LuckyluvsKI Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 As of WED even if not busy- they are only opening Orion to non time ticket holders from 6-7. Makes it hard to ride if you go after work. We got there at 5 and there was no line and only time card holders could enter. kinda disappointing taking that the crowds were not there. Sounds like from hearing the employee that they were just made to start doing that and had to keep it that way. MT and Diamondback both were about 15/20 mins. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightlyBeast Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 2 hours ago, LuckyluvsKI said: As of WED even if not busy- they are only opening Orion to non time ticket holders from 6-7. Makes it hard to ride if you go after work. We got there at 5 and there was no line and only time card holders could enter. kinda disappointing taking that the crowds were not there. Sounds like from hearing the employee that they were just made to start doing that and had to keep it that way. MT and Diamondback both were about 15/20 mins. Managing the line and keeping it small prevents it from becoming a 4 hour line. What they are doing is positive in every way. Not being able to ride with a couple hour park investment is a small price to pay, if it was a 4 hour line you wouldn't be riding either. At least this way you have a chance to catch it from 6-7. No one wants to spend half their day at the park in line for orion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyluvsKI Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 14 minutes ago, NightlyBeast said: Managing the line and keeping it small prevents it from becoming a 4 hour line. What they are doing is positive in every way. Not being able to ride with a couple hour park investment is a small price to pay, if it was a 4 hour line you wouldn't be riding either. At least this way you have a chance to catch it from 6-7. No one wants to spend half their day at the park in line for orion. funny cause non covid times you'd be doing exactly that... Hence why queues are built so long and big at first. opening of SOB and Flight of Fear totally spent half the day waiting to ride. so not sure why you think throttling it down to nothing when the crowds are to low those last two hours to even have a 4 hr line is a poor me situation. But its no skin off my back i have some covid pounds to shed to ride comfortably anyways. I was just putting it out there the new process so that others can plan their lucky 2 hr stent in the park as you put it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawaiian Coasters 325 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Orion isn't doing boarding passes today 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaFlyer Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said: Orion isn't doing boarding passes today Wasn’t yesterday either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raggedman07 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 And the wait time was...?... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaFlyer Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 15 minutes ago, raggedman07 said: And the wait time was...?... It was a walk on around 6:30 tonight and yesterday. I was only there at the end of the day, so I can’t speak for the morning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad_1138 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Orion is doing boarding passes today. They are in 30 minute intervals now. Wonder if they are trying to cut down on the number of people waiting for their time. Put a wrench in our showing up at the end of our time and having a walk on. We had 2-230. Showed up at 220 and waited 20 minutes. Still not bad though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengalsguy23 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 If anyone’s at the park right now let me know how the crowds are. Thinking about popping in for a few hours but not worth it if it’s packed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 1 minute ago, bengalsguy23 said: If anyone’s at the park right now let me know how the crowds are. Thinking about popping in for a few hours but not worth it if it’s packed. It is not bad. I would head on over. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darby427 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) Here tonight 7-28.. walked in at 6:15 and both Diamondback and Mystic Timbers were 30 minutes each.. and both were only running two trains and I didn't even see the third train in either shed.. talk about some slow ass loading.. I had hoped to get a ride on each and then head over to Orion but we're only able to get one on Diamondback and one on Mystic Timbers.. has it been that way all month?.. edit .. talked to ride op said 3rd DB train is back with bm and 3rd mystic train is in ki shop Edited July 28, 2020 by darby427 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUN&ONLY! Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 1 hour ago, darby427 said: Here tonight 7-28.. walked in at 6:15 and both Diamondback and Mystic Timbers were 30 minutes each.. and both were only running two trains and I didn't even see the third train in either shed.. talk about some slow ass loading.. I had hoped to get a ride on each and then head over to Orion but we're only able to get one on Diamondback and one on Mystic Timbers.. has it been that way all month?.. edit .. talked to ride op said 3rd DB train is back with bm and 3rd mystic train is in ki shop I doubt that Kings Island sent the third Diamondback train back to B&M. It is probably also in maintenance along with the third Mystic Timbers train and the third Banshee train. