I'm pretty sure more supports wont go up until Thurs/Fri based on Greg's tweet.

looks like they're about to lift up the first piece of track for the lift hill.

Yeah, its hard to tell from the cam, but it looks like they have the lift motor track in place now.

Am I the only one who is getting unnaturally excited

What's the difference between natural and unnatural excitement

That sounds dirty dunno why

It is looking good to start on the the first uphill this week with new track arriving!

What's the difference between natural and unnatural excitement

That sounds dirty dunno why

I could tell you, but your ears might burn.

Don's Instagram has a new construction photo of the lift motor track going up.

It appears as thought the next lift piece is being prepared to be lifted

taken from Kings Islands instagram.

What's the difference between natural and unnatural excitement

That sounds dirty dunno why

I could tell you, but your ears might burn.

ooOOOOooo

The crane has just lifted a piece of track into the air!

The lift is incredibly steep

I can't tell if the track piece is in place yet or not. Slingshot's left arm is blocking my view.

I believe its roughly in place, though it was only a few moments ago that they were raising it up, so its probably not bolted down yet.

Wow, just saw the webcam, I knew the lift would be steep, but that's REALLY steep!

The lift hill angle reminds me of this for some reason.

Track for the lift is going up I didn't think we would see the lift going up for awhile.

The lift hill angle reminds me of this for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI2GGYppq7E

Lift hill looks about 40 degrees to me. That's pretty steep

^How steep is Diamondbacks?

While were on this subject concerning the steepness of the lift hill of Banshee....

I decided I'd contribute with a question and an inference......

(Sorry for the sloppy edit, I just wanted to make an example...) (Original photo, courtesy of KingsIslandPR)

So if we said that the picture above was an up-close of the lift track.....That would represent the steepness of Banshee....

The below picture is the steepness of Diamondback's lift hill.....

(Photo Courtesy of Drew Borg of the DrewBorgBlog)

Make your observations of the steepness now....What do you think?...

Or you could compare it to B&M's most recent inverted roller coaster, Oziris, As seen here...

http://rcdb.com/9675.htm?p=37943

Both pictures are at a slight angle whichever it hard to determine. But it does look a bit steeper than Diamondback.

While were on this subject concerning the steepness of the lift hill of Banshee....

I decided I'd contribute with a question and an inference......

(Sorry for the sloppy edit, I just wanted to make an example...) (Original photo, courtesy of KingsIslandPR)

So if we said that the picture above was an up-close of the lift track.....That would represent the steepness of Banshee....

The below picture is the steepness of Diamondback's lift hill.....

(Photo Courtesy of Drew Borg of the DrewBorgBlog)

Make your observations of the steepness now....What do you think?...

Or you could compare it to B&M's most recent inverted roller coaster, Oziris, As seen here...

http://rcdb.com/9675.htm?p=37943

Banshee's lift hill is much steeper than Oziris' lift.

Diamondback's life hill is 40 degrees, I'm going to guess that Banshee's is 40-45, it looks a bit steeper.

I'm guessing it's 40, same as DB, Gatekeeper, ect...probably looks steeper considering the track is below, the way the bend looks, ect...but I can't be too certain, but just a guess

Lots of Blue Supports showing up this morning.

wow, this is goin up fast!

update:

They have now installed the supports for the bottom of the first drop.

I'm guessing that the lift hill is as high as it's going to go until the loop around it is finished.