DoinItForTheFame

Ahi Tuna! (It's an appetizer they have.)

The coaster keeps getting better, and better! Not that it really matters, but I have ruled out the twisting spike we saw in the promo video. I am assuming that it was just a No Limits mess up. Regardless this coaster looks simply amazing!!! I can't wait to try it out! Photos from ZDT's Facebook!

I agree 100%. I would rather have 0 clues, and the find out on the official announcement day what is going on, rather than already know when they official announce it. Because now it is like when they announce it... they are not really telling us anything we don't already know.

I can not get over the level of detail going into this project. Seriously. It's absolutely amazing.

Yes... Yes they do.

B&M - Dive Machine Intamin - Hydraulic Launch Coasters. IE: Top Thrill Dragster. Premier - LIM Launched Shuttle Coaster. IE: Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast. S&S - Combo Shot Towers. IE: Superman Tower Of Power at SFOT. Larson - Drop Towers RMC - iBox Track. Arrow - mine trains? lol Vekoma - Inverted Boomerang. IE: Invertigo at Kings Island. HUSS - Nothing. To many of their rides are spin-n-puke, and I'm not about that life. Sally - N/A Morgan - Hyper Coasters Chance - Pharaoh's Fury Schwarzkopf - Shuttle Coasters IE: Greezed Lightin' Maurer Söhne - SkyLoop

That picture was from the CPVR app's code. I just used Photoshop to color in the supports and track. This is my NL2 mockup that I put out a couple weeks ago, but I updated the colors to match the support color we know now.[attachment=0]IMG_20150811_175528.jpg[/attachment] I love your layout. Something like that eould be a perfect fit for the park, and unique for dive machines. We can dream right?!

I agree 100%. I really enjoy the spring launched Slingshot Rides! However, I avoid the elastic ones for this very reason. Also, the elastic Slingshot rides are not nearly as smooth as the spring launched! Hope the rider with the broken leg has a quick recovery. Glad it wasn't worse.

We opted not to ride Delirium! I have been on MaXair at Cedar Point, and it made me very nauseous, so we avoided it to keep from getting sick, or at least feel like we were going to get sick! We did ride Adventure Express! I completely forgot about that! Sadly, it was nothing spectacular. I was really excited for the really well themed lift hill at the end! I kept waiting for there to be a decent drop... and there was.... a brake run... Probably the largest disappointment of the day! We will for sure try The Bat in the back row next year!

Looks amazing!! Makes me want to go buy a 3D printing machine!! Great job!

What kind of information are you wanting?

Posted in the Silver Dollar City thread. Obviously they have never eaten at SDC, because the food is some of the best theme park food out there. EDIT: Here is the entire list of why SDC sucks as a park... Some of these are just plain ignorant... like: I mean... REALLY??

I did end up taking *some* photos at Cedar Point, so if there are any that are TPR worthy, I will upload them after my Cedar Point Report!

If people need photos/videos for them to be interested in reading about how a park visit went, then I am okay with them skipping my report. Obviously if they need photos/videos then they are not really interested in the report, they are more so just interested in the photos/videos, and if that is the case, there is Google Image Search. Glad you enjoyed the report! Glad you enjoyed the report! There is more to come soon! It takes more time than I thought it would to write out a good trip report. To me, it doesn't take nearly as much time, or thought to upload some photos, and click submit! Glad you are liking the report! I might... MIGHT try racer again in a non-wheel seat. It was seriously awful. But if they wheel seat trick helps I am all for trying it again! I am glad I am not the only one who is not all about taking a ton of pictures at the parks. I would rather enjoy my day then spend half of the day bending over backwards trying to get the worlds best "upskirt" photo of a roller coaster. Don't get me wrong, I love some good park photography... I just happen to not be a photographer. I'd rather enjoy my day at the park, and then enjoy other peoples really good photos! Glad that someone else agrees that FOF and Firehawk are not rough. I really enjoyed them! I think next year we are going to stay for a night ride on Beast! If that is the case, we will for sure sit in the front!! -------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the feedback everyone!! Cedar Point report will be uploaded tonight!

Maybe Cedar Point isn't even building a new coaster for next year. They are building the world's largest VR Theater. Kind of like the 4D Shows at Universal... but better...ish.

