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In 2015 we will get something that is a Cedar Fair chain wide attraction, kinda like with wind-seeker / Dinosaurs Alive...

The whole reason why they tell you hands and feet inside the cart at all times is to protect the park and manufacture's tail if you get hurt. Most manufactures do pull throughs because they don't want any chance of it becoming an accident because they know you get people who will put there hands out. Kinda like wet floor signs they know your going to walk over the wet floor but if you fall, you can't blame them when you were warned in advanced.

I wonder if by speeding up Banshee at the end of the ride will make it a huge progress in B&M coasters, as much as I love DB, after the MCBR it is boring! Maybe not for a newbie but I personally could care some after the turn! knowing b&m they will have trim brakes applied before you reach the batwing.

have him get on Flight of Fear, don't ever mention loops.

For a ride that's been open for 7 years its more of a freak incident rather than intamin issues, i could happen to any coaster, its just blown up because its a intamin coaster.

I can agree with youngstud to a point ( he would rather have everything be intamin ), it would suck having nothing but b&m coasters built i would mucn prefer la variety of coasters.

I would ride The Beast for it must be tamed, and if i die trying at least ill have a smile on my face.

its hush hush when B&M coasters have problems... It's funny because the 2009 accident on Son of Beast was for someone who had a brain bleed 2 weeks after and Son of Beast gets shutdown indefinitely / demolished, then you get dominator a b&m coaster that arrives in station with a unresponsive passenger that had a brain aneurism who ends up dead, and they look the other way...

Son of Beast

Boring&Mudane rollercoasters are not rough at all.

It would be anarchy if The Beast would ever be removed.. But with The Beast being removed chances are slim to none. it wouldn't be my pick I would hate to see flight deck go. if they plan on removing any coaster I hate to say the Adventure Express would be my pick. It was my first roller coaster. But it's had it's time, I would love to see it replaced by a intamin coasted like maverick utilizing the theming and tunnels the Adventure Express currently uses.

How about they let the eagles soar once again at Kings Island! <a href="http://s362.photobucket.com/user/x241/media/image-12.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo63/x241/image-12.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo image-12.jpg"/></a> i was fortunate enough today to ride them once again at kings dominion.

Here's how my day went got to kings dominion at 11am headed straight for intimidator 305! Found out it was closed for the day, so i cried.. After wiping my tears i went on to ride volcano ( awesome ) and dominator ( which for a b&m i was kinda impressed ) i got beat up by a couple wooden coasters ( hurler & grizzly ) after a back realignment i rode some classics ricochet, shockwave and flying eagles. Got to the Eiffel Tower and did a u turn, got back on flying eagles, took some pictures from the ferris wheel and headed my way over to volcano and finished my day riding dominator twice ( walk on ) Left the park at close... Needless to say I'm still sad about intimidator.

Regulations changed and now Kings Island only operates 2 trains when it originally operated 4... It makes sense for safety reasons but as a rollback on FoF is possible but highly unlikely the LIM launch is not mechanical it's propulsion is electromagnetic. Being indoors cuts out the weather changing the launch outcome.. They could still run 3 trains because of the mcbr. once the train 1 passes threw a sensor completing the first loop the chances of rollback are slim to none the other two trains can move up a section, so train 2 goes from the unloading station to loading station and the train 3 waiting in the last brake run move to the unloading station it would still be more efficient, with 3 trains. Or the latter and it could end up like diamondstack and have two trains waiting and one train loading.. It all depends on the crew at that point.

Now that i think about this, doesn't Flight of Fear only operate with 2 trains? When it could easily operate with 3 trains.. Increasing its capacity.. It has a loading station a mid corse break run, a ending break run and a unloading station. What it the deal with that? One train loads the other unloads and one train runs the corse.

All the issues surrounding intanim lately, intimidator 305 closed, shoot the rapids closed, xcelerator closed... El toro closed... Skyrush and intimidator 305s retracking and restraint issues... Last month i was at Cedar Point, top thrill dragster and maverick were operating sporadically. I was at kings dominion today and intimidator 305 was closed.... Not to bash intanims my favorite coaster is millenium force but I'm growing frustrated paying all this money to see these beautiful intanims SBNO... It seems that The last couple of years B&M has been manufacturing more coasters and has been Cedar Fairs new go to manufacture which used to be intanim.... Are we seeing the downfall of intanim as we know it?

Going to be at kings dominion for the first time tomorrow, unfortunately intimidator 305 is closed, anyone going to be there? Also going to Cedar Point next Thursday and Friday. ( not this coming )

remember the Dino's are still fairly new, I'm thinking 10-15 years down the road my thought Is that animatronics are not very cheap to maintain, depending on what these Dino's do. The helicopter on the stunt track is not what it used to be, it used to tuck away behind the wall, and face left and right while firing. And the back propeller used to rotate as well. No of those functions work anymore... When the Dino's lose the appeal and are no longer profitable the will see the door. On their way out.

