Update: 07/21/2015:
Original Post: 06/08/2015:
I don't know about you but I have been following the story of Kentucky Kingdom pretty closely since Six Flags shut the park down in 2009. Kentucky Kingdom was my husband's home park growing up as a kid and his first ever roller coaster was Chang as he wanted to conquer the biggest baddest coaster in the park to defeat his fear of roller coasters (which he most certainly did!), so the park is kind of special to us. We visited last year and got to experience Lightning Run, a Chance masterpiece in my opinion, and the completely restored Thunder Run (the original Hurler). The park was clean and the staff was friendly but you could tell that it was still a work in progress. This year we will see T2 restored with new trains, magnetic braking, and the park has claimed "smoothed out track" in the form of T3. Though it has a terrible all red paint job, I have hopes that it will finally be a smooth SLC, if one ever CAN exist this should be the one. But even once T3 opens the park really isn't worth the trip for most people that don't live right in the area of the park. That all should change next year.
When Ed Hart and Company announced their latest plans for Kentucky Kingdom before its reopening they laid out a plan where the first year would have Thunder Run restored and a new coaster opened, year two would have T2 restored, and year three would see the restoration of Twisted Twins.
This is where you should get excited. So far RMC Iron Horse coasters have been pretty far for most of PFN members to visit. Texas, Mexico, California, Massachusetts (though Massachusetts is actually a little bit shorter of a drive than Kentucky)... Rumor has it that Twisted Twins will not only get the RMC treatment but also the Twisted Colossus Iron Horse treatment that we saw open at Magic Mountain this year. Plus, if Dollywood's 2016 rumors are true your close enough to get two RMC credits in the same weekend!
I can't help but be excited and The New Twisted Twins just might be my first RMC credit! Now assuming this is all true Twisted Twins might also be RMC's first ever Steel Coaster, not Hybrid coaster! Twisted Twins has a steel super structure like The Voyage. If RMC uses Iron Horse and not Topper Track, it will technically not be a hybrid coaster, but an actual steel coaster that looks like a wood coaster.
Keep an eye out everyone, 2016 is lookin' really cool!
Unagi said:It's Official
Storm Chaser
http://www.kentuckykingdom.com/comingsoon/storm-chaser/
Original Post: 06/08/2015:
I don't know about you but I have been following the story of Kentucky Kingdom pretty closely since Six Flags shut the park down in 2009. Kentucky Kingdom was my husband's home park growing up as a kid and his first ever roller coaster was Chang as he wanted to conquer the biggest baddest coaster in the park to defeat his fear of roller coasters (which he most certainly did!), so the park is kind of special to us. We visited last year and got to experience Lightning Run, a Chance masterpiece in my opinion, and the completely restored Thunder Run (the original Hurler). The park was clean and the staff was friendly but you could tell that it was still a work in progress. This year we will see T2 restored with new trains, magnetic braking, and the park has claimed "smoothed out track" in the form of T3. Though it has a terrible all red paint job, I have hopes that it will finally be a smooth SLC, if one ever CAN exist this should be the one. But even once T3 opens the park really isn't worth the trip for most people that don't live right in the area of the park. That all should change next year.
When Ed Hart and Company announced their latest plans for Kentucky Kingdom before its reopening they laid out a plan where the first year would have Thunder Run restored and a new coaster opened, year two would have T2 restored, and year three would see the restoration of Twisted Twins.
This is where you should get excited. So far RMC Iron Horse coasters have been pretty far for most of PFN members to visit. Texas, Mexico, California, Massachusetts (though Massachusetts is actually a little bit shorter of a drive than Kentucky)... Rumor has it that Twisted Twins will not only get the RMC treatment but also the Twisted Colossus Iron Horse treatment that we saw open at Magic Mountain this year. Plus, if Dollywood's 2016 rumors are true your close enough to get two RMC credits in the same weekend!
I can't help but be excited and The New Twisted Twins just might be my first RMC credit! Now assuming this is all true Twisted Twins might also be RMC's first ever Steel Coaster, not Hybrid coaster! Twisted Twins has a steel super structure like The Voyage. If RMC uses Iron Horse and not Topper Track, it will technically not be a hybrid coaster, but an actual steel coaster that looks like a wood coaster.
Keep an eye out everyone, 2016 is lookin' really cool!
