In my trip report

A section of track being painted right now on The Bat.....

Image captured from The Bat Cam on Kings Island's website, Here.

That orange looks SO much better. I hope it's relatively fade-proof.

I was wondering if that's why dark gray was chosen over black- less chalking, plus it may disappear into the woods more than black, making the orange track look more like it's floating.

That place that numbers its flags didn't have problems with chalking when its Batman: The Rides were black...

Baynum Painting posted some great new pics of The Bat to their blog today.

The color scheme looks better and better every day. Hurry, April, hurry!

Looks like the crew is back to painting The Bat today!

The Bat's webcam photo was taken from Kings Island's website. Check it out here: https://www.visitkingsisland.com/online-fun/webcams

Edit: Compare the photo from this morning to this one. Lot of progress has been made today!

This photo was also taken from The Bat's webcam on Kings Island's website. Check it out here: https://www.visitkingsisland.com/online-fun/webcams

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Also, if you look at the Bansheecam, it looks like most of the off-camera turnaround is done, so the ride is coming along very quickly.

The turnaround isn't painted on my cameras for The Bat

Huh... You're right. I could have sworn I remember seeing it orange on the webcam... My bad.

The turnaround is almost done being painted people up there now on it..looks great with the Sun hitting it too

The turnaround is almost done being painted people up there now on it..looks great with the Sun hitting it too

Dude, the turnaround is not even close to being touched from what I can see on The Bat cam and the Banshee cam.

^ I think he is referring to the horseshoe turn.

Yes the one above the station, they knocked ALOT of that out today, they were only halfway up it when I saw it first thing, end of the day, completed. I have pics will post later

Edited for now, will return later pinky swear. Just created the post to be able to copy & paste for later reference

I'm at Kings Auto mall with Aaron. Depending on what time we get out of here, I may talk him into driving by the park to see Banshee. Not stopping, just driving by, before I get all the people reminding me about not stopping on park property, etc...

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Well I doubt they're testing, it's cold and windy out. But honestly if you go and ask them to go on the hill, beautiful place to see the back half of the park

action on The Bat cam.

To the BatCam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yic7IRO9d6I

Looks like painting may get finished up today!

It looks like the track is completely painted and the supports probably will be finished tomorrow. According to The Bat Cam.

The Bat is looking grrreat. Orange is my favorite color

Had to post this here. I love how The Bat looks right now.

TheBat3 by Diamondbacker, on Flickr

EDIT: I do not own this image. I found this image on Kings Island's website, and the image can be found here.

I can't wait to see how it looks when the trees and grass surrounding the ride are green.

Looks like a totally different ride. It reminds me a lot of when it opened in 1993 when it was bright red. I can't wait to see it in person in about 3 1/2 weeks. It's hard to believe really that the park opens just 3 weeks from Friday, I really believe this off season went fast!

It looks like a section of the track is missing.

It looks like a section of the track is missing.

Yep, Parts of the rails are missing.

Wonder what is wrong? Saw that too.

Someone in Banshee Construction Progress said rust.

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Those rails have to be replaced from time to time. Just routine maintenance. I just hope they don't forget and accidentally send a train, that would be bad!