Kings Island | Orion | B&M Giga Coaster

[roomraider]

There is one advantage to being on night shift I guess

 

[Antinos]

For those interested, and as a supplement to recording tonight's podcast, The Drunk Riders will be going live shortly to give some commentary on the announcement. We'd love for you to join in:

https://twitter.com/TheDrunkRiders

 

[Antinos]

Twenty minutes, plus five minutes because they start late, then the 25 minutes of fluff, and then another five minutes to tease the ride, and THEN they'll finally announce it

 

[Snoo]

Watch the replay of Kings Island's 2020 announcement

Kings Island will live stream tonight’s major announcement right here on the Kings Island Blog, beginning at 10 p.m. ET.

www.visitkingsisland.com

 

[roomraider]

There's an edit button you know?

 

[Antinos]

Dude. This isn't Facebook. You really quintuple posted?

 

[xxx374xxx]

Ok Sorry i deleted everything
Anyways


ORION
300 ft drop
91 mph
5321 ft long
8 hills
Tallest Fastest Longest at kings island

 

[TLARides]

I feel ashamed, I went to Cedar Point on the day of the announcement.

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[Hyde]

For those looking for a good quality live stream (as we wait for Kings Island official videos to post):

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2279914332338452

Promo video:

POV video:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2257198847924794

Birds eye video:

Also, didn't realize they were flipping the Racer red and blue trains, and rotating blue train backwards?

 

[xxx374xxx]

POV:

Birdseye:

 

[TLARides]

So is it not even 300+ feet tall?

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[Snoo]

287ft = Not a Giga. HA!

 

[Coaster Chall YouTube]

287ft = Not a Giga. HA!

Oh wow! After all that!

 

[tomahawk]

My thoughts

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[TLARides]

The ONLY reason KI's calling it a giga is because it has a 300ft drop. Even then, could we still call it a giga?

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[Antinos]

The drop is 300 feet, so it qualifies as a giga...but just barely.

My initial impression is that I am totally underwhelmed by this. I was hoping the announcement would show some vigor but it appears to be Raging Bull XL. I'm hoping the ride ends up exhibiting some physics trickery but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Also...Kings Island failed to go live on their stream and it took them 25 minutes to launch their microsite. Not a good look at all.


Finally...because @Hyde requested: "Where is your god now?"

 

[owentaylor121]

So the park has got a Giga that isn’t actually a Giga?

Brilliant!

 

[TLARides]

Long live Kings Island, kings of underwhelmment.

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[emoo]

So they have refined the giga (where drop or hill is 300 ft)? Whatever,1st hill is massive and track on its side ?

 

[J Rod]

I know we all knew what was coming but I never imagined being so disinterested and underwhelmed by a giga.