Kings Island, SFKK & a whole lotta Diamondback 10/24 & 10/25

[bobbinbop20]

So I went to Louisville last weekend for a Cross Country meet, yeah Im a runner Actually most of my trips are because of running competitions. Anyway I was in louisville and decided I would go to SFKK one more time before it gets torn down, BUT the main reason was obviously to get my 2010 season pass for ultra cheap!!!

These nice ladies actually offered me a free ticket when I got to the gate so I thanked them, then proccedded to upgrade in the park to a 2010 pass for only $14.99 CHA CHING!!! We stayed at SFKK for an hour tops and got outta there faster then we got in.

Then we got to the real park of this trip, KINGS ISLAND! I loved this park, it has a great selections of rides and of course the newest B&M hyper, which by the way is super super awesome! I definitely plan on coming back next year, plus I got a 2010 CF Platinum pass so why wouldn't I?! My favorites at the park were Diamondback obviously, Backlot Stunt Coaster, Beast, and Invertigo!

Diamondback was everything I thought it would be and more, great airtime over every hill plus tremedously smooth and fast. It currently sits as my 2nd favorite steel coaster, and 3rd favorite coaster. Plus on sunday it was a max of 3 train wait so we rode 16 times including 2 the night before. Delicious!

The Haunt was cool, but it was basically just fog everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE I could barely breath, plus tons of haunted house type things with 2 hour long waits, needless to say we didn't do any of them. Nothing really special besides that.

Anyway Im sure most of you are more interested in Kings Island pictures so I'll post them first, I'll put SFKK up later tonight maybe, there's lots of Chang deconstruction pictures so be sure to check back!

Oh yeah I also made a video of RAW FOOTAGE of Diamondback, so if your interested here's the link:
http://vimeo.com/7296947


Now onto the pictures


were in windmill zone now...


yep definitely the middle of nowhere


We arrived at Kings Island as the sun was setting so theres not many pictures from the first night


If you cared to know what flight of fears queue area looks like


If you go to Kings Island and dont ride The Beast at night, well thats the worst thing you could do, seriously go ride this right now at night! It was incredible!


oh my goodness


Me and Jaime (hypercoastegirl <3)


Shes in love with good hypers, and arrow suspended coasters, weird combo I know but thats whats so great about her, shes not afraid to tell you a ride sucks. Shes not really an enthusiast she just knows alot about coasters so dont get all freaked out when she says she hates a ride.


This was a damn good little ride


Da Da Da Diamondback!


I was skeptical about these newer trains but ended up loving them


Coolest thing ever when your in the back row and you look back..




everything about this ride is perfect


yeah hi


hello empty station!


more of that splash down thing, watch the video if you wanna know what it looks like in real time


Green is my favorite color, I told you this ride was perfect




hypercoastergirl found a winner


dont forget about the trash cans!


I need nothing in life except Diamondback, well and X2!


first drop is great great great!


top of the lift




you know I love it when I take a ton of pictures of it


By the way the front seat of this ride is the best seat I think because of the long length of the train you really get launched out of your seat at certain spots in the front




First drop fun


the back portion






one of my personal favorite pictures


This ride was a really cool little coaster


no, thats not till february


The theming on this ride is great


vortex


I really didn't enjoy this one much


STOP! They had a very similar sign at SFKK which I also have a picture




Firehawk, I've heard it was rough, but I actually found it to be very smooth and enjoyable!




DB overview




Backlot Stunt Coaster


Racer was enjoyable




This was the rough vekoma at the park


Looks so beautiful, In any event its SBNO so I didnt ride it


My second favorite coaster here, like my sister I'm also in love with Arrow Suspended coasters


This was closed, looked like they started early winter rehab on it




I like that funky looking twist at the end


Invertigo, I've never been on Deja Vu but im guessing this is like a mini version of it?


even if its not the same layout




The main entrance area


Fairly odd coaster


Delirium, very fun ride






overall I think I enjoyed this more then SUF




Mandatory Coaster with Coaster Sign shot


Time for more DB rides


Im hypercoastergirl and I know everything there is to know about Hypers, therefore I rate this one #1 and better then Bizarro


If you look in the second to last row you can see hypercoastergirl, she told me she was going to starbucks but then hopped back on DB for more rides, well HA I caught her!!!




here you can see the thing that makes the splash


airtime!