So, as many of you may know from the CP and KI threads, recently my partner and I made a trip to Ohio! First stop was Kings Island on a Friday, and Cedar Point the next day (Saturday.) I had been to Cedar Point, but it's been a few years, and neither of us had ever been to Kings Island. So I was very excited to not only go to a park I have never been to, but to get a trip back to Cedar Point. Our phones stayed in the car to avoid getting destroyed on a water ride, so there will be no photos to go with this trip report. Besides, both parks have so many really good photos of them floating around that my lame little cell phone pictures would not be anything worthy of posting, so instead there will be detailed reviews of the coasters! At the end of each coaster review there will be "X/10." This is my personal rating given to the coaster, on a scale of 1-10... 1 being the worst, and 10 being the highest! Anyways, on with the trip report! Kings Island: On Friday, we arrived at the park around 9:20am, for the park opening at 10:00am. Having already purchased out tickets, and Fast Lane Plus online in advance, we just went straight to the gate. There was already a bit of a line, so we waited. The gates opened at around 9:45am, after the park played the Star-Spangled Banner, which call me tacky, but I like that parks still do this. Once we made it in the gate, there was not much we could do yet because we did not have early entry for the rides, so instead we went over, picked up our Fast Lane Plus wristbands, and went to the gift shops. We picked out what souvenirs we wanted to buy later when we were laving the park! After this was done, the park officially opened for the day, and having been giving advice on here that we should make Firehawk the first ride of the day, so that is where we headed first! Firehawk: Having heard nothing but horror stories about how rough this ride was, we were both really not looking forward to riding it, but we both knew we needed the credit, so we got on the red train. We prepared for the worst, and hoped for the best. As the train was being lowered down in the station it was actually surprisingly jerky. I don't know why, but I had always imagined this would be the smoothest part of the ride. Well, I was wrong. We hadn't even left the station and this ride was already living up to the horror stories we had heard about this coaster. Climbing the lift hill was one of the more annoying things we have done on a coaster. Seriously, you're just laying there with the sun beating down on you. It feels like you're in a tanning bed. We made it over the top of the lift hill, the train rolled over into the flying position, and I braced for what I thought was going to be the worst ride of my life. . . I am not sure if I am the only person who feels this way, but I really liked Firehawk. It was by no means rough at all. The only thing I could even consider rough on the coaster, aside from the trains laying back in the station, was the turn right by the Flight Of Fear Building where you go into the turn in the flying position, and you come out of the turn laying on your back. Even then, it wasn't so much rough... it was uncomfortable lateral g's. We actually got off of the ride, wanting to ride it again. We ended up riding the coaster 3 times, we would have rode it more, but the last time we were waiting for it we were next to get on, and as the red train was coming back into the station the ride broke down. Figuring since we hadn't had to wait for anything the entire day, we would just wait for it to re-open. . . Well, 30 minutes later the people were still laying down on the train in the station, so we decided to leave the line! If I were the people stuck laying down on the train I am pretty sure my head would have exploded. Anyway, Firehawk was one of the surprise coasters of the trip. 8/10. After Firehawk it was suggested that we rode Flight Of Fear next. So needless to say, that is what we did! Flight Of Fear: We had both previously been on the "Outdoor" version of Flight Of Fear, so I knew what to expect. However, I did not tell my partner anything about the ride because I wanted it to be a surprise for him. The launch actually packed a decent punch, however I was hoping that the main part of the ride building would have been a little darker. I was actually surprised at how much the inside of the building was actually lit up. I was hoping it would have been more along the lines of Runaway Mountain where the coaster is pretty much pitch black dark, however FOF was not this way. You could always see the track, and what was coming next on the ride. The MCBR really kills the pacing of the ride. All the times we rode it the train seriously came to almost a complete stop. With that being said, I was still very surprised with the speed the coaster picked back up toward the end of the ride. Flying low to the ground right before the final corkscrew was actually really fun!! The coaster was not rough like some claim it to be. We rode ended up riding the coaster 3 times. 7/10. After Flight Of Fear, we really had no "We need to ride this, in this order." So we decided to just walk around the park and ride the coasters as we came to them. So leaving FOF, the next coaster we came to was The Racer, so we figured why not? We will give it a ride. We needed the credit! We had not heard much about the coaster, so we did not really know what to expect. The Racer: We were not expecting much out of this coaster. We just figured it would be it would be your typical out and back coaster experience. We got in the last row of the red train, and headed out of the station. The first drop was decent in the back row, however everything after the bottom of the first drop was seriously unbearable. The coaster was seriously so rough by the time we made it to the turn around we both had migraines. The rest of the ride was seriously awful. We have both been on hundreds of coasters, and it was by far the worst coaster we have ever ridden. We rode it once for the credit, and I will NEVER ride the coaster again. 