Live Blogging the Announcement

11:45am
Thanks for signing on everyone. Have a great day!

11:30am
 From the forums:

"overall, i'm kinda disappointed, needs way more big airtime hills, could be longer, and of course OTSR's are awful."

11:25am
Sorry for the website slowness. Getting over 50,000 hits.

11:18am
All of our information is up!!! http://kdfansite.com/2010/

11:15am
Videos and images will be up shortly :)

11:10am
KD has released their website! http://intimidator305.com/ We will be releasing our full page shortly... http://kdfansite.com/2010/

11:00am
We are waiting for KD to release the information before we do :)

10:51am
From the forums: " is, Kinzel better have his running shoes on, to run from all the pi$$ed coaster geeks at the announcement. "

10:45am
 15 m until everything goes live!!! Can't wait!

10:36am
Well, the cat is out of the bag, 305ft with an 85 degree drop driving over 5,100ft of track.

10:24am
Official ride website will be http://intimidator305.com/ according to KD staff it will launch at 11am.

10:18am
Information about the ride has been leaked on an auto sports website: http://www.catchfence.com/2009/sprintcup/08/20/kings-dominion-to-introduce-25-million-steel-giga-coaster-in-2010/

10:14am
We are about 45 minutes away from the start of the announcement and the anticipation grows. Will Dale Earnhart Sr.'s #3 car have anything to do with the ride? Only time will tell. This fall is shaping up to hold some of the most anticipated coaster announcements ever, Kings Dominion, Carowinds, and Cedar Point!

10:09am
Live chat has started! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashChat/Chat.aspx?HostUserURL=In-the-Loop

10:06am
The stage has been set:


10:00am
Welcome to the project 2010 (hopefully we can replace this with an actual name soon) live blog! Be sure to follow all of KD Fan Site's coverage by listening to our live audio feed at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/In-the-Loop or checking http://kdfansite.com/2010/ for the latest updates. We will release infos we are able to do so.

If you have any questions or comments, please leave a comment here or send an email to rydzik@gmail.com . I will include insightful comments and questions here.

A little tease to begin from Clint Novak:
Posted at 8/20/2009 07:40:00 AM - 0 Comments

Day 64 update

Its been two weeks since I was at the park last and a lot more pieces of track and supports have arrived in the parking lot.



Some of the supports that I saw today at the park look just like the supports that were delivered to the park on June 2nd and then packed back up and disappeared. Wonder what happened? What ever happened it looks like they found there way back to Kings Dominion.

Also there are quite a few footers at the park, and what looks to be the foundation of the break run / station. There is also a 30 to 60 foot deep hole they have dog right next to the station and it looks like they are pouring footers down in that. It looks like it has something to do with the lift motor or something with the lift hill.

I am also going to go out on a limb and stay with my original thought that we will not see the coaster expand any more then the foot print we have already. They are now putting dirt back on the hill where they were taking dirt. There also is no more trees coming down, so I think we have seen all there is with the foot print.

I have contacted the park to see if people will be able to come to the media announcement on August 20th. At this time they have not answered my email, but when they do you guys will be the first to know.




Posted at 8/04/2009 02:32:00 AM - 1 Comments