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MASON ????????? Visitors to Kings Island can see the amusement park is building a ride that park managers refuse to discuss except to say that it will open in 2009.

But drawings Kings Island filed with the city of Mason Planning Department provide new clues about the ride they've tried to hide:

The plans 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 will be smaller than The Beast, which is 7,400 feet long, and bigger than the Vortex, which is 3,800 feet long.

Plans show that each train on the new ride holds 32 people in eight attached cars. The track appears to run over a water feature near the end of the ride.

The ride is designed by Switzerland-based Bolliger & Mabillard and it is listed as a "hypercoaster," according to the plans filed with the city of Mason.

A photo on the Swiss company's Web site for "hypercoaster" characterizes the ride as having "height, speed and airtime." The water feature was not shown.

Kings Island's drawings filed with the city of Mason also indicate three loops.

Neither representatives of Kings Island nor its Swiss ride manufacurer could be reached for comment on Tuesday, July 8.

Detailed drawings of the ride itself were not submitted to Mason, since the city only has oversight over the design and construction of a building where riders will depart and return. Inspection of amusement park rides falls under the Ohio Department of Agriculture.

However, state officials are not privy to design details about the new ride, either.

Bill Schwaderer, a spokesman for the agriculture department, said the amusement park industry uses standards developed by the American Society of Testing & Materials. The state does not review or approve ride designs before construction.

"We look at the records and certifications that this ride has met the ASTM standards," Schwaderer said. "A lot of those rides are proprietary and they won't let anyone know anything. You can't see the engineering stuff on it, it's all copyrighted. They don't want anyone to find out what their secrets are. Even for us, we just see the certifications."

Len Morrissey, ASTM staff manager for amusement park rides, said most manufacturers follow the ASTM standards for design, G-force, acceleration and restraint and safety systems.

"You can sort of self certify, but there isn't some sort a watchdog out there that checks it, unless there is an incident or something like that," Morrissey said.



Under this link you can see the latest construction pics: http://www.brandonscoasters.com/rcdbkki ... known1.htm

Screamscape added pictures showing off teaser signs, sort of looking like the ones that Cedar Point posted for Maverick. Below you can see them hanging on the construction fence.

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Post July 9th, 2008, 10:14 pm

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Topdrag over at C2k pointed out that he has pictures of the blueprints over on his own site: http://www.coastercravers.net/

Check 'em out and tell us what you think!

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ok this just made my trip worth it for next summer

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SWEET.

Finally, a B&M hyper within traveling distance, and it looks like it'll be pretty good too.

Post July 9th, 2008, 11:10 pm

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I like how it has got the same seats as Behemoth!
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Kings Island's drawings filed with the city of Mason also indicate three loops.



They mean the helixs right?
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Post July 9th, 2008, 11:23 pm

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^I think that is what they mean. It has two helixes and a turnaround, so I think they meant "horizontal loops."

Post July 9th, 2008, 11:24 pm

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Thats what screamscape thinks they will be. But I wonder how they are going to get the whole splash thing to work, does anybody have any idea of what or how it will work?
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They've done it on their dive machines...
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Post July 9th, 2008, 11:55 pm

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Yea so are they going to put the same thing like what they put on Sheikra but on that train?
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Does it look like anyone has the answer?
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I dont know if they could do it on every car or not? If you put it on the front car, wouldnt the splash start to come back down on the back of the train? Maybe they will just put the device on the last car or two?

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yea it would it be cool if they put it in the middle where the back cars can see it.

tiepilot35 you don't have to be so pissy, I was just wondering. Dang!
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Yea so are they going to put the same thing like what they put on Sheikra but on that train?


That would look like a mess. With splash and without. Maybe every other car...
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Looks like a Behemoth/Nitro mix...which should be freakin' good.

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I'm sure they've got a way to do it properly
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That thing looks like a beast. Soo glad to see that they are sticking with the new train design though, I actually <3 Behemoth's trains compared to any other B&M hypers I've been on. Just feels like you are so much more free than in the other trains.

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From what I heard so far its going to be pretty darn good.
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If there were not many roller coasters than this would not be a good Idea, BUT because the park has thrilling coasters like Beast, Top Gun (Suspended Coaster) and Firehawk, a B&M coaster sounds like a very good Idea

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Im jealous. My home park is carowinds and we need asomething new.
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Since kings dominion just got domintator when i was visiting i thought i was lucky. Now im jealous. Realy. Well kings dominions getting a big twisted woody anyways. Still. Jealous

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This looks pretty insane. I take it these are all of the details anyone here knows? Because I'd love to know specifics if anyone has them, such as drop angle, height, etc.

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