Everything posted by rhyano
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Kings Island 2017 Discussion Thread
The Dippin Dots guy told me that we were getting a clone of Mean Streak.
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Dragon Challenge Closing in September to Make Way for New Harry Potter Coaster
I love Universal, but they really dropped the ball with this announcement, Ice was awful but I enjoyed Fire, even if it is one of my least favorite inverted coasters, Potter was the death of this ride, it never really fit in with the area. When it stopped dueling that should have been a sign that things were not working out for that ride, to me Dragon Challenge was a ride I would ride every visit, but the pain with the metal detectors are awful, for those who have never been, here are the steps to ride! 1. Wait 5-10 mins for a locker because the poor design of how many lockers they actually need for the area. 2. After you put your stuff in the one locker available, go through the entrance and shortly after, go through a metal detector to find out you might have loose change! If you have anything in your pocket, sorry, can't ride! If you don't have anything in your pockets well congrats you get to ride! 3. Walk through the insanely long queue. 4. Choose your side 5. Walk right on. Overall, I don't think I will miss it, but if another motion simulator is taking its place, I don't think many of us (including me) would like that.
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Coaster Parody: Mystic Timbers
This will cause many... never mind, not going into it here, but many of you share my same opinions...
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Dufunctland: Son of Beast
Very cool video! Thanks for sharing, Ryan!
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Dining in Soak City?
There's really no bad food options in Soak City right now!
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What could 2018 bring KI
Great idea for an indoor coaster, just expand the building (though that's expensive I'm sure) though it would be cool to see an indoor Euro Fighter with a higher capacity.
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What could 2018 bring KI
New flats in Coney Mall and or Oktoberfest would be my personal guess, I can also see a dark ride going in the old TR:TR building within the next few years, also as Drummermattk said, I really think they need to step up food service, I think we will see a new restaurant open somewhere throughout the park.
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Georgia Cyclone to close permanently July 30
Excited to see what RMC does with this one!
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Guests Say The Darnest Things
I've never found WindSeeker's placement a disaster, nowhere in the park really fits other than Coney Mall, also it "ends" that midway with something cool to look at.
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Carowinds
Carowinds is an interesting park, but a very solid park, after your top three (Fury, Intimidator, and Afterburn) don't expect much. If you want great food, Carowinds has plenty of it! Harmony Hall is great! Be sure to ride the flyers! They are amazing!
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Beast first 2 cars empty Sat July 8
Ride mechanics are not allowed to say why a ride is down, same with operators.
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Fast Lane Plus Season Pass
The actual price of All Season Fast Lane is $387.93 with the exchange rate. (for Canada's Wonderland)
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Kings Island Facebook posts
To be fair, who even uses Facebook reviews.
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Beast first 2 cars empty Sat July 8
I'm going to assume the ride operators can't' spoil any information, but if I had to guess, maintenance closed off the rows or something, 12 riders per train is going to be slow but if it's for your own personal safety or maintenance closed the rows for some other reason I wouldn't complain.
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The Giga Speculation Thread
I wish B&M had specs on their website of different rides, this is why I like Intamin's new website, for example, if you Google Millennium Force's Capacity (which as of now it's 1,300 an hour according to Google) but in reality, according to Intamin themselves it's 1,650. (https://www.intaminworldwide.com/project/millennium-force/)
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Should VR come to Kings Island
The only reason I said that is because the excuse for adding VR is to give a "limited time only" attraction, The Bat isn't the most popular coaster and certainly never has a wait, the only problem with that is having fast enough operations to handle it, which sorry Kings Island, and anyone working in operations, if Cedar Point can't handle it without capacity nightmares then I don't see any other park attempting.
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Should VR come to Kings Island
VR on The Bat might work if they do it like Iron Dragon VR.
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Kings Island 2017 Discussion Thread
In case the train doesn't stop in time is my guess.
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Food Warning: Rivertown Potato Works
Yikes, that's not good, also the portions of meals on the dining plan has been going down as well. I had decent pizza at Larosa's on Saturday, and decent Skyline on Friday, I think the chain restaurants are fine but quality in park food has gone down.
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Should VR come to Kings Island
VR is a controversial subject, but VR Coasters has a system that I THINK could work on a few coasters at KI
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Rank Kings Islands roller coasters from best to worst
1. Mystic Timbers 2. Diamondback 3. Banshee 4. The Beast 5. Racer (both sides) 6. Vortex 7. The Bat 8. Firehawk 9. Adventure Express 10. Backlot Stunt Coaster 11. Flight of Fear 12. Invertigo 13. Woodstock Express 14. Great Pumpkin Coaster 15. Flying Ace Arial Chase
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Kings Island 2017 Discussion Thread
I'm not sure what the future of Dinos is, that area would be great for an X-Base expansion though!
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Engaged at Kings Island!
Congrats!
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Access to the stage in between the royal fountain and the tower.
You could try timing the Fireworks on top of the Eifel Tower and propose to her right before they start.
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Mine Blower POV
Looks insane! Congrats to the folks at The Gravity Group and Fun Spot!