JRice92 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 The flame was working earlier in the day. I can confirm, I rode Banshee at about noon on opening day and the flame was on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanthonyam Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Why would anyone wait 45 min to ride a flying eagles ride? I don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I love those rides but only bother riding them if I have a skip the line option or if I'm at Knoebels because the capacity is always horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilly_bob Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I went to the park on Saturday with my partner. We were in Dayton for WGI Thursday-Sunday and had planned to go on Sunday before the schedule was up for 2015, but obviously that didn't work as the park was closed. So we ended up getting there around 9:15am to take advantage of early entry and get back to Dayton by 2pm. This was our first trip to KI ever and it was great for how quick it was. Park was obviously crowded as shown in the earlier posts. It really reminded me a lot of Kings Dominion especially in the area by Shake Rattle and Roll. We hit Banshee first before opening with about a 15 minute wait and then booked it to Bat since it was 5 mins before opening and there wasn't a line and just continued to meander around the park before leaving at 11:45. After bat we hit adventure express with no wait and honesly had a blast on it!!! Was not expecting it to be fun as I have trailblazer in my back yard which is just ok (the 2nd lift animatronics are interesting). After this we headed to Firehawk with absolutely no wait! This was much more uncomfortable than Batwing to me. The ride broke down after we got off so we tried to hit FOF but the line was about 35 minutes so we headed towards Vortex. This had about a 5 minute line. It was much better than Anaconda, but still uncomfortable. We finished up the day with a 25 minute wait for The Beast. I was honestly looking forward to this ride the most and so was my partner. Definitely loved the ride! The layout and terrain were great. Extremely enjoyable!! We just laughed and smiled the whole time. Wish we would have gotten a night ride on it, but we were lucky enough to get a few hours in at the park. After that we headed towards Diamondback, but with a full queue and what seemed to be slow operation we decided to grab a pretzel and some waters then head back to Dayton. It was obvious the staff was still being trained, but the highlight was the poor girl at the Auntie Annes booth. We needed $4.36 cents in change. She pulled out a quarter, two dimes, and six pennies. She put this back..... She then grabbed two dimes and the rest of the change in pennies The trainer came over and told her no no and grabbed a quarter, dime, nickle, and a penny.... Poor girl I hope she gets the concept of handing the least amount of coins by May! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilly_bob Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 *double post* sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRice92 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 ^^ Great that you had a good first visit to the park. I'm also Jealous you went to WGI! Haven't been to World Championships since 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilly_bob Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 It was a blast this was my 8th trip to WGI and we pretty much drove by KI with the team last year so I had to make it a point to go this year! Hopefully next year there will be more time so I don't have race around the park! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRice92 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Here's some pictures I have from opening day! It was a blast, from regularly visiting the park the past 3 years I've never seen a day this crowded! Vortex, The Beast, & Diamondback had 100% full queue's. The Vortex line went out and past Shake Rattle & Roll. Also I have to give it up for The Beast's crew. They were pumping out trains like it was peak season already, I was very impressed. Also during our day ride, I saw plenty of spots of new wood throughout the course and our night ride was absolutely insane. We were lucky enough to get the last train of the night and ride ops & security offered to grab camera's and snap pictures of us before the last train dispatched. Overall a very fun & successful opening day! Arrival. Started our day off with Banshee! The line was pretty long, but moved really fast. Zero-G! Banshee from The Bat's queue. I always stop here for lunch when I visit. Racer racing! Some Firehawk. It'll always be green X-Flight for me and my friends! I've liked fun TV, and it's getting better now posting wait times & photo's people share from Instagram & Twitter My favorite part of Firehawk. Airtime! The music is now gone from the lift hill, I was one of the people that loved it but it doesn't change anything really. Diamondback late afternoon. Diamondback in the evening. And here's a picture I snapped on the way out of the new interactive park maps. I didn't use it but I hope these go chain wide because they look really nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanthonyam Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I guess Vortex isn't as bad as people say if the line is so full? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Vortex has a queue that holds approximately six people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pǝʇɹǝʌuı Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Vortex has a queue that holds approximately six people. Doesn't mean the line moves any faster, though. The line described probably took 1.5-2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarienLaker Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Looks like Kings Island needs to give Firehawk a new paint job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Looks like Kings Island needs to give Firehawk to a salvage yard! Fixed it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRice92 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) I guess Vortex isn't as bad as people say if the line is so full? Vortex is my FAVORITE of all the Arrow loopers I've been on.