I personally like Action Zone its theming was around it being a high energy part of the park with a lot of thrills. When Son of Beast took a tumble the Action Zone went with it... With the addition of Diamondback it had a lot of guest make there way over to rivertown. What Action Zone needs is a new roller-coaster ( Banshee ) and a good facelift, which is coming this year.

I don't think we will see a x base expansion for another 10-15 years or sometime after the 2019 new coaster.. What im expecting is for the Dino's to reach the end of there lifespan. ( animatronics do not last very long ) once the Dino's are up they will remove the warehouses and expand that way, connecting with the path that would be for Dino's connecting to coney mall creating a loop with no bottle necking problems, like the current x base has... With that it gives alot of new room for more coasters and flat rides..

Kings Island is only a few peices away from becoming the second most attended seasonal park in North America, behind canadas wonderland.. An intanim giga will do the trick.

Kings Island was paramounts flagship park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Parks.. Paramount did have innovative rides, Flight of Fear was the first coaster to use LIM launch, king cobra was the first standup coaster, the crypt was the first giant top spin, Son of Beast was the first hyper and looping wooden coaster. The 2009 incident was a joke your telling me it would take 2 weeks for the victim or anyone in the victims family to report the accident.. I bet she had a freak incident and once she got the medical bills she didnt want to cover them, they tested the ride and it away functioning properly.. I did not compare manufactures and which one was better all i said was i like a variety of coaster manufacturers. I like the fact that different manufactures bring different things to the table it makes the coasters more unique rather than having a bunch of coasters from one manufacture. If all the steel coasters in Kings Island where from b&m you could definitly tell that the ride experience is much like the other B&M's in the park. B&m elements all feel the same just about. Same for intanim

I hope there isn't a theme song to Banshee, i don't want to have to listen to it for 2 hours over and over while waiting in line, Flight of Fear's movie clip over and over gets old. A good lineup of music will do.

I miss Kings Island being a flagship park, i miss the theming and ride names as well... One thing i liked about paramount compared to Cedar Fair ownership was that paramount had balls, they would install unique rides and roller-coasters, things that were new to the amusement park industry. Gold/platinum pass holders got better benefits. Things i didn't like about paramount was they started duplicating rides and roller-coasters, more and more cookie cutter... they didn't maintain the parks or rides and coasters especially their wooden coasters.. With Cedar Fair i do like that they maintain their parks rides and coasters they also care about their guests. I also like now that my platinum pass will get me into Cedar Point. I like the new CEO and the direction he wants to take the chain, making each park its own standout park meaning less cookie cutter and copy cats.. Things i don't like about Cedar Fair ownership is removal of theming that didn't need to be removed because of the paramount ownership rights. I don't like how they bandaid fixed Son of Beast, then ended up giving up on the coaster all together even tho the 2009 complaint was a joke how do you get a head bleed from the ride 2 weeks after ridding it so they close it. Cedar Fair wanted a reason to remove Son of Beast, and wash their hands clean from the 2006 accident.. Which was paramounts fault for not maintaining their rides. I don't like how Cedar Fair recently has been stuck on b&m yes b&m make great rollercoasters but each manufacture makes a different style of ride.. Ride an arrow or intanim hyper then ride Diamondback and tell me the difference. I like having a variety lineup of rollercoasters and manufactures.. Other than that Kings Island has a bright future in the hands of Matt ouimet and the ki management.. Hopefully Matt will bring more things to the table from his tenure in Disney...

2031: come out of cryo haha, add new log flume ride to Soak City like pilgrims plunge except steeper. Close and remove Congo falls at end of season 2032: expand Action Zone with a spruce up. Improve timberwolf theatre, into like illuminosity.. Add new path to upgraded timberwolf theatre. 2033: remove what used to be Dino's gift shop and party plaza and add big Ferris wheel. Remove paths from tower gardens. 2034: add antique cars in tower gardens with refurbished fountains that where once in use in tower gardens Sell Invertigo. 2035: add record breaking looping coaster built by /Gerstlauer. Where Invertigo and Congo falls once was. 2036: repaint and spruce up Planet Snoopy. scrap race for your life Charlie brown 2037: add new log flume in Soak City add new misting cool off sections threwout the park. 2038: add new family oriented kiddy coaster where Charlie Brown log flume was. Close down whitewater canyon for renovations. 2039: retheme rivertown into adventure village, water canyon renovated, add flying eagles now called wild eagles where shooting hoops was 2040: spruce up international street, glass in and open first floor for the Eiffel Tower. Scrap Adventure Express at the end of the season. 2041: add new intanim maverick style coaster where Adventure Express was, integrating theming of a mine cart type of ride whipping threw themed tunnels. Also spruce up Octoberfest area. 2042: i finally get a life and end the additions here.