cincyboy0830 Posted January 22, 2007 Posted January 22, 2007 Why lock this thread...we don't have anything else to talk about in the off-season. Plus, there hasn't been an announcement yet. I'm starting to think WLWT Channel 5 news employees are posting on this website.
Gordon Bombay Posted January 22, 2007 Posted January 22, 2007 ^Theyre probably trolling it and letting us do the work for them. Then they can steal our story for the 11:00 news! I'm sure they'll mis interpret it just like they did with school delays this morning.
The Interpreter Posted January 22, 2007 Posted January 22, 2007 As long as they don't refer to Cincinnati's grandest park as "Problem Park?"
hausty1983 Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Can you say problem pro team in this city now! I know its off topic but still come on more arrests then wins geez!!!
RingMaster Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Welcome to Cincinnati: Home of the Reds, Bengals, and to a lesser extent the Mason Comets! Hey! I take offense to the Mason Comets joke! ....actually, no I don't, they do suck. Never mind.
RailRider Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 How about Fed-X-Flight since it has been shipped from GL to KI
DominatorDude11 Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 X-Flight: So if you care to find me Look to the Ohio skies! As someone told me lately Everyone deserves a chance to fly! And if I'm flying solo At least Im flying free. To those who ground me Take a message back from me! Tell them how I am defying gravity! I'm flying high defying gravity! And soon I'll match them in renown. And nobody in all of ACE No ACEr that there is or was Is ever gonna bring me down! PKI Guests: Look at that! It's wicked! Ride it! No ride more so wicked! So we try to ride it now! Haha I love it!
PKIVortex Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Welcome Kings Island 13th Rollercoaster, 14 if you count Avatar.
KI-ORIG-EMP Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Welcome to Cincinnati: Home of the Reds, Bengals, and to a lesser extent the Mason Comets! Hey! I take offense to the Mason Comets joke! ....actually, no I don't, they do suck. Never mind. I am from KINGS and we are right next door.....GO KNIGHTS!!!! Mike, class of '73
AdventureExpresser Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Speaking on the colors for the new coaster, something dark that would keep the ride dark and mysterious when the sun goes down would be great, especially being over near the wooded area, just as long as they don't use those hideous colors that was used on the Iron Dragon.
Reclaimer Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 See I told everyone that I know what Im talking about!!!! HAHA Don't start this again. You told nobody anything. We've been speculating X-Flight coming to KI since this past fall. Besides...you weren't even trying to tell us X-Flight was coming...you were trying to tell us it was getting named Firehawk.
flightoffear1996 Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Does anyone else think that they may wait till the ride is up to paint it?
tycoonrebel7188 Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 I think they will wait until it's up to paint it. Why paint it and then take the chance of messing up that new beautiful paint job. But wouldn't we all be shocked if they didn't paint it? jk
RailRider Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Yeah the ride will go up unpainted, because they still will have to move it back to the construction site and then assemble the ride. Which means its going to receive a lot of paint chips as it is assembled. I wonder if they will keep it the same color scheme or some more Stealthy?
trint2004 Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 I think they should paint the soppurts a dark gray and the track navy blue. That way when the lights go out it will fade away and hide in the dark, and it would match the FOF building. keeping it in the same theme back there.
Captain Picard Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 They did the paint work before install on Borg.
Nickelodeon Universe Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 New coasters are painted before they are put up, so I don't see why it wouldn't paint be first. Seems like it would be more cost effective and take less time to be able to paint on the ground. As opposed to getting a cherry picker in the ride area. Plus there are be plenty of things going on in a ride area once installation begins without painters getting in the way.
2oo64ever Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 New coasters are painted before they are put up, so I don't see why it wouldn't paint be first. Seems like it would be more cost effective and take less time to be able to paint on the ground. As opposed to getting a cherry picker in the ride area. Plus there are be plenty of things going on in a ride area once installation begins without painters getting in the way. but would they have enough time to do everything till the opening day?
