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Two people were injured on Mile High Falls due to it coming off track after the drop as it was headed back to the station. http://m.wave3.com/wave/db/336805/content/8ZV7Y95z

I've seen it been a little worse than that since the re-opening. The longest I have waited is about 20-25 minutes (around the bottom of stairs to the station).

Here are pictures of the new Thunder Run trains that were posted on facebook.

lol, I knew you would have some response like that.

This is a photo posted from Kentucky Kingdom's facebook. Any ideas on what it is? I'm thinking its just a kiddie ride.

Can anyone clarify where the path to the entrance of the coaster will be? I never was able to ride this coaster when it was a wooden roller coaster so I am not for sure how the queue is connected to the path of the park.

The lines depend on mostly the weather. If the weather is nice, the lines will be longer in general because most people who go from nearby have season passes and choose to go when the weather is nice. If it is too hot, the water park, will of course, be decently crowded. This being said, the park, for the most part, has short line times beside lightning run and probably Storm Chaser when it opens. I would recommend going to the coasters first thing when you arrive and then go through everything else. Most of the flat rides never have over a 15-minute wait so none should be an issue at any time throughout the day. Another good idea is to ride the dry rides in the middle of the day when everyone is at the water park. The water park closes early so most try to get it done then come back to finish the dry area afterwards.

From a recent post on their Facebook post.

Learned their lesson? What lesson is there to be learned? I was talking about how bad the preview was. The preview was bad and thus a lot of being decided against this coaster before it started being built. I think that the next time Kentucky Kingdom put out a preview video for another ride it will look a lot better since they had a bad experience from this one. Nonetheless, it is cool seeing how many people are taking back what they thought before based just on the preview video lol.

I think that Kentucky Kingdom has learned their lesson on this ride and will have a lot better preview for the next ride that deserves one.

Isn't that over near the edge of the water park and T3? I would think this is what they hinted at earlier on facebook.

I wouldn't mind it. The restraints look a lot more comfortable than lightning run's. Only thing I don't like is that this would mean even more red in the park lol

T3 is slated to have a second train. It had apparently already arrived during the previous season, but it wasn't certified to run in time. Hopefully they have two trains for Storm Chaser - it would be criminal not to given how much marketing has already been put into that coaster - and it's not even December. I haven't seen one ad for this coaster? I've only seen an artist rendering on their website. The announcement on their Facebook too, if that counts. Here you go!

Kentucky Kingdom just put out a new video on their channel. Isn't the coaster shown medusa steel coaster?

The picture of the train has no shin guards! I would love for that to be true. I hate them on Lightning Run because I close to being too tall to ride...

On the Wikipedia page, they have 3 inversions but we know that Wikipedia isn't always correct though lol

Well, that is news to me lol

I think we just have to trust that they know what they are doing.

According to the facebook page, the calendar for next year is suppose to be out soon!

pictures?

I was just going off the description of the video, I still think some type of launched coaster that is low to ground would work really nice. If they didn't just refurbish raging rapids, I could have seen them use that land. TBH I just want something in that wasted area

Just found a video from 2006 of an idea for a launch coaster in the spot where Top Eliminator Dragsters was. This is sort of what I was thinking so they could keep a similar theme. They wouldn't need to make it that tall and thus why I think it would fit.

Thanks! For some reason, I do not remember this ride at all lol

I'm currently preparing for a speech for a communication class on the history of Kentucky kingdom (I now I'm a nerd ) and I had a question about the ride that apparently was in the spot where deluge is that was called "The Great Race". It opened in 1998 and closed in 2006. Anyone know anything about this? On the Wikipedia page, it says that it is still in storage...

Completely forgot about that. They could have a launched coaster then instead