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The park is inside the City of Mason, pretty sure they get permits from the city not the county.

Viewing the documents is free and unless something changed in the last three years you are allowed to take photos. They only change if you want copies made.

Just drove over to the City of Mason building and Planning offices and asked to see the filing from Kings Island. The office staff knows to keep the coaster documents easily accessible, so it’s a very quick process. How do I know? I left work early and drove over and did it myself. I have pictures of the documents from June 17th for Mystic Timbers. But it’s just a document which shows the footings, it’s enough for a general layout and type of coaster but that’s about it. In the case of this coaster we should get a very good idea of the height based on the length of the lift hill, most B&M coasters use a 45 degree lift. Nope it’s a very general requirement and will need to be filed for this coaster.

No need for an app you can already use the Apple watch instead of the phone. First add the season pass to the Kings Island app which it sounds like you already did. Then open the pass in the app and add it to your wallet. The items added to your wallet will sync to your watch. To display your pass just open it in the wallet app on your watch. As a warning some of the scanners around the park have a hard time scanning my watch, but it does work.

All paint which is exposed to light fades. The color makes a big difference and red and yellow traditionally fade faster then other colors. While blue typically lasts the longest. This is due to how color functions and the energy being absorbed will slowly cause the chemical bonds of the colorant to break down. Just because the paint has faded does not mean it is not doing its job which is to protect the metal. I am not very familiar with the specific paints being applied to coasters, but typically clear coats while they do a good job protecting the paint are difficult to paint over. I suspect its not a cost issue upfront, parks are worried when a coaster does need touched up or fully painted. They are likely looking at the entire possible life of the coaster and realized its just cheaper to repaint it.

Either something out of order, cancelled, or was skipped. My theory is it was supposed to be for CGA, the park requested FAA clearance, went to the city council looking for permission to build a hyper. Then cancelled everything. I have a few guesses as to why it’s on hold but I suspect give it another year or two and it will show up.

I will admit, I assumed the people speculating it was Fred Grubb were correct, I have had the pleasure of meeting him twice and it looks enough like him that I could believe it was. I was always more bothered by the crazy speculation surrounding a possible visit to the park. Because if you are familiar with the processes surrounding new attractions, I cannot think of a single reason why he would be visiting a park like what people were assuming was occurring.

Fred Grubb was at Kings Island to meet with Greg Scheid, you can even see him in the original photo. Scheid at the time was the regional Vice President of Cedar Fair above both Cedar Point and Kings Dominion, which at the time the photo was taken had both recently opened new RMC coasters. Scheid had his office at Kings Island which is why the meeting happened at KI, if his office had been at another park in the chain, the photo in question would have never happened. It would be extremely strange for this kind of meeting to be primarily about some hypothetical coaster that would not be built for several years and even if it was, there is zero need to have the meeting at the park where the coaster will be built. It’s fine to speculate that RMC might build some coaster in the future, but the photo is not evidence of anything.

It’s from the annual presentation for investors, there was a pair of pie charts, one showing revenue, one showing earnings after expenses. You can find these on Cedar Fairs corporate website, but the last year they provided this information was 2016.

It might be difficult to tell from the pictures but both trains are still there. It’s pretty normal for trains to end up just sitting around when a coaster is removed, with the new building next to the boneyard they might be waiting until that is done to move the trains. Saving a piece of track like this is strange. Most likely they have an idea in mind, I expect to see it used in some theming. When Universal Orlando replaced Hulk with a new copy of the ride they also kept a piece of track and put a figure of the Hulk ripping one of the old trains off the track over the entrance.

Here you go, I created this using the Warren County GIS website. Purple is already clear, Blue is the path of The Beast, Red is where I think the ride is going. I turned on the topographical overlay so you can see why the coaster is taking this path. This is the flattest area available, which ends in a large flat area perfect for a turn around. Did a measurement using Google Maps and its around 2,600 ft from southern end to northern edge of the old Firehawk space.

