Kings Island General Discussion 2026

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

Sadly it looks like we won't be getting the two wooden floral carts back this year either. They looked very nice on either side of International Street and I haven't seen them anywhere else in the park since they were removed.

(Photo: Brad Perdue on KICentral)

[silver2005]

I know its early, but it appears opening day may be a bit rainy. 

[Hawaiian Coasters 325]

Again it's early but the forecast for Saturday looks hit or miss with a 20% rain chance. Early forecast also is calling for 13-15 mph wind high which is fairly moderate especially high up so that may affect the 3 tower rides. Remember to take forecasts a week out with a grain of salt. 

 

[silver2005]

https://www.facebook.com/visitkingsisland/videos/1496369315185897/

Is this just KI using typical amusement park speak or is there a possibility the trims before the helix are gone?

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

26 minutes ago, silver2005 said:

https://www.facebook.com/visitkingsisland/videos/1496369315185897/

Is this just KI using typical amusement park speak or is there a possibility the trims before the helix are gone?

I was curious about that as well. The constant movement of the drone camera didn't help me to see anything clearly, but I didn't immediately see any trim brakes when I paused the video. Also, they had the clearance envelope device propped up against the railing at the top of the second lift hill! I do hope that they will replant some of the trees and foliage that were taken out for the rebuild. 

 

For my fellow webcam watchers: most of the major coaster lifthill lights that we can see (on Orion, The Racer, and Diamondback) have been turned on! The park also appears to be testing some fountain shows as well. I'd love to see the fountain show concept we saw during Haunt come back for the regular season and expanded to include something for a set of hourly daytime shows. No lasers (for now), but the lights in the fountain and on the Eiffel Tower are clearly dancing for a show. I think I can even see someone working on programming the show from a laptop in front of the park sign at the bottom of the screen. Have the Swiss flags above the Starbucks dining room entrance always been lit up?

Something else I noticed on the I-Street camera is that the medallions weren't installed with the colorful banners on the light towers. I wonder if they just weren't put up or if there will be some new ones coming this year. There are some special ones for the Food & Wine Festival and others for Haunt, but maybe we could see something around the 4th of July even though the park isn't having a multi-day event? The medallions on each light tower during the 50th anniversary were my favorite — especially since they had the ribbon shapes — and I'd love to see something similar come back.

[silver2005]

I'm a little hesitant to say they removed them.  I feel that the helix would pull some serious positive G's, in kind of a bad way, with no trims.  

Also, there are hotter days in the summer where it runs kind of gnarly (even as a self proclaimed Beast fanatic, I admit it can have its bad days), even in the better seats, and in those scenarios, I'd rather the trims stay. 

[disco2000]

Could be gone today, here tomorrow as they run more cycles.