I fully approve of this B&M creation


I so agree


I wanna ride that! Oh wait I already have, many times!








mine train, really rough but had some good theming


oh King tut baby I'll give you a good time!


you think he'll ride DB with me?


Son of Beast


Skycoaster was 5 dollars but had a long line


way back in a corner lies Flight Deck


We rode 7 times in a row without moving, then decided it was so intense we needed a break






Hypercoastergirl must text all her friends and tell them how good Diamondback is and how horrible Raging Bull is


CEEEEEEEDAR FAIRRRR! I hate this stupid company, im just here for the hyper




Mandatory Trash bin shot


Invertigo


A RED ONE!!!


hey there


They wouldn't let me ride and there was no kids around to steal!


"do you think this will help me get to the hypercoaster faster?"


hey boys, like my ride?


hello, im hypercoaster girl and I approve of this park.


oh my god! HYPERCOASTER!!!!

anyway thats the end of the KI pictures, stay tunned for SFKK!

[bobbinbop20]

ok, here's the SFKK pictures...


SFKK...


Scary


I love how forcefull the loop is on GL


beautiful


I make GL go vroom vroom


This is not a hypercoaster, I am not impressed!


Dont worry, there is actually one guy on this train. He's in the back




That looks promising


All thats left of the station ;( I really loved this ride


Yeah, im sure it will be "fun"


another look


I wanna stand on the track!


oh dear


Hard at work, I must say they took this down very quickly


Mr. Big Crane is incharge of this outrage




I'm sorry but I cannot ride this ride again


So I'll look at it unstead


Deluge was open, I was so tempted to ride but didn't wanna get wet


Im really not an SLC fan


However, its pretty


More of the Chang area




Progress has been made in the past 10 minutes






Thunder Run is probably my favorite ride here, I love the airtime


hey people, were at SFKK!


some think its rough, I think its smooth


couldn't pass up the flying shoes




yeah if you read eariler in the trip, I got my 2010 SF pass for only $14.99


once more on GL






Kentucky people sure do love their breakdance


STOP in the name of love!


These are a nice touch, they have them at Churchill Downs too! Which is like 2 miles away


yep


This pumpkin definitely used to be at SFGAm


oh darn, I was really planning on coming back...


Actually, you wont. Oh no the off season is coming!!!!!!!!!


Is that gate suppose to be open?


Twisted Sisters..... err Twins


good thing there's a crane place right across the street, there gonna need it when they tear out more rides

THE END

[BP317]

I'm glad you liked KI, its my favorite Cedar Fair park. Mainly because it has one of my favorite coasters of all time, The Beast. Double helix insanity .

[bobbinbop20]

I'm glad you liked KI, its my favorite Cedar Fair park. Mainly because it has one of my favorite coasters of all time, The Beast. Double helix insanity .

Oh yeah, The beast was crazy awesome! That double Helix was way better then I expected!

[Ilovthevu']

Differences between Deja Vu, and Invertigo are:

Deja Vu has 90 degree towers
Invertigo isn't that straight anglish. A guess might be 65ish.

Deja Vu has quite a big loop.
Inverigo's is smaller.

Deja Vu has 2 seats innner, than 2 seats outer, etc.
Invertigo has 2 seats facing forward, 2 seats facing backward, etc.
--In my opinion, there are 3 different experiences on Deja Vu - for whichever seat you pick. You pick an outer seat, and there is nothing in front of you. You are dangling out of your seat. You pick an inner seat, and you have a stupid metal thing in front of you, and to me you feel not "worried" or not really excitied about the 90 degree drop. The other experience for Deja Vu is back or front. Sure, it's like that on every ride, but for Deja Vu, it's even more because if you ride front, you are facing the sky longer on tower 2, and if you ride in the back, you are facing the ground more on tower 1 (twice). V2 is another ride like that because it has 2 different things it does.

Deja Vu uses a cable to send the catchcar up the tower.
Invertigo uses like a liftchain (a little different) that connects to the catchcars that connects to the train.

