Negative-G - Kings Island Banshee Media Day April 17, 2014

The new for 2014 Banshee Inverted Rollercoaster Media Day at Kings Island, Kings island, Ohio

For me Banshee's Media Day was going to be an extremely long but fun one.

My day began at 5 am the day before on Wednesday when I had to get up and go to work. The plan was for me to work a half day, come home and nap and then take off in order to meet up with John (Johnny.Ink from the Negative-G Forums) and his son Draven in Champaign, IL before heading on to Kings Island and arriving around 3 am. we would spend the day at Kings Island then drive back home.

Bond was unable to join me for this trip as he had a prior commitment to school and his grades. Coasters are great but if he wants to design them school comes first.

We arrived around 3:00am at the gate with about twenty cars ahead of us. John and Draven napped but being like a child on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa to bring him some presents I was too wound up to close my eyes other than to blink. I sat there and enjoyed the colored lights lighting up Kings Island's Eifel Tower.

At 4:30 Kings Island opened up the parking lot and as I looked behind us the line of cars tailed off as far as I could see. We grabbed a spot for the car and quickly headed to check in. By the time we got checked in the line to just check in was almost all the way back to Kings Island's sign. It was good to be there early.

As you can see by the gear that Kevin (AKA: Orange Whip) is wearing we had quite a cold morning for our first rides on Banshee.