Those are all sweet pictures, CANT WAIT. Opening day is practically in a month and there is so much to look forward too!

Check out the cool Turkey Vulture. There were several of them swirling around the tower earlier today. http://pixelcaster.com/live/kingsisland/Diamondback.html

On 3/10/2017 at 9:56 PM, silver2005 said:

Flyers are also more open and allows for less body movement restriction than PTC's.  The front seat is divine.  

Fair warning, Flyers are also unfriendly for people over 265 pounds roughly. I barely made it on Thunderhead at Dollywood in 2011. I find PTC a tight squeeze at 280 but not as tight as Flyers at 265. 

1 hour ago, new account said:

Check out the cool Turkey Vulture. There were several of them swirling around the tower earlier today

I saw this bird when I was watching the guys putting DBack's second train on in the storage area or whatever they call it. lol I loved how it was just like looking around at everything  Probably wondering what's in the shed.....

I found this video and I remember that before Timbers, Adventure Express, FOF and Tomb Raider/The Crypt where one of the most themed rides in the park. Im interested to see what all Mystic Timbers will bring! I remember seeing somewhere that the theming will be on the same point as Express, FOF and formerly Tomb Raider

 

But as my opinion went, TR was on a different level than Express and FOF
I expect Mystic to be on par with Banshee at the least, and FOF/ Express at best

Yea TR:TR's themign was excellent. Fully immersed from teh get go adn some of the best theming I've seen for a regional park. It almost had a Disney/Universal feel to it with the themed queue, the preshow rooms and preshow video with lighting effects (the final preshow room with the goddess statue was awesome), and the details on the ride itself were all amazing. Was so sad to see it gutted when Paramount left.

Agree though that I expect MT theming to be more on par with Banshee/AE. Probably have the nice plaza and station of Banshee but a little more theming on teh course of the run like AE with the shed and such. Plus be heightened a bit with the setting of teh coaster falling in line with the theme of the ride itself.

The ride keeps making me feel like its theme is like verbolten, but with less queue and station theming

I thoroughly read through the commentary posts this week by the KI Central coaster enthusiasts, I've seen a lot of progress on the construction of Kings Island's newest attraction, Mystic Timbers. I found video footage unintentionally, of an off season view of the amusement and water park areas; although, I can't quote the exact date when this video content was filmed, I did see the construction of the new Island Smokehouse in Soak City which would default the film date to some date relatively recent. 

Aside from the construction video on Mystic Timbers, has anyone noticed the construction clearing behind Banshee recently? It seems as though more land clearing has occurred during the off-season, this is obtrusive from the Banshee webcam. I do recall in an interview with Greg Scheid, former VP and General Manager of Kings Island, post the Mystic Timbers announcement, Greg saying that it took about a year to clear trees for Mystic Timbers. Hence, this supports my personal conjecture that Kings Island's next major attraction will be located behind Banshee, this could be the location of the KI giga coaster everyone has been ranting about since 2009. I think that once the trees are cleared, we could be seeing hints at the next major attraction, perhaps in 2019, or 2020. If the next new attraction for KI were a giga coaster, it would be the ideal location being that X-base is famish for a thirst-quenching, new thrilling attraction and it could extend out to the parking lot area going behind Banshee and Bat, pivoting direction near the front entrance and then return back to the X-base location.

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That land clearing behind Banshee has been discussed for a few years on KIC. That seems to be their go to spot for dirt, or dumping location if dirt is removed elsewhere in the park for any reason. I don't see any significance at this point to it being a new ride land clearing area.

I look forward to riding this at ERT during Coasterstock.

13 hours ago, Drummermattk said:

I found this video and I remember that before Timbers, Adventure Express, FOF and Tomb Raider/The Crypt where one of the most themed rides in the park. Im interested to see what all Mystic Timbers will bring! I remember seeing somewhere that the theming will be on the same point as Express, FOF and formerly Tomb Raider

 

LOL, me pre-beard... Those were some fun times!

1 hour ago, Thabto said:

I look forward to riding this at ERT during Coasterstock.

Same! I'm really eager to get some nightrides on that late ERT. I haveing a feeling it's going to give a great night ride, especially around that 10/11pm mark we will get with the late ERTs. 

I'm thinking it might not be as great as Beast's night ride though with train lights, and the WWC station ights.. but thats it i think [emoji14]

8 minutes ago, calakapepe said:

I'm thinking it might not be as great as Beast's night ride though with train lights, and the WWC station ights.. but thats it i think

Probably..

The other way to look at it is: Having those reference points will, possibly, add to the sense of speed...

 

 

Do any of you guys think this coaster can top Beast? At first, I thought there was no chance, but now there is starting to be some real competition.

#Theming

 

 

12 minutes ago, Drummermattk said:

#Theming

 

 

 

 

#Verygoodtheming  This ride looks too sweet.

Almost looks like something Taft would do when building a ride. It looks awesome! Can't wait to ide it.

Keep in mind that Taft hasn`t owned the park since 1984.  So the comparison to their theming might be a stretch.  However, I think that the theming of this ride fits perfectly with the Rivertown theme area of the park. Kudos to Kings Island and Cedar Fair.

If only we could get some more Octoberfest theming back into the park, and revamp the classic midway feel of Coney, we will have some great theming.

1 hour ago, Xdog42 said:

Do any of you guys think this coaster can top Beast? At first, I thought there was no chance, but now there is starting to be some real competition.

Considering Beast isn't my forte, I think this will more than likely top Beast for me... but... I might still prefer Beast as a night experience specifically

We have theming

 

go back 5 post above yours that was already posted

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8 hours ago, Xdog42 said:

Do any of you guys think this coaster can top Beast? At first, I thought there was no chance, but now there is starting to be some real competition.

I think it looks great, but I don't think it can beat The Beast truly for a few years. I think part of The Beast experience is knowing it's a legend.

I don't factor in a coaster's 'legacy' or historical impact when I ascertain which coasters I like better than others.  I use criteria like g forces, air time, pacing, aesthetics, big moments, and other more tangible things.  I don't let others opinion affect mine, but I do use them to try and guess what I may be in for.  Often, I'm surprised.  

Examples- I went to KK not thinking highly of T3 or Thunder Run.  Both turned out better than expected (more so Thunder Run).  In contrast, I had high expectations for Grizzly at KD and Mean Streak only to come off disappointed with them.  My visits to Dollywood and Hershey really helped me in getting away from thinking that stats and public perception make a good ride.

3 hours ago, bengals fan said:

go back 5 post above yours that was already posted

For some reason the photo or the link never appeared until now

#apologies

 

I seen on social media that Kings Island Public Relations Manager, Don Helbig, twitted out that the Mystic Timbers' station will not be inclusive of storage bins which would default riders to utilize the lockers near the 3,265-foot long roller coaster.

Yea.. been thinking that was most probable with the lockers left over from WWC

It also does speed up the loading process.  Although, Dollywood is pretty efficient with their loading process, and they have bins at their coasters.