Paramount's Kings Island's 2001 lineup announced

4 Kiddie coasters!

Yay!

I think they are going for the family angle this year. I want to see what they do next year, it will be the 30th anniv. of the park and I was told to "look for large cranes between seasons", by the park's media office.

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I hope we don't start with the kiddie coaster thing. As I said before, you just can't build enough family and kids rides as far as I'm concearned. After the SOB fiasco, the park is making the right move here.
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Thank you Disney, thank you...

The first inverted junior coaster! COOL! :) :)

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-Glitchey
Indiana Beach 2001 - Pictures, Reviews, CornBall Express exclusive information - coming Spring 2001!

Kiddie Coaster Capitol of the World!



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Cant Wait til Summer

This proves my theory correct. Germans lov.... I mean, Hyper wooden coasters DON'T WORK. If SOB had been a hit, we may see another big adult ride. Because it didn't (well, anyway) they have to spend a lot of money to redo the rough parts, and sue Premier.

Well, they're doing what CP did in 1999, and if it works out like Camp Snoopy did, it'll only be a great thing.

I'm probably one of the few people that actually liked the SoB. I thought it was actually a great addition for them. When we say "it was to rough", were basically saying that wooden coasters should be smooth. It takes after its father with the roughness, and people love that coaster. Im not trying to start an argument here but i had to say something after what genuinecynic said.

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CP in 2002, get to the point

Glitch, thats not the first Junior Inverted coaster... Think outside the box...

Is the junior inverted coaster the same one that's going in at PCW? Or are they different layouts?

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-Dave Rutherford
*If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough*

Parks do have to cater to the young guests out there and round out all of the choices a family can experience while at the park. I say it's a good move on PKI's part to expand those offerings after giving us thrillseekers SOB last year (though I personally have mixed reviews of that ride) as well as Drop Zone and Face/Off in '99.

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Worlds First Inverted Junior Coaster!!!!
I don't think so...
Paramount should know this well since one of their parks has one.
I think the Super Saturator would qualify as a Junior inverted!!! Made by Vekoma though.. didn't expect that. I wonder why they didn't get a setpoint one.
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That's excellent that PKI cares about the family so much. I personally really liked SOB and I still can't get enough of the two other great additions from '99:Fave/Off(world's only face to face invert) and Drop Zone(one of the tallest drop rides in the World). It does show that wood wasn't meant to be that tall, but it is not rough to the extent of losing comfort.

And Runaway Reptar will be the first junior invert. Silver Streak at PCWo is a suspended coaster as well as Flying Super Satuator at PCWi.

I think PKI is one of the best family theme parks in the US now(besides Disney). They had another addition for kids in 98 or 99 when they added several rides and theming to brighten up Hanna Barbara Land and then a couple years before than Nick was added. And did anyone notice how different these coasters are(steel, wooden, suspended and invert)? Cool!

So, they have it going to become a top 10 or maybe even top 5 park. Even I'm excited to go back this year. Keep it up! :) *** This post was edited by Koaster King on 2/14/2001. ***

Koster King --

Face/OFF was the fourth installation of the Vekoma Invertigo *in the US*, so I can't see how you say it's the "world's only"?

Also, Runaway Reptar and Silver Streak are exactly the same (from what was said by PKI at NCC, from what I remember). Hard to be a world's first when there are others opening. I guess I don't count FSS as a junior suspended though. The two new Parmamount juniors are pretty original. If PKI's opens before PCW's then it'll be world's first, I guess.

*added "in the US"

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Millennium is spelled with two N's ;) *** This post was edited by Legendary on 2/14/2001. ***

as for the Outer Limits ride:

The name of the ride has been changed. It is no longer Outer Limits: Flight of Fear... it is now just Flight of Fear... don't expect much retheming. Paramount's contract for the name Outer Limits ran out and they failed to renew it. This probably explains why we haven't heard those awesome voice recordings in the loading station in the past couple of years (I don't know if this is the case at PKI, but it sure is at PKD). The name will change to Flight of Fear at PKI and at Paramount's Kings Dominion.

Actually, if you look closely the layout of PKI's and PCWo's new Vekomas are exactly the same layout at Woodstock Express at CP, but only inverted. I've got a layout on my site under No Coaster Video Caps. I would say this is far from pretty original, Joe :)

http://www.midwestcoastercentral.com/No_coaster_2001_video/ and click on PKI_runawayreptar_layout.jpg

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On their website they don`t have any official, detailed information. (I believe they failed to even mention that Wild Thornberries River Adventure is the renovated Kings Mills Log Flume.

Doesn't really matter whether it was KMLF or not. Kids who are Thornberries fans are NOT cut from the same cloth as jaded coaster enthusiasts. They'll love it anyway.....just ask 8 year-old CBaby.

As much as she likes animals--and for that reason, finds the SFWOA news exciting--a Thornberries ride alone is enough to tip the scales in favor of PKI.

-CPlaya *** This post was edited by CoastaPlaya on 2/15/2001. ***

I just read in the Cincinnati Enquirer on-line that PKI is expected to make their official announcement today.

Read the story here...
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/02/15/fin_park_likely_to_add.html
*** This post was edited by SilverWinds on 2/15/2001. ***

All three news stations had shots of the contruction site but said little more than what was posted on PKI`s webpage. When will more information be available?