LovinMeSomeBanshee

Yeah, the queue area is like toward the very end of construction. January and February.

Coming from Coney Mall? Or back beyond The Racer? I know they're still pouring footers back there in the turnaround area.

Nice! The only reason I knew this was because I previously calculated the highest point of the brake run and found it would be about the same height as The Racer's lift hill. And when I was at KI last weekend and rode The Racer, I realized the Orion lift hill portion there now was about the same height as The Racer's lift hill.

So something to consider: the start of the brake run will be about the same height as the lift hill portion that we have now.

There's some kind of material flapping on the lens of the camera now and it's super distracting. Can we get someone to wipe it off?

It better spreads out the weight to keep it from sinking into the soil. It's like how a snowshoe distributes a person's weight over greater surface area in deep snow.

This should be ban-worthy.

Yeah, I believe you're right. There's another one pulling in now.

I think he's right. Looks like these questions will go directly to Kings Island staff, and the group moderators will post the answers when they get them.

What's on that semi pulling in? Supports? I can't tell.

Anyone know where T-Bone went? I don't see him on the cam.

“A Clifford is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.”

I believe the two pieces of track over there are too straight to be drop track. If I had to guess, they are staging lift track pieces to make it easier for the big crane to erect.

Cleo's about to lift that section of track from the trailer. I doubt we get anything installed today. Probably staging to start tomorrow.

I never said movable cams would never happen. I said a cam allowing the parking lot to be seen would never happen.

Ewwww. (Avoiding the one word post.)

The park will never allow the general public to see how many cars are in the parking lot. Allowing potential customers to see the parking lot is full before leaving the house and dissuading them from coming? That's terrible business sense.

They will never, ever do that.

Cleo's on the move back to the drop area. I think I saw a support loaded onto a flat-bed heading over there. Might be another good day for erection (the construction type)

Just a comparison between the layout and the webcam, showing the footers:

Wow, you guys are right. This is installed track. How the hell did they install supports without any of us noticing?!

I think that's fairly close to where those track sections are going to go. We can see that by these footers, the coaster is already on the incline into the next element. These footers are near the bottom of the ravine, so the bottom of the drop has to be before that. This is the webcam: So I do think the bottom of the drop will be closer to those footers than what they are now, but the bottom of the drop is not in the very bottom of the ravine. More on the side of it than the bottom...

I definitely believe two pieces of track have been joined together. That segment laying there is far too long to be just one piece. I just don't know if it's been attached to supports yet.

Are we positive that the drop has been installed? Because maybe it's just me, but I don't see any supports under it. It also looks to be at a weird angle. This is what the supports and bottom of the drop should look like. I just don't see it like that right now.

Oh give me a darn break, Wilbur.