fanofFirehawk Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 There has been some discussion as to what is happening underneath the Station of Flight Deck and former part of the queue. I thought this could be the place to discuss what is happening down there. So far I believe a few of the props have been removed, like the model plane, and apprenenlty some of Displays doors have been opened. I wonder if this accually is the beginning of some Flight Deck retheming. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailRider Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 The Bat 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiocolts Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Can't see much here, quick picture I took in line yesterday. Something is visible, not sure what. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CP&LERR Fan Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 ^What am supposed to look at I see something faintly in the background? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanofFirehawk Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 But there is definitely something going on back there. 3. 2. 1. Speculate!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatGuy11 Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 But there is definitely something going on back there. 3. 2. 1. Speculate!!! I don't know why but that made me think of the old Batman theme song. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB1 Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Saw reports of this a few days prior to KIC members catching on. Interesting to see if there will be larger queue and more theme, which I hope Mr. Ouimet begins to work on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Be careful. That could boomerang on you. Especially you. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB1 Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 (See Boomerang Bay expansion 2014 Carowinds for "pun back") 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TombRaiderFTW Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 I noticed the props were gone the Sunday before last. Hadn't noticed those doors were opened. Thanks for the photo, ohiocolts. Add in The Bat rumor posted on KIC's Facebook, and I wonder if that new Bat logo could actually be worth something. I'm pretty sure that would be a pipe dream come true for me, in case my excited flailing during The Bat teaser "leak" wasn't obvious enough. If there's anything to this, I wonder how much money the park would spend on a Bat retheme since they've already spent a record amount on Banshee. Ignoring the financial aspect, if I were retheming Flight Deck, I'd probably paint the track orange, at the very least. There's also new/repainted train shells, new signage and/or paint and/or theming for the station, and any potential additional theming to be considered. But when you do figure in the financial aspect, I don't know how much of that would be possible, regardless of how different the new management is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnofthedead Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Would be a Fail if they renamed it The Bat. IMO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanofFirehawk Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 I noticed the props were gone the Sunday before last. Hadn't noticed those doors were opened. Thanks for the photo, ohiocolts. Add in The Bat rumor posted on KIC's Facebook, and I wonder if that new Bat logo could actually be worth something. I'm pretty sure that would be a pipe dream come true for me, in case my excited flailing during The Bat teaser "leak" wasn't obvious enough. If there's anything to this, I wonder how much money the park would spend on a Bat retheme since they've already spent a record amount on Banshee. Ignoring the financial aspect, if I were retheming Flight Deck, I'd probably paint the track orange, at the very least. There's also new/repainted train shells, new signage and/or paint and/or theming for the station, and any potential additional theming to be considered. But when you do figure in the financial aspect, I don't know how much of that would be possible, regardless of how different the new management is. Maybe the price tag for Banshee had already included the retheming of the area and rides near by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elyk Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 With Banshee bringing more guests over to that area of the park, they might just want to tidy up the surroundin rides. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamondbacker Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Sure, that website was fake, but I loved that new logo. Maybe they were just tired of having the planes sitting there. Is that one fighter jet model right next to the staircase still there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanofFirehawk Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 ^^No… It is no longer there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamondbacker Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 ^^No… It is no longer there. Woah, really? That is strange, it's been there since the first days of the ride. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailRider Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Remember how River Town saw lots of love with Diamondback and Vortex got a paint job out of it also. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedevariouseffect Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I'm surprised Don hasn't come in and said anything yet, nor have they announced anything if this is indeed part of Project 2014...I just hope this means something good is happening to Flight Deck, not just taking more and more away from a great ride 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TombRaiderFTW Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 ^^ Very true! I'd forgotten about that. That does seem to lend itself to the idea of Action Zone (or at least Flight Deck) getting some love in 2014. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill_Biscuit Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 So, the $28,000,000, world's-longest-inverted coaster is just a .... divers[[[CLANG!]]] (giant anvil interrupts Tb). 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benred23 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Seems to me like way to much thought was put into this to just be a 10 minute Diversion for Banshee. the question is would Kings Island Sink this kinda Money into Rethemeing an old Arrow Suspended Coaster? Id like to think yes, but only time will tell.As excited as I am for Banshee, a Bat Retheme of Flight Deck is equally intriguing.. