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no.... Footers cure around 60-90 days before they start putting stress on them. Don't expect anything to go vertical before late August.

They've announced they are building their tallest and fastest coaster. That's not "no announcement" And it's more than KI's "nothing to see here" stance on KIGA

When they went to B&M and told them their budget, B&M said so you only want half a ride?

Hershey has announced everything they are doing. It's been announced since last year. https://www.hersheypark.com/new/2020/

They hadn't done anything besides site prep on MT before it was announced. Hell he day of MT's announcement, there were still people thinking it may not even be a coaster. Is two coasters a trend?

While anything is possible, I'm fairly positive that they will follow the Banshee model and do the announcement before the first piece leaves CSF.

They'll announce the ride and give full POV's and stats before they start hanging track.

5. Not an Intamin, so worst ride ever. 6. Not an Intamin, so best ride ever. 7. Both at the same time.

The electric plan gives the high points and low points of the track. Subtraction gives you the drop. Both plans give you the footer/slab height at the station of 740'(above sea level). The foundation plan gives you the footer locations and heights at all of the footers, including the ones at the high point of the lift. Those subtracted from the height on the electrical plan gives you the height of the lift above the ground.

The lift is 286 ft above the ground. It's 296 ft above the ground at the station. The first drop dips below the zero plane at the station. Yes if you completely flattened the ground, that would raise the entire ride and the lift would be over 300 ft. But you don't measure height that way. If you are standing next to a ditch, you don't say you are 10 ft tall. The truth is the lift will be 286 ft tall where it stands. But they aren't going to promote it that way. They really just have to advertise giga and 301 ft drop. John Matarese isn't going to stand there and grill them over semantics on live TV. Once it opens, no one is going to care about how tall the lift really is.

Nice catch, but Diamondback has 32 seats too. And so does GateKeeper. And Banshee. And most B&M's. It think about all of their 4 wides have 8 cars of 4. No. We suspect it'll either be on the building where you enter the queue or in the grass between the queue and ride exit.

Mods, you really should just lock this thread. While it technically is about KI, it's becoming personal and political and has no place on a theme park forum.

No, you automatically assume the accuser is right and want people's lives ruined without finding out the facts. And you should learn the difference between indifference and impartiality.

Due process is a given? Maybe you shouldn't come to this thread if you can't comprehend due process. Our entire legal system is based on it and you are perfectly willing to throw it out based on a single news report based on statements from one person's lawyers.

I wouldn't ride a bus in India, let alone an amusement ride.

Yes there is!

Pretty sure Banshees was on a Friday.

The height of the ground at the top of the lift is higher than at the base. Measured at the top of the lift it's only 286 ft.

Theres also the possibility that to make a coaster taller, faster and longer than Fury, they would had to pay $40 million and that just wasn't in the budget.

Actually, the people doing the teasing will be the marketing team. They are almost certainly salaried staff, so it really isn't going to cost them anything. KI probably has their own print shop, so a few signs on a fence is going to cost almost nothing. At this point though, I think any teasing will be tied to when they set the announcement date, and, more importantly, when 2020 gold passes go on sale.

Subway

Hyper and Giga are just made up terms. As far as the manufacturer is concerned it's a Mega Coaster. KI could call it a Super Dooper Strata Coaster and theres no one out there that could officially say they are wrong. It wouldn't change anything. It's 296 from station footer to top of the lift. They could build it on the beach or on a mountain and it would be 296 ft. The steel doesn't know what the elevation is.

The blueprints think it will be.

They still can't decide how they are going to market a 296 ft tall coaster.