Kings Island (KI) Discussion Thread

[Top Thrill Dragster]

$24 million.

[UrbanLegend]

"The bat out of the cage"?!?!?!?!

[JJnCFL]

Here we go!

[Top Thrill Dragster]

Its an Inverted coaster.

[Blue Fire Guy]

It's an invert alright!

[Josh Linn]

That looked a hell of a lot like the 1996 Banshee logo.

[Aceattack52]

$24 million.

II was surprised, too.

[Wes]

Kings Island announced BANSHEE, world's longest B&M inverted coaster.

 

$24 million dollar investment, largest in KI history.

 

4,200 feet...7 inversions

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/banshee#&panel1-1

 

World’s Longest Inverted Roller Coaster!

 

The world’s longest inverted roller coaster, “Banshee,” opens in April of 2014 at Kings Island. The first female-inspired thrill ride at a Cedar Fair Entertainment amusement park, Banshee will send riders screaming through 4124.1 feet of track and seven mind-bending inversions at speeds up to 68 miles per hour!

 

The ride layout is specially designed for Kings Island. Elements will include Curved Drop, Dive Loop, Looping interacting with the lift, Zero-G-Roll, Batwing, Outside Loop, Spiral, In-Line-Roll, and Carousel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 9, 2013 by Wes

[UrbanLegend]

People absolutely lost their shit when the Banshee logo came up.

[Angry_Gumball]

My speakers literally exploded from the banshee-like screams. Now the video is lagging at the good stuff...ugh..

[Aceattack52]

People absolutely lost their poo-poo when the Banshee logo came up.

I tought there were real hardcore enthusiasts on this site...

[RCT3Bross]

man the crowd went crazy. Wouldn't want to have missed this live stream so thanks for the link.

[Blue Fire Guy]

Longest B&M invert...but will it be forceful?

[Aceattack52]

For those of you that bet on a very expensive invert named "Banshee," please see the cashier.

[DerekRx]

I was really pulling for "World's Longest Wacky Worm...in a box...themed to Snoopy Come Home"

[DanM64]

^^^^I doubt it. If Werner Stengel was involved in the project there is at least hope, though.

[B&MIntaminGCI]

THAT INLINE THOUGH

[Blue Fire Guy]

It's opener is almost a mirror to Oz'Iris, no B&M pre-dip and the first inversion is a dive loop.

 

Most of the TPR 2012 Europe trip participants found Oz'Iris to be a huge bore...hoping Herr Stengel (aka Mr. Forceful) has an influence on this one.

Edited August 9, 2013 by Blue Fire Guy

[DanM64]

I love the station and paint scheme!

[A.J.]

Ooooh! It has a batwing - but it's not a batwing! Awesome!

 

The only thing that I'm not feeling is the slow non-heartlined twisty thingie after the second loop, but only because it looks weird.

 

EDIT: NEW TRAINS. NEW INVERTED TRAINS. Does this mean that we'll be seeing the new seats on every B&M coaster from now on?

Edited August 9, 2013 by A.J.

[cmullin]

Couldn't have gone for the 8th inversion to break the record? Looks amazing though.

[Oryp]

At first I thought the inline went through the second loop. Would've been cool. This looks good, I need to make it over to KI sometime.

[Angry_Gumball]

Longest B&M invert...but will it be forceful?

 

Surprisingly, it looks to have some pretty forceful spots! That 2nd vertical loop (though just a rendering) looks to be taken pretty quick. Same with batwing-ish element.

[coasterbill]

Couldn't have gone for the 8th inversion to break the record?.

 

And so it begins... lol

[Aceattack52]

I really liked in the promotional video how they had S.O.B. crumble like that.