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^Nope, still same wheels and spoiler gone! Some nice Dragster Sunburst Hmm...Millennium does look tempting, but on to better things first.... You've been waiting for it...... So Cedar Point has this new Intamin masterpiece....and credit #61 The line is about one hour to get on and off. I thought the qeue was small. Sexy sexy themed trains... The station be up there. One of the qeue houses. AWESOME wild west music playing throughout. Some random theming Cool TV that shows the building of Maverick, TV spots, and povs. And up the stairs into the station! I think this train is BART....which stands for BAD A$$ RUNAWAY TRAIN!!!! Maverick Review! The look: I was really impressed with the ride structure. It's a LOT bigger in person. The trains are so quiet when the speed by, it wouldnt be heard if no one was screaming! I love the wild west theming. The qeue house and station is very nice and gives and old/worn look. The trains: So my first ride was in row five of six. The trains are great! The seats are almost by themselves, room between the person next to you so you dont bump arms! The seats aren't down in the train, they are elevated. I like how they fit theme of the ride color wise. They are colors an actual train would be, not green or purple or something. The restraints: I like them and yet they are ok. I'm 5'8" and can put my hands up without hitting the shoulder harness. I love that freedom! But the lap bar isn't grooved or fitted for your legs, so it's like a flat bar...and with Maverick's 4 ejector air hills, it's quiet uncomfortable. The should harness part is kinda squishy...it's an innovative restraint, I guess. The operations: The ride ops did a good job getting the line moving and the trains unstaked. This one op was great! She spieled on and on about crazy things that wouldn't happen on Maverick, like: "Alright riders, we'll launch you up a 105ft hill and toss you down, sending you underwater 9 times and inverting you 16. Hold you breath and enojoy your ride on Maverick....see you in 3 days! ......just kidding." It was funny to see people go "wtf?! underwater?!" LOL! The RIDE! Once you are strapped in and sent out to the lift, life Dragster two by two. You either immediately start climbing or wait. 3/4 times, I launched. It was a little surprise being taken up that fast! It's 22mph I think the ops said and only takes about 7 seconds to get to the top. You have little time to look around before you drop....FAST! Since I was in the back, I got YANKED over that drop and holy crap, that is ejector air ladies and gentlemen. It's a quick jolt, but enough to make you go . But you sharply turn right into the canyon. With a snap to the left (and if you are prepared) a small headbang, and then another jolt to the right. Out of the canyon you fly and then speed upward, and then SLAMMED down with some crazy airtime! Then fly by the train and into the first Horseshoe Roll...it's quick but there's some airtime! I think I got the biggest smack against the shoulder harness there......then into the second inversion and get the same feeling, but no smacking. With a quick U-turn past the entrance you get a little pop of airtime and head into the tunnel. Since I was the first train 3/4 times, I launched immediately and didn't really get a chance to see what was going on. But the other ride, you slowed down to about 5 mph and crept to the launch. You hear the bells of a train comming with dim lights to the left and right, finnally passing a broken R&R sign. Then you launch to 70mph and speed by some HOT lights...it's like they have been burning all day! Or they trying to convey the heat of the train lights and the engine? (no fog in tunnel)Oh well, you fly out of the tunnel then up and over the pond, with a smack against the shoulder harness you dive back down as the water bombs go off and FLY through that S turn. (like everyone else said...holy crap! A heartline roll there?! Are they trying to kill us?!?!...oh yea, no water over the canyon) Then, you head up to the first Stengel Dive. Wow! That's a great element! The turn back around as you duel the train in the canyon. But then you speed up to the second Stengel Dive, and WOW! OMG! It's like you are being ejected from your seat and thrown back down in less than a second! And incredible feeling! And then you finish off the ride with a VERY nice airtime hill and turn into a smooth slow down in the brake run. My Opinion: I could barely talk from yelling so much through out the ride! Holy $!%#!! This ride is freakin' insane! It's all speed and action from start to finish. There's airtime on all levels EVERYWHERE! Maverick has it all: Airtime, Speed, Inversions, Turns, Special Elements, and SMOOTHNESS! Allthough my first ride got abit vibratey coming out of the launch. I was expecting a fun headbanger with an insane element taken out. But wow, this is an amazing roller coaster. It's deffinately a Top Ten, and I bet you will agree! It just proves that you deffinately don't have to build the tallest and fastest with most inversions to be the best! But it's my 61st credit and Number One on my top ten! Enough text, onward to pics. This part is incredible! Insane layout with crazy airtime and inversions No stacking at all! Blink and it's gone. This thing is lightning fast from start to finish. Water bombs were cool....didn't notice them during the ride though. Down 95*! Out comes Maverick at 70mph! Nothin' but blue skyies and ejector airtime!!!!* *with minimal lap bar uncomfor Skloosh Sklooosh go the water bombs as Maverick flies by Weeee!!!! Down into the canyons again! Oh yea, the water looked pretty nice. That train is all "OMFG YEAAA!!!!!!" Oh yea, CP has other great attractions too..... Like Pet the Cock Oh and then there's this funny guy...."Attention pathetic humans of Cedar Point. We will cover this place in bird droppings if you do not supply us with 100,000,000 Elephant Ears" Ha...yea right. Oh well, time for Millennium Force! I didn't remember the final overbank yanking you back through! It's one of the tallest and fastest, but delivers one of the best rides! Very good final airtime hill. Kinda like Mavvie's but not as good airtime.

