TIP:  in Chrome, right click on the Enquirer link and select 'open in incognito mode" 

4 minutes ago, Old_Bearcat said:

TIP:  in Chrome, right click on the Enquirer link and select 'open in incognito mode" 

Just did that. It worked! Thanks!

7 minutes ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said:

Yeah, the video was posted on youtube just today, but that video has been on the wlwt site since the blueprints got leaked. They just probably forgot to put it on YouTube so they did it now. But it's hilarious when Dennis Spiegel calls the helixes loops. He did the same with Diamondback's blueprints. 

Hahaha they actually think its a vertical loop in the video. That is funny. he also says the height is 305 ft and so is the drop lol?

Off Topic but I am currently at the park and I think Drop Tower just got hit by lightning again. Lol that thing is a lightning magnet lol

3 minutes ago, Mystic1017 said:

Off Topic but I am currently at the park and I think Drop Tower just got hit by lightning again. Lol that thing is a lightning magnet lol

Good thing it has lightning rods!

Kings Island: renames Drop Tower to Lightning Rod: drop of thunder

It's storming at my house! I'm about 5 minutes from the park. I wonder if our giga will have lightning rods as well. 

3 hours ago, Fye Coasters said:

I think this is a little more important that school lol 

Yeah same but tell that to my parents

So we are at 358 pages on this thread! That is more than the Mystic Timbers thread had. (325 pages). Banshee had 459. 

Kings Island: renames Drop Tower to Lightning Rod: drop of thunder

I could go for that! Sounds a lot better than Drop Tower.


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1 minute ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said:

So we are at 358 pages on this thread! That is more than the Mystic Timbers thread had. (325 pages). Banshee had 459. 

But where are we without all the non deciding posts. 

10 minutes ago, Kodistict said:

Kings Island: renames Drop Tower to Lightning Rod: drop of thunder

I am not sure they can use the name Lightning Rod on anything. Thanks a lot Dollywood for that amazing RMC you have haha

10 minutes ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said:

It's storming at my house! I'm about 5 minutes from the park. I wonder if our giga will have lightning rods as well. 

Sorry for double post...…..

 

Of course it will have one. lol

18 minutes ago, Maverick44 said:

Good thing it has lightning rods!

Yea, anything of that height has to be engineered with the knowledge that it will be nailed by CG lightning many times...

Off topic, so if this needs to be moved so be it, but I did notice last week that the aircraft warning strobe at the top if its antennae was out. Random curiosity, but is there a deadline for which the park needs to have it operational again? Some kind of FAA guideline?

It's Official...OPEN TO ALL GUEST AT THE PARK.

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2019/august/kings-island-to-make-major-announcement-august-15

 

"The time is coming when everything will be revealed and made known to all.

After months of speculation, Kings Island will make a major announcement Thursday, August 15 at 10 p.m. All guests visiting the park that day are invited to attend.

The announcement will take place in Coney Mall in the Flight of Fear ride entance plaza area. 

While Kings Island closes August 15 at 8 p.m., select rides, games and food locations will remain open in Coney Mall for guests to enjoy from 8-10 p.m."

Its open to public!!  EVERYONE CAN GO!! BETTER GET THERE EARLY LOL

 

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2019/august/kings-island-to-make-major-announcement-august-15

25 minutes ago, CoasterWorks9 said:

Yeah same but tell that to my parents

Education is PHYSICS??? I know KI does education days so you're just getting a head start.....

16 minutes ago, KIBOB said:

Yea, anything of that height has to be engineered with the knowledge that it will be nailed by CG lightning many times...

Off topic, so if this needs to be moved so be it, but I did notice last week that the aircraft warning strobe at the top if its antennae was out. Random curiosity, but is there a deadline for which the park needs to have it operational again? Some kind of FAA guideline?

Actually the strobe on Drop Tower hasn't been operational since June 15th....

1 minute ago, disco2000 said:

Actually the strobe on Drop Tower hasn't been operational since June 15th....

They probably needed to order parts from Intamin to replace something with it. It must of been fried from the strikes or just burnt out.

Something is off here in the blog post, and it ties in with the supposed errors on the teasing posters. The word "entrance" is spelled incorrectly. Maybe the the errors were hinting all along that the community was errant in speculating...or maybe it's just a typo that the word processer didn't alert the user to...

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4 minutes ago, BeeastFarmer said:

Something is off here in the blog post, and it ties in with the supposed errors on the teasing posters. The word "entrance" is spelled incorrectly. Maybe the the errors were hinting all along that the community was errant in speculating...or maybe it's just a typo that the word processer didn't alert the user to...

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Good catch.....what could the mis information / typos mean..

 

Maybe the leaked the blueprins themselves and the info on the prints is a typo and its really going to be a massive coaster lol

6 minutes ago, BeeastFarmer said:

Something is off here in the blog post, and it ties in with the supposed errors on the teasing posters. The word "entrance" is spelled incorrectly. Maybe the the errors were hinting all along that the community was errant in speculating...or maybe it's just a typo that the word processer didn't alert the user to...

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Just now, Maverick44 said:

Good catch.....what could the mis information / typos mean..

 

Maybe the leaked the blueprins themselves and the info on the prints is a typo and its really going to be a massive coaster lol

I mean any coaster over 300ft is a massive coaster. Especially considering there’s only 5 of those in the world right now.

wait if we take all the spelling errors and see how many there are on the posters, could we get a bunch of letters and try to put them in order?

5 minutes ago, TristinTargaryen said:

I mean any coaster over 300ft is a massive coaster. Especially considering there’s only 5 of those in the world right now.

I know maybe my word choice was poor. I should of said bigger then we thought.

25 minutes ago, TristinTargaryen said:

I mean any coaster over 300ft is a massive coaster. Especially considering there’s only 5 of those in the world right now.

Actually there are six in the world....well eight if you are strictly going over 300 feet...but currently six complete circuit giga coasters in the world...

24 minutes ago, Maverick44 said:

They probably needed to order parts from Intamin to replace something with it. It must of been fried from the strikes or just burnt out.

It was a lightning strike ...

#whoops double post!

23 minutes ago, Maverick44 said:

They probably needed to order parts from Intamin to replace something with it. It must of been fried from the strikes or just burnt out.

I'd say it's probably not an Intamin specific part. Whelen makes a lot of strobes for that purpose. Just a guess though

And now it's changed again... digital tape?

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