Kings Island’s Banshee continues to grow in size. The park sent us the below pictures of the B&M inverted coaster’s 150-foot drop: “Construction of the 150-foot first drop on the new Banshee roller coaster at Kings Island is almost complete,”...
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Kings Island’s Banshee Lift Hill Rises
Kings Island’s B&M inverted coaster continues to grow seemingly each day. The park sent us a photo and video of the ride’s towering lift hill rising into the sky. © Kings Island “Workmen install column number seven for the 167-foot...
Continue reading...Kings Island Prepares for Halloween Haunt
Kings Island is preparing to kick off Halloween Haunt, which will feature more than “600 vile creatures lurking in the shadows searching for souls, 15 highly-intense and spine-chilling haunted attractions, and some of the most hair-raising rides on the planet.”...
Continue reading...Video Tour of Banshee Construction Site
Kings Island sent us a video detailing the active construction site for Banshee, the under-construction Bolliger & Mabillard inverted coaster which is due to open next spring. Watch the video below: As shown in the video, most of the work...
Continue reading...Kings Island’s Banshee Rises
Construction crews at Kings Island are wasting no time in starting vertical construction on the park’s 2014 Bolliger & Mabillard coaster, Banshee. The park sent us the following two photos of the station-area track sections. From Kings Island: “The new...
Continue reading...Crews Install First Piece of Banshee Track
Construction crews at Kings Island have installed the first piece of the Banshee inverted roller coaster which will open next year. © Kings Island “Construction crews have installed the first piece of track on the new Banshee roller coaster at...
Continue reading...Banshee Construction Update 8-10-13
One of the treats of participating in BeastBuzz last weekend was a surprise tour of the Banshee construction site (maybe next year the event will be called BansheeBuzz). We got a unique view of the future location of the world’s...
Continue reading...Behind the Scenes at Kings Island
On Saturday, August 10th I had the opportunity to attend BeastBuzz at Kings Island, a special event sponsored by CoasterBuzz. We got Exclusive Ride Time (ERT) on Diamondback and the Beast and got to see several backstage areas, including the...
Continue reading...Banshee B&M Invert for Kings Island 2014
Banshee, the world’s longest inverted roller coaster, opens at Kings Island in April of 2014. The Bolliger & Mabillard coaster will send riders through 4,124 feet of track and seven inversions at speeds up to 68 mph. The ride begins...
Continue reading...Tour Kings Island’s Legendary Beast
Kings Island is offering Beast fans the chance to get an up close and personal look at the legendary wooden roller coaster while simultaneously supporting a great cause. Behind the scenes tours of the Beast at Kings Island are available...
Continue reading...Is Kings Island Building a B&M for 2014?
This afternoon we had an interesting anonymous tip on our Twitter feed. After we re-tweeted Kings Island’s cryptic “670200029” tweet, “Kings Island Expo” tweeted us a link to this picture: The tweet read: “It is the bar code on a...
Continue reading...Kings Island’s Beast Celebrates Anniversary
The legendary wooden “Beast” coaster at Kings Island is celebrating a special day today: “MASON, Ohio – Wednesday marked the 35th anniversary of when construction began at Kings Island in 1978 on a single-track roller coaster which broke all existing...
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