SonofBaconator

If we get the antique cars back I will scream louder then a Banshee!

I read somewhere that Anaconda at Kings Dominion always had really decent ridership until Dominator came along. I still give Vortex the benefit of the doubt though since it still gets a good amount of ridership even though Banshee has been the main looping coaster for the past 3 years.

I decided to go a different route. To keep in the tradition of a spooky Action Zone, I voted to resurrect The Screamin Demon. This ride, however, would come in the form of a B&M Dive Machine. Placement would come in multiple options. The first option is to move Congo Falls to Rivertown and build the ride adjacent to Invertigo- where the original location of the ride was. The other option is to build a station where the old Son of Beast station is where there is a lot of terrain. I chose to place mine where the old SOB station once stood. Since the station is elevated over terrain, as soon as the train is dispatched, riders go down a short but terrifying 90° drop before the makes a slight left turn to the lift hill. Facing the north, the train climbs a 215 foot lift hill before making a sharp right turn. Then looking down 240+feet riders are dropped at another 90° angle. Riders experience an immalman-before the track twists and turns throughout above the terrain. The train then meets a midcourse break run where riders drop into a vertical loop, mimicking the original layout of the demon. After the loop, a dive loop follows where riders find their way heading back to the station. However, right before the final breaks, riders experience a one of a kind heartline roll. A total of four inversions, two 90° drops, speeds reaching nearly 80 mph and an extremely long drop. Theming would be about the same as Banshee. The Demon is the only creature that cannot die at the wail of the Banshee. Now after years of healing, the Demon is back for revenge. Guests walk through the tunnel, the same way they get to The Bat. The area between The Bat and the tunnel has been modified to accommodate more quests as well as a que. In the que, you see more tombstones similar to Banshee and music similar to Mystic Timbers as well as overhead news broadcasts about the Demon's return. Guests look at Redish/orangish track with dark-near black supports. At night, red and orange lights pulse under the coaster's supports. Since the station is on a hill, the station will take on the appearance of an old stone tower. Before the largest drop, guests dangle over the edge only to fall when they hear the demon screams. Yes I have thought of this for a long time.

If you could resurrect and modify a deceased KI Coaster, which one would you chose? I added The Bat to the list because the original is still a defunct ride. This is all for fun and for feedback.

I wish I would have ridden it at least once so I could properly experience what it was like to ride it. The ride was a PR nightmare and probably one of the most controversial coasters ever built. Even if, by some strange miracle, Cedar Fair was able to overhaul it and make it a success, the ride would still be controversial. Saving the ride wouldn't make people forget about all those people who got injured back in 2006. I'd love it if we got a towering RMC woodie some year like Goliath at Six Flags Great America but only one can dream.

Winterfest, a flat, or something else? I've noticed it before on here and at the park but this is the first time I've seen the plants.

What about Son of Baconator?

Maybe in the next 20 years we'll get an RMC to pay homage to Son of Beast

I wish there were more suspended coasters in the world. Still though, it makes you appreciate what you have. RIP Big Bad Wolf

To be honest, we would all like to see X-Base X-panded but in all reality, its just not in the cards right now. There isn't as much space as there is in other parts of the park. Maybe I'll be proven wrong but I don't see them really leveling a lot of buildings in X-Base or Dinosaurs Alive when there's already a lot of free space.

I think this is something @CoastersRZ and I have both brought up a couple of times- flats around Backlot Stunt Coaster and Diamondback behind the Eiffel Tower. I could think of a couple good places where they could add a few

Rather than a Wild Mouse, I would prefer a Mystery Mine type ride that goes in and out of the Crypt building.

Flats. The park needs some new mid-level flats like some of what Canada's Wonderland and Cedar Point have. Give us at least 2 flats next year and I'll be happy

If they could turn the old Crypt building into this, I wouldn't mind if it was left standing. I'm not saying its likely, but it isn't impossible

I still think 2019 is way too close- look at the timeline 2007- Firehawk 2008- Diamondback hype 2009- Diamondback 2010-Planet Snoopy 2011- WindSeeker and Dinosaurs Alive 2012- Soak City and SOB tear down 2013- Reds Hall of Fame Bar and Grille and Banshee hype 2014- Banshee and The Bat 2015- Planet Snoopy upgrades 2016- Tropical Plunge and Mystic Timbers hype 2017- Mystic Timbers I still believe that the standard length between new coasters is three years. It takes about three years to plan a coaster so I like to think that after a new coaster opens, they are already starting the next project.

Posted the other day from Kings Dominion https://m.facebook.com/kingsdominionva/photos/a.180141141874.131348.32237381874/10154547905701875/?type=3

And significantly lazier...

Whatever happened to adding special effects to a coaster instead of shoving a phone in front of someone's face?

Well you also have to take into account that Fury has a HUGE break run between the end of the ride and the station. Instead of putting them right in the middle of the ride, they chose to add extra breaks before the lift hill. This would allow for back to back loading where, if need be, one train is running on the track, one is on the breaks waiting to go up the lift hill, and the third is being loaded. I think long breaks before and after the station are the way to go

So essentially, pre-lift breaks and no cubbies are the way to go

So what areas is Winterfest encompassing? I know during the Paramount era it was mainly International Street and Rivertown. I have no clue what it was like in the 80s

Does Fury have better capacity than Intimidator? I don't know if Fury has cubbies but that might shorten lines

It's a hit or miss for me. A lot of the times I ride it, it's almost always a walk on. However there have been a few times where there's a decent wait.

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I really want to see how a giga would changed the GPs view of Diamondback, should one ever come to the park. I've never heard what people though about Intimidator or Behemoth after Fury 325 and Leviathan were built.