A few hours of work for the limitless entertainment of bamboozling the KICentral community? Sounds like a fair trade to me.

Please let it be called The Bat. Would be the most incredible thing in the history of incredible things.

I'm now being called The Bat?

I'm now being called The Bat?

Look up incredible.

Beyond belief.

I believe in myself :-P

Edit..wait..incredible..or incredulous lol make up your mind

Please let it be called The Bat. Would be the most incredible thing in the history of incredible things.

Not if you're a confused member of the general public.

I don't see any way KI could get a roller coaster with an identical name to an unrelated defunct coaster that many believe caused much death. That just seems like bad PR.

I'm thinking back to that dream I had about Bats flying off into the cornfield screaming like Banshees. I still can hear them saying something I'm pretty sure it was delusional. But there was also a Raven who wouldn't stop saying Nevermore. So who knows maybe a dream is just a dream is just a dream.

Or a legend.

I don't see any way KI could get a roller coaster with an identical name to an unrelated defunct coaster that many believe caused much death. That just seems like bad PR.

The people that think that are too old to go to amusement parks now.

I could remember a time on this very forum where I convinced almost everyone in KIC Mole that I was the mole when I really wasn't. That's how I won the game in the end. It was hilarious at the time watching everyone who thought they knew something when they really didn't.

95% of KIC'rs just said "What?"

And there's the 5% who actually remember.

They are survivors.

Oh how I miss the forum games. Where's that FunkyUnlceHenry when we need him?

Kinda messed up though if they teased us with a winged coaser if we are not gettiing one.

I'm thinking back to that dream I had about Bats flying off into the cornfield screaming like Banshees. I still can hear them saying something I'm pretty sure it was delusional. But there was also a Raven who wouldn't stop saying Nevermore. So who knows maybe a dream is just a dream is just a dream.

Or Don has been putting something in your blue ice cream...

Ha

Call me weird but I don't partake in eating Ice Cream or Cake. Maybe he slipped something Batty in my Coke.

I'm with thedevariouseffect. The logo certainly looks real, but most of the text and all of the photos/renderings were placeholders. The purported opening date was "April 27, 2014" - a Sunday.

The few ride details ("tallest wing coaster", etc) shown are likely to be placeholders as well. Sites like this get designed months in advance, often before final copy is available. We'll find out what "The Bat" - or whatever name is being resurrected - is on Thursday.

Clearly, this incomplete site should never have been pushed to a production web server. (Surely Cedar Fair would know by now that there are enthusiasts somewhere reloading URLs like visitkingsisland.com/2014 and visitkingsisland.com/Banshee every 20 minutes...)

Oh lord, I'm so far behind... But at any rate, isn't the 27th the first Sunday after the first Saturday of the season? It couldn't POSSIBLY open to the public that day, as CinFin has their buyout that day every year.

Banshee vs. Bat; The Ride

I think we posted before that its to early to be calling the 2014 coaster the Banshee, there are clues that suggest the name would be something else... One of the gravestones translated says "its not all that it seems".. And if you would look up what a Banshee is you would know that a Banshee appears when death is imminent... Why would the Banshee appear after the fact Son of Beast was dismantled.. Now you got all these people shocked that they flirted with The Bat as being the name, you know why? Because they have till August 8 to name the coaster anything they want. This forum keeps spinning in circles and don is loving it.

I do think this is true. Don does fool us a lot but you have to think, it would probably take several hours to do this. I don't think they want to waste time tricking us.

They work in a PR department their entire job revolves around tricking us.........

I just love how worked up and full of speculation everyone seems to be consumed by...even though by this time in 3 days everyone will know the answer...

Calmyoself

Eat a snickers

This is one of the most clever diversions I've ever seen! Although there was this "leak" I am still convinced this is an Invert. My proof is the blueprints which I still believe are legit. Now, I have a few reasons.
1. The supports found on site have the same code as on the plans. You can see this in the first two pictures.
2. The footers in the drawing match the ones that are already built.
3. The station and transfer have two parallel rows of supports like any Invert. Wing Riders have supports directly under the track, unlike this whole coaster. You can see this in the last picture

Is it possible it's an Inverted Winged Coaster?

Again think how ridiculous that sounds..hang below the track...off to the sides...what difference does it make

part numbers arent the same a job numbers. im sure a ton of coasters use duplicate part numbers

Is it possible it's an Inverted Winged Coaster?

That's what I hope it is.

Maybe it's a wing coaster that actually flaps it's wings like a bat. It shall be called Banshee the first ever bat coaster.

I'm with thedevariouseffect. The logo certainly looks real, but most of the text and all of the photos/renderings were placeholders. The purported opening date was "April 27, 2014" - a Sunday.

The few ride details ("tallest wing coaster", etc) shown are likely to be placeholders as well. Sites like this get designed months in advance, often before final copy is available. We'll find out what "The Bat" - or whatever name is being resurrected - is on Thursday.

Clearly, this incomplete site should never have been pushed to a production web server. (Surely Cedar Fair would know by now that there are enthusiasts somewhere reloading URLs like visitkingsisland.com/2014 and visitkingsisland.com/Banshee every 20 minutes...)

Oh lord, I'm so far behind... But at any rate, isn't the 27th the first Sunday after the first Saturday of the season? It couldn't POSSIBLY open to the public that day, as CinFin has their buyout that day every year.

Leviathan opened up the 6th of May last year (Sunday), but opened up to passholders on the 27th...of April (Friday).