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.
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Also important to point out that the seats on this ride are not like BTR or any other B&M invert. The seats now resemble an X-Flight or SUF seat with the vest, lap bar, and wide bars to hold on to. Ill try and find a picture.
Best 2011 Moment: "I lost my phone on Raging Bull!" "WELL I LOST A SOCK!!!" Best 2012 Moment: "No good! DREAM ON!" Best 2013 Moment: "I came here for Auntie Anne's pretzels and coasters......in that order!"
I know for a fact I've posted somewhere that they should add Soft-Padding to All B&M Coasters. Wonder if this will have the Big-Boy seats since Cedar Fair has shortened seatbelts?
CstrFan512 wrote:Also important to point out that the seats on this ride are not like BTR or any other B&M invert. The seats now resemble an X-Flight or SUF seat with the vest, lap bar, and wide bars to hold on to. Ill try and find a picture.
I don't mind this seat design, but they better have redone the vest locking mechanism. X-Flight's too-tight vests were not touched at all for Gatekeeper. Same issue.
The only disappointing thing about this is the seats. I really like B&M inverts. What is happening to B&M that they need to change a design on the inverted coasters that has worked for so long? Batman is a 1992 ride!!
I hardly ever see broken seats on Batman the Ride, but you might find them on Superman, and X-Flight. Though, I still think Superman's seats are great compared to X-Flight's seats.
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1. I, for one, prefer the X-Flight style seating. OK, they're a little tight -- big whoop. A little tight around the trunk feels fine after you get off the ride. Your head banging against the supports of Batman can give you a headache that lasts the day at the park. They'll figure out the maintenance thing.
2. Didn't Cedar Fair get in trouble for trying to use the name Banshee on a coaster once before (Mantis)? Why is it any better now?
^I don't think they got in trouble but they decided to drop the name cause it offended some people. And i think they should stick with the original Invert restraints. If it isn't broken don't fix it.
tribar wrote:^I don't think they got in trouble but they decided to drop the name cause it offended some people. And i think they should stick with the original Invert restraints. If it isn't broken don't fix it.
I considered Batman, and Wolf before it, banging my head around to be "broken." The new design fixes it.
A secondary negative with the Wing coaster seats is the fact that the whole setup really wraps you up like a glove. Your butt slides back with your thighs angled upward, your sides are nestled firmly, and then of course that firm vest.
In some ways, this is a more comfortable seat, however, what I think it does is insulate you from the action around you. It puts you in a cocoon to keep the thrills dampened.
Honestly, I think this seat design counteracts some of the thrilling aspects of "nothing above or below you". Take a looser and more open seat, and the wing concept would feel more immediate.
(As a final thought though, I'm wondering if the thighs being angled upward is meant to counteract bloodrush to your feet. My feet are in pain about 50% of the time I ride a Batman invert.)
As for Banshee's layout, I absolutely love it. All the elements look fun, and that second loop looks especially powerful.
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Do you people really get your head banged on Batman? I never get my head banged on Batman except for the potential of when it went backwards. Iron Wolf was in a different category of getting your head banged than Batman is. I don't see any comparison. There is a reason why Vekoma SLC are called head & bang, and why B&M inverts are not called that. I also think that the reason why people do get their head banged is because of bad transitions with the over the head harness. Kumba is a great ride, but it has ONE terrible transition within the corkscrews area, and Iron Wolf has the one terrible transition again with the corkscrew.
Those are older rides though. By now, B&M has figured out about bad transitions. I think putting the vest thing on, on a ride like Iron Wolf, you would still feel it. It would just be in your neck instead of your head which isn't great either. X-Flight doesn't have the bad transitions that I know of.
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I prefer the new design. However, I wish the pressure on the vest was lowered a bit. It should be lowered just enough so that it's still snug on kids, but not so gripping on adults. I guess what I'm saying is that they should auto-adjust better to someone's size. It can be a killer on the shoulders....especially X-Flights back row where it's forced down more in the helix.
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Allegedly they're aware of the problem with Gatekeepers restraints, and they're working on it. I'm assuming they'd update Banshees restraints accordingly.
jackparanoia wrote:Allegedly they're aware of the problem with Gatekeepers restraints, and they're working on it. I'm assuming they'd update Banshees restraints accordingly.
Can I extrapolate this allegation to include X-Flight too? I didn't notice anything different in the design at all.
jackparanoia wrote:Allegedly they're aware of the problem with Gatekeepers restraints, and they're working on it. I'm assuming they'd update Banshees restraints accordingly.
Can I extrapolate this allegation to include X-Flight too? I didn't notice anything different in the design at all.
The tightness is on there for X-Flight too, but I haven't heard any reports about Six Flags acknowledging the issue. It'd be great if there was a solution, and they changed it here for us. Fingers crossed
^ amazing ride, even COOLER name! I always thought the only reason Cedar Point didn't stick with the Banshee name was because of that parks popularity. Do you really think a park like CP or Disney even would have a ride called Demon? It's all about the individual parks.
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