homestar92

Judging by the rendering, it appears that the entrance will be precisely where the entrance for Thunder Alley was. Judging by the blueprints and the rendering, the queue line will be between the station, the lift hill, and the dive loop.

I want to see a camera in the midst of an inversion. Though mounting that may present a challenge.

If I recall correctly, Don said in an interview that he expects around an hour and a half waits. Remember, Diamondback opened on a Saturday, while Banshee is opening on a Friday (but also a holiday). Will it make a huge difference? Only time will tell.

This pic? It's on the old Diamondback blog. http://kiDiamondback.com/public/latest/blog/index.cfm?entry=2c306408-0482-4f8c-8504-c43ffc819e93

If Roller Coaster Tycoon taught me anything, it's that a pay-per ride shuttle loop named "Steel Money Printer" is the best idea in the world.

I think the park looks better in the old pictures too. All the people are dressed in modest apparel.

My personal quest is to be BOTH the 10-millionth rider on Diamondback AND the 1-millionth rider on Banshee! Hey, a guy can dream, right?

I also have a Cedar Point souvenir map, on which all ride names are written in all-caps. So it has been referred to as "MAXAIR" on at least one park-approved source.

eBay, iPhone, iPad, and adidas might disagree with you. Don't forget maXair... What do we do if one of these trademarks is the first word in a sentence? In the past, I've always avoided opening a sentence with a lower-case trademark. But it might be good to know.

If you live in town and have a season pass (and it wouldn't cause a work conflict), I'd suggest going at least long enough to see how crowds are. This is the first time that I can remember Opening Day falling on a weekday. As such, there may not be terrible crowds. With it also being a holiday (and one that many get the day off work for) it is very hard to estimate how crowds will be. The only way to know is to go (or look at webcams, but that isn't nearly as FUN).

And I believe, though I COULD be wrong, that the second lift is slightly taller than the first.

Clifford carried that weight a long time. Now golden slumbers fill his eyes, Smiles awake him when they ride. Sleep, Mr. Clifford, do not cry; And I will sing a lullaby. And in the end, the FUN you take is equal to the FUN you make. And while we're on the subject of Banshee: I want you so bad, it's driving me mad. Something in the way she loops attracts me like no other coaster... And other Beatles references, because the loop is round. Sorry if I made this thread weird.

I've heard that coasters from a different builder based in Liechtenstein occasionally have unused track left over... They do that so they can tour a single piece of green track all around the country and freak out people on fan forums like this one.

I don't know the answer to your second question. But the long brake run is necessary because it has to support two trains. Keep in mind, Banshee hasn't got an MCBR, so the normal role of the midcourse brake is accounted for in the final brake run.

I feel like I remember those being present for The Beast, but I didn't start regularly visiting KI until 2010. There's no way that's correct, though. I think my memory is faulty. -homestar92, who works in IT, and has seen his share of faulty memory.

Only one more davidw update to go! A very important piece of Banshee is still not on the premises (possibly not even in this continent yet).

I have a Kings Island playlist featuring Song 2 by Blur, Right Now by Van Halen, Arrival to Earth from the Transformers OST, We Built Our Own World from the Inception OST, and SS Lost-tanic from the LOST Soundtrack. Bonus points if you know why each of those songs remind me of KI. Almost all of them should be very, very easy.

And more money for the park means more money in the future rides fund!

I would think that webcam captures would be an exception, since a webcam image from 5 minutes ago will no longer be available on any Kings Island website. But I'd recommend waiting for official word, just as a precaution.

I suddenly have the urge to put 86 tallies on my white board and erase one every day.

As opposed to a picture of The Bat

I like the idea of a little pond. Oh, wait. We have a little pond that Diamondback splashes down into. Seeing how that worked out, I don't want one anymore. Unless it's this kind of little Pond. My jokes are more obscure than fish fingers and custard.

Keeping such posts public demonstrates a visible good faith effort to keep trademarks correct, and may be of some benefit to the site if legal action were to be taken against it. Also, I leave you with an analogy. If I say that I need a Jack and Coke, it means that I would like to drink a beverage that, being over 21, I am legally free to enjoy. If I say that I need a jack and Coke, it means that I am doing very dubious car repairs under the influence of a controlled substance. I can see how new users could be intimidated by being immediately scrutinized on everything they post, so I certainly see the downside as well. But again, if Dane encourages it, then it should continue. This is, after all, his site. He makes and enforces the rules, and is providing us with a free forum to discuss our lovely amusement park. Now back to the discussion of throwback pics.

Terp "does what he does because he must". Dane has publicly commended his efforts and encouraged him to continue. Terp is a nice (albeit sometimes a bit cryptic) guy and means no ill will to any user that he corrects. Dane and The Interpreter would not find it so important to enforce proper trademark capitalization if they did not have very good reason to do so. Those reasons may not be entirely obvious to all of us, but I can assure you, if there weren't good reasons, it would not be happening. That's just my two cents on it though.

So just to cross-thread then, "The Pit and the Pendulum" would actually be an appropriate re-name for Delirium were Action Zone to be rethemed with a spooky theme?