Banshee
Steel Inverted at Kings Island, Mason, Ohio. Opened 2014.
- Height
- 167 ft
- Drop
- 150 ft
- Top speed
- 68 mph
- Length
- 4,124 ft
- Inversions
- 7
- Ride time
- 2 min 40 s
- Designer
- Bolliger & Mabillard
Banshee is a steel inverted roller coaster in the Action Zone area of Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Bolliger & Mabillard built it, and it opened on April 18, 2014. With 4,124 feet of track, the park bills it as the world's longest steel inverted roller coaster.
Trains climb a 167-foot chain lift hill and drop 150 feet through a curved first drop. The layout has seven inversions: a dive loop, a vertical loop, a zero-g roll, a pretzel knot, a second loop and an in-line twist. The top speed of 68 mph comes midway through the ride rather than on the first drop, and a ride lasts about two minutes and 40 seconds. Each of the three trains has eight cars seating riders four across, 32 per train. The park's rider height range is 52 to 78 inches.
History
Kings Island built Banshee on the former site of the Son of Beast roller coaster, and the project also replaced the Thunder Alley go-kart attraction. At $24 million, it was the most expensive project in the park's history at the time. The ride is themed to a banshee, which the park describes as a wailing messenger from the underworld.
Sources
- rcdb.com/6640.htm (Operating since April 18, 2014; Bolliger & Mabillard inverted coaster; length 4,124 ft, height 167 ft, drop 150 ft, speed 68 mph, 7 inversions, duration 2:40.)
- sixflags.com/kingsisland/attractions/banshee (Park page: 4,124 feet, seven inversions, 167-foot lift hill, 150-foot drop, 68 mph.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee_(roller_coaster) (Action Zone area; built on the former location of Son of Beast and replaced Thunder Alley; $24 million, the most expensive project in park history at the time.)
- rcdb.com/4540.htm (Banshee listed among Kings Island's 15 operating roller coasters.)
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