Pic TR time! So before we start....there was a party for KI employees the night before. This was me at 12:45AM 8/3/07 haha The same day at 12PM, I arrive at Cedar Point! I found you, CP webcam! Demon Drop is great! CF should reconsider what they are selling. Raptor is the first coaster you encounter upon entering CP Raptor swoops down to get it's prey...Derek wishes he was just that. Oooo, pretty floralry. Wow, that's a LOT of bird crap. Mantis, Millennium, and ID are all on the west side of CP Dragster sticks further out than fanboys on a coaster forum. Corkscrew spins over the midway. I didn't ride. Draggin' Iron has some awesome mist! Feels great on a hot day Top Thrill Dragster was the first stop of the day. Everyone loves a 30 minute wait! Up up up up.... And....under? The finish line! The dude in the front was totally doing the robot. No, not #1.....but first ride of the day! Back seat of Gold Train Oh boy...haven't been on this for a while. Here we go! Incase you were wondering wtf happened in the last 17 seconds. Magnum was a walk on. Some people don't like Maggie, but she gives a great ride!

And I'm back! Let me just say that Maverick was simply incredible. I can't wait to go back and ride it again! I'll get pics up when I'm not ready to fall asleep. -Zach "Maverick is #1"

And just one more update from the Associate party last night: Flight of Fear now has the On-Ride videos up and running! I got to ride with the lights on, a unique experiance. About 12 rides on Firehawk and.....wayyyy too many on Vortex. I'm on my way to Cedar Point!

Bumping because I will leave around 7AM tomorrow. PM me if you wana meet up so I can give you my contacts! I guess I will wear a TPR shirt tomorrow, just to represent and say hey to the ops that are there. See ya at America's Roller Coast! -Zach

Firehawk can be uncomfortable if you don't get a good feel for the seat. The first time I rode was very uncomfortable, but the second and third time I adjusted myself to the seat and restrains abit better and I had a blast! Thank God there is no stacking on Firehawk, unlike there was on BORG. Ugh, that sucked.

The backwards Racer at Kings Island, yesterday!

Hire better employees and fire the bad ones.

Thanks for all the help guys, I've got a room booked at the Breakers Express for Friday night and I'll be there Friday and Saturday. I will be bringing back one hell of a TR! -Zach

Hey guys! Just a little Drop Zone update along with some pictures I have been meaning to take for a while. I can NOT wait for Cedar Point Friday and Saturday.....enjoy! Oh yea, the ops are still advertizing Drop Zone as the Tallest and Fastest Gyro Drop. I didn't think it was....maybe in America, though. Drop Zone open + no lines = Happy riders! It's airtime on a stick! It may not look that high up...but when you get up there....you are UP THERE! You can have a good ride or BAD ride on the Forewards racer, but there is always good airtime...it just can be rough!...but Backwards is always good with some floater air. Time for some randomness! We're some random dudes on donkeys...GIMME SOME CANDY OR MY MIDGET FRIEND WILL SPEAR YOU! It's August already? One of many pretty spots in KI. Oh boy....I can see many TPR jokes and sillyness to come here..... And the constuction on the new FearFest attraction behind Skyflier is well away! Also, things are being prepared for all the other houses and attractions/Fear Zones.....this will be one hell of an October! ---Zach

Great TR! It's nice to see a Kings Island TR in the eyes of someone else for a change Yea, TRTR is under some big work right now, so don't expect it to be open for a week. Great shots and cool to hear you had a great day!

