LordSkippy Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 A few hours of work for the limitless entertainment of bamboozling the KICentral community? Sounds like a fair trade to me. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyroKinesis Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Please let it be called The Bat. Would be the most incredible thing in the history of incredible things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedevariouseffect Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I'm now being called The Bat? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I'm now being called The Bat?Look up incredible. Beyond belief. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedevariouseffect Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I believe in myself :-P Edit..wait..incredible..or incredulous lol make up your mind 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordSkippy Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Or a legend. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyroKinesis Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 95% of KIC'rs just said "What?" 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 And there's the 5% who actually remember. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 They are survivors. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Oh how I miss the forum games. Where's that FunkyUnlceHenry when we need him? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnofthedead Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Kinda messed up though if they teased us with a winged coaser if we are not gettiing one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastForever Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravyboat Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Call me weird but I don't partake in eating Ice Cream or Cake. Maybe he slipped something Batty in my Coke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homestar92 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browntggrr Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Banshee vs. Bat; The Ride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tr0y Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomahawk Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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......... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedevariouseffect Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenbowl Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKIVortex Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Is it possible it's an Inverted Winged Coaster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedevariouseffect Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Again think how ridiculous that sounds..hang below the track...off to the sides...what difference does it make 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravyboat Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 part numbers arent the same a job numbers. im sure a ton of coasters use duplicate part numbers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatGuy11 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Is it possible it's an Inverted Winged Coaster? That's what I hope it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnrealNightmare Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingMaster Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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