It's annoying that I have to keep pressing that button to even hit launch 25 times...

People wanna be stupid, I'm ganna keep hitting the button

Is there a set threshold at which you give up, stop hitting the button, shut down the tree, and send someone out there to explain why the train cannot launch with their hands up?

Sometimes it depends on their level of jackassery...there are also times when we'll ride stop, walk out to the track, complain, and then see if they comply by restarting the launch. If they keep being stupid, call security, ride stop, move manual, bring em back in the station, keep labpars locked, and wait to kindly escort them to their vehicle

A train full of enthusiasts will wait till the hammer is cocked and then put them up.

A sound being annoying because it's heard every cycle

Dragster seems to do just fine and it's not annoying?

Except when it glitches and gets stuck on a loop and won't launch.

"Keep your hands down and…" "Keep your hands down and…"

Sigh.

When it repeats "hands down" over and over without launching, that's triggered manually by the launch operator because somebody on the train has their hands up. For safety reasons, they will not launch the train while anyone has their hands up.

That's because if you get everyone to put their hands up on Dragster it will cause a rollback.

No it's safety reasons...

The launching mechanism constantly is watching the force required to move the train, taking in account of friction/ect...so if everyone has their hands up at launch, it'll just compensate.

However, if they have their hands up at launch, that can be painful for some people, thus a safety issue.

looks like they have more supports up for the lift hill.

Can I get a picture?

^ Here you go. The small crane is lifting the supports right now. I guess they'll use Clifford for the taller supports that the smaller one can't lift up..

http://174.121.245.214/cfki/WindSeeker1/Camera4.jpg?r=1379022193237

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/online-fun/webcams

EDIT: Nevermind

That totally slipped my mind.

here is a more permanent link (removed)

The lift hill looks like it will be very steep, does any know/have a guess of the angle? Definitely looks steeper than other inverts.

No it's safety reasons...

The launching mechanism constantly is watching the force required to move the train, taking in account of friction/ect...so if everyone has their hands up at launch, it'll just compensate.

However, if they have their hands up at launch, that can be painful for some people, thus a safety issue.

I don't mind the "hands down" recording. What is annoying, however, is the song that is constantly being played in the TTD station every time a train is deployed. It would drive me nuts if I was a ride operator.

It wouldn't be on if crews spieled constantly...that crew has been lacking

I was there earlier in the year and the Dragster Crew was awesome, they got the entire station laughing out loud. I'm not sure if they beet the enthusiasm of the Gemini and Magnum(last year) crew but they were pretty fun. But the other times I went back later during the summer your right it was rather lacking.

The lift hill looks like it will be very steep, does any know/have a guess of the angle? Definitely looks steeper than other inverts.

Looks to be 45 degree angle of ascent.

The lift hill looks like it will be very steep, does any know/have a guess of the angle? Definitely looks steeper than other inverts.

Looks to be 45 degree angle of ascent.

No one will have the actual angle of ascent, unless they obtain the CAD drawings.

It could be 41.345 degrees for all we know.

Looks like the smaller crane is parked over by the bottom of the drop. Possibly ready to start lifting in 2 areas of the worksite at once? Not sure, but should be interesting to watch how it develops today.

Looks like the smaller crane is parked over by the bottom of the drop. Possibly ready to start lifting in 2 areas of the worksite at once? Not sure, but should be interesting to watch how it develops today.

I believe B&M's are assembled in order... from start to finish... and with the large crane currently on the opposite side of the lift from the midway, I would suspect the smaller crane will take over contructing the base of the 1st drop and first inversion. (Once the larger crane has placed the lift and drop.) Then the smaller will probably continue the work, up until the loop, at which the larger will then take over again. It's obvious the large crane will "back out" of the construction area as it's completing the course.

Start to finish? Well the started at the finish, then moved to the start, then moved back to the finish, now they're back at the start. Seems very circular so far to me, really taking us for a loop on this construction.

Oh, you know what I mean ;-)

I'll tell you the only thing about Banshee that has me concerned. In the videos there's a Raptor-esque end where the track abruptly straightens going into the final brakes. I love Raptor, but always hated that "jolt." Many enthusiasts call it the B&M "Oooops!" Like they got to the end and said "Oooops, we need to straighten the track!"

Hopefully Banshee will forgo the Raptor "Ooops!"

Bend it like an arrow.

I think that oops is also on Alpengeist just before the mcbr. It's like the entire train flips the right side up and everyone clicks their heels before the breaks apply....LOL

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Supports going up for the lift hill on Banshee.

https://twitter.com/KingsIslandPR/status/378535432171962368/photo/1

About 20 minutes ago on the Banshee Cam it looked as if more track arrived on a truck...

Looks like quite a bit of activity has been going on in Action Zone this morning...

It's a Saturday I didn't think they worked on Saturday.

I never use Facebook on the internet anymore so I don't know if these links will work or not. If they don't please let me know!

Banshee: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.725327602574.1073741832.206300061&type=3

KI 9/8/13: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.733673187954.1073741836.206300061&type=3

great pics Kat!

It looks great! That lift hill is going to be steep!

It's a Saturday I didn't think they worked on Saturday.

They were working last Sunday before the tour.

The lift hill looks like it will be very steep, does any know/have a guess of the angle? Definitely looks steeper than other inverts.

Looks to be 45 degree angle of ascent.

No one will have the actual angle of ascent, unless they obtain the CAD drawings.

It could be 41.345 degrees for all we know.

We can figure out the run of the lift hill from the leaked blueprints. The rise of the lift hill will be 168 feet minus ~15-20 feet to account for the starting height.

In the decoding topic, I had guesstimated it at slightly under 40 degrees. But I'm no engineer and they were just that, estimates. But I'd guess that we can expect to see it reasonably close to 40 degrees. I'd wager that it wouldn't be any higher than that.