Apparently among the people who care are B&M and its designers and Kings Island.

The designer and the owner!

But I didn't say a pretzel loop, like superman. I have confidence that Banshee's element will indeed be quite comfortable anyways.

I prefer the pretzel loop, sue me.

and the fight begins... team pretzel vs team batwing!!! (regardless of what b&m and Kings Island say... this is just for fun, not being an a-hole) actually what about a pretzel wing?

yummm. pretzels.

In a few years when the park has expanded to behind Banshee they can put a pretzel stand under it...

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also really feeling it would be awesome since they're going with a cemetary theme, if they put a mosoleum/tunnel at the bottom of the pretzel loop... yes im calling it a pretzel loop, you want a batwing go see Vortex. and then play the Banshee scream in there so its not too annoying to people in the line and adds a cool effect for the riders. just a thought

Kings Island calls it a batwing. Therefore, a batwing it must be.

Be that as it may, there is still an undoubtedly small, but clear difference between our "batwing" and other batwings. Which is why I call it a pretzel knot regardless of what the official status is by KI.

The designer calls it a Batwing, therefore so does the park.

So it must also be capitalized?

I'm on team pretzel loop

In a few years when the park has expanded to behind Banshee they can put a pretzel stand under it...

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Or sell something else... since it's named something else..

I'm on team pretzel loop

Is this the part of the ride where it speeds up? I'd love to know the dynamics of it picking up speed in the second half.

Batwing Pretzel Stand in the making on this, page 116, the Banshee Construction Progress thread.

The pretzel is threaded!!!! Yay!!!! Go Clifford Jr.!

looks like they are back working on the 2nd wing of the batzel lowing.

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looks like they are back working on the 2nd wing of the batzel lowing.

batzel...I like it.

They could have bat shaped pretzels...

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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sD4czM_gDak/TMSjWHuWC3I/AAAAAAAAAfc/H9xcc2ex6HU/s1600/chexmix.jpg

batzel? for some reason i picture the joker saying this.

looks like they've "threaded" the pretzel batwing. two sets of supports and some track left and the Batwing will be "finished"

As described by most enthusiasts, a batwing contains a half corkscrew or twist, half loop, half loop, then another half corkscrew or twist. A pretzel loop does not include twists, imagine it as an upside-down loop.

Banshee's Batwing

http://cache.rcdb.com/gr805l6i6fg0009dn20000.jpg

the pretzel loop from Tatsu

http://cache.rcdb.com/5e301is76080023q3c6ej0.jpg

The only other difference is the track is the inverse of normal in pretzel loops. (The track is designed to be inverted, but isn't at the bottom of the pretzel loop.)

One support and two pieces of track installed today. Link to gallery

What is the 2nd longest inverted coaster since Banshee is 1

What is the 2nd longest inverted coaster since Banshee is 1

http://rcdb.com/rhr.htm?m=2&t=1&d=5

rcdb, ever helpful.

Pyrenees is the second longest inverted coaster at 4,048.6 feet. Source: rcdb.com

Edit: darn, beat me to it.

Banshee's Batwing from a different view.....

"Riders will see nothing but sky as they climb the Batwing element on the new Banshee roller coaster. The world's longest inverted roller makes its much-anticipated debut in April at Kings Island." - Kings Island's Facebook page

(Photo Courtesy of Kings Island)

You mean the Shoestring Knot?......LoL

I still say it's a norwegian loop as its a dive loop into an immelman. lol Pretzel knot I can see as a factual description. B&M also calls Montu's a Batwing and there is a fairly clear difference between theirs and ours. Pretzel loop is just not the same.

Irrelevant though as the park is going to call it a batwing.

Definitely not a pretzel loop. Ouch.. imagine..

I'm surprised not much progress (visible progress) was made today, considering that there won't be much time for progress due to the incoming winter storm Ion.

Ooh they should put in a food cart that sells orange and black iced bat shaped sugar cookies and blue and red iced batwing shaped sugar cookies (cookies shaped like the wing of a bat, not like the roller coaster layout lol) I think that would be really awesome and I would totally buy them even if it was $5 a cookie lol