13 minutes ago, thatguyfromohio said:

Sure! My parents live right behind Kings Island, we all can crash there

 

 

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Deal! I am game haha

9 minutes ago, fyrfyter said:

Are any of us really surprised? I suspect the cams will be back up tomorrow...It's literally a middle finger to the entire enthusiast community. 

You might be taking this too hard.  I don't think they are telling enthusiasts to get bent or anything.  

 

1 hour ago, Waltny said:

I did get a bunch of good pictures off of my camera, but I don’t have time to post those till later today. But here it is completely capped off the back of my cameraI did get a bunch of good pictures off of my camera, but I don’t have time to post those till later today. But here it is completely capped off the back of my camera. Wild gravity was out there too so he may beat me to the punch.

YES! ORION IS FINISHED BABY

#Orion

#Kiga

2 minutes ago, MillenniumforceMike said:

YES! ORION IS FINISHED BABY

#Orion

#Kiga

Not “finished” but definitely tall!!! 

Who’s excited for Winterfest now???

1 minute ago, BoddaH1994 said:

Not “finished” but definitely tall!!! 

Who’s excited for Winterfest now???

You get what I mean

Just now, MillenniumforceMike said:

You get what I mean

I do. Can’t wait to see it up close!!

Just now, BoddaH1994 said:

I do. Can’t wait to see it up close!!

Hope I go to that ACE Winter event at KI in December. May not be able to due to high school football

More: http://www.wildgravitytravels.com/orion-kings-island-update-28/

So happy to see it topped off, and construction’s just getting started! Now that the lift is complete, the rest of the ride will shoot up like a lego set. To give y’all some perspective, after Fury was topped, the first half of the ride went up in 3 weeks. Last piece went in January 30th, or 58 days after it was topped (8 weeks). With the same timeframe on Orion, it would be complete around January 1st 2020, and that’s ignoring the 1000+ feet difference in length.
 

What I’m trying to say is that it’s possible the ride could be complete before the end of Winterfest.

I wonder if John Matarese will do a story on this. And NO, I am not going to message him.

1 hour ago, Waltny said:

Now...

Is this showing up now?

Just now, Waltny said:

Is this showing up now?

Nope =(

^^Yes. It was showing up for me when you posted it the first time, so no trouble here watching the video. 

Can’t wait to see this in person at WinterFest!  

Post from John Matarese Instagram:

 

2 hours ago, Imperial79 said:

^^Yes. It was showing up for me when you posted it the first time, so no trouble here watching the video. 

Can’t wait to see this in person at WinterFest!  

Awesome. I should have some photos Up within the hour.

We can post pics of flying over the park?

I love how much the ride keeps swooping on down so gracefully before coming back up after the initial huge plummet. This this looks fast. It looks like the fastest one for its height at least. 

If you rewatch the POV of Orion I have circled the supports the train goes under hill. The angle of this picture makes it look like there is no space for the track underneath the hill. Definitely should be a crazy headchopper for sure.

 

Cleaned up and might have a few more to share.

 

20 minutes ago, Hueney020 said:

If you rewatch the POV of Orion I have circled the supports the train goes under hill. The angle of this picture makes it look like there is no space for the track underneath the hill. Definitely should be a crazy headchopper for sure.

 

Defiantly threading the needle there.

Here is John's article:

https://www.wcpo.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/kings-island-tops-off-orion-giga-coaster

19 minutes ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said:

Here is John's article:

https://www.wcpo.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/kings-island-tops-off-orion-giga-coaster

That article says Orion is 300 feet towering 70 feet above Dimondback. I wish.

So now that Orion is topped off and when the railing and such is done being installed, will the 3 big cranes leave or will they keep a couple around for the taller hills?

4 minutes ago, BBN said:

So now that Orion is topped off and when the railing and such is done being installed, will the 3 big cranes leave or will they keep a couple around for the taller hills?

The turnaround hill is over 200 feet itself.  The highly-banked turn after the first drop is 174 feet.  I think they'll still need at least 2 of them.

So I'm super curious with Orion's layout having that dip in the ground will they be able to move the cranes to the other side of that fully assembled or will they have to disassemble them to move them first?  Also, I would imagine that they would only need two cranes going forward since that is all they used for Fury's construction.  It will be interesting to see which one of the three cranes goes first.

4 minutes ago, TheFloppyDisc said:

So I'm super curious with Orion's layout having that dip in the ground will they be able to move the cranes to the other side of that fully assembled or will they have to disassemble them to move them first?  Also, I would imagine that they would only need two cranes going forward since that is all they used for Fury's construction.  It will be interesting to see which one of the three cranes goes first.

They have installed pavement that I think is for the cranes to move on.

here is an old webcam pic showing it.

Not sure if this adds much but here are some photos a friend sent me from Great Wolf. 

edit:

Also,

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2109179595971960/permalink/2493990517490864?sfns=mo

A little off topic, but I realized something:

Firehawk's old crew went to KMAA. So that means Vortex's old crew will go to Orion

11 minutes ago, Klabergian Empire said:

A little off topic, but I realized something:

Firehawk's old crew went to KMAA. So that means Vortex's old crew will go to Orion

Unless things have changed, that's not how crews work... I'm sure some of Firehawk's old associates went to KMAA, but others were probably dispersed through-out the park. I imagine Orion will have some of Vortex's, but it's not a simple "move crew from one ride to another".

12 minutes ago, TombraiderTy said:

Unless things have changed, that's not how crews work... I'm sure some of Firehawk's old associates went to KMAA, but others were probably dispersed through-out the park. I imagine Orion will have some of Vortex's, but it's not a simple "move crew from one ride to another".

Employees will request to work on Orion for the year just like they do with Steel Vengeance due to it being the newest best biggest thing in the park. Simply moving the entire Vortex team over wouldn't be fair.