oysterman Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 anyone know how the queue will be? Full... haha lets hope its not too hectic....but cant wait to ride it!! OSU Final Four! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoDeyForever Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 That is the primer for the one millionth time. Anyway really nice update. Hey even they were taken today they still might have a few more pieces of track up. Ok you dont have to be an ass about it...Still does not answer my question though. 1.) Its easier to paint pieces in the air so that you dont have to "turn" them 2.) if they were painted on the ground, they would get scratched up while being picked up and moved. Any attempt to touch up would appear splotchy! The color will be a dark shiny almost candy apple Red. The color on there now is a primer. Thanks for clearing that up and not being an ass about it unlike some people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upstop Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Only one thing concerns me.......lying on my back at ground level, within spitting and trash throwing distance. Are there any plans for a barrier from spectators? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutedarkness Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 i am sure there will be a fence for safty to keep people out of the ride area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear1996 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I wonder if they plan to decorate the retaining wall because plain concrete there just doesn't seem to look right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutedarkness Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 any ideas what they would do to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastersRZ Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 To answer the question about when the pictures were taken in further detail, Ryan and I took those pictures around 3 o`clock today. Yes, they could have very well put in place a couple more pieces of track today. I`m sure the park is aware of the proximity of the brake run to the midway. I`m not exactly sure how the exit for the ride will be set up, but if they use both stations, as they fully intend to, the trains will not be sitting on the brake run for any extended amount of time, unless one of the two stations goes down for mechanical reasons. And I`m sure that area will be in clear view of the operators, who could police the spitters/ trash throwers to a certain extent if sufficient barriers aren`t provided for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear1996 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I don't know maybe paint a huge hawk on it or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauch Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Great Pictures! Just looking at the area entrance, I'm wondering how crowded it will be going under The Racer. There's not much room there. Maybe they'll have another path leading up to this area to alleviate some of the congestion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuskin Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Well I still think they need a ufo so lets paint a ufo!!!! lol kidding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzarley Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Cool pics! Firehawk sits in a slightly different configuration than I imagined...I thought it would stretch out more in the opposite direction of FoF. You can tell CF is rebuilding the ride...look at how conservative they are being with real estate by hugging the structure up close to FoF's building . Even after it's finished, there should be quite a bit of space back there for more development. (More than enough for a B&M floorless, inverted, or a hyper! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuskin Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Even after it's finished, there should be quite a bit of space back there for more development. (More than enough for a B&M floorless, inverted, or a hyper! ) Haha that would be nice to have a hyper coaster! A record breaking coaster would be nice, maybe not the tallest or the fastest but the longest!!! Then we would 2 longest coaster records, that being The Beast and the hyper coaster they could build Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear1996 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Well I have noticed that Paramount and Cedar Fair have completely different ways of developing their parks. Cedar Fair likes to keep their rides nice and jammed in and close to each other. I notice I do a lot less walking at Cedar Point than I do at Kings Island. Not that I am complaining but I just think Cedar Fair is more carefull of the land that they have. This might be the two closest coasters in the park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browntggrr Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 This might be the two closest coasters in the park. It depends what you consider "close". Is it the point where two seperate coaster tracks are the closest, or is it the shortest distance between where the entrance of the two coasters are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear1996 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Entrances but I did forget about Top Gun & Son of Beast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastersRZ Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Well, Cedar Point, to me anyway, seems to be have a lot of walking between the attractions. This could be in part because the fact that Cedar Point has a long narrow shape, whereas Kings Island is generally a pinwheel configuration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browntggrr Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I went to MarineLand in Niagara Falls, Canada in the summer of 2005 and could not believe the distance there was between attractions. And I mean ALL attractions. They have so much land to use it is rather undescribable. It makes CP and KI look like every attraction is on top of one another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrocoasterkid Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 So does anyone else think that the midway will be made into a full loop someday allowing for more expansion? Right now, they have 2 major attractions at a dead end midway (not that its stopped BGE haha). Maybe they can make it make a loop and exit under recaR and Racer down by Vortex? A continuous midway always seems to work better. