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Kings Dominion

www.kingsdominion.com/
Owner
Cedar Fair
Open
1975
Former names
Kings Dominion – 1975-1993, 2007 until now
Paramount's Kings Dominion – 1993 to 2006
Operating season
Late March to October
Space
400 acres (1.62 km)
Rides
60 total
14 coasters
14 water attractions
Slogan
"Ride On"
Kings Dominion is an amusement park located in Doswell, Virginia in Hanover County, 23 miles (37 km) north of Richmond and 83 miles (134 km) south of Washington, DC on Interstate 95.
The 400-acre (1.6 km2) park is currently in owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, and was part of the former Paramount Parks chain that Cedar Fair acquired from CBS Corporation on June 30, 2006. The park is named after her sister Park Kings Island in Kings Mills, Ohio, which opened in 1972. Both parks were originally built and owned by Kings Entertainment Company aka KECO. While Kings Island was mentioned as a combination of Kings Mills (the location) and Coney Island (the theme park that was built to replace), Kings Dominion name was more than likely a reference to Virginia's nickname as the "Old Dominion".
Contents
1 History
1.1 Early history as Kings Dominion (1975-1989)
1.2 Early 1990s/transition to Paramount Property
1.3 Paramount's Kings Dominion (1993-2006)
1.4 The Cedar Fair era (2006-present)
2 Current rides / attractions
2.1 International Street Theatre
2.2 Old Virginia
2.3 The Grove
2.4 Nick Central
2.5 KidzVille
2.6 Congo
WaterWorks 2.7
3 Kings Dominion Timeline
4 Retired Attractions
5 References
6 External links
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History
Early history as Kings Dominion (1975-1989)
The entrance of the park as seen from the observation deck of the replica Eiffel Tower
Kings Dominion officially opened in 1975 with 15 rides. However, in 1974, the park had a "soft" (Partial, low key) opening only for the now defunct Lion Country Safari attraction and a junior roller coaster, now called Scooby Doo's Ghoster Coaster. Also in 1974, had Rebel Yell complete the park racing coaster (designed by John Allen of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company), but it would not open until 1975 with the rest of the park. When the park debuted in the spring of 1975, but also a Log Flume, antique cars, steam trains and a collection of flat rides. Another roller coaster, Galaxie, was located in the Grove next to the man-made Lake Charles, which took up 10 acres (40,000 m2) building of the park. In addition, Kings Dominion 1:3 replica of the Eiffel Tower, an observation deck from which visitors could see the entire park features, the park was open by first full operational year. In addition to the Lion Country Safari, the original theme of the park were named The Happy Land of Hanna-Barbera, Old Virginia, and Coney Island (renamed Candy Apple Grove prior to the next season).
Kings Dominion added their fourth roller coaster, a Schwarzkopf shuttle loop known as the King Cobra in 1977. The King Kobra was characterized by a 50-ton counterweight drop off and the park was first launched roller coaster. The was in the park for nine seasons before being moved to Jolly Roger Amusement Park in Ocean City, Maryland. After several relocations, it continues now as scatters working at Hopi Hari in Brazil. Also in 1977, Kings Dominion was one of the various theme parks, used as sets for the film Rollercoaster.
In addition to the King Kobra, Kings Dominion opened a campsite Lost World and its famous mountain for the end of the year 1970. Originally, the Lost World featured three rides: a flume ride called Journey to Atlantis, a children's attraction known as Land of Dooz, a rotor and called Time Shaft. Journey to Atlantis was replaced by the River Haunted themed flume ride in 1980. Kings Dominion would add their second wooden roller coaster, the Grizzly in the woods of the Old Virginia section of the park in 1982. Kings Dominion opened its rapids ride, White Water Canyon, in Old Virginia in 1983. In 1983, a Deceased 13-year-old boy while riding on the roller coaster, Galaxie. A swinging, inverting pirate ship known as the Berserker was added on the next International Street Theatre Festival years. In 1984, riding a Smurf, Smurf Mountain would take the place of my ride in the Lost World. From that moment, the Lost World was known as Smurf Mountain. The mountain was rebuilt in 1997 and exclusively occupied by Volcano: The Blast Coaster since 1998.
The replica Eiffel Tower at Kings Dominion
After three seasons without a new coaster, Kings Dominion unveiled its TOGO stand-up roller coaster, Shockwave, in 1986, the same year that the park removed King Cobra. Shockwave, like King Cobra, has a loop, but also a helix. (The same King Cobra roller coaster at Kings Island, which was a stand-up coaster similar to Shockwave, closed in 2002.) The third and last roller coaster Kings Dominion added during the year 1980 was Avalanche, which remains the only Mack bobsled coaster in the United States. The trains of the Avalanche are named after the United States, France, Germany, Canada and Switzerland bobsled, so riders in different trains can simulate in a bobsled race at the Olympic Winter Games.
Although the Lion Country Safari attraction was the first part of the park opened, was phased out after Paramount bought the park. Many of the Lion Country Safari occupied the land behind the Anaconda roller coaster, Kings Dominion still owns the land, but has used most of it mainly for storage instead of opening new attractions. Diamond Falls, another flume ride, premiered in 1985 until its closure in 2002. Three sets of slides slides Rivers Racing premiered in 1987 and remained open until the early 1990s.
Early 1990s/transition to Paramount Property
Kings Dominion continued adding new areas to the park in the early to mid 1990. In 1990 they extended Hanna-Barbera Land to include more attractions for children. The 1991 season saw the addition of their next big roller coaster, the Arrow looper Anaconda, which is also the world's first coaster with an underwater tunnel mode. (The tunnel was under a section of Lake Charles.) Anaconda was originally announced as well with six loops and stays that way will be charged. However, unlike Drachen Fire, a six-inversion Arrow looper which was released on Busch Gardens Williamsburg the following year, the Anaconda has only four inversions: a vertical loop, a sidewinder, and two consecutive corkscrews.
Kings Dominion opened her as Hurricane Reef water park in 1992. In the inaugural season for the first time recommended the Monsoon Chutes (two pairs free fall body slides, 70 and 50 feet (15 meters) high, respectively), The Severe Twist (two enclosed body slides that wrapped around each other), the Pipeline (four open body slides), Cyclone (three enclosed body slides, the center and that was a free fall), Tidal Wave (two open slides, which riders rode on inner tubes, Splash Island (a children's area with five slides), and a lazy river. to build the water park, Kings Dominion completed two thirds of Lake Charles closest to the Candy Apple Grove area of the park, the Anaconda continued to have the rest of the more.
Paramount's Kings Dominion (1993-2006)
Kings Dominion Theatre (named "The Paramount Theatre" in the Paramount Parks era)
Kings Dominion logo used from 1993 – 2002 At the Paramount Years (a revision was used from 2003-06)
Kings Dominion continued its growth when it became part of Paramount Parks in 1993 and switched its name to Paramount's Kings Dominion. New attractions and areas of the theme park Paramount's television shows and movies released by Paramount's Kings Dominion almost every