trip, the bus broke down and we waited in the Kings Island parking lot to get another bus. However, the employees punished us by forcing us to ride Son of Beast, so we got out our instruments and tore the ride down (think Jericho). Wow, your true feelings really DO come out in dreams!
I take it you not a fan of SOB?
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I would have liked to see that thing run with snow in the spash down. I wonder what the splash down would have looked like then.
Not a splash for sure!
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It was stated previously in this thread and If I remember right it was about 20%. It's there for looks not for breaking.
I didn't say I thought it was there for breaking, just curoious about the effect on the speed of the train that is all.
Let us hope that it is not there just to break, or even used for breaking that would be bad.
Let's just hope that it is in fact there to brake the train's speed!
OH, I guess my brain was taking a break from the word braking....
Thanks!
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I had a KI dream the other night. The park was not very busy and a lot of the rides had no operator. Drop Tower was called Drop Tower, but was like Double Shot at Indiana Beach except it was totally red. There were no ride attendants at DT and my buddy and I were looking at how it worked. There was no one else around and we were then standing in the seat looking behind them to see what was on the other side of the seats. The ride came on by itself and we were taken up and dropped with us standing in the seats with no restraints. Neither one of us fell out of DT nor were we hurt. Park security saw it and thought we started the ride ourselves. I was explaining what happened when the dream ended? What do you make of that?