Kings Island (KI) Discussion Thread

[Ed Farmer]

Inversion sounds like a douchy overpriced fusion restaurant or a terrible night club.

LOL

 

Let's call it an" Auntie Anne's Jumbo Pretzel". All this talk of pretzels is making me hungry.

 

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

[Guy T. Koepp]

Gotta admit. Not a huge pretzel fan. I like bread things, but pretzels... ...not so much.

 

Weird!

[DavidW]

One support and four pieces of track installed today

 

Full res album: http://www.davidwaderich.com/hotlink/KI/TrackComplete

Edited May 7, 2014 by DavidW

[Koasterking48]

I'd expect the loop to be done by early next week with the pace they went today!

[tarheel1231]

NEW WEBCAM ON THE BANSHEE SITE!

[glucky11801]

I'm so glad there is this new Webcam! You can really get an idea just how massive Banshee really is, seeing the track next to the two smaller cranes and Clifford Jr.

Thank you Kings Island- I can't wait until April!!!

[DavidW]

the "Banshee time lapse captures" link in my signature has been updated to include both angles.

[tarheel1231]

I don't know if this has been brought up already, but Banshee is now listed under the Thrill Rides section on the website. Also, similar to Gatekeeper, the Minimum height requirement for this ride will be 52 inches.

[thrillseeker4552]

Wow! Banshee is looking REALLY good! It's nice to see a B&M Invert with a little more unusual layout. Can't wait to ride it!

[tarheel1231]

Here's another cool picture of the Batwing. Once you find the tiny strip (that's a human) under the half-finished loop, you realize how massive this monster really is.

[Geauga Dog]

That batwing is a work of art.

[mongo]

My apologies if this has been painstakenly examined and explained already: so the fastest point of the ride is at the bottom/after the Zero-G and just before the Batwing BUT not the bottom of the Batwing itself (which to me, looks among the lowest points of the ride)...

 

I get the concept that the ride has built pumping speed into the Zero-G which gives it an advantage as it hits one if the lowest points of the ride directly after the 0-G versus the slow start of the first drop (which slowly builds the energy for speed versus the energy already "pumped" into the Zero-G for the fastest point in the ride directly after). My question is: Why doesnt this apply to the Batwing as well? Seems like the same concept, the trains will go up very high again into the Dive-Loop beginning of the BW (where it has just acclimated its top speed) and will then drop down to the ground- its lowest point before climing up into the Immelman part of the BW...

[jmicha]

The answer is that the fastest speed IS at the bottom of the batwing. Early on people randomly said that the top speed would be before the batwing but then the park came out and answered that question and said the top speed is achieved at the bottom of the batwing.

[mongo]

Ok awesome. Because whatever was initially said based on assumptions or their interpretation of the press-release, just did not make sense to me at all

[prozach626]

Or a triple king burger with chili, cheese, bacon, and egg.

 

A royal with cheese

[Vonni]

Or a triple king burger with chili, cheese, bacon, and egg.

 

A royal with cheese

 

 

Yes! You are officially the most awesome person ever! I freakin love Pulp Fiction!

[rcjp]

Or a triple king burger with chili, cheese, bacon, and egg.

 

A royal with cheese

[DavidW]

[tarheel1231]

KI is working on the park map! This picture was on twitter:

 

[EDIT]In the top right corner piece of the map, you can make out the top of Banshee's lift hill.

[Vonni]

^ No, that is Firehawk. You can see Flight of Fear just beneath it.

[TyRush]

Yes Banshee isn't on any of the maps, id say the sticky notes appear to be where it will be drawn

[tarheel1231]

^ No, that is Firehawk. You can see Flight of Fear just beneath it.

The yellow circled area is where I'm talking about. Just for clarification:

 

Left<----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------->Right

 

Up

^

V

Down

 

I guess I made things complicated when I said "top" instead of "upper".

[eddie200330]

This was posted on a facebook page I was browsing earlier.....

[SteveStL]

Why does this coaster appear so massive? Do all B&M Invert have the same track dimensions, etc... or is Banshee just that Massive.?? Those dudes would be crushed like ants if that track were to let go.

[Brassinthegrass]

No, the track looks to be the same dimensions as other B&M inverts... it really is that massive.