Negative-G - Kings Island 2023

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Orion Gigacoaster at Kings Island, Kings island, Ohio

The problem is Orion flies into a brake run that is at least fifty feet in the air still doing somewhere around 60 miles per hour and my thought is why stop there? Orion cost Kings Island $30 million. Why not add one or two more to the bill and actually use the massive speed that the three hundred foot tall drop gives instead of leaving us all wanting more. Orion is fun but with an extra thousand feet of low to the ground speed and airtime hills it would be incredible.

The lesson is parks if you are going to spend the money to go big for a ride then spend the money to go long too.

The Orion Rollercoaster at Kings Island, Kings island, Ohio

A nice addition since my last visit was the Kings Mills Antique Autos returning to the park. This ride used to sit on the spot where the Backlot Stunt Coaster sits and was removed for that ride. Car rides aren't the most thrilling but they are a fun attraction that everyone who visits a park can enjoy. It'd be nice if Six Flags St. Louis followed Kings Island and brought the Moon cars back.

Windseeker at Kings Island, Kings island, Ohio

Kings Island was one of the many Cedar Fair parks that got a Windseeker ride by Mondial.

These are rides that I really love. They are a cross between a swing ride and an observation tour. On a hot summer day if you need to cool off take Windseeker for a spin as the breeze is wonderful all the way up there.

This walkway to nowhere used to take you to the first of the Arrow Dynamics "mega looping coaster" that were all the rage in the 1980's and early 1990's. Vortex was the first of the batch in 1987 with a hundred and forty-eight foot tall lift hill and six inversions. It was followed by the Shock Wave at Six Flags Great America, the Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Great Adventure and finally Viper at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Those three coasters had seven inversions and each got a little taller to capture the tallest looping coaster record. Shock Wave was such an important part of my life it is sad that now there is only one of these Arrow Dynamics mega looping coasters left.

Hopefully whenever Kings Island decides to build on this site they go for a modern version of a mega looper like the Vortex.