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delirium33 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I agree something has to be done there-either looping the midway or widening it if possible. That area will be nightmare during Fear Fest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Wow those are some nice pics. I can hardly wait to get on that bad boy and take a ride. The construction is coming along very fast, faster than i expected but what can you say, Kings Island always finds the finest crews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuskin Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Kings Island added 2 more pictures on their website today. I looked and didnt see them posted yet so if they are somewhere else im sorry for the repost. Otherwise here they are http://multimedia.pki.com/images/news/CIMG...0compressed.JPG http://multimedia.pki.com/images/news/CIMG...compressed1.JPG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear499 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 COOL THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOPGUN1993 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 FOF^ calm down http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?...=9241&st=60 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOB_TOM Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I wonder what the effect will be in that overbanked turn right next to FoF will be. Imagine that one. As for the primer, it looks like they put the majority on already while it was on the ground. If you notice, the rails on the track still have green on them, while the rest is the primer. I dont know if they can go that route with the midway. There are too many maintenance sheds in the way. One idea is to take the midway around FoF, and either installing a coaster in that valley or something, and then connecting around the other side of Racer, next to the basketball game. That would be the safest play. Speaking of that area, while I was working last year, I saw landscaping doing some major work on that hill. Looked like they were either expanding the maintenance road behind FoF or starting to fill it in a little. Just some speculation for you guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWildman424 Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Could that landscaping you are talking about be for Firehawk constuction or are you talking about already having another way to get to Firehak and FoF? I finally figured out what recaR is!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingMaster Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I wonder what the effect will be in that overbanked turn right next to FoF will be. Imagine that one. As for the primer, it looks like they put the majority on already while it was on the ground. If you notice, the rails on the track still have green on them, while the rest is the primer. I dont know if they can go that route with the midway. There are too many maintenance sheds in the way. One idea is to take the midway around FoF, and either installing a coaster in that valley or something, and then connecting around the other side of Racer, next to the basketball game. That would be the safest play. Speaking of that area, while I was working last year, I saw landscaping doing some major work on that hill. Looked like they were either expanding the maintenance road behind FoF or starting to fill it in a little. Just some speculation for you guys. If that's the case, they'll probably do it during FearFest if they decide to run PsychoPath again. Now that Firehawk is next to FOF, talk about some major clutter during October, especially if The Asylum returns in the Red Shed next door. I was thinking somehow, that maintenance road beside The Racer would be a logical path to transport guests away from the dead end of the FOF/Hawk midway, and would make for a very interesting fear zone, perhaps the return of the WorkSite that actually LOOKS like a construction site. I still think Destruction Zone was a better name. I think the maint. road cuts behind the old Laser Tag building and the Launch Pad before making its way to the FX Theater. The only problem I see about that is when the trucks come through to do scheduled maintenance; then, it would be an issue. Unless they decide to move both PsychoPath and the Asylum away from FOF and Firehawk and put them somewhere else. That's my two cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TombraiderTy Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 If they take out Psycho Path, I would be so ticked... I don't think they should completely loop the midway, but a pathway from Flight of Fear and Firehawk to where Laser Tag once was would be nice. They could also move The Asylum somewhere else.... is the steel coaster building an option? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Butcher Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 They arent moving Asylum, Asylum is getting a brand-new permanent entrance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkitrumpet08 Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Does anyone know when we might get new Firehawk pictures? I know there is more track up right now then there are pictures of, I think you would all be quite impressed with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOB_TOM Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Ok, the story behind those maintenance roads are such: Behind the old Laser Tag building is indeed a maintenance road, however, you have to go around the turn by FX theatre of The Racer in order to go on it. The clearance on this road is like 6` something. So maintenance rarely uses it. Now the maintenance road behind Racer is a huge maintenance road. This one is used quite often, except for the part that is located between the FoF midway and The Racer station is abandoned. Its not used other than to turn around. However, there is no room for anything big in that area, so I personally would leave it alone, maybe make it a nuclear waste area with a lake or something. As for the construction, I cannot say at this time, however where I saw the work is nowhere near where Firehawk is on that old maintenance road. I am thinking though that the park is kicking away the road a little from the back of FoF because it constantly has potholes, as well as erosion every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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