When I see Invertigo work, on the towers you see 2 metal pieces close together, and to me that helps stop the train better when the train hits the catchcar.
Deja Vu didn't have this.

Deja Vu is not as much as a social ride.
Invertigo is more of a social ride. When you are facing other people, you will want to talk to the people right across from you, or they will talk to you. You can see their reactions. On Deja Vu, you are facing the one way like how Batman the Ride is, and yes you can interact with the people next to you, but it's more of a social ride when they are facing you.

I choose Deja Vu as number 1 coaster I've been on, and Invertigo in my opinion is number 4, so there is a difference. The regular sitdown boomerang, I rank it somewhere in the 20's. I also rank a mouse coaster like Dark Knight, at Busch Gardens, at SFKK, or at Dorney Park in the 20's too.

Another thing is that Invertigo when I went on multiple times (overall 4 times to that park - 2 years) hasn't broken down once. Deja Vu usually was around a little bit more than a every hour. Here's the kicker though for Deja Vu. A ton of times (I mean a lot.) it was mis-parking! That just means that when the train came in the station it wasn't lined up with the sensor, so they had wait for the mechanic to come, and move the train in place. The procedure to fix the ride was really like 30 seconds to move the train in place. It took more time for the mechanic to get there, than for him to actually fix the ride. In my opinion, I think the employees should have just handled that situation until they actually permamently fixed the situation. It was so simple to do. I think in 2006, the mis-parking had almost gone away though.

Hey for Invertigo, did you notice the blue and green in the line for that ride. Yep, that Deja Vu's colors!

Nice trip report by the way. I definitely think Flight Deck is an under-rated coaster at that park, and I don't really think that ride is going last much longer by the way I seen the lines.

[bobbinbop20]

Differences between Deja Vu, and Invertigo are:

Nice trip report by the way. I definitely think Flight Deck is an under-rated coaster at that park, and I don't really think that ride is going last much longer by the way I seen the lines.

Wow thanks for typing all of that out! I know the Differences in the trains and heights and stuff i was just wondering about the experience you got on Invertigo compared to Deja Vu, You answered it for me though, thanks!

And yes, Flight deck is fantastic and I agree that I dont see it staying there for very much longer, because honestly most GP wouldn't even notice it was missing, its so far tucked back in a corner.

[Ilovthevu']

^No problem.

Two other experiences you might be able to relate to are Mr. Freeze (St. Louis or Over Texas if you have been to those places), and V2. When V2 was stopping in the air, that partially is like on Deja Vu when you were on tower 1, and stopping before you dropped down at the 90 degrees angle. When V2 does that though, it's a little more rougher than Deja Vu was though. There was the slow climb up that tower though for Deja Vu. For Mr. Freeze, when you go up that spike in the air, it feels like tower 2 on Deja Vu, but yet on Deja Vu again you are going up really slow, and stopping whereas Mr. Freeze is more like you are waiting for gravity to take you down again.

[bobbinbop20]

^ok, yeah I've been to SFOT but it was during Holiday in the park and Mr. Freeze doesn't operate during that event, the closest I can think of Mr. Freezes Spike on a ride that I've been on would be like Superman at Magic Mountain

[FParker185]

The double helix on the Beast was actually re profiled this year. They moved the track to the extreme outside of the ledgers to make it a slightly wider radius. Also the track is not wood anymore, it's an engineered lumber product that utilizes cement in it from what the park said. It's running amazing in the helix this year though. I always liked it but it used to be BRUTAL.

Also for flight deck, it never has a line due to it being out in the middle of nowhere. If they get rid of it it wont be cause of lack of popularity, will probably be due to metal fatigue.

[Jackluver18]

Diamondback looks fun, probably won't ever get to ride it

[FParker185]

It's only a 5-6 hour drive away.

[bobbinbop20]

^yep, It was about 4.5 hours from my house, but I live an hour away from SFGAm..

[BP317]

The other reason KI is the best Cedar Fair park, the funny music playing in Italian Jobs queue (though I doubt they play it during Haunt)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2D_hN8f3jg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcj7b3Z1nSg

Its like a flashback to popular music when I was a kid