CoastersRZ Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Well, if they paint the ride before they erect it, they will still have to do some touch ups once they get everything in place. Little scratches and dings are bound to occur when they move the ride from the staging area into its final position on site. Assuming, of course, that the ride is going back behind FoF and to Kings Island.
The Interpreter Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 but would they have enough time to do everything till the opening day? At this point it is not known that the new attraction will be ready on opening day. Although Cedar Fair has a much better record of having new attractions ready on opening day, it is not necessarily to be anticipated that the new attraction will actually be ready at the season's opening. Something tells me this is even more true for the coaster currently known as the loopless Son of Beast.
PKIVortex Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 They painted Drop Zone in the parking lot in before building it. If they are going to paint it, I think they will before they build it.
coasterdadGL Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 I hate to burst everyone’s bubble regarding the alleged new USED ride. Being a rider of XF for the last 4 years I must say CF is really giving PKI guests the shaft by sending them this USED ride instead of giving them a new one that they deserve. While XF may seem like a great ride in actuality it’s just a gimmick ride. Once you ride it the thrill is over and it doesn’t really warrant a re-ride. PKI is merely getting a USED troublesome ride that has terrible capacity. I think PKI ride ops are great but I don’t think anyone not even the designers can operate this USED ride efficiently. You will soon find out as you wait in your three hour plus line for a USED ride that’s in my opinion not worth a half hour wait. I know that you think I might be a bit bitter because XF used to be at my home park and I am. I am bitter that CF took it without any warning, although in the long run I am sure it was the right business decision. I will not miss the ride but I will miss what it added to the park in perception. I know if PKI was my home park I would not be happy to be getting a CRAPPY USED RIDE! So look around your park and don’t think it won’t happen to you but in the meantime good luck PKI – I hope you have fun with your new USED toy! Oh yeah – for those who say GL has poor customer service you might want to actually make that 4 hour trip instead of believing what you hear.
Outdoor Man Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 sorry for the double post, this was supposed to go on this thread. ohhhhhhhhhh.... not to beat a dead horse, but http://www.rcdb.com/id3793.htm
Reclaimer Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 Coasterdad, I've seen your other posts on other forums. You are so anti-X-Flight it's not even funny. How about you let the guests think and decide for themselves. As for "actually making the trip to GL". I've never been, so I can't say for sure what the customer service is like...but if you'd read some posts on here, a lot of the members here have gone to Geauga Lake and they hated the service. It's too bad your first post had to be such a biased one. Not a good way to establish yourself. Not to mention, between you and mutedarkness...I don't think I need to go to GL to see that the employees and local guests are negative.
mutedarkness Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 I was never complained about at the lake. I recvied many complents tho. For the whole used x-flight thing some people like the vekoma flyer, I mean I liked working it and thats about it. For coasters lover it just has a negtive name to it hopefuly KI will change that negtive view and make it a good ride.
Rustbucket Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 I know if PKI was my home park I would not be happy to be getting a CRAPPY USED RIDE! So look around your park and don’t think it won’t happen to you but in the meantime good luck PKI – I hope you have fun with your new USED toy! Oh yeah – for those who say GL has poor customer service you might want to actually make that 4 hour trip instead of believing what you hear. I used to live about 15 minutes from GL a few years back. My family used to have season passes to GL. I thought that the workers were much more friendly back before SF days then now. I never experienced the "attitude" back then. I certainly experienced that last time I visited. I have not gone back. I hope that have changed. If not, I will not go back to the park. Some companies had annual picnics at Geauga Lake but stopped going there for the same reason. I, for one, have ridden X-Flight and loved it. Quite a number of people I know also thought that the ride was quite good. Only thing they thought was strange was that they were laying down once the ride starts. Keep in mind that these were "general public" people who remembered no other ride except for X-Flight. Is it a gimmick? Maybe. Then again, isn't most of coasters such as floorless and inverted "gimmicks" as well? Let people decide if the new USED ride is good or bad. Borg and Phoenix certainly had new and better lives after the relocation.
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