starlitfire

It's the giga rumors all over again. On another note, remember that we haven't seen any work occur in the park this year minus some trees being removed for safety reasons (some type of bug in the trees, iirc). Anything new for next year would have to come to sight quickly.

To be fair, I'm surprised that the park opened at all today. Soak City's closure was announced this morning and although I can imagine a lack of lightning in the area keeping the dry side operable, my guess is that safety was a priority in their reason to decide to close. That, and I'm sure the park was effectively a ghost town with only a few people here or there.

I'm 90% sure there would be a riot from both the GP and the enthusiast community if KI decided to RMC The Beast or Racer, for that matter. I'm more certain we'd get a ground-up RMC than have one of those two get RMC'd. However, I'm more sure that Racer could be retracked (hasn't this already occurred to an extent?) and I wouldn't have as much of a problem.

My mother and sister came to the general consensus that Kings Dominion was a Six Flags park in Canada the other day. I guess George Orwell was right when he said 2 plus 2 could equal five, or three, or six, because I didn't try correcting their conversation. I'd rather not be a know it all.

I'm going to blow everyone out of the water on this one, except the California person! I (primarily) live in Northeast Florida during the school year, so it's about 800 miles? Thankfully I can cut off an hour to KI when I move an hour north for college in August. However, I live relatively close to the park during the summer, and the only thing that prevents me from watching the fireworks would be trees.

When KI gets new flats I'd love to see them take the guidance of Canada's Wonderland to inspire them in what the buy. Otherwise, give me a Round Top-esque or Gravitron ride in Coney Mall and I'd be excited. Bonus points if we got both!

I'm autistic myself and would probably do the same thing with one of my favourite interests if I was with a good friend or someone who'd let me do it, albeit my interests don't tend to be as historically based.

Think of how many rides and other attractions that Cedar Point could save compared to tearing one or two down every time they build a new thing. At KI, it's not as big of an issue since there's still plenty of land for building on in the future, but would be nice to have.

As much as I'd love to see us get a wooden giga (the first at that!), I'm just feeling that there will be too many fears of it being like SoB to the point that it's probably better for that model to go to our friends up north before we get one. Remember, in the past ten-ish years, KI has been more of a park perfecting ride models rather than being the flagship for rides like it was before CF bought us out.

If the park needs a Blitz or another coaster more than a Giga, then that will definitely come first. I'm on the side that thinks MT was in a good direction to provide more family options (although we have also gotten a couple of flats in Planet Snoopy) to help provide the park with some less intense options post-Diamondback and Banshee. I'd love to see a few surprises in regards to new flats coming about this year, since all we know is that KI is getting a new restaurant. Nonetheless, KI is probably trying to balance itself out by moving towards the family-friendly side of things by giving the park things it needs, such as a new sit-down restaurant and in the recent past, the new flats in Planet Snoopy. KI is balancing itself out, and it may be leading to something big or nothing at all.

I'm not necessarily sure that an Iron Man ride could even be built (I'm fairly sure Universal has some clause written somewhere that says that no original Avengers/X-Men rides can be built on this side of the Mississippi river. It's the reason that you won't see any of the original Avengers characters at WDW despite Disney owning Marvel now) but since the Transformers franchise seems more likely to be okay to use, I could definitely see a Transformers ride being built, maybe even a dark ride if Viacom was quick enough to get to it (given that the Transformers dark ride was built before 2012). I'd love to see Paramount levels of theming that could be maintained by Cedar Fair, but given that we have a test of that with MT, we'll see how long it lasts before it fits in really well with the trees.

Black and white could look really good if the giga is in X-Base, but it might just be because I'd love to see this coaster have a flight-based theme. I think it's fair to say that KI is no longer in need of red-hue coasters, considering Firehawk, Diamondback, and Banshee all are either red coasters or have elements of red-based colours (specifically Banshee with its berry/fuschia-ish colour).

However, there are wooden coasters with more than just one inversion now, so I guess that's a good thing that came out of SoB. Nonetheless, leave the new, first-ever coaster concepts in Sandusky. They clearly know what to do with them up north (even when the coasters remember that they're Intamins and break down). As much as a wooden giga sounds cool, I think KI has done well ever since 2000 with tried methods that we know work, even after 19 years of waiting in one case (that being the wait between Magnum XL and Diamondback, of course).

Of course that would happen. Anything that doesn't count as a coaster in Sandusky is more than likely to be unsafe from getting removed at some point. Heck, even Mean Streak wasn't safe to some extent. At least at KI, we still have space.

In regards to numbers: If it fits with the theme of the section it goes in, then I'll be fine. Otherwise, putting it behind Banshee (using this as an example) and giving the height number in the name doesn't seem too original. Whatever year the coaster comes out probably won't mean much as long as it gives healthy competition to CP and doesn't kill all of CP's attendance there (unlikely, but possible if we were to get a major install and CP got little to nothing despite the GP coming from two different markets). So while I see a 2019 date likely with the off-year happening this year with very little announced, it could happen in 2021 for all we know. It's anyone's guess, but with the years between major coasters decreasing, this could add to the trend or have no correllation at all.

Hear me out: The Gigasaurus, based partially off Cedar Fair's previous trademark, Stratasaurus.

Considering that KI just got this back with the addition Mystic Timbers, I think they'll want to keep it for a while.

I got really excited over those construction vehicles until I figured out they were construction vehicles. -- Starlit, 26 December 2017

The way it seems, a retracking (regardless of whether it's RMC, GCI, or someone else) is what would end that status. I can't see new trains becoming a problem unless it modified the experience in a major way that a retracking could do.

^ Not only did kids enjoy DA, I'm fairly sure it attracted a lot of people playing Pokemon Go, too, considering what I've been hearing from time to time on the forums.

Also, my assumption is that even if Disney Quest and the Attitudes building are the same age, Disney Quest is much larger in size comparison and doing what KI has done at that size would probably take months just for demolition (I live in Central Florida for majority of the year.) Plus, Disney has a lot more money in comparison to Kings Island and even Cedar Fair. With building codes in Florida they have to spend more money on making sure that a Category 1 hurricane doesn't destroy everything, and I'm sure Disney is willing to comply.

Now that is an unpopular opinion if I've ever heard of one.

Did some research and it looks like the only two Mack hypercoasters right now (one of which is still in construction, but in its late stages) are just barely hitting the 200 feet mark (the one open right now is 200.2 feet and the new one is expected to be 202.6 feet). If we were the first park to get a giga from Mack, then I could see 2020 or later being the time we would either have a giga or would start hearing teasing for it (it took Intamin 4 years to go from a non-full circuit coaster above 200 feet to get to Millennium Force. B&M took 13 years to get from 200 ft drops to Leviathan, its first giga). Here's my research.

As much as I've always been afraid to ride this ride (I've been coming to KI since 2008, I assume, considering SOB was still running and Firehawk had opened recently), I've been having a lot of second thoughts about it. Vortex is one of those rides which I think everyone needs to ride once, and despite its age and roughness, I'm probably bound to get over my fear of riding it at some point (ever since I started going to KI I've been afraid of going upside down. Before, I could go on Sea World Orlando's Kracken with no problems at all) and see what it's like. In my opinion, it has enough popularity to keep it running, as long as it's possible to find parts for non-expensive prices.

When I first came out of the park after riding Mystic Timbers for the first time in June, I heard a mother tell her son that the ride in question was not Misty September (or something like that), but that it was called Mystic Timbers. I think I got a smile out of that one.