So on the "About the Designer" page. It is written: B&M roller coasters are renowned for their smooth ride, comfortable seats and restraints, reliability, low maintenance, impeccable safety record and ride capacity.

If this does not confirm why you have not seen or probably won't see a Intamin in the park anytime soon, I don't know what will!

He said the total elevation change Is 200 feet from the lift hill to the lowest part of the ride

In a press release I got in email, the height of the lift hill is 167 feet, with a 150 feet drop.

Just came from the construction sight. They had a lot of fog coming from that area, and they had this huge screen.. Not sure how that would tie in with the final coaster, the screen, that is.

I hope the restraints aren't super tight like Gatekeeper's. GK has painful restraints.

Kings Island is now in 2nd place for most inversion in a park.

So on the "About the Designer" page. It is written: B&M roller coasters are renowned for their smooth ride, comfortable seats and restraints, reliability, low maintenance, impeccable safety record and ride capacity.

If this does not confirm why you have not seen or probably won't see a Intamin in the park anytime soon, I don't know what will!

This from the park that had to shut down its other B&M coaster for several weeks last year to replace footings that were only three years old.......

So on the "About the Designer" page. It is written: B&M roller coasters are renowned for their smooth ride, comfortable seats and restraints, reliability, low maintenance, impeccable safety record and ride capacity.

If this does not confirm why you have not seen or probably won't see a Intamin in the park anytime soon, I don't know what will!

This from the park that had to shut down its other B&M coaster for several weeks last year to replace footings that were only three years old.......

It was not "several weeks". It was a mere week if my memory is correct.

I'll take a week or two of maintenance any day over a ride being closed for months. cough*** Intimidator 305***cough.

Really hope this coaster is not filled with sand.

Also Ill be interested to see this coaster from the interstate and how it changes the famous KI skyline

I am so happy with Banshee! Got myself a pink tshirt right after the announcement. which reminds me...a guy in a KIC shirt came up and asked me how much shirts were. I answered him but before I could introduce myself he was gone. anyway if you were that guy. hi! lol I saw a bunch of you today but I am super shy.

After seeing the rush to the gift shop we just decided to buy some shirts on our next visit, can you get a gold pass discount when purchasing the Banshee shirts?

So is AE and SlingShot being removed? I could understand SS, but why would the need to remove AE.

In the teaser video

the tomb stones are labeled Bat, King Cobra, Screamin Demon, and Son of Beast...

I absolutely love how they played into the Banshee screaming and then the Son of Beast dies! Fabulous way to introduce this!!

Excited for this ride.

I hope they really stick tombstones out along the course. Seems like someone was a little over zealous with the trees in the videos though.

Is there any mention of removing the Slingshot? It didn't make the POV video while all the other rides had bits of screen time.

In the teaser video

the tomb stones are labeled Bat, King Cobra, Screamin Demon, and Son of Beast...

I reaaaaaally hope they'll consider adding actual, permanent tombstones for each of these rides somewhere near the enterance or the station. Would make a great photo op area for us longtime Kings Island fans and supporters.

That would be awesome. But if The Bat ever end up back in the park, they'd have to remove that stone.

Is there going to be a shop and photo stall built for the ride, or are they converting the restrooms?

If I were to remove one or two beloved attractions to make way for a new coaster (*cough*Flyers*cough*), I'd probably pump up the public with lots o' good news first; and then gently introduce the rationale quietly.

So on the "About the Designer" page. It is written: B&M roller coasters are renowned for their smooth ride, comfortable seats and restraints, reliability, low maintenance, impeccable safety record and ride capacity.

If this does not confirm why you have not seen or probably won't see a Intamin in the park anytime soon, I don't know what will!

This from the park that had to shut down its other B&M coaster for several weeks last year to replace footings that were only three years old.......

How can you blame a footer issue on the coaster itself? It is not like the actual ride broke down, it could have been a contractors fault, weak concrete, etc. It may have had nothing to do with the engineering of the ride!

Edit: Secondly that is the only major downtime that I have seen DB have since it has opened. Not bad for it to be in it's fourth season!

So on the "About the Designer" page. It is written: B&M roller coasters are renowned for their smooth ride, comfortable seats and restraints, reliability, low maintenance, impeccable safety record and ride capacity.

If this does not confirm why you have not seen or probably won't see a Intamin in the park anytime soon, I don't know what will!

This from the park that had to shut down its other B&M coaster for several weeks last year to replace footings that were only three years old.......

It was not "several weeks". It was a mere week if my memory is correct.

I'll take a week or two of maintenance any day over a ride being closed for months. cough*** Intimidator 305***cough.

What does Intimidator 305 have to do with a B&M topic? You do know that it isn't a B&M, right?

There are a couple things I am dissapointed with. The sign and ride entrance looks extremly blan. I mean its a pile of dirt inclosed in a section with a couple rocks. Secondly NO pre-Drop ;( ide annocment wasn't very exciting to me since we already pretty much decoded it.

There are a couple things I am dissapointed with. The sign and ride entrance looks extremly blan. I mean its a pile of dirt inclosed in a section with a couple rocks. Secondly NO pre-Drop ;( ide annocment wasn't very exciting to me since we already pretty much decoded it.

I thought is looked pretty awesome, I think it will shape AZ up quite a bit!

So on the "About the Designer" page. It is written: B&M roller coasters are renowned for their smooth ride, comfortable seats and restraints, reliability, low maintenance, impeccable safety record and ride capacity.

If this does not confirm why you have not seen or probably won't see a Intamin in the park anytime soon, I don't know what will!

This from the park that had to shut down its other B&M coaster for several weeks last year to replace footings that were only three years old.......

It was not "several weeks". It was a mere week if my memory is correct.

I'll take a week or two of maintenance any day over a ride being closed for months. cough*** Intimidator 305***cough.

What does Intimidator 305 have to do with a B&M topic? You do know that it isn't a B&M, right?

Yes, I am well aware that it isn't a B&M. I was comparing a B&M's downtime to other manufacturers, in this case Intamnin. That comparison was made to show that the downtime you mentioned isn't all that bad compared to the rest of the coaster world. B&M is currently the most reliable manufacturer of present day. That's all I was saying.

Edit: I also couldn't agree more with IndyGuy4KI. How do you know for a fact that a footer issue has to do with the ride's manufacturer? There was most likely another party responsible for those issues.

annocment wasn't very exciting to me since we already pretty much decoded it.

If you want the "annocment" to be more exciting, don't decode beforehand and be surprised.

The fact that we here at KIC decoded everything made the announcement that much more exciting to me IMO

The fact that we here at KIC decoded everything made the announcement that much more exciting to me IMO

It was nice to see we were right!

Maybe they'll surprise us with Bat too!

I hope so, I think that would be an incredible idea!

There are a couple things I am dissapointed with. The sign and ride entrance looks extremly blan. I mean its a pile of dirt inclosed in a section with a couple rocks. Secondly NO pre-Drop ;( ide annocment wasn't very exciting to me since we already pretty much decoded it.

I, for one, and extremely glad to not have a pre-drop.

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Also, it looks as though this ride won't have any trims!!

Though, with no MCBR, as awesome as that is, I feel like you will be sitting waiting to get back into the station for a long time, or the chain lift will pull a Flight Deck or a Beast.