Negative-G - Kings Island 2025

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The Beast Rollercoaster at Kings Island, Kings island, Ohio

For the last few years Kings Island has had The Gravity Group tweaking The Beast with a few re-profiled track here and there as well as rebuilding the coasters double helix finale to make the coaster more rideable and to reduce maintenance costs. This year though they did enough to The Beast that I'm leaning heavily on counting it as a new coaster. What they did was add a couple of moments of airtime between the first drop and the rides super long mid course brake run. This coaster has never had airtime and suddenly adding two moments of airtime to the recipe really seems like a new and improved Beast. So let's call this The Beast 2.0 and applaud Kings Island for making an already good ride even better.

Even though this is my second time at Kings Island since Viper was removed I still can't get over not having it towering over The Beast. Hopefully Kings Island's next big addition is a nice multi-looping coaster on this site built by the likes of S&S, Intamin, Mack, or B&M.

The Mystic Timbers rollercoaster at Kings Island, Kings island, Ohio

Mystic Timbers has been a favorite of mine at Kings Island due to how much it is like Worlds of Fun's Prowler with a ton of theming added to the ride.

Mystic Timbers is a fast, fun, twisty, and thrilling run through the woods.

It has never given me a bad ride but I'm not sure what Kings Island has been doing to it but Mystic Timbers is running the best that I have ever experienced it and that includes opening day.