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsus Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 I would imagine it would cost substantially less to bring an engineer or two out to KI to consult vs. the roundtrip freight cost on a roller coaster train. PTC is in reasonable enough driving distance that KI and CP can send trains there on trucks for rehab, but Switzerland is a bit far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyluvsKI Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 1 hour ago, darby427 said: Here tonight 7-28.. walked in at 6:15 and both Diamondback and Mystic Timbers were 30 minutes each.. and both were only running two trains and I didn't even see the third train in either shed.. talk about some slow ass loading.. I had hoped to get a ride on each and then head over to Orion but we're only able to get one on Diamondback and one on Mystic Timbers.. has it been that way all month?.. edit .. talked to ride op said 3rd DB train is back with bm and 3rd mystic train is in ki shop It wouldn't be so slow if they didn't do the wouldn't release row by row when you get off. It's unnecessary. People naturally take varying times getting up and out of the restraints therefore not clogging the exit queue. Even in normal times it never felt bogged down getting off a coaster. I'll take it over being closed but it's one of the stand out slow issues to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKIVortex Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 I would imagine it would cost substantially less to bring an engineer or two out to KI to consult vs. the roundtrip freight cost on a roller coaster train. PTC is in reasonable enough driving distance that KI and CP can send trains there on trucks for rehab, but Switzerland is a bit far. KI doesn't and their PTCs out for rehab, KI does it themselves, CP on the other hand does, one of the reasons for the delayed opening of Blue Streak.Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rifleman Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 I would not be surprised if differed maintenance on the 3rd train for these rides was more of a cost saving measure than anything else. I have no knowledge about how much it costs to get a train ready for the season, but I imagine Kings Island, like all parks right now, is trying to cut costs wherever possible to make sure they survive the current situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsus Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 22 minutes ago, PKIVortex said: KI doesn't and their PTCs out for rehab, KI does it themselves, CP on the other hand does, one of the reasons for the delayed opening of Blue Streak. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk Sorry, didn't mean that KI sends their trains to PTC, just that it's close enough to be financially feasible unlike sending a B&M train back to Switzerland. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceePirate Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 On 7/28/2020 at 9:49 PM, jsus said: Sorry, didn't mean that KI sends their trains to PTC, just that it's close enough to be financially feasible unlike sending a B&M train back to Switzerland. Fairly certain B&M has a US train manufacturing shop. Would make sense since they do so much work here. They manufacture the track at Clermont Steel after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsus Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 @IceePirate, if you have info on that, I'd be happy to hear it. My understanding was that B&M trains are only built overseas, though that could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnyPancakes Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 I was there today from 11-3. The park was completely empty. I only waited 25 minutes to ride Orion. I spent the rest of the time with my kids not waiting on any lines at Planet Snoopy. It was sad. Awesome, because I hate lines, but sad I know they are losing lots of money. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenthodge Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 5 hours ago, AnyPancakes said: I was there today from 11-3. The park was completely empty. I only waited 25 minutes to ride Orion. I spent the rest of the time with my kids not waiting on any lines at Planet Snoopy. It was sad. Awesome, because I hate lines, but sad I know they are losing lots of money. I think the rain threat didn’t help. The “start” tine for storms just kept getting later and later. Earlier in the week it looked like today would be a washout. We even went yesterday instead of tonight because of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaThrills Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 I’m here today (August 2nd) and the wait lines are borderline insanity. A lot of the more popular rides (Invertigo, Banshee, Etc.) are 40-45 min and Mystic Timbers is a 75 min wait. Haven’t checked Orion yet, but I’d assume it’s in line between those wait times. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share Posted August 2, 2020 Glad to hear the park is busy. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad_1138 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Hopefully everyone goes today and not tomorrow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagoda Gift Shop Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Seems like the rain threat on Saturday pushed a lot of people to wait until Sunday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver8rws Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Orion hasn't opened yet today (Tuesday). Its been running empty cycles all day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coaster sally Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, Driver8rws said: Orion hasn't opened yet today (Tuesday). Its been running empty cycles all day. Thats odd.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoreFogPlease Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 My brother is at the park and told me he has ridden it a couple times today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck norris Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Parking lot looks the fullest I’ve seen it in a long time. What’s bringing everyone to the park today?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VortexBFForever Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 ^Yesterday’s storms (and chances of such) scaring people away are my guess. I was there yesterday and all lines I saw were shorter than other days! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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