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Another amazing b&m coaster pick up from another park. Lol.

Thank you that helps so much! Doesn’t sound to crowded, but at the same time everyone might have decided to come on the first week day that Kings Island is open.

I noticed in the video they still haven’t taken down the rider higher and requirement and safety sign next to the entrance. Interesting.

Are the wait times long today? Since it is a week day I was wondering if the rides were walk on. Specifically what are wait times on Orion and The Beast right now?

Wow, you can really see Banshee’s first drop now! Is that the launch spot the circle on the concrete?

Anyone else excited for daily operations starting tomorrow! And lots of night rides this year. I saw on Kings Island’s calendar that there is lots of 10pm closings this year.

I was not a huge fan of the ride but a ride that thrilled people when it goes it is still sad to see it go.

Wow, It is still so shocking to see this. It will be missed. RIP Sling Shot.

Has the park said anything yet? Does anyone know if they have finished removing the towers on it by now?

Hopefully the park says something soon. Maybe something happened on the ride while running the ride. Someone said there was no ball on it? With this removal, Orion officially becomes the fastest ride at Kings Island.

Hopefully any kind of new ride in 2023.

Wow, I don’t think anyone saw this coming. But maybe in a couple years we could see Adventure Express gone and some expansion there.

I agree it looks interesting, also the lift in the middle looks different like newer. And the Cable also.

I totally agree, If you look at Diamondback and Banshee they both look a lot different than what they used too. If you look at Intimidator at Carowinds they re-painted it last season and it looks a lot better, it makes it look very new. I would love to see the same treatment done to both of them. A little bit of paint could go a long way for guests!

So I assume Orion hasn’t had problems lately? And yes, Banshee is such a great ride it is so much fun.

That is exciting! Do you get any air time on it? I assume pov video will be later this week after they see how today goes.

It looks like every ride except The Beast will be walk on today lol.

That is very exciting!! It is behind the Eiffel Tower right? I wonder if they will announce it or say something around when the Golden Celebration begins on May 28th.

Finally!!!!!! Can’t wait! I assume that means pov video will be this week also. This is way earlier than I thought it would open!!!

Hopefully the trim doesn’t hit super Hard. It looks to be a lot more smooth! Like the helix looks a lot more stable and not jerky. The pov video I assume will be out soon so when it comes out we can see how hard the trim hits.

AMAZING NEWS, Maybe they can get it up by next weekend! I hope they get the pov video out soon! I can’t wait!

Does anyone know what is going on with the WindSeekers right now? Kings Island’s is closed, Carowinds one is closed, and Kings Dominion has closed theirs as well. Are they adding something new to all of the WindSeekers?

Interesting, So when you looked over there wasn’t a train stuck on the lift hill? I assume it was open on Saturday even though I was not there but when the trains ALMOST but didn’t collide, they were still able to run 1 train on it the day after. Orion usually goes down for small things like for instance, One of the gates won’t close or a lap bar won’t go down and lock. It goes down a lot for small things. I don’t know what happened but I hope they fix it before Coaster Stock.

I doubt it valleyed, The testing video shows it completed the test run, and it looked like it was running fine, Plus I noticed or it could just be me but in that video there is not even assistance workers on the lift. So it sounds like it can make it up fine. I assume they will have it running around 3 weeks from when testing started, 3 weeks is standard for testing, It hopefully will be up and running for Coaster Stock.

Do you have a idea when you think The Beast started testing?