Old_Bearcat Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 TIP: in Chrome, right click on the Enquirer link and select 'open in incognito mode" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawaiian Coasters 325 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 6:28 PM, Old_Bearcat said: TIP: in Chrome, right click on the Enquirer link and select 'open in incognito mode" Expand Just did that. It worked! Thanks! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick44 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 6:26 PM, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said: Yeah, the video was posted on youtube just today, but that video has been on the wlwt site since the blueprints got leaked. They just probably forgot to put it on YouTube so they did it now. But it's hilarious when Dennis Spiegel calls the helixes loops. He did the same with Diamondback's blueprints. Expand Hahaha they actually think its a vertical loop in the video. That is funny. he also says the height is 305 ft and so is the drop lol? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystic1017 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Off Topic but I am currently at the park and I think Drop Tower just got hit by lightning again. Lol that thing is a lightning magnet lol 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick44 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 6:35 PM, Mystic1017 said: Off Topic but I am currently at the park and I think Drop Tower just got hit by lightning again. Lol that thing is a lightning magnet lol Expand Good thing it has lightning rods! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kodistict Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Kings Island: renames Drop Tower to Lightning Rod: drop of thunder 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawaiian Coasters 325 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 It's storming at my house! I'm about 5 minutes from the park. I wonder if our giga will have lightning rods as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterWorks9 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 3:19 PM, Fye Coasters said: I think this is a little more important that school lol Expand Yeah same but tell that to my parents 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawaiian Coasters 325 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 So we are at 358 pages on this thread! That is more than the Mystic Timbers thread had. (325 pages). Banshee had 459. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpfcm Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 6:42 PM, Kodistict said: Kings Island: renames Drop Tower to Lightning Rod: drop of thunder I could go for that! Sounds a lot better than Drop Tower.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jallie79 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 6:45 PM, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said: So we are at 358 pages on this thread! That is more than the Mystic Timbers thread had. (325 pages). Banshee had 459. Expand But where are we without all the non deciding posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick44 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 6:42 PM, Kodistict said: Kings Island: renames Drop Tower to Lightning Rod: drop of thunder Expand I am not sure they can use the name Lightning Rod on anything. Thanks a lot Dollywood for that amazing RMC you have haha 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick44 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 6:43 PM, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said: It's storming at my house! I'm about 5 minutes from the park. I wonder if our giga will have lightning rods as well. Expand Sorry for double post...….. Of course it will have one. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIBOB Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 6:39 PM, Maverick44 said: Good thing it has lightning rods! Expand Yea, anything of that height has to be engineered with the knowledge that it will be nailed by CG lightning many times... Off topic, so if this needs to be moved so be it, but I did notice last week that the aircraft warning strobe at the top if its antennae was out. Random curiosity, but is there a deadline for which the park needs to have it operational again? Some kind of FAA guideline? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enchanted Voyage Lover Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 It's Official...OPEN TO ALL GUEST AT THE PARK. https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2019/august/kings-island-to-make-major-announcement-august-15 "The time is coming when everything will be revealed and made known to all. After months of speculation, Kings Island will make a major announcement Thursday, August 15 at 10 p.m. All guests visiting the park that day are invited to attend. The announcement will take place in Coney Mall in the Flight of Fear ride entance plaza area. While Kings Island closes August 15 at 8 p.m., select rides, games and food locations will remain open in Coney Mall for guests to enjoy from 8-10 p.m." 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fye Coasters Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Its open to public!! EVERYONE CAN GO!! BETTER GET THERE EARLY LOL https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2019/august/kings-island-to-make-major-announcement-august-15 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatchesC Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 6:43 PM, CoasterWorks9 said: Yeah same but tell that to my parents Expand Education is PHYSICS??? I know KI does education days so you're just getting a head start..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 7:02 PM, KIBOB said: Yea, anything of that height has to be engineered with the knowledge that it will be nailed by CG lightning many times... Off topic, so if this needs to be moved so be it, but I did notice last week that the aircraft warning strobe at the top if its antennae was out. Random curiosity, but is there a deadline for which the park needs to have it operational again? Some kind of FAA guideline? Expand Actually the strobe on Drop Tower hasn't been operational since June 15th.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick44 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 7:20 PM, disco2000 said: Actually the strobe on Drop Tower hasn't been operational since June 15th.... Expand They probably needed to order parts from Intamin to replace something with it. It must of been fried from the strikes or just burnt out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeastFarmer Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Something is off here in the blog post, and it ties in with the supposed errors on the teasing posters. The word "entrance" is spelled incorrectly. Maybe the the errors were hinting all along that the community was errant in speculating...or maybe it's just a typo that the word processer didn't alert the user to...Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick44 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 7:26 PM, BeeastFarmer said: Something is off here in the blog post, and it ties in with the supposed errors on the teasing posters. The word "entrance" is spelled incorrectly. Maybe the the errors were hinting all along that the community was errant in speculating...or maybe it's just a typo that the word processer didn't alert the user to... Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Expand Good catch.....what could the mis information / typos mean.. Maybe the leaked the blueprins themselves and the info on the prints is a typo and its really going to be a massive coaster lol 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenageninja Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 7:26 PM, BeeastFarmer said: Something is off here in the blog post, and it ties in with the supposed errors on the teasing posters. The word "entrance" is spelled incorrectly. Maybe the the errors were hinting all along that the community was errant in speculating...or maybe it's just a typo that the word processer didn't alert the user to... Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Expand Facepalm.gif 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TristinTargaryen Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 7:32 PM, Maverick44 said: Good catch.....what could the mis information / typos mean.. Maybe the leaked the blueprins themselves and the info on the prints is a typo and its really going to be a massive coaster lol Expand I mean any coaster over 300ft is a massive coaster. Especially considering there’s only 5 of those in the world right now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collin.klopfstein Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 wait if we take all the spelling errors and see how many there are on the posters, could we get a bunch of letters and try to put them in order? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick44 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 7:34 PM, TristinTargaryen said: I mean any coaster over 300ft is a massive coaster. Especially considering there’s only 5 of those in the world right now. Expand I know maybe my word choice was poor. I should of said bigger then we thought. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 7:34 PM, TristinTargaryen said: I mean any coaster over 300ft is a massive coaster. Especially considering there’s only 5 of those in the world right now. Expand Actually there are six in the world....well eight if you are strictly going over 300 feet...but currently six complete circuit giga coasters in the world... 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 7:22 PM, Maverick44 said: They probably needed to order parts from Intamin to replace something with it. It must of been fried from the strikes or just burnt out. Expand It was a lightning strike ... #whoops double post! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jallie79 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 7:22 PM, Maverick44 said: They probably needed to order parts from Intamin to replace something with it. It must of been fried from the strikes or just burnt out. Expand I'd say it's probably not an Intamin specific part. Whelen makes a lot of strobes for that purpose. Just a guess though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeastFarmer Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 And now it's changed again... digital tape? Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 ^They eliminated the QA/QC department since this site does it for free 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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