Sorry no posts for a week, it was one of those times where I barely had time to think, let alone blog.
My office building sits right across the highway from Paramount's Kings Island, which allows me to sit and watch the coasters roll non-stop between April and November. During the off-season, they prepare for the park's new ride, and scramble to get it assembled as close to opening day as possible.
We've been watching for about a week now as trucks drop off sections of bright green roller coaster track into the parking lot. Rumor is, it is the X-Flight coaster from Geauga Lake, just up I-71 about 200ish miles.
I'm inclined to believe the rumor. X-Flight was closed at Geauga Lake at the end of the 2006 season, and PKI and Geauga Lake are currently owned by the same company, Cedar Fair. Cedar Fair, and their flagship park, Cedar Point, are all about the big coasters. Kings Island has cornered the market on kick-ass wooden coasters, but hasn't gotten a really big knock-your-socks-off steel coaster since the Vortex opened in 1987.
X-Flight is one of those "flying" coasters, where you ride it in a laying-down position hanging underneath the track rather than in an upright seated position. I found a video of approximately what the ride will be like once reassembled. I know that when it starts, it looks like the video is playing upside down. This is because this is a video of a different ride in a different park with a similar track but different seating style. In X-Flight, you sit down in a seat, and when the ride is ready to roll, the seat reclines to lay you on your back. You actually climb the first hill on your back, and when you get to the top, the track twists around so that you are then laying on your front, hanging underneath the track. So, the POV in this video is correct, if you have your head tilted back during the beginning and end of the ride instead of tilted down toward your toes.
My office building sits right across the highway from Paramount's Kings Island, which allows me to sit and watch the coasters roll non-stop between April and November. During the off-season, they prepare for the park's new ride, and scramble to get it assembled as close to opening day as possible.We've been watching for about a week now as trucks drop off sections of bright green roller coaster track into the parking lot. Rumor is, it is the X-Flight coaster from Geauga Lake, just up I-71 about 200ish miles.
I'm inclined to believe the rumor. X-Flight was closed at Geauga Lake at the end of the 2006 season, and PKI and Geauga Lake are currently owned by the same company, Cedar Fair. Cedar Fair, and their flagship park, Cedar Point, are all about the big coasters. Kings Island has cornered the market on kick-ass wooden coasters, but hasn't gotten a really big knock-your-socks-off steel coaster since the Vortex opened in 1987.
X-Flight is one of those "flying" coasters, where you ride it in a laying-down position hanging underneath the track rather than in an upright seated position. I found a video of approximately what the ride will be like once reassembled. I know that when it starts, it looks like the video is playing upside down. This is because this is a video of a different ride in a different park with a similar track but different seating style. In X-Flight, you sit down in a seat, and when the ride is ready to roll, the seat reclines to lay you on your back. You actually climb the first hill on your back, and when you get to the top, the track twists around so that you are then laying on your front, hanging underneath the track. So, the POV in this video is correct, if you have your head tilted back during the beginning and end of the ride instead of tilted down toward your toes.
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