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Diamondback Pictures

Amusement Park Pictures > Kings Island > Roller Coasters > Diamondback Pictures

Diamondback stands 230 feet tall.

Notice the open-air stadium seating. The first of it's kind in the United States.

Diamondback opened to the public on April 18, 2009.

Airtime!

At the top of the lift hill.

The track extends into the distance.

Diamondback features a total of 10 drops.

Gotta love those trains.

The true coaster geeks among us will notice Walter Bolliger (half of the namesake of Bolliger & Mabillard - the company that designed this coaster) among the riders in this photo. He was in the previous photo too.

Ride Warriors.

This helix sits near the end of the ride.

The 230-foot tall lift hill.

Each train is capable of holding 32 riders in it's unique V-shaped seating arrangement.

The ride ends with a huge wave of water.

The first drop.

Looks like they're having fun to me.

Some funky curves.

I think the fangs are a nice touch.

Hills (and airtime) as far as they eye can see.

Did I mention this ride has many airtime-delivering hills?

Avoid sudden moves!

A closer look at the front car of the train.

That's a long way up.

The splash begins.

The wave grows.

Water shooting skyward.

That's a bigger splash than many water rides.

Diving down towards the water at the end of the ride.

A closer look at the track in the trough as it passes through the water at the end of the ride.

Another train climbs the lift hill.

A train crests the second hill in the distance.

More Diamondback fun.

About to drop.

This photo shows the entire layout.

This turnaround juts out of the woods.

Out of nowhere, Diamondback strikes from the trees.

The final brakes on the ride. To the left of the train is the storage shed where trains are kept when not in use.

The final section of ride and the splash finale.

The highly banked turnaround.

Guests waiting to ride The Crypt watch Diamondback soar overhead.

The splash will be the visual image of the ride that people talk about.

The opening day line to ride. Look closely and you'll see a full queue on the right side of the photo that stretches all the way out of frame. It circles around in a counterclockwise direction and enters the frame again in the bottom left and then continues all the way back under Diamondback's lift hill and near the train station. Park officials were telling people at the end of the line to expect 5 hour waits, but the actual time turned out to be around 3 hours - a real testament to how many people this ride can move. This photo was taken at 10:26 am - less than a half hour after the park officially opened.

A train exiting the final helix.

The back part of the ride.

The last part of the ride before the big splashdown.

Airtime. This ride is all about airtime.

Looking at a train about to drop from 230 feet up.

The train chugs along under Diamondback just as a train comes barreling down the first drop.

The first drop - 80 miles per hour.

A train climbing the lift hill high above the entrance below.

At the end of the splashdown.

About to drop.

At the bottom of one hill and going right into the next.

Did I mention the airtime?

The highly-banked helix near the end of the ride.

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