FUN&ONLY!

It is kind of funny honestly how the park is obviously up to something, and they are literally acting like nothing is happening. Park officials are definitely reading this thread and laughing at how desperate we are. Who knows, they may have had a stack of teaser posters for weeks now, just waiting to see how desperate we will get before they actually decide to put them up!

That is interesting... I hope someone goes to the park and gets pictures of it!

This looks a lot like Maverick which is definitely a good thing. If Kings Island can get a launch coaster anywhere near as good as Maverick, we’ll have a winner on our hands. After seeing this awesome drawing, I do really want an Intamin/Mack launch coaster in that plot of land. Nice concept!

I could see the return of the stunt show as a possibility! Do they usually announce those things earlier though?

I think a new addition to the park that would really be appreciated is a re-paved parking lot. Please and thank you! I know... I know, everyone asks for this!

I guess it depends on whether or not the GP watch WCPO... then they would “know” about the giga!

Who knows, when the teaser show up, they could literally just be a bunch of posters saying when the announcement will be. There may not be any real teasers, and we’ll end up just having an early announcement. Everyone knows mostly everything about the ride anyways.

Same... LOL!

I really hope there are teasers today, but I am not confident that they will start teasing on a Monday. I think that they will wait until this upcoming weekend to start teasing, personally, but @collin.klopfstein please prove me wrong. I really want to see teasers today. Also, thank you for going out to the park today and looking for new teasers. I, as well as others, really do appreciate it!

That would actually look so cool walking up to the park and seeing this!

They probably teased on day 1 for Banshee and Mystic Timbers because there was no notable addition to the dry park in the years that they were teased. This year there actually is a new ride along with a brand new event. The park knows that with this new throwback ride and a new immersive event along with a bunch of added nostalgia that there will be people who will make the trip out to Kings Island just for this. There are probably many people in other parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky who don’t make it to the park every year, but they do make a trip out when there is something new. If the park were to tease from day 1, some of these people would just skip this year and come in 2020 for the new ride. Obviously, like Chad said in the WCPO interview (thank you @Hawaiian Coasters 325), the park was doing everything they could to focus attention on 2019 and not 2020. Unfortunately for them, a lot of enthusiasts and some GP already know what is happening. I know that 2016 did bring Tropical Plunge, and teasers showed up on day 1, but I don’t think people come in from other states and drive hours and hours to go to Soak City. If they only had one day at Kings Island every year, I think they would most certainly want to be riding the rides.

I predict the announcement will be in mid to late August. If they are going to wait so long to put teasers up, they probably don’t want to announcement it only a few weeks later. I also hope the teaser campaign is more involved like Carowinds’ was last year and not like Mystic Timbers’ teaser campaign. I say if we don’t see teasers by the end of next weekend, there are not going to be any at all. I really do hope that is not the case though!

I originally thought the name Orion was the better of the two names, but now I think Polaris is starting to grow on me. I still think Orion is more likely, but Polaris is definitely now my favorite.

I checked the webcams... still seems to be the problem. I think they will be back to three train operations in the next day or so though, assuming that nothing major happened to that one train.

Anyone at/going to the park today?

Maybe, just maybe there will be some tomorrow or later this weekend...

Amazing work @DustinTheNow! The whole coaster looks really great!

Out track, MCT, also has to be a B&M mega coaster, either a hyper or a giga because MC is the label B&M gives to these types of rides in their catalog. Good question/theory though!

I am calling it... teasers on Friday! When Grand Carnivale is wrapping up!

Can’t wait for vertical construction!

Anyone at the park today?

That is probably the best way for the park to go. I am just worried that they are going to have to take out another ride to add a new midway.

I don’t believe anyone has gone yet recently, but I would be perfectly okay with someone going!

Do you think that the Firehawk trains, which are still in the park, or the top of Firehawk’s loop that was spotted on some road will be incorporated into the ride’s theming? How do you think they would do it?

Maybe you saved the man’s life, telling the park employee, and ultimately having security stop him. As for his consequences, he was probably ejected from the park.