0/10. After The Racer our headaches were so bad we decided to go to the car to take some headache medicine. I had read here on the forums that someone took an ice chest with them to parks, and left it in the car. Then when they wanted something to eat/drink they could simply go out to the car and have food, and water!! So that is what we decided to to do this trip. We had an ice chest in the car, and thankfully we had a very close parking spot! We went to the car and took some medicine, and cooled off a little, then back into the park we went! Next coaster was Banshee!! Having watched Banshee from the time it was announced till the day we got to ride it, and I was beyond excited for the coaster!! Banshee: This was the first time we really were thankful to have Fast Lane Plus. At this point Banshee was about a 2-1/2 hour wait. We waited about 5 minutes for the ride, and that is only because we wanted the front row otherwise the coaster would have been a walk on. I had always dreamed that Banshee would be a fast, forceful, coaster... and that is just what it was. The first drop was awesome, and the inversions were perfectly placed. I really enjoyed the "slow" zero-g-roll at the end! I must give props to the Banshee crew! They were working their a$$ off to get those trains out of the station. There were several points where they would have the train leaving the station, or on the lift hill by the time the other train was in the "slow" zero-g-roll! Seriously the crew was amazing!! Overall Banshee gets a 9/10. After Banshee we decided to head over to The Bat. My partner had never been on a suspended coaster so I was really excited for him to get to experience the coaster!! The Bat at this point is the largest suspended coaster I had ever been on, so I was excited for the ride! The Bat: There are two things about this coaster that annoy me. 1.) The coaster seems to be in the middle of no where. There was nothing near the coaster, it just seemed kind of out of the way. 2.) I hate that the coaster didn't have Fast Lane. We ended up waiting about 45 minutes for the coaster. 30 minutes in line, and about another 15 for the front row. I am very glad we waited for the front row. There were several parts on the coaster where the front car gets well beyond 90 degrees sideways. On a side note while climbing the lift hill we saw the near by Great Wolf Lodge. I had no idea the Great Wolf Lodge has one of those Hybrid Proslides creations. The ones with the small funnels throughout the course. So we will be booking a stay there next year so we can experience the slide! Anyway, back to The Bat. We really enjoyed The Bat. It was not rough at all. It was really fun. We would have rode it again if it were not in the middle of no where, and if it had Fast Lane. 8/10. After The Bat we decided to head over to Invertigo. Having heard nothing but horror stories about Invertigo we were NOT looking forward to the coaster, but we needed the credit, and I had never been on a suspended boomerang coaster, so I was excited for the different experience. Invertigo: We decided we wanted the front "back" row. So the back row that was facing up the first spike. Last row of the train? Anyway, the entire way up the lift hill we probably looked like we were bracing for a car wreck. However, to our surprise the coaster was actually really fun!! It was not rough at all. Then again, we were in the "brace" position the entire time. We had our head pushed back against the seat, and held on for our life!! Not only was the coaster not as rough as we were expecting, but it was really forceful. We both grayed out going into, and coming out of the cobra roll both directions. 7/10. After our graying out incident on Invertigo we decided maybe we grayed out because we were hot, and needed food... So we decided to get some lunch! We ate at Festhaus. I had pizza which was actually really good, and my partner had Panda Express which he loved! After lunch we decided to head over to Backlot Stunt Coaster. We figured it would be a great way to get back into coasters after lunch. You know, having a full stomach and all. Backlot Stunt Coaster is one of those coasters we knew very little about. All we knew is that it is suppose to be a family coaster, and that most of the effects never work. So needless to say we didn't have very high expectations. Backlot Stunt Coaster: We waited one train, and got a front row ride on the white train. Which of the 11 times we rode the ride we managed to get in the white train. The launch was slow at first, but it became decently forceful towards the end of the launch. Right after the launch is the weird helix up. Every time we rode the coaster we started to gray out in that helix. I seriously did not expect this coaster to pack that much of a punch. The trick track by the police cars was a lot of fun. The MCBR/Launch was nice, and that I am aware of all of the effects or at least most of them were working. The helicopter was shooting the wall to the right side of the train, and there was fire on the left side of the train, and in front of the train. The "dark" part of the ride was awesome. Of all the times we rode the coaster we had no idea what was going on in the tunnel. It was really a lot of fun. It was smooth, forceful, and very re-rideable. This coaster was by far the biggest surprise of the trip. We went on it expecting nothing, and we LOVED it!! It is seriously one of the most under-rated coasters I have ever been on. 10/10. After Backlot Stunt Coaster we headed over to Vortex. Now all I have ever heard about Vortex is that it is rough, and boring. Well, all I had ever heard of Firehawk, and Invertigo was that they were both rough. . . However, we enjoyed both of those, so we expected that we would enjoy this coaster as well! Boy were we wrong. Vortex: We boarded Vortex, and sat near the rear of the train. Hoping that everyone had over exaggerated how rough the coaster was we thought we were in for a good time! Well, the pre-lift, and the lifthill were both smooth...ish so I was hoping that the coaster