The raptor is set to be placed by the go karts/log flume, last I was told. Though, wouldn’t be shocked at a road crossing.
United States Family Kingdom — Project 2026: RMC Raptor & More
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I’m hoping it’s open by late July (and I’m sure Family Kingdom is too), I’ll be driving through Myrtle anyway and should be able to make it work with their funky hours.
Tried to do it on the same trip last year and not only was the weather horrific, I had neglected to check their hours until I was about 30 mins out. 5pm opening on weekdays during the summer is brutal, and I wasn’t gonna sit in the parking lot for 3 hours hoping they’d open after the weather passed.
Tried to do it on the same trip last year and not only was the weather horrific, I had neglected to check their hours until I was about 30 mins out. 5pm opening on weekdays during the summer is brutal, and I wasn’t gonna sit in the parking lot for 3 hours hoping they’d open after the weather passed.
It should be. Family Kingdom’s hours are funky, but that’s because they know how to draw people in. People spend the day at the beach. They’re not going to get people during that time. But 3/4 rolls around and people have gotten all beached out and that’s when they open. They’re usually open until 11 or 12 at night because they know they can capitalize on the foot traffic. They usually open for the season in April or so, if I remember correctly.
Fingers crossed the Splashes! plot work is a Family Kingdom project and not another hotel to block the Oceanfront.
A little update on Carman and Brian's new video (First 4 images)
-Markers and more movement have ramped up on the former "Splashes" Waterpark site. (This is not where the RMC is going)
-No movement on the RMC Site between the Log Flume and Ocean Blvd.
-Galleon is still standing; rumors were that it's being removed. I truly believe it's just getting new deck work and theming. (Image source for Galleon)
-Markers and more movement have ramped up on the former "Splashes" Waterpark site. (This is not where the RMC is going)
-No movement on the RMC Site between the Log Flume and Ocean Blvd.
-Galleon is still standing; rumors were that it's being removed. I truly believe it's just getting new deck work and theming. (Image source for Galleon)
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I’m still so pleasantly surprised that this is happening. South Carolina has so few coasters (7 not counting the SC half of Carowinds, 4 of them being SBF Visa Spinners) that this could’ve been a used 40 year old kiddie coaster and it would’ve been exciting, and yet we managed to get an RMC Raptor. Huge kudos to Family Kingdom, really looking forward to finally getting there this year.
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How on earth do we expect this to be open this season? If they haven't even started prepping the ground for supports this feels like an extremely short timeline to get it built/tested/open in 7 months
Here’s an animated POV, it starts about 30 seconds into the video. Very similar to the prototype/Stunt Pilot layout, just with a different ending.
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Wasn’t this touted as a custom layout or am I misremembering? I know it has a different ending, but I was expecting something fully different. Not 95% the same as the other smaller single rails.
I believe, based on the lower height, that many people (myself included) assumed it would be totally custom.
Honestly, who cares? This ride is going to be incredible for a park like Family Kingdom—clone or not. It’s flashy, quick, modern, and bright—probably my favorite Raptor location to date. It’s the kind of attraction that’ll make people driving by decide to add the park to their beach trip plans.
Plus, despite RMC's best efforts, it's not like these things are all over the place. This will be the first single rail until you get to Texas or New Jersey, right? That's a crazy exclusivity radius for a park the size of Family Kingdom. The likelihood that anyone even vacationing in Myrtle Beach has seen one before is slim, and if they have, it was probably the larger layout, Jersey Devil, not the original/tweaked original layouts elsewhere.
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Anyone who's visited Family Kingdom will know how transformative this will be for the park, as well as that end of Ocean Blvd as a whole. The red / black is such a nice look. I'm hoping this thing really pulls crowds in with how insane itll look tearing through that layout. This attraction will finally put Family Kingdom on the same caliber as the beloved Pavilion - 20 years after its closure.
Itching to know what that clearing in the oceanfront property is, and if it's related to multi-year park expansion and improvements to finally modernize the property. I desperately want to see this park succeed and grow into that plot, and hope this season is a big win for FK.
Itching to know what that clearing in the oceanfront property is, and if it's related to multi-year park expansion and improvements to finally modernize the property. I desperately want to see this park succeed and grow into that plot, and hope this season is a big win for FK.
They also said that jersey devil was custom and it only has a different ending and a little taller
Custom can mean anything from something designed from scratch to a slightly modified version of a stock model. For a smaller park like this, getting a stunt pilot clone that has been tweaked a bit to best fit the site they have available is by far the most economical choice than creating a whole new layout as they know exactly what they're getting and won't have to spend money on design work. Plus, they're still getting what could arguably be considered the best coaster in South Carolina, and that's a massive win for a small seaside park.
Yeah, but not fully, only a small section of just the treble clef, the only real competition is Carowinds other 3 top tier coasters of Thunder Striker, Afterburn, and Copperhead and Swamp Fox, which is in the same park. This will do good in the Myrtle Beach area, which hasn't had an inverting coaster for 16 years, Time Machine and that whole park is closed and was only around for less than a year, so this is defiantly a major step up, and I hope this area can receive more coasters that isn't just another one of those cheap SPF spinners.Technically fury is in south carolina