Kings Island announces Diamondback! 230ft tall 80mph 5,282ft long, 10 vertical drops! Tallest and fastest in the park! Details on KIC as they develop!

http://www.kiDiamondback.com/

anything else

other than what was in the text mesage

Kings Island announces Diamondback! 230ft tall 80mph 5,282ft long, 10 vertical drops! Tallest and fastest in the park! Details on KIC as they develop!

If you're thinking vertical as in 90*, you're wrong.

That was all the text message said....

Kings Island announces Diamondback! 230ft tall 80mph 5,282ft long, 10 vertical drops! Tallest and fastest in the park! Details on KIC as they develop!

If you're thinking vertical as in 90*, you're wrong.

No one here has said 90 degrees.

Yay for new avatar!

I like the front of the train design.

Im a little disappointed about the splashdown area, viewers can't get wet.

How did you get that logo? Where is that at I want to see it.

click the link, there's animation and everything!

deb

Kings Island, Ohio - The biggest and most exciting new attraction in Kings Island's 36-year history, a 5,282-foot long steel hyper roller coaster named Diamondback, will change the landscape for thrill seekers when the ride makes its debut in April 2009.

Diamondback will be the tallest, fastest and meanest roller coaster at Kings Island. The ride will stand 230 feet at its highest point with a first drop of 215 feet at a 74 degree angle and reach speeds in excess of 80 miles per hour. The ride features 10 vertical drops overall including drops of 193, 131, 129, 110 and 106 feet, two helixes - one at 323 degrees and the other at 287 degrees - and a spectacular splashdown ending. The ride experience on Diamondback will last more than three heart-pounding minutes.

Can anyone get the videos to work on that site? Also is the web cam up for any of you either?

The videos work for me, but the webcam doesn't.

Video works fine for me (Firefox 3), but there's no image for the webcam.

none of them work for me....sadly

74 degree angle on the first drop. I thought it looked steeper than your normal drop. Should be one nice first drop.

This will be a great addition to the park. Something long over due, a new massive steel coaster

Looks amazingly like what Screamscape posted last November.

Diamondback will be located in the western themed Rivertown

Hmmmm, someone needs to let the Press Release folk know that Rivertown is not based upon a western theme.

Long over due for sure. A fast non looping steel. I still love my baby Vortex though.

I was hoping for more of a "creature" kind of theme...but I can live with the Diamondback name...the coaster looks amazing!

none of them work for me....sadly

Try disabling any popup blockers and make sure you have the latest version of Flash installed. Firefox's popup blocker doesn't have a problem with that site, but I can't say if other browsers will or not.

The one thing that really disappoints me is that the RSS feed for the blog is broken. I was planning to subscribe to it, but all it outputs is a page saying "An error has occurred!"

How can i record some of the videos?

Glad to see the KIC servers have held together today and that we set a new record today. Oh yeah the ride is awesome. Helbig, I must say, its Helbig

well, on mine, the videos have had those green diagonal bars going across the bottom for an hour now, and they aren't loading... and I have a pretty good computer, and firefox 3, so I have no idea what the problem is.

^Try turning off your pop up blocker. That worked for me.

KI just took the higher resolution videos off their website. I guess they must know about the slow loading movies.

^Try turning off your pop up blocker. That worked for me.

no, I mean in the video window- the diagonal bars that show the video is loading.

anyways, for those of you that the videos still aren't working for, I found the POV on youtube.

have fun =]

I find it interesting that the lift hill uses the yellow supports we have seen laying at the plant in Batavia and the rest of the ride uses the grayish supports on site.

The supports remind me of Silver Bullet.