Kings Island is adding dorms

[King Ding Dong]

1 minute ago, Stoan said:

Double station Giga? Employees only though.

Will have to get the Giga Guys to work up some concepts.  

[BoddaH1994]

21 hours ago, King Ding Dong said:

No Coke Freestyle machines in the common areas?  Come on man!

You joke, but this is the solution to problems like this.

Also, does anyone know if they are scheduled to open next year or the following year?

[King Ding Dong]

7 minutes ago, BoddaH1994 said:

You joke, but this is the solution to problems like this.

Also, does anyone know if they are scheduled to open next year or the following year?

Confused.  What problem?

Opens late May 2019, according to the Twit you linked.

[BoddaH1994]

4 minutes ago, King Ding Dong said:

Confused.  What problem?

Opens late May 2019, according to the Twit you linked.

Coke Freestyle and other places not opening. 

[fyrfyter]

I think dorm transportation should be either Hyperloop or Zip Line. Either also function as an attraction.

[FoolCrzy]

18 minutes ago, fyrfyter said:

I think dorm transportation should be either Hyperloop or Zip Line. Either also function as an attraction.

Perhaps relocate the Cincinnati Streetcar to KI. It may, finally, be profitable as an attraction/employee transportation. I know, We could have it go through an area with lions and giraffes.  Oh wait.

 

Nevermind.

[teenageninja]

5 minutes ago, FoolCrzy said:

Perhaps relocate the Cincinnati Streetcar to KI. It may, finally, be profitable as an attraction/employee transportation. I know, We could have it go through an area with lions and giraffes.  Oh wait.

 

Nevermind.

What if Kings Island bought that monorail from Jungle Jim's and used it as transportation.

[FoolCrzy]

That's a great idea!  

[King Ding Dong]

We are well on our way to solving the park’s employee transportation issues.

Next up my oldest graduates in 2020 but has a September birthday so will still be 17 but needs a place to live. If we can get him a forged identity I know the perfect place for him to work in Rivertown.  Win-Win.    

[fyrfyter]

I have the final transportation solution. Expand the train and add more stations. They can run it behind Crypt, under Beast lift hill, behind Racer and put in a Station where KMAA is going. Extend behind FoF/X, past AE, around Banshee and another station into AZ. Spur line to dorms with turn around and another station. New entrance to park with overhead R.R. Trestle. Follow front access road back down to SC. Makes perfect sense and costs little!!!

[silver2005]

^The trick to that is doing so with minimal crossings.  I would also think such a train expansion would mean the park would need to buy at least 2 more sets of trains (1-2 more locomotives and passenger cars) if you want to make it bigger and make it convenient.  

Personally, I think a sky ride that starts in Action Zone around Timberwolf with the other station between Backlot and Diamondback would be a good way to go, linking 2 of the more popular areas of the park.  

[fyrfyter]

I think 1 is plenty. 4 would be too many. Plus, you could add one train with a more modern look and theming along the track is cheap.

[SonofBaconator]

Steam locomotives are expensive and hard to come by. The park wasn't built for a huge train ride- heck, ours barely completes a mile as it is. 

[King Ding Dong]

Also I think I read somewhere that these kind of locomotives can’t take much of a grade as well so expanding the train to the other side of the park would be near impossible.  

[SonofBaconator]

1 hour ago, King Ding Dong said:

Also I think I read somewhere that these kind of locomotives can’t take much of a grade as well so expanding the train to the other side of the park would be near impossible.  

Correct and correct. 4-4-0s of that kind can't handle hills well. The Roy Disney from the Magic Kingdom can barely make it up their grade -(see chapter 3 of the Amusement Park Railroad Thread).

The transcontinental railroad only allowed a 2% grade back when it was built. The KI&MVRR has a grade too, right by the Mystic Timbers tunnel. There are often times when the trains can't even get up the hill and have to reverse back to the station and try again.

[fyrfyter]

We can just convert it all to cog railway. Problem solved!!!!!

[upstop]

jeesh using the train round trip from Rivertown to Dorms to Soak City would take an hour...lol! Maybe they could build a shuttle like at the Cincinnati Airport. Zip and you are there...do it partially underground with a station behind Invertigo for employee only access.

[SonofBaconator]

You guys are thinking way to much into this. At Cedar Point, they just had a bus that they used to take people to and from the park and their dorms. 

[upstop]

What fun is that? 

[fyrfyter]

jeesh using the train round trip from Rivertown to Dorms to Soak City would take an hour...lol! Maybe they could build a shuttle like at the Cincinnati Airport. Zip and you are there...do it partially underground with a station behind Invertigo for employee only access.

Better idea!!! We can just buy big drones and fly the employees across the park!!!

[King Ding Dong]

1 hour ago, fyrfyter said:

Better idea!!! We can just buy big drones and fly the employees across the park!!!

 

As an alternative and to help with the budget all employees could receive human cannonball training and just be launched back and forth.  It would be like the Ultimate Stunt Show all day!  The park could charge guests $5 to pull the cord on the cannon park side.   What kid wouldn’t want to do that?  

[Stoan]

3 hours ago, fyrfyter said:

 

Better idea!!! We can just buy big drones and fly the employees across the park!!!

Better idea!!! What if they buy a really big drone, and fly a bus with employees across the park!!!

 

I think they should just give them all those old go-karts they used to have where Banshee is.

[fyrfyter]

Better idea!!! What if they buy a really big drone, and fly a bus with employees across the park!!!
 
I think they should just give them all those old go-karts they used to have where Banshee is.

I’m good with that. Open raceway involving all pathways in the park! That’s a great idea!

[FoolCrzy]

One word.

Hyperloop

Maybe it's 2 words?  Hyper Loop?

[fyrfyter]

One word.
Hyperloop
Maybe it's 2 words?  Hyper Loop?

We already talked about that.

[FoolCrzy]

3 hours ago, fyrfyter said:

 

We already talked about that.

 

My memory is short!!!  Good idea!

 

[Stoan]

What if we did a hyperloop?

[upstop]

On 10/27/2018 at 3:13 PM, Stoan said:

What if we did a hyperloop?

https://hyperloop-one.com/

it’s an underground bullet train.

[sixohdieselrage]

Not sure its needed, but I managed to get a picture of the dorms from above. 

[HandsUp]

Destination launch coaster. Like TTD x2 (on going one way, one going the other). Huge launch into one giant airtime hill. By the time your butt is back in your seat you're sitting all the way across the park. Could work for employee transport from dorms too ;-)