Tr0y

Apparently Fury325, stranded riders on the lift hill for 20 minutes last night.. The third time in 3 weeks, I thought this coaster wasn't designed by Intamin???

it was just as bad at International Street. The employees working the cash registers had no prior training or not enough. I felt bad for the trainee, who was turning red in the face in embarrassment, from all the complaints directed at him. Kings Island set their own employees up for failure..

I never got to ride it but the way people talk about I wish it was back so I could experience it!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Youre not missing out on anything. It's a ride once and never ride again type of deal.

My favorite spot is the backseats on The Beast, they provide the most out of control feeling ever.

Kings Dominion > Carowinds

A Mack coaster would make an awesome addition for KI.

I thought B&M coasters were designed to never have downtime?

till you rent a locker to ride Banshee then it's a bad deal. That reason alone swayed me from buying one.

Gerstlauer Sky Roller fits the bill.

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when did RMC start designing and building wooden coasters?

It could work. Do a slight turn out of the station and you can have the lift hill go up by the side of the turn around on Banshee, then the return/brake run could come in undernether it or over The Bat. And I don't think it would ruin it's theming. I'd imagine any coaster over there would have a similar theme to The Bat and Banshee, and it would be over by the back section of Banshee whereas most of the Theming is at the front with the queue and station. If they build a coaster that has a cable lift. With a steep incline it would clear Banshee easily from the old SOB station.

A boat was upside down at the bottom of the hill, with riders submerged in the water. If not for the quick response of bystanders, people may very well have died.Your "response" therefore shows a complete and total lack of understanding of the subject you are trying to argue about. What COULD have happened can be just as important as what actually DID happen... ...which is apparently a lesson that Intamin also needs to learn.jcgoble3, who had a snarky comment here but decided to be polite and remove it before he posted Sorry my humor came off as a lack of understanding. Don't judge me, I have Intamititus especially in the Giga coaster department.

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="The Interpreter" data-cid="670548" data-time="1426228463"><cite class="ipb" contenteditable="false">The Interpreter, on 13 Mar 2015 - 02:34 AM, said:</cite><p>And bought how many of the at first problematic WindSeekers? And a water ride at Cedar Point that was even more troublesome?Terp, who likes to ask questions.</p></blockquote> <a href="http://s362.photobucket.com/user/x241/media/image.jpg1_6.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo63/x241/image.jpg1_6.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo image.jpg1_6.jpg"/></a>

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="The Interpreter" data-cid="670548" data-time="1426228463"><cite class="ipb" contenteditable="false">The Interpreter, on 13 Mar 2015 - 02:34 AM, said:</cite><p>And bought how many of the at first problematic WindSeekers? And a water ride at Cedar Point that was even more troublesome?Terp, who likes to ask questions.</p></blockquote> <a class='bbc_url' href='http://s362.photobucket.com/user/x241/media/image.jpg1_6.jpg.html'><img src='http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo63/x241/image.jpg1_6.jpg' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_img' /></a>

Yes it's Intamin, but is the relationship between CF and Intamin so toxic that they wouldn't buy a 40+ year old tried and true model? It might be. I'm asking. Ouimet doesn't like Intamin, I'm suprised all of our installations weren't Vekomas considering their relationship with Disney. Kinzel at least changed up the manufactures of coasters during his short tenure with the Paramount Parks.

2016: Antique Cars return at KI.

INTAMINitus has returned...............YoungStud would be proud. I would think that manufacturers should go into this poll. I mean come on, a Vekoma SLC is not a B&M Invert, or an ARROW invert for that matter. INTAMINtitus is uncurable, so in reality it has never left. and to agree with you that even tho the coaster is the same type, different manufacturers produce different coaster experiences. But unfortunately Cedar Fair is going to build nothing but B&M. Which B&M makes excellent inverts and floorless coasters in my opinion.. Outside of that realm its a snooze fest. Especially their hyper coasters.

The most important part of a coaster whether it is a INTAMIN coaster or not..

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Andrew wearing his typical horse head.

Every coaster manufacture has made disappointments, Vekoma will forever be tarnished because of the cookie cutter SLC's. The Disney chain has 4 Big Thunder Mountain Railroads with only 2 of them being built by Vekoma. the one at Disneyland Resort that Derailed was built by Dynamic Structures. The cause ended up being from improper maintenance on Disney's behalf.

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="rcwizard13" data-cid="669979" data-time="1425870776"><cite class="ipb" contenteditable="false">rcwizard13, on 08 Mar 2015 - 11:12 PM, said:</cite><p><blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Tr0y" data-cid="669955" data-time="1425865474"><cite class="ipb" contenteditable="false">Tr0y, on 08 Mar 2015 - 9:44 PM, said:</cite><p><blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="silver2005" data-cid="669936" data-time="1425856754"><cite class="ipb" contenteditable="false">silver2005, on 08 Mar 2015 - 7:19 PM, said:</cite><p>^True, they also have a few projects in China, but elsewhere in the US they've pretty much have no work. EDIT: The projects they have in China are mostly Boomerangs and kid coasters. Hardly anything innovative.</p></blockquote> your point is? B&M builds a lot of coasters and hasn't done anything innovative since the 90's everything we have seen of recent has already been done successfully by another manufacture decade ago.</p></blockquote>You're looking at innovative the wrong way. He doesn't mean innovative towards the whole industry, but rather among themselves. The rides Vekoma are building are the same ones they've been building for decades, whereas B&M is soon opening their first launched coaster and just their second giga coaster.</p></blockquote> I bet the Seven Dwarfs would have something to say about that... <a href="http://s362.photobucket.com/user/x241/media/image.jpg1_3.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo63/x241/image.jpg1_3.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo image.jpg1_3.jpg"/></a>

I didn't know Disney wasn't a major chain in and outside the U.S.