dont worry freddie only thinks IB is good...He shuns the rest of the amusement parks
That isn't true. I do like a lot of parks, but NOT for their coaster count. I love Lake Compounce, Busch Gardens Europe, Rye Playland, Canobie Lake, Kennywood, Holiday World, and many others just as much as I love Indiana Beach.
Thats a load of crap.
Kings Island has 13 roller coasters, introducing its 14th next year.
Not to mention the longest wooden roller coaster in the world. With the new 2009 addition on its way why would you advise someone not to take a trip to Kings Island. The Park has loads of fun things to do and thrills that you won't find anywhere else.
I guess I'll break down why I don't like Kings Island.
They have one of the worst wood coaster lineups of any park I have been to. The Beast is insanely overrated in my opinion just because it is the longest. However, it is only longest because of the huge stretches of flat track. The ride has nothing for airtime, almost no laterals, and is trimmed to death. I will give it that it's unique, but not in a good way IMO. The helix that everyone raves about...I just didn't understand. It was fun and everything but just no where near as good as most people make it out to be. Maybe riding Legend the week prior spoiled me. Son of Beast is even worse. The only thing that keeps it interesting is the roughness. Way too long and spread out, doesn't do anything, and like Beast, no airtime or laterals. Racer forwards is what I consider to be the worst wood coaster I have ever ridden. I don't know if I caught it on a bad day or what but it jack hammered in every valley and absolutely killed my back. And, keeping with the theme, no airtime or laterals. Beastie/Fairly Odd Ghoster Coaster/whatever they call it now was rough too. I've been on quite a few "Jr" wood coasters including the one at PKD (glass smooth) but none were that bad. Potholes in every valley, and a trim, WTF. Why does a kid coaster need a trim brake.... Racer backwards was pretty enjoyable. Some mild airtime over the hills and pretty smooth, however there was fresh wood all over it, so I'd be willing to bet it was just as bad if not worse than the forwards side before. The wood coaster lineup is a HUGE part of how I think of parks (the exception being BGE). This park had very mediocre ones, most of which sit at the bottom of my rankings. On top of the mediocrity, they do NOT take care of them, making the expierience pretty bad. I don't usually complain about wood coasters but KIs were really bad IMO.
The steel collection was unique, but pretty much all of them were lacking in some way or another. The three that I think standout were Face/Off, Topgun, and Vortex, in that order, and even they weren't really amazing. Firehawk was interesting, and I like the 'awkward' parts, but overall it's just not a great ride to me. Flight Of Fear has the potential to be great, but the MCBR trim just kills it. I had ridden the one at KD the year before and that one is the same way....Except it was smooth. While KIs wasn't rough by any means, it rattled a LOT. Italian Job, again, I had ridden the previous year. Good family ride, but overall it's not thrilling. So much more could have been done with it.
I didn't do many flatrides at the park - just Dropzone, Delirium, and the Skycoaster. Delirium ran a pretty weak cycle compared to MaxAir (which I didn't care for either - I like the forced down swing of the smaller KMG frisbees than the freefall). Dropzone was pretty amazing, and the skycoaster was a skycoaster.
As I said in my first post, I do like the atmosphere of
most of the park. However, atmosphere doesn't influence my views on Kings Island as much as it normally would
because the park is considered a 'major' park. When a park gets a status like that, and has so many coasters, I think more than the Vekoma Boomerang and Arrow megalooper should be the standout rides. This just isn't the case with Kings Island, at least in my opinion.
I will say that depending on what the trimbrakes are like on the new hyper, my views of the park being worth going to could change. If they get something that runs like Apollo, then good for them, they got the standout ride and I'd be more inclined to say check out the park. If they get a Raging Bull.....meh, I stand by what I have posted.
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