You get a surprisingly good pop of air going into the 83 foot tall brake run as well. The 147 foot tall airtime hill that follows is also fun with great floater air despite the trim brake hitting pretty hard (as it is designed to do). Consistently great airtime every single ride, no matter where you’re sitting. Second favorite element is the short 56 foot tall speed hill after the turn around. This might be my favorite first drop on any roller coaster. I know the other giga coasters have bigger drops statistically but somehow Orion’s feels longer. It just feels like you’re falling forever. They’ve figured out the calculations for the perfect curvature for the track. I think the other giga coasters were just practice and now B&M has perfected the design. If Kings Island can improve the amount of time to clean the trains, even by a reduction of just 25% it will -help keep the sure-to-be long line moving. Around every half hour the trains were cleaned then did several laps with no passengers to dry off. Every row of the train is being filled but only two riders per row with staggered seating: two on the inside seats, then two on the outside seats. With a full, socially distanced queue it took me about an hour to get on the coaster, and that includes a ten or fifteen minute delay for cleaning. I thought the crowd that night generally did a pretty good job of following the social distancing rules.Īfter hiking to the back of the park, I witnessed the first train of riders leaving the station around 5:15pm. Masks are required by everyone and there are markers in the queue to keep 6 feet from the group in front of you. Before you reach the front gates you’ll have to answer some health screening questions and have your temperature taken. The same safety protocols put into place for regular park operations were also in place for the event. Not only did they reschedule the event, they expanded the originally scheduled time slot of 6-9pm to 5-10pm. When the pandemic struck, it would have been easy and understandable for the park to cancel the First Rider event completely. We’d also like to thank Kings Island for rescheduling the event. Coaster101 is proud to have been able to contribute to such a worthy cause. The first official riders of Orion raised $160,00 for A Kid Again, a nonprofit organization which exists to foster hope, happiness and healing for families raising kids with life-threatening illnesses through fun-filled group activities and events.
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Hypercoasters like Raging Bull are typically loaded with airtime, a sensation that thrill ride fans crave.Orion, the world’s seventh giga coaster, debuted at Kings Island during the First Riders Auction on July 1st, 2020. Oddly, after the satisfying first drop, the ride delivers hardly any airtime, the negative G-forces that propel passengers up from their seats. Known as a “hypercoaster” (which, loosely defined, is a coaster that tops out at between 200 and 300 feet and generally does not include loops or any elements that would turn riders upside down), Raging Bull climbs a 202-foot lift hill, drops down 208 feet at 65 degrees into an underground tunnel, and reaches an attention-grabbing 73 mph top speed. Raging Bull at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, 73 mph
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Your heart might skip a beat or two as we run down the 10 fastest roller coasters at Six Flags parks.ġ0.
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And a couple top out at speeds that most drivers wouldn’t dare attempt (that is, if their cars were even capable of such tremendous velocity). But some of them rev up to speeds that would get motorists ticketed in most states. Riding the rails on virtually any of the park chain’s rides would elicit screams. Six Flags is synonymous with thrills and roller coasters.