wouldn't be that bad! Ugh, seriously as soon as we left the first hill it felt like every wheel on the train were squares. Even the straightaways were rough. The layout was not all that thrilling. I did enjoy the corkscrew that went between the loops. Our favorite part of the ride was the brake run. Seriously this coaster was awful. Rough is an understatement. It seriously felt like we were speeding on one of those uneven brick roads in the historic district of a town. All in all, Vortex gets a much deserved rating of 0/10. After taking a beating on Vortex we thought we would take a ride on Windseeker to relax! However, we both hate heights so I was rather unsure of how this Windseeker ride was going to go. I mean I HATE the Starflyer type rides, so I expected to hate Windseeker as well. Windseeker: Windseeker was actually a lot more fun than I was expecting. For some reason when we were up at the top of the tower it did not seem nearly as tall as it looks from the ground. The ride made my partner incredibly dizzy, but I was fine on it! I actually enjoyed the ride. It was relaxing, it was fun, it was a great way to cool off, and I really enjoyed the music that they played on the ride! 8/10. After Windseeker we decided to head over and take a ride on Diamondback. Having not been on one of the newer B&M Hyper coasters I was slightly excited to try out this coaster. I was really excited for the new V seating on the trains! However, I have always heard about how forceless the coaster was, and how much airtime you don't get on the airtime hills. So I was not expecting much from this coaster. Diamondback: The wait time for Diamondback was 2+ hours. Thankfully we waited one train with Fast Lane Plus! We decided to sit in the second to last row, and I was expecting a boring ride. Boy were we surprised. The first drop provided some really good airtime, and we got really good airtime on every airtime hill! We even got a nice pop of air on the drop going down into the splash down! Who ever says this ride has no airtime has obviously never been on the coaster. People need to realize there is a difference in airtime, and "OMFG EJECTOR TIME!" Airtime/float time is when you float nicely in between the restraint, and the harness. Ejector time is when your body is thrust into the restraint, and you leave the ride with bruises. With that being said Diamondback DOES have airtime, and it is a really good ride. We rode it at least 10 times, and there was airtime every time we rode it. Then again, we only either sat in the front of the train or the back of the train, so I can not speak of what the airtime is like int he middle of the train. We really enjoyed the coaster, and it was by far our favorite coaster in the park. 10/10. After Diamondback we decided to head over and give The Beast a ride! I had heard nothing but mixed reviews of this coaster. Some people say it is super rough, and not worth riding, while others say it is one of their top coasters. So I had no idea what to expect. The Beast: We grabbed the second to last row, after reading that we shouldn't sit above a wheel. We left the station and started climbing the awfully slow first lift hill. Seriously, I have no idea why the lifthill is as slow as it is. It took a good 2 minutes to climb the lift hill. Once we finally got near the top of the lift hill I braced for impact! I knew the coaster was going to be awful. . . But it wasn't. We actually really enjoyed the coaster. I am sure the coaster is actually really rough, because you could see how much other riders were bouncing around, and you could hear them complaining about how rough it was. However, we really enjoyed it. I think that not sitting in a wheel seat was actually a really good thing. Thanks for the tip! We both really enjoyed the ride, and rode it several times. 10/10. After The Beast we just started making our way around the park re-riding the coasters. We didn't ride Drop Tower mainly because I HATE drop towers, and I was not in the mood to be riding one that day. But of course I regretted not riding it after we left, so I will be riding it next year when we go to the park. All in all, we really enjoyed the park. All of the employees were really friendly, and they really seemed to honestly enjoy their jobs. The park was VERY clean, and the landscaping was very well done. They even had a random liberty bell made out of what looked like a hedge bush! We left the park by around 7pm since we had a 2-1/2 hour drive to our new hotel near Cedar Point, so sadly I never got in the famous night ride on The Beast. We had such a great time at the park that we decided we would have to revisit the park next year, and every year after that. It is going to become part of our new vacation tradition! That's all for now! Cedar Point Trip Report coming soon!!

Agreed 100%. I will gladly take the old(er) B&M restraints over the new(er) vest harness any day. Which is one of the reasons I hope the rumors about the new restraints on the dive machine are false.

After a recent trip to Cedar Point I remember how much I love the park. Sadly it isn't my home park. So no, my home park is not my favorite park.

Gatekeeper 2.0?!

Seriously. If I read: one more time... I'm going to fu*king scream.

I feel like there is still some space they can work with to make the layout even better. I'm holding onto the hope that this is NOT the real layout and that there may be some things changed in the layout. If not, I'll be happy with this coaster just the way it is.

Fixed.

I remember the first time I rode it, I really enjoyed it more than I thought I would too!! The "come to Jesus" moment on the ride was by far the best part of the ride. (Circled in the photo below) Such a great part of the ride.

I have been saying this for months now. SheiKra and Griffon are both fun, enjoyable, very re-rideable coasters. If someone is complaining about the Dive Coasters they have obviously NEVER been on a dive coaster. They are complaining just to complain... because they heard others complain, and they think they should complain too.