Which Single Element on a Kings Island Coaster is Your Favorite?

[Diamondback_Is_King]

What one element on any Kings Island coaster is your favorite? My personal favorite ride element at Kings Island is either Diamondback's camelbacks or the twisted drop on Mystic Timbers. Feel free to discuss your thoughts below.

[Tr0y]

The double helix on The Beast. 

What I love about wooden coasters is that each ride feels slightly different from the last!

[DoomPlague]

I have trouble deciding between:

-The speed hill on Orion: great airtime at high speed

-The consecutive banked hills on Mystic Timbers, if you can count that as one element

-The double helix on The Beast or...

-The drop into the double helix: It's just so weird and unsettling building up speed at a steady but slow pace, and you're banked for the whole drop making it extra awkward, but in a fun way.

[BeeastFarmer]

The drop into and the entire double helix on The Beast.

I don't know if it would be an element, but leaving the brake shed on The Beast, building up speed, and going through the second tunnel is great for me. Before entering the tunnel, the train has this shimmy, like The Beast is trying to throw you off of their back.  The noise, the smell, and the darkness in the tunnel, and then hearing the noise coming out of the tunnel and during day rides, the blinding brightness.

[IBEW_Sparky]

The exit to Orion's helix, or more specifically the lateral airtime where the track straightens.  I was going to echo the statement regarding the series of banked hills pre-turn around tunnel on MT, but after watching the video I just couldnt see calling it "one element".  Regardless, that pre-turn around segment on MT is the best 1 segment of coaster track in the park.

[silver2005]

I'll do my favorite per-coaster-

Adventure Express- The helix down into the 3rd tunnel

Backlot- The s-curves after the helix

Banshee- 0g roll and that long drop into the batwing

Bat- the fan curve over the station

Beast- The helix and the series of drops between the 2nd tunnel and the 2nd lift

Diamondback- The hammerhead, especially on the right side of the train on the outer rows

Flight of Fear- the launch and the build up to the corkscrew at the end

Invertigo- the fact it can pull enough G's to make me grey out and nearly black out every ride

Mystic Timbers- the 2nd big drop into the valley, it's still flying and it's a good sustained ejector air moment

Orion- the 2nd and 3rd hills with the lateral airtime while also losing sight of the horizon for a bit of disorientation due to the combination of the upward angle and the overbanked elements

Racer- the bunny hill between where it splits and the turn around, they always have insane air at that part

Defunct rides- 

Vortex- the first drop in the back of the train

SOB- the first drop and loop

Firehawk- the overbank hill

King Cobra- either the loop or the trick track

 

 

 

 

[Gordon Bombay]

2 hours ago, silver2005 said:

Vortex- the first drop in the back of the train

I discovered that way too late in life to truly appreciate just how great it was. 

[Orion742]

Orion’s speed hill.

[KI Guy]

Firehawk's loop- If you rode in the back or front you could see the other end of the train enter or exit the loop. The forces/whip as you hit the bottom of the loop were impressive.

[rlentless]

For me on The Beast it is the first large dip in the woods exiting the 1st tunnel before turning into the long brake shed run.  Also as others said the 2nd drop going into the double helix.

The other was the first time or two I rode The Bat (original) and TopGun (when it opened) . . that feeling of "noughing is under me" getting to the top of the lift hill and rounding to the 1st drop.  At the time it was like a whole new world.

Diamondback . . the airless hills are still great.

Orion . . the 1st drop

Vortex . . the 1st drop

Mystic Timbers . . that 1st hill got me when I first I rode it, was not expecting such a small hill to pack that punch.  Just the whole ride never giving a break.  Surprising how intense it is.

[IndyGuy4KI]

20 hours ago, silver2005 said:

Vortex- the first drop in the back of the train

That first drop in the back always got my stomach txt no other coaster has ever done. Maggie in the back might be close. 

[Orion-XL200]

The quick turn on Orion before the brakes.

[TombRaiderFTW]

I don't know how to name which turn it is, so here's a mental picture: You come off of lift 1 on Adventure Express and head down the long, sweeping drop. You cross under the lift and turn left. You then drop into a CCI-like swooping turn to the right that ends with bonkers laterals. My answer is that turn.

Honorable mentions go to the turn into The Bat's brakes, Banshee's heartline roll, Backlot's drop off the MCBR, Beast's double helix + the drop into it, Mystic's trick track, and the drop out of Son of Beast's station.

[Vortex1987]

Adventure Express, the turn into the station. 

[ShedTreeBoi1]

Double helix on The Beast

Twisted hill on Orion

Orion drop (specifically in the back)

The quick turn into the first helix on BLSC, I've always loved that since 2015, the first time I remember going to KI

[Hoeter]

1. The drop into the helix finale on The Beast, especially in Row 18

2. The first drop in Row 18 on The Beast

3. The first inversion after launch in Row 10 on Flight of Fear

4. The final turn into the brakes on Orion, especially on the right hand side of the train

5. From days gone by, the first drop on Vortex sitting in 7-1

[johnjniehaus]

Best element on each Kings Island Coaster 

Diamondback: first drop in back row

The Beast: double helix

Orion: first drop 

Banshee: zero G roll

Racer: airtime hill right before the turnaround (front row)

Bat: turn at the bottom of the second drop

Adventure Express: the drop/turn mid ride right before the helix near the abandoned mine cart

Mystic Timbers: First drop

Flight of Fear: final corkscrew 

Backlot: the tunnel

Invertigo: second lift when in front row facing the sky getting ready to drop backwards 

Woodstock Express: first drop (back row)

Woodstock Air Rail: helix/first drop 

Great Pumpkin: first drop 

Snoopy's Soap Box Racers: First drop back row

 

Honorable Mentions 

Firehawk: the loop

Vortex: the first drop (but I also loved the batwing finale by the walkway)

[DJSkyFoxx]

Here are mine....

Diamondback: Hammerhead stall in the back row 

The Beast: After the first brake run, the section of track where the train is fully immersed into the woods right before the second lift hill

Orion: First drop, front row

Banshee: Zero G roll

Racer: Second air-time hill

Bat: Odd...but the brake run while seated in the front row. Car swings out hard and its always amusing hearing others freak out

Adventure Express: My riding days are over with this one...but the ending...

Mystic Timbers: The series of hills after the tunnel, row 12...wow

Flight of Fear: The launch

Backlot: Tunnel

Invertigo: Front row, going backwards first through the elements and then facing the ground on the return trip 

Woodstock Express: No defining element 

Woodstock Air Rail: No defining element 

Great Pumpkin: Never rode 

Snoopy's Soap Box Racers: Spike, front row 

 

Honorable Mentions 

Firehawk: Definitely the loop. Miss the feeling this gave and also the way it cracked my back 

Vortex: Corkscrews! Loved the hangtime these gave. 

Son of Beast: Without a shadow of a doubt, the first drop. It cannot really be put into words how intimidating it was going up that high on a structure made entirely of wood. That first drop came in with a menacing punch that took your breath away

 

[kingsislandfan1972]

On The Beast, I love the slow rising chain lift hill... love the sound and the smell! (If you know what I mean )