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Drawings filed by Kings Island with the City of Mason Planning Department provide new clues about the ride under construction. They describe a coaster 4,200 feet long, based on scale drawings. It will span from just behind International Street and the Eiffel Tower and over the Rivertown area, between The Crypt and Potato Works and over into what appears to be a wooded area. It is designed by B&M and described as a hypercoaster.
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So it will be among the shortest of the B&M Hypers, but it will still be a little more than 1,000' longer than the longest Diving Machine. Do people consider Goliath at LaRonde to be 'too short?' It's 4,038'. Besides, actual height of the biggest drop hasn't been released.
So far it sounds good to me. I'll definately hit KI in 2009.
In any event, I'm hoping for a more aggressive ride than Behemoth. Perhaps a shorter length will mean more speed throughout the ride and less floater air. I also hope that they go with the new style trains that are used on Behemoth.
Behemoth runs an eight car train (due to length I am guessing) allowing only 32.
So my guess is they will be using the new style, yay! Now I just want to see a layout!
I had not heard about the possibility of a shorter, steeper lift hill. But, if that is the case I don't see it adding much more than 100 feet to the "thrill" part of the track.
Right now I am not buying any reports of inversions, I think this will be a nice out and back, exactly what KI needs in a steel coaster. Whoever reported inversions may not have been reading the drawings correctly.
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