Kings Island's new giga coaster, the world's seventh, is the tallest, fastest and longest steel coaster at Kings Island -- and is officially ready to ride just one month from today.
>> How to ride Orion before its deput
The roller coaster is themed to the park's new Area 72, and takes riders through a meteor storm in order to reach a new planet within the Orion constellation.
>> Kings Island retires Vortex roller coaster
Riders on Orion plummet 300 feet on the coaster's first drop and are sent across seven more hills that span 5,321 feet of track at speeds of up to 91 miles per hour.
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