ucgrady Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 I just want this ride to hug the terrain as much as possible, and hopefully have a tunnel. Basically The Beast but at 90+ Mph and only a minute long. While length is important, I’d rather have this than an awkwardly tall MCBR with nothing but filler afterwards. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DustinTheNow Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 10 minutes ago, Bansheeback said: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Thank you. I don’t see the specific spine footer drawing for the lift spine. Would you happen to have that? An angle on that would give us the max angle on the drop. With this angle, we can come up with a near exact height estimate for the ride. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bansheeback Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 1 minute ago, DustinTheNow said: Thank you. I don’t see the specific spine footer drawing for the lift spine. Would you happen to have that? An angle on that would give us the max angle on the drop. With this angle, we can come up with a near exact height estimate for the ride. I'm scanning all of the pages in the document and uploading them to Google Drive so everybody can examine it in higher quality. I'll post the link when I'm finished. 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSBMX Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 8 minutes ago, fryoj said: Hmm. So it's not going to have a backbone footer on the drop. No way to know the descent angle then. I was hoping there would be another diagram like the angle footer on the lift page, but it's not meant to be. Thank for looking that up. Not necessarily true. All that's shown here are typical footer/footing examples......NVM, I read too quickly what you said, my bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenageninja Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 10 minutes ago, Gordon Bombay said: Prove it. Gordon, Even though I am a mechanical engineer by trade, I don't have enough details to properly solve this problem. However, I can assure you that those billboards are not designed to handle the load of a rollercoaster track. 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supertrooper Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 4 minutes ago, ucgrady said: I just want this ride to hug the terrain as much as possible, and hopefully have a tunnel. Basically The Beast but at 90+ Mph and only a minute long. While length is important, I’d rather have this than an awkwardly tall MCBR with nothing but filler afterwards. Maybe there are no hills. You go down the first drop and then just speed along the ground really fast. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIghostguy Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 I’m fine with the height. I was honestly expecting it to not be as tall or taller than Fury. I think the real tragedy is the length. With The Beast and Banshee, I was sure that we would at least be getting the longest giga, especially with all the land available. I really hope that it is not as short as the layout suggests. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiocoasterfan Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Apologies, but I think its absurd that people cant enjoy 'decoding' without seeing detailed blueprints. If participating like that makes you uncomfortable, well... not my business to "advise" you what to do. Not here to argue dude. Blueprints are out and are being examined and discussed. We will all be waiting for the announcement but we can also speculate. Yesterday got crazy because of the “leaked layout”, not because of the blueprints which are public record and have been obtained on many past decodes. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
presto123 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Maybe the whole ride is underground after the drop. They are just clearing trees to troll us! 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtlepower Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 1 minute ago, presto123 said: Maybe the whole ride is underground after the drop. They are just clearing trees to troll us! Maybe partially indoors too? 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 19 minutes ago, ohiocoasterfan said: Not here to argue dude. Blueprints are out and are being examined and discussed. We will all be waiting for the announcement but we can also speculate. Yesterday got crazy because of the “leaked layout”, not because of the blueprints which are public record and have been obtained on many past decodes. Nor am I ;-) Point taken about the "leaked layout" - that pushed things over the edge unfortunately. I wear my KI heart on my sleeve. I just think it would suck to be one of those making the actual decisions, trying very hard to keep a secret - only to be scooped by "leaked" plans (authentic or not) from people that aren't doing the heavy lifting or internal decision-making. My point all along is, and will be, speculation is a good thing (and I bet the park thinks so too) but once too much gets revealed, or someone takes it too far, it takes the fun out of it. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterRush Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Orion 299 feet. The world's tallest hyper. 5 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonkeyKong Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 I still have questions about the account that leaked the plans. I understand how convincing they are, and it very well may be true still it just seems fishy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medford Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Nothing wrong with that. I also hold our reservations that the leaked layout was potentially planted there by someone at KI on purpose (either to throw us off or to help drive discussion) All I know for sure right now is that the lift footers would indicate a giga of some sort. In the end, even if the no limits model that was posted comes to fruition, it will still be a fun ride, 30 minutes from my front door and conveniently placed between my office and home 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirefighterENG44 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 11 minutes ago, CoasterRush said: Orion 299 feet. The world's tallest hyper. Had to haha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltny Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 55 minutes ago, thatguyfromohio said: Someone go to the city building in mason and let’s get more proof. Actual full sheet pictures, videos. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk So I live 5 mins from the Mason building. What exactly do I need to ask for and I’ll head down there tomorrow. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSalsa Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Well, reading through this, one thing that pops in my head- I doubt this will be the shortest Giga. Everyone seems to have forgotten this one which is only 5,100 feet long- shorter than Diamondback. https://rcdb.com/4520.htm Also, I remember in 2010 when that coaster opened. It got a lot of the same complaints about being smaller, slower, and shorter than Millennium Force. Edit: Also, if that Polaris animation is anywhere near how the coaster is actually gonna be...that is gonna be a great ride. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissfan4 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 15 minutes ago, DonkeyKong said: I still have questions about the account that leaked the plans. I understand how convincing they are, and it very well may be true still it just seems fishy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Me too, photos of the footings were posted roughly 3:30 pm, and within an hour someone creates an account, and leaks the layout blueprint? Seems awfully convenient. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magenta Lizard Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 The call is coming from inside the house... (just wanna note on the troll possibility, the Project X partial foundation blueprints were filed April 18. That is plenty of time to create a fake based roughly on it. I’ve known about the existence of the blueprints since last week. Someone else may have known and gotten them earlier, it isn’t necessary they were a park employee because they are public records. All that remained on their end was to wait until the existence of the filed blueprints was confirmed here) 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bansheeback Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 My picture made it! I’m famous!https://www.wcpo.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/kings-island-files-blueprints-for-new-coasterSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hulk51382 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 John has the scoop! https://www.wcpo.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/kings-island-files-blueprints-for-new-coaster 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 1 minute ago, Magenta Lizard said: I’ve known about the blueprints since last week. Out of curiosity, why didn't you share with the group earlier? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissfan4 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but looking at the leaked layout, why does the picture not line up about 2/3rds of the way across. Looks like a section was cut out, and the remaining pieces were stitched together. The track somehow matches up, but nothing else does. The Dinosaurs Alive path does not match up, what appears to be new service roads do not match up, especially the area where the fireworks are currently shot from. Something looks fishy with this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magenta Lizard Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Because it wasn’t my effort to share, someone else went down there and got them and just sent me a basic pic and was nice enough later to show me their copies. I also thought someone else would eventually start talking about it when I nudged. I finally had to shove to get the ball rolling 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 2 minutes ago, hulk51382 said: John has the scoop! https://www.wcpo.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/kings-island-files-blueprints-for-new-coaster Also of interest "five pages of drawings" per that article. Anybody post a link to high res scans of all 5 pages yet? We've still been working with a subset here in this discussion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonkeyKong Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Me too, photos of the footings were posted roughly 3:30 pm, and within an hour someone creates an account, and leaks the layout blueprint? Seems awfully convenient. Not only do they leak them but the continue to make comments after they said “don’t look it’s private” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 I am most anxious to see photos of any work that's taken place at the park. More clearing, footings, grading etc. The physical indications really get my anticipation blood flowing. For those that regularly visit the park and post photos of the area in question - keep those coming (albeit taken within the appropriate confines of the park.) Tomorrow morning... if at all possible ;-) LOL! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LintemuthStudios Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 4 minutes ago, kissfan4 said: Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but looking at the leaked layout, why does the picture not line up about 2/3rds of the way across. Looks like a section was cut out, and the remaining pieces were stitched together. The track somehow matches up, but nothing else does. The Dinosaurs Alive path does not match up, what appears to be new service roads do not match up, especially the area where the fireworks are currently shot from. Something looks fishy with this. I honestly can't even deal with this thread anymore lmao. It's forcing my mind to play tug of war. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldhudsonjr Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 1 hour ago, scoriell said: Nah 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiamondBanshee Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 There are two possibilities for tomorrow:1) There is no more clearing to be found, giving credence to the leaked blueprints. All hell will break loose2) There is clearing beyond what the blueprints state, giving credence to the fact the blueprints could be a hoax. All hell will break looseBe prepared people. Tomorrow will be crazySent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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