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Make it EIGHT rides...Dare Devil Dive will be torn down this off-season as well according to new demo permits. I can't help but wonder if they have a plan for Superman. It is one of the more popular coasters in the park from a GP perspective (it's been there for 22 years but people are still mesmerized by the fact it DAGUM FLIES!!!) but the throughput sucks and it isn't the most reliable coaster in the park. Plus it is really out on an island surrounded by many vacant plots of land. The Boardwalk section of the park is a little worn out at this point. I wonder if they build a new section around Superman (including whatever Kingda Ka's replacement is), or if Superman will also take a hike.
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Based on the latest Coliwood Studios post... Green Lantern is just a lift hill at this point. And the first track removal of the Kingda Ka airtime hill has taken place. I believe the top hat detonation is scheduled for 2-3 weeks from now. Also the demo on the Lakefront Skyway Station is beginning. Oh and Cyborg is gone if anyone cares.
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Kings Dominion (KD) Discussion Thread
Zand replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Officially announced? No(t yet). But instead it's just hiding in social media replies where they hope as few people will see it as possible because that's that the new Cedar Fair-led Six Flags chain does. I guess at least they didn't flat out deny it this time, maybe that's a start towards actually communicating with customers? Edit: According to comments on Facebook the park is giving people refunds on season passes. I'll give them kudos for doing the right thing as far as that goes. -
Kings Dominion (KD) Discussion Thread
Zand replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Kings Dominion has officially cut WinterFest starting this year. Of course they've been selling season passes for months with "includes Haunt and WinterFest" listed right at the top, but hey... I'm sure once they decide they haven't already taken enough away from Great Adventure then HITP will probably go away there too. -
Kings Dominion (KD) Discussion Thread
Zand replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I rode the Looping Starship at Great Adventure when I was 6 (I'm not even sure if I was really even tall enough for it but I think I wore a hat or something) and after experiencing those horse collars, I refused to ride anything with even a simple OTSR for like 5 years after. I was convinced that any ride that went upside down was guaranteed to be extremely painful. I finally got over my fear of OTSRs when I was 10 or 11, but thank you Looping Starship for disturbing my childhood The horse collars didn't really bother me as an adult because I could kind of hold it off myself, but it was a bit traumatic as a 6 year old hanging upside down basically by my ribs. -
Kings Dominion (KD) Discussion Thread
Zand replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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I mean if I went to guest services maybe they would give me a refund in that situation, but obviously not worth going to bitch over 2 dollars. But this very situation happened way too many times at Kingda Ka and is just a general annoyance. And in this case there's a much better B&M hyper 200 feet away that doesn't require you to get lockers, so sometimes I just say forget it and don't even bother.
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It's kind of like a bad 3-bench wooden coaster in that sense. If you get a middle row non-wheel seat then it's glass smooth, but get rows 1 or 3 of either car and you're probably coming off with a splitting headache. Bad thing is with the moving station it's luck of the draw, and there's a 67% chance you're coming off with a headache.
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Happy New Year! Few closing day thoughts... The new train on Nitro (D train) runs noticably faster than the others. In the morning I rode A train and it was moving so slow that there was literally no airtime in the first half. The good thing was it was moving so slow that the mid course didn't engage at all, so it absolutely hauled through the bunny hills with excellent ejector all the way through. But then I rode D train and it literally felt like it was a hot summer day. Big airtime on every hill even in the middle of the train and you could really feel the bone crushing positives in the helix. And it just kept getting faster right up to closing even with temps in the 30s and a whipping wind. Easily the best rides I've ever had on it. Marathoned for the last hour and finished with 17 Nitro rides, a great edition of this New Year's Day tradition. Between the jaw dropping sunset rides and the pitch black night rides it just doesn't get any better. Got the last train of the year in the front row (I think this is the 3rd year in a row I've been on last train). Batman running slightly slow in the cold, but always fun riding many consecutive times without getting up. Row 7 had a bad wheel, but 6 and 8 were fine. Dark Knight is using the preshow again which I haven't seen used in years. Only problem is the preshow is so long that the folks that are let into the station are all cycled through and then they just run empties for a while even though there's a 10 minute wait outside. With Ka out of the picture, Devil might be the biggest piece of shit in the park maintenance wise. I did get two rides on it, but two other times I was on the train, it advanced to the end of the station, and then they never sent it and made everyone get off. It's really not the biggest problem ever when the ride is a walkon, but what pisses me off is they get $2 for a locker every time and then you don't get that money back when the breakdown occurs and you never end up riding it. It's a big reason why I rode Ka way less than I should have in it's lifetime and honestly there's a lot of times where I don't even bother with Devil and just ride Nitro more instead. Hopefully the free double sided lockers make their way over here. Park was very dead overall, flats were typically a walk on (and at times not being ridden at all with the ride ops just sitting around waiting, I got zen rides on Jolly Roger and Skyscreamer). But kudos to the park for having everything open on that side of the park (except Harley Quinn for obvious reasons). It was sad looking over at Ka knowing it seems to have officially been sentenced to death sometime in February, and that no one will ever see it from inside the park again. Sounds like opening day will likely be March 15th and employees seemed pretty confident that Flash will open with the park. If that is the case I hope to find myself down there opening weekend!
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Right now it has a 2 hr 20 min wait which is the second longest on Universal property behind 2:30 for Velocicoaster. Possibly anecdotal, but a couple weeks ago when I was there VC was about 35 minutes and RRR was under 5 minutes, which is more or less what it typically is outside of a shitshow holiday week. I think it draws the GP a little bit due to the way it soars over that entire end of the park, but the new thing will probably do much better numbers based on how popular Velocicoaster is amongst everyone.
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I think being able to choose the music is fun and the ride has some good forces and is weird to the point of being interesting, but I can't deny it's rough as shit and pretty uncomfortable. I used to skip it a lot of the times I was there but I think I have a new found appreciation for it after Bill told me to ride it with the ramblings of Kermit in the background. It's really a good time late at night during HHN sailing over the sea of people in the lines. I'll kind of miss it but its replacement is pretty much guaranteed to be eons better. On an unrelated note, I saw someone post on Twitter yesterday that Poseidon's building should be turned into a Chamber of Secrets experience and I really don't hate that idea.