Pretty sure this is just a clothing rack like used at a dry cleaners. Looks simple and cheap to me.

While I do not agree with some individual decisions, overall International street looks better than I can ever remember. The light stands are the worst element and just feel out of place, I know there were some before, no idea if it’s same number or locations as before but without the trees they just stand out and do not blend in. It feels weird looking at the fountain without the pedestals. It’s like something is missing. But I agree with the decision, I think it is a logical modernization and once the entire system is operational it will become more obvious why they were removed and a year or two from now it will feel normal.

Not sure when you went last year, but I spoke with maintenance during Winter Chillout. The belts were replaced mid-season last year after a lot of problems with them being too short.

My guess is MCS is the hyper for CGA which appears to have been scrapped or on hold. Correct me if I am wrong but if I remember correctly they were also out of sequence for the dive coasters at CW and CP. Someone recently confirmed the coaster at Canada’s Wonderland was originally intended to be built first and it was scrapped late in the process and Valravn was built instead. Which I believe how someone knew to ask the question was the out of sequence labels from the track.

Implementation sounds poor, but could be better than it sounds in practice. But I am not a fan of pouches on coasters. The idea of metal detectors that are then followed by enough distance to the train where you could put the items back in your pockets is not going to work. The best way to fix this long term is to redesign the line. Have a space which you can enter from the line right before the station and from the exit with free lockers which have keys on wrist bands. Lock your items before continuing to the station and use metal detectors when leaving this space so you know the guest does not have them when they go to the station. To prevent guests from looping around from the exit back into the line provide guests with tokens or signs of some kind as they enter the locker area and require them to exit back into the line. I have seen this at several parks and I will admit mostly in Japan, but it works.

I am not certain you understand just how far out the barn is located. It is next to the boneyard which is beyond the back of where DA was located. I cannot imagine the park would put a haunt that far beyond the edge of the park, or that they want guests out at the boneyard at all.

I see it now, had not seen any pictures which showed that area clearly at the time I was questioning it. Looks very similar to the maintenance buildings and I do not see any of the clearing heading in that direction other then the existing maintenance road. That’s also where the boneyard is located. The park might be relocating a maintenance building or just needs more maintenance space, could also be a warehouse. I do not believe that building will be directly used for part of the coaster.

You sure it’s a new building? That clearing is where the fireworks have been launched from in previous years, and a building was built there for a haunt. It seems way too early in the construction process to be building a building for the coater.

Having looked at topographical maps of the area before, this does not surprise me. There is a ridge heading towards the river of mostly flat ground. If I remember correctly it is where that maintenance road that follows the edge of The Racer and then goes off the picture is located. Likely land clearing is going to follow that road.

If I remember correctly there is a ridge which goes from that area and heads towards the river. It is the flattest stretch of land in the area and is the most likely path for a giant coaster.

I suspect this price was decided to give some wiggle room to offer a chain wide option at $999. Although outside of Ohio I am just not sure it would be worth it for many people.

This looks amazing, I had long ago given up on this ever being fixed and assumed it would never return. Between this, the festival this summer, and the Internal Street renovations, I am really starting to look forward to spending the summer at Kings Island in a way I was not expecting at the end of last year. I figured this would be a slow year with just the antique cars and I am very happy to say I was wrong. I would love to see some interior renovations, mostly because I would like to see more food options, I feel like a third restaurant should be possible with some minor building expansion. I really want to see a harmony hall style food court but that feels unlikely, but then so did the return of the glockenspiel.

The county owns it. The stadium is technically owned by the Santa Clara Stadium Authority, but my understanding was that the land was never transferred to the authority. Employee parking is in the back corner of the park and would be included in the land being purchased by Cedar Fair.

I should point out this information has actually been known for a few weeks, it was in the 2018 annual report. The park is purchasing 112 acres and is paying $150 million. According to the annual report they executed the right of first refusal clause of their lease. For anyone wondering about parking, this is just the land under the park itself and does not include the parking lot.