MadMaverick

1. Son of Beast ( front seat ) 2. Beast ( front seat ) 3. Diamondback ( front seat ) 4. Flight of Fear ( front seat ) 5. Racer ( front seat ) 6. Banshee ( front or back seat ) 7. Tomb Raider ( not The Crypt ) ( anywhere ) 8. Drop Tower ( anywhere ) 9. Adventure Express ( front seat ) 10. The Bat ( front seat )

Blue Fire looks cool. I would love something like Maverick. Something with an intense terrain hugging layout. I could do without the horseshoe rolls and put in a few more hills with some good ejection air time.

I would like to see them take a break from B&M honestly.

I'm 220 lbs and 6' and I more than comfortably fit on any ride that I get on with plenty of room to spare.

He has 1 active post. My guess is ( and this is just a guess ) he/she is a browser or member with another name on here that made a profile just to go off on somebody.

Launched wing rider coaster

Yeah I get as business decision that makes more sense. I by no means am an Intamin fanboy, I know Intamin fans get hammered on here pretty good when they try to argue for Intamin. It just so happens that they manufacture some of my favorite coasters.

It's a guess that Mr. Ouimet wouldn't go with Intamin.... Speculating And a happy medium I'm not saying sacrifice safety in any way. I know safety is most important. What I mean is personally I would sacrifice a little bit of reliability for more intensity. I know not everyone agrees it's my personal preference.

Gotchya. Why can't there be a happy medium....

Sorry for double post but it just seems like from 2000 til 2010 every coaster built in Cedar Point was an Intamin and now it seems like Cedar Fair won't touch them. Just wondering why

Ok what about all those places? I guess I'm asking if there was something specific that happened with Intamni in the past few years or is it just a reliability thing or is it just speculation?

Maybe a stupid question but why wouldn't Kings Island be in the market for an Intamin rollercoaster for their next coaster? Would it have anything to do with the reliability of a current Intamin ride In the park or is there something more to it?

I will try it as long as purple does not = grape.

If so then I choose Maverick type ride.

Keeping in mind I have yet to ride Banshee so I can't say definitively but answering right now I would say a more reliable safer Son of Beast.

I'm not disagreeing with that.

It's just my opinion but I don't think the same mistakes would be made 15 years later under Cedar Fair ownership. Just saying. Coarse I could be wrong. We'll never know.

Sorry for the double post.

Seeing as Paramount no longer owns the park today I would take a guess in saying that Paramount would have nothing to do with it's construction.

This particular attitude drives me bonkers. No, not all change is good. To try and fail miserably has drastic consequences. From a park losing all kinds of money, lost opportunities for far better rides (how much time, money and space did/do Son of Beast, Hercules, the old Texas Giant, Mean Streak, Drachen Fire, etc. take up?), lost careers (Mr. David Focke comes immediately to mind), bored or unhappy guests to injuries, to a park merely being stuck with a bad ride/investment for years (Six Flags and Ninja now at SFOG, the Vekoma messes Deja Vu)...Sometimes doing nothing or at least doing something else is a far better choice than a wrong-headed bad choice. Final Thought: What would Kings Island look like today, and what would 2014's new addition be had Son of Beast never been built in Mason? What would NJFTP look like? Who would own Kings Island? Dare I say it?--Who would own Cedar Fair? I submit ALL these questions would have different answers had either Son of Beast not been built or had it actually been built to the design specifications without client cost cutting that greatly negatively affected its reliability, rideabilty, comfort, thrill factor and guest and park satisfaction. Kings Island would not be the same place. It might be better. It might be worse. The alternative ride was a re-creation of the Rye Aeroplane, for which Kings Island had purchased the blueprints. A ride that, by all accounts, was simply one of the best...ever. Instead, innovation was selected. Risky choices were made. It is hard to say they benefited the park. Doing nothing would have been, in my opinion, a far, far better option than building the trouble prone, litigation causing, uncomfortable, maintenance nightmare, not even very thrilling, tallest, fastest and only looping wooden roller coaster on the planet. (Why do I hear Jeff Seibert saying those words?). This is just my opinion but SOB was the best coaster at KI. Even more so when it still included the loop. Far more thrilling than the original Beast in my eyes. Take no offense but I believe that if Son of Beast was built today rather than 15 years ago you wouldn't have a trouble probe maintenance nightmare of a coaster. But to each his own.

I would be happy with either Intamin pre fab or an RMC. Something like Outlaw Run would be incredible.

^^^ I actually miss this ride back when it was still Tomb Raider. The Crypt, not so much.

Intamin pre fab. Yes !

I would whine about not having a blitz coaster first. Just saying.

Even with not much going on at the moment, I'm pretty sure we can find more interesting things to discuss rather than the capitalization. So moving on. I may have missed it ( honestly I just skimmed through the last few pages ) but is the chain for the lift hill installed yet?