njcoasterguy34

More power to ya. I'm gonna sit in my warm apartment and recover from the URI I'm currently suffering from.

I think it helps that they don't have bins. They just let you leave your bags on the exit side of the platform.

One of my high school teachers told me the only stupid question is the one left unasked.

Unfortunately, the Skyride was down when I visited the park back in May. In fact, I experienced my first hailstorm while at the park. Gemini, Maverick, and Mean Streak were also down the day I visited back in May.

See my post above this one. It is very possible at Banshee. Everything has to be running very smoothly. From the entrance to the separator to the bar checkers to the exit. As soon as the train stops, the bar checkers need to be in that train opening the seats, and ushering guests out and in. Some may have notices the lift has several speeds. If we can get a train out of the station right at 20 seconds after the scream it will literally crawl up the lift. I say this all the time. The longer the train is on the lift, the longer we have in the station to check seats. I am very proud of the work the Banshee crews have done. In 2017 I am hoping to be placed at Mystic, but will still be happy if I am placed at Banshee again. Maybe do a season at Mystic then go back to Banshee. Absolutely, I saw your post in the "favorite ride to operate" thread. Really interesting stuff, thanks for that. But the reality is that the majority of the time, you're not sending out 53 trains in an hour. You don't determine an average capacity based on what the ride could theoretically do that's really only been done for one hour in a ride's debut year. In most cases, I'd assume sending out somewhere closer to 45 trains in an hour (just a rough estimate), which is still really good. It's just not fair to say that Mystic Timbers' line will move 50% faster than Prowler's because Banshee's crew hit theoretical capacity once. It's just not gonna happen all the time, though I'm sure Mystic will be a little more efficient than Prowler--just not 15 trains an hour faster. Speaking of high capacity, I vaguely remember an old video (90% sure it was TPR, maybe not though) of some fairly obscure older wooden coaster. Great ride, but the big thing mentioned in the video and description was that ride ops were able to load and dispatch a train in around 14 seconds. Any help here, perhaps the video itself or at least what coaster it was? It was probably Phoenix at Knoebels. They tend dispatch trains within 20 seconds of the train arriving in the station. It may be a little longer now that they have air gates in the station.

You do realize the park is open for more than just the Halloween season, right?

They probably meant to say "not badly damaged".

I think if Twister wasn't in such an out-of-the-way area of the park it would have a much longer line.

I can say this much; the area behind Hydra is going to look completely different. However, what I'm more looking forward to is the Troika being added to the upper midway.

If only. I love those rides.

Someone's having fun pointing the third web-cam at a giant floating crane as it sails past.

Ditto. I'm planning on taking the last week of June off work and visiting Kings Island during my 2017 amusement park trip.

I wear cargo shorts and find them to be the best option. Easy to carry your phone, wallet, keys, and anything else you need without worrying about losing anything or anything breaking.

I was able to scan my Platinum Pass into the Cedar Point app on my iPhone. I also scanned it into the Carowinds and Kings Island apps.

I am definitely going back to this park next summer.

Why didn't I hear the banshee cry when I rode it back in May? Is it something you only hear if you're in the front row?

When I went in May the SkyRide was closed.

I can personally vouch that the seatbelts on MF are short. I was walk-of-shamed when I tried to ride MF back in May. I was quite disappointed since I had no issues riding I-350 at KD the previous summer.

I'm assuming it's something like what this coaster has.

No, they close for the season after January 2nd. Starting on November 19th they do their Holiday in the Park event celebrating the most holy time of year. This is a New Jersey tradition where we celebrate the birth of the savior by entering a whimsical mountain adorned with a skull bleeding out of it's eyes covered in glittering lights to ride a coaster while listening to the timeless holiday death metal inside (as Jesus would have wanted). Then we power ride an 80 MPH hypercoaster on 29 degree nights for hours upon hours as a sign of respect for the forgiveness of sins or something. Then we gorge ourselves on waffles. Amen.

I'm already considering making the trip down next May. I might take a week off and hit both Kings Island and BGW.

Iron Dragon is nice, but I like The Bat better.

Don't you mean Fender Benders? There currently is no ride operating at Great Adventure called Autobahn.