Thanks for the update, Ian! I have been trying to find out what the plans for Dreamworld's new coaster was for a while. I can't wait to ride when I go there in January! -Zach

Firehawk, once you get that out of the way by 10:30, everything else will have no wait (cept FoF). I'd recommend hitting SoB and Face/Off because of low capacity. Get Firehawk, F/O, SoB, and IJST out of the way so you dont have to deal with long lines. Yea, Firehawk opens with the park, aswell as SoB. Friday is okay. I heard FoF had 20 min wait when it was sunny but sometimes there are little groups of people here from schools or organizations. You are trusting a forecast for next friday?!!?!?! LMAO! RapidsDude: I still really love WWC, I just think it's too short. You still get wet to DRENCHED! everytime!

Update on a few things! For those who wanted to know why SOB was closed for that previous week, it's because lightning stuck the ride, causing the Lift and Brakes to go WACK! If anyone rides Drop Zone/Goes atop the Eiffel Tower, you might be able to see some construction going on behind Skyflier. It's not a ride, but it's a warehouse that will double for the FearFest attraction: Club BLOOD. Tomb Raider: THE RIDE - I got work from someone in a high position at KI that TRTR's mother board that controls the ride and makes everthing work is meeeeeessssseddddd up they even took apart of the theming out (as seen from Vortex). So expect TRTR to be down for quite a while. For those who like EuroBungee (pay attraction), in high winds today, FOUR of the pads blew away and either got completely bent and messed up, or slightly bent. One landed 10ft. from the Racer! Soooo if you planed on going to that, find something else to do! SoB is still being crappy with one train ops. My friend who works over at Drop Zone tells me that one of the parts of Drop Zone's check up and 'up grade' was that it doesn't reach the usual speed anymore. It was said to drop at 65mph. Well my friend says it doesn't reach 65mph anymore so there isn't as much stress on the cables. I kinda doubt that, I kinda dont. It still feels like the same speed, but it sure doesn't feel like you slow down as slow as you did previous to the update. It feels like you hit the brakes ALOT closer to the ground. Just an info update! -Zach

Racer at KI roughness

^There kind is. It's like a speed bump and trick track combined. It's kinda got a small trick track like this.... But is too small to give airtime

This cool Samsung phone. nice display Sleek

Insane Clown Posse is kinda Rap/Horrorore/Metal.....so all those! Tom Petty and Led Zeppelin are the greatest musicians. EVAR

^The first helix just needs to be redone. Period. Airtime hills? Ughhh....maybe making some of the hills smaller and they would be able to give some air. But in all reality. That's NEVER going to happen. I bet SoB will recieve more work over the off season on it's helix, though. I mean, it's getting trains hurled around that at about 60-70 mph, numerous times a day.

I totally agree. My night ride in 2006 was completely amazing. The light show is brilliant. I'll look for some videos of it....I'll make my own when I go up a week from tomm!

^Well, I guess you could call it that too , but maybe it's not that bad of a wear, but it just looks bad going from a dark red to a *BRIGHT* green.

^It's not THAT bad until you crest the top of the hill. And anyone have a reason why KI is now making you hold onto you bags (ex, i have a nike bag that goes on my back) when there are bins and little shelves especially for them? Vortex, FoF, Racer, IJST, Beast, Top Gun all make you hold them during the ride. Why can't you just leave them in the station when they repeat they aren't responsible for articles lost during the ride or left in the station?

It's only 75 cents for a pretty big sized locker over at Firehawk, and it doesn't really bother me. But for 2.00$? Those are usually the ones you would pay for to rent all day at a theme park! And recently a KingsIsland, they won't let you put a bag to the side of the station, or even in a bin! You have to take it with you! (Except for Delerium and Drop Zone and Face/Off....maybe Top Gun)

Thanks for the info guys, I will be going on a Thursday and Friday! Last year, Friday wasn't that crowded. I've heard a LOT of good things about both front and back seats of Maverick.....your opinion on the best?

^Indeed it has! And I got a GREAT ride on it! Paint is chipping at the bottom of the first drop, station, around the barrelrolls, and I think that was about all I saw....just many spots at the bottom of the drop.