(6) Yea, it does have the usual (see: terrible) Arrow transitions but once you learn where to anticipate the ride is a blast! Edited April 21, 2015 by JRice92 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PVA62 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Looks like Kings Island needs to give Firehawk to a salvage yard! Fixed it for you. This. I'm not a fan of these Vekoma Flyers, I avoid Firehawk every time I go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pǝʇɹǝʌuı Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I guess Vortex isn't as bad as people say if the line is so full? Vortex is my FAVORITE of all the Arrow loopers I've been on.(6) Yea, it does have the usual (see: terrible) Arrow transition but once you learn where to anticipate the ride is a blast! I'm also a fan. It's a very forceful ride. The fact that it's old and you never quite know how smooth of a ride you're going to have make it super intense. I make a point to ride it every time I go, but usually only once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Curt Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Anyone know if there are assigned seating on Banshee when in the Fast Lane line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dippindotsguy8 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Anyone know if there are assigned seating on Banshee when in the Fast Lane line? When I went last summer, we were able to go where we wanted. I can't remember if there was an employee assigning rows or not, but usually at KI they were friendly enough to let us request a row if polite. That said, we didn't ask for the front, so I'm not sure how strict they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Curt Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I had heard that for most of last season they assigned seats, figured that was only a first year thing and might have changed it this year. We are looking to ride it a ton next month, but also have no intention of going first row every time either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKI Jizzman Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Just ask for the row you want. I never had any problems. The front is amazing and row 4 strangely unique. No push or pull.. very fluid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamico2 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 The Banshee crew assigns seats but will honor requests. The only time I've seen them not honor a request is when the queue for the front starts blocking the main queue at the top of the stairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midgetman82 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Anyone know if there are assigned seating on Banshee when in the Fast Lane line? When I went last summer, we were able to go where we wanted. I can't remember if there was an employee assigning rows or not, but usually at KI they were friendly enough to let us request a row if polite. That said, we didn't ask for the front, so I'm not sure how strict they are. They were assigning everyone to a row when I was there on opening day last year. When I returned on a dead Sunday in october they were doing it again close to when the park opened that day, but then let people go into a row of their own choosing for the rest of the day. I'm guessing it all depends on the level of crowds for that given day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ape Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 It also depends on the person. I know for a fact i dealt with a kid that couldn't handle a little bit of power. when the ride was walk on he assigned me a row and i said no one is here do you mind if we go to the back. he said in fact did mind and we were to go to the row we assigned. We just kind of chuckled and said okay. when we went to get on we asked one of the other ride operators if they cared and moved to the row we wanted since there was a total of 8 people on the ride. Other ride attendants told me that they will grant people their wishes as long as the lines don't block people coming into the station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Curt Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Cool thanks for the great replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajfelice Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 It also depends on the person. I know for a fact i dealt with a kid that couldn't handle a little bit of power. when the ride was walk on he assigned me a row and i said no one is here do you mind if we go to the back. he said in fact did mind and we were to go to the row we assigned. We just kind of chuckled and said okay. when we went to get on we asked one of the other ride operators if they cared and moved to the row we wanted since there was a total of 8 people on the ride. Other ride attendants told me that they will grant people their wishes as long as the lines don't block people coming into the station. This. I'll admit in my youngest days of ride operations my misguided sense of power hurt me a couple times. However, I soon realized that in cases like this it doesn't hurt anything to deviate from the "standard" operating procedure (and I realized how my power as a ride operator wasn't all that cracked up to be). Even if granting a seat request on any ride results in an unoccupied seat and no other guests seem to care about it, why should I care? It's all about the guests in the end, unless somehow their safety is at risk if the seats aren't properly assigned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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