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homestar92 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I don't think the intent of The Bat site was to be a diversion. As a programmer, I really feel like The Bat page was just a layout test for Banshee's site. Diamondback got its own domain after its announcement, so they could test that offline. But since Banshee needed to be able to link to and from the main site, as well as using its templates, etc, it would need to go live for some period of time to make sure everything works. By changing out all the details with alternatives that don't spoil anything, they are able to test their layouts without giving anything away. That way, in the worst-case scenario that it is discovered (as it was), the secret isn't out. But maybe I'm wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOBwasaSOB Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I would LOVE to see a complete retheme of the area or a future new area made (I am talking over the course of 5 or more years). A haunted or creepy theme would be great in my eyes, and I have seen this sentiment reflected here several times. With all of the money just spent though I see it as an understandably slow process and as such I hope that whatever small changes they make now are not judged as the final product and hated on by the community too quickly. I am really gaining trust for this new management I hope it isn't misplaced! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malem Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 But since Banshee needed to be able to link to and from the main site, as well as using its templates, etc, it would need to go live for some period of time to make sure everything works. That's what staging servers are for. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkroz Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I don't think the intent of The Bat site was to be an inversion. As a programmer, I really feel like The Bat page was just a layout test for Banshee's site. Diamondback got its own domain after its announcement, so they could test that offline. But since Banshee needed to be able to link to and from the main site, as well as using its templates, etc, it would need to go live for some period of time to make sure everything works. By changing out all the details with alternatives that don't spoil anything, they are able to test their layouts without giving anything away. That way, in the worst-case scenario that it is discovered (as it was), the secret isn't out. But maybe I'm wrong. But they bothered to make a fake (but believable) logo, repurpose a picture of Gatekeeper and take the time to code a new page of orange and black backgrounds and images? Then, they "accidentally" let it appear on the park's website for just a few minutes? I agree that test pages happen, but they invented an entire logo and site themed around "The Bat." It was clearly a diversion, and it worked like gangbusters. It might not have convinced 100% of people that The Bat was coming, but it did a good job creating a dialogue about it and spreading the possibility and the rumor. Many of us felt so sure of Banshee, and the "leak" got us to rethink ourselves and consider for a moment. That's what good marketing is. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homestar92 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 But to fake an entire website, but put it somewhere very difficult to find seems a bit cryptic just for a red herring. Then again, it's Don, and he isn't exactly known for being upfront with his teasers. It took me months to figure out that the teaser saying it would be like "Christmas, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Halloween all at once" was in reference to Holiday World, who once had a ride named Banshee. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkroz Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 But to fake an entire website, but put it somewhere very difficult to find seems a bit cryptic just for a red herring. Then again, it's Don, and he isn't exactly known for being upfront with his teasers. It took me months to figure out that the teaser saying it would be like "Christmas, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Halloween all at once" was in reference to Holiday World, who once had a ride named Banshee. But which is more likely: 1) They faked an entire website, logo, promotional image, etc. to put it somewhere difficult to find as a red herring; 2) They faked an entire website, logo, promotional image, etc. with the hopes that it would never be seen by the public; it was just a placeholder website for Banshee. Also one could argue that it wasn't hard to find. Someone testing out URLs didn't find it, it was posted to the site's front page! It was staged to look like an accidental leak. It was supposed to get us to think that we'd been wrong about Banshee. Look at the promotional image above, with the logo, the train, and the bats in the background. Do you really imagine they created that header image just as a placeholder, assuming it would never be seen by the public? I think they'd sooner use an equally-sized black rectangle to fill the header spot than hire someone / take the time to create that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiocolts Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Whenever anybody spoke to Don about it, he said it was all placeholder material and it was not meant to persuade anybody. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron88stang Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 But to fake an entire website, but put it somewhere very difficult to find seems a bit cryptic just for a red herring. Then again, it's Don, and he isn't exactly known for being upfront with his teasers. It took me months to figure out that the teaser saying it would be like "Christmas, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Halloween all at once" was in reference to Holiday World, who once had a ride named Banshee. I did not get it until just now... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 What would be a nice touch would be a moving pathway to Top Gun/Flight Deck/The Bat. That being said, and everyone done laughing by now, that space back there could possibly entwine another ride of some sort, especially if the current queue is relocated. Don't forget - we're in Action Zone! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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