We're flipping thorugh pages faster than the Jamaican Bobsled Team races!

The Bat almost looks brand new.

I bet that the general public will think its brand new.

Those areas under the loops are not concrete, they are crushed gravel, with a 6 foot high safety fence. They are required by OSHA in all areas where the ride operation is less than 10 feet. Firehawk has the same fence/gravel areas under its loop. It allows ride ops, landscaping and media to be inside the ride area with out being injured. The only way those gates should be opened is once the maintenance tech puts his own lockout on the ride. Never trust that someone else did.

People have jumped those fences to get hats, phones and glasses. That's what killed a guy in Six Flags over Georgia.

There will be a blacktop roadway under certain areas of the ride, for maintenance and rescue operations. The park is required to have a lift on property that can reach the highest point of the ride. Like the instance last month at Busch Gardens Tampa, where the ride stopped. Prior to park opening most times the local fire authority will require a safety training on the ride to become familiar with the ride for rescue.

The pathway near Sling Shot needed to be replaced, it was beginning to fail due to the weight of the waste collection trucks driving over it nightly. The park has slowly been replacing all blacktop surfaces with concrete based hardscapes. Concrete is stronger, and does not reflect heat mass as much as blacktop.

The colored blocks on the station appear to be steel architectural panels. You see them on most any new commercial construction.

Mostly true...but maint isn't the only people who can enter a ride..once operations start the locks are switched out, only operations has the keys to those locks.

The lockout is right though, I didn't care of one of my buddies put a lock on, I still always put one as well, there's a reason that clamp has several holes

It looks like they are working on Xtreme Skyflyer.

It looks like A ride like Flying Eagles is going in the old AZ circles spot.

Ahh, and it looks like our little Skyflyer is getting painted. For the first time ever.

Ahh, and it looks like our little Skyflyer is getting painted. For the first time ever.

I hope you're right.

It looks like A ride like Flying Eagles is going in the old AZ circles spot.

That would be so awesome because I never got to ride the original one.

Is it just me or does it look like they are painting it black/dark grey?

I'm very impressed with the work they are doing in the offseason. Just adding a ride like Banshee is crazy expensive, but they aren't stopping there. A complete re-theme of The Bat, work in Action Zone, and what appears to be painting Xtreme Skyflyer is quite ambitious.

I'm very impressed with the work they are doing in the offseason. Just adding a ride like Banshee is crazy expensive, but they aren't stopping there. A complete re-theme of The Bat, work in Action Zone, and what appears to be painting Xtreme Skyflyer is quite ambitious.

I agree.

Ahh, and it looks like our little Skyflyer is getting painted. For the first time ever.

Hopefully that is correct. Its was seriously an eye sore last season and something I mentioned earlier that needed to be done this offseason w/ the beauty of a new ride right next door, all of the rust showing up was going to stick out even more.

I think they need to repaint Sling Shot too.

I'm really looking forward to this season. Matt Ouimette and pals up in Sandusky continue to prove what a great choice he was, and I can't wait to see what other improvements/changes are coming that we haven't been made aware of yet

I wonder if the park is responsible for painting it.

Man it would be so awesome to get The Flying Eagles in that spot!!

It Is starting to look like a Flying Eagles....

Check out my poll in topic KI polls, and say what you think is going to be in the circle.

It Is starting to look like a Flying Eagles....

That sucks.

Workers started putting black fences at the bottom coming out of the dive loop.

It Is starting to look like a Flying Eagles....

That sucks.

Um... I hope you did not really just say that.

Because if you did, the firestorm of responses will be commencing in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6......

Looks like the park is getting some love from the LA Times.

http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/themeparks/la-trb-Banshee-coaster-kings-island-20140226,0,7731891.story#axzz2ujPHLiBl

I see nothing yet that makes me believe it will be a set of Flyers.

Plus, I really, really think that we're FAR too late into the offseason to begin adding a ride of any size.

I did not see this posted yet, Here is a picture of the photo booth for Banshee From the KICentral Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kingsislandcentral

^I don't like it. Looks too cluttered.

Looks like the lights are back on tonight! Here is the link to webcam https://www.visitkingsisland.com/online-fun/webcams

That article was well written, some research was actually done. I love the attention this is getting! Smurf I agree that stuff needs cleared out and they should clean the top of the bar off.

Really? I thought they would just leave it a live construction site all season.

Back to the circle debate... I took a screen shot of a Google Earth map of Kings Dominion's Flying Eagles and used Photoshop to put them into the circle in Kings Island. Both images were taken at the same zoomed in distance. This is how it would look.

This is without space for a queue line. I never thought they were coming anyways, but now I'm pretty positive it is too cramped for them to fit.

I need something better to do on a Saturday night...

I wonder if the park is responsible for painting it.

99.99% of the time, jobs such as painting a large ride, the jobs are contracted out.