The sound of upstop wheels whirring on the ready brake makes me so happy. BS is running great post refurb. That first year after, just..wow

How so?

Do you mean the compressed air launches?

Power Tower's four towers are powered by compressed air, high volume, low pressure. All movements involve opening/closing of valves/mufflers to facilitate a desired function. The four screw type compressors take a huge building under the safety/trim brakes of Corkscrew, they're quite loud, about as loud as the tower.

Skyhawk, the S&S Screamin' Swing uses air to swing both arms, the compressors are right next to Mine Ride's exit

Skyhawk is funband VERY loud.

Funband?? Wut??

I believe they were going for fun and but hit the b instead of space.

Or it's an adjective so powerful that a new word was created on the spot. I've heard a few on the shop floor that can't be repeated here...

I did make a new word: funband

Nope. Just hit the space bar.

I thought the FUNBand Five was playing Kings Island six days each week this summer.

Is that so?

The worlds first and only inverted wooden coaster: The Son of Banshee and Beast.

This is a joke.

The Son of Banshee and Beast?.....

....What a monster that would be....

....As long as it's nothing like The Beast's first Son....

A wooden invert?

Would be possible to do adn pretty cool, but likely to be mroe of a hybrid coaster like Rocky Mountain Coasters does.

http://www.gordonrides.com/concepts.html

Did someone say wooden invert?

Yes. I believe that was so.

BB7, returning from his grave

Tear down Action Theatre and put a station there (Or move SoB's station there) and put in an Intamin Blitz coaster.

Why pick up and move a whole station?

Works in the video games...

I typed that this morning before my church's VBS and I hadn't had breakfast yet. My brain doesn't start functioning until about 9:30. Forget about the whole station nonsense but keep the part about tearing down Action Theatre and adding an Intamin Blitz.

Except there's not enough room for another coaster back by Action Theater, unless it's a small kiddie coaster. The second hill on The Beast is only 100 yards behind Action Theater. On top of that, there's a huge drop-off behind Action Theater (the ground elevation drops by 50 feet from the back of the theater to The Beast's track) that would hinder any construction. In theory, you could turn to the east and go out into the forest, but that means 1) removing a lot of trees, 2) relocating the fireworks launch area, and 3) potentially disturbing The Beast's ride experience if you get too close to it, which would be hard to avoid.

Fireworks launch area! Can't believe I hadn't figured out that's what the big open field out there was for. I'd been wondering about it since I noticed it while riding WindSeeker, and even though I knew they shot off close enough to The Beast that they stopped running it during the fireworks, I hadn't put two and two together.

I'm assuming that's it. I don't know for sure. But it's the only clearing visible on Google Earth in the correct general area.

Kings Island needs a B&M Flying, Dive, Floorless, Standup, and Wing to all be the tallest, fastest, longest in the world, most inversions, all would have a loop interact with the lift, zero g roll, cobra roll, tallest pretzel loop, steepest first drop and all would have themeing.

Kings Island needs a B&M Flying, Dive, Floorless, Standup, and Wing to all be the tallest, fastest, longest in the world, most inversions, all would have a loop interact with the lift, zero g roll, cobra roll, tallest pretzel loop, steepest first drop and all would have themeing.

I don't think they need a stand up cough cough pain cough cough

They are not painful.

Ride Apocolypse at Six Flags America in Maryland and get back to me...

Or Skyrider at Canada's Wonderland...

Skyrider is awesome!

I did not experience even the slightest pain on Mantis. However, that remains the only stand-up I've ridden.

Mantis and King Cobra I found painful. The only stand up coaster I have rode that I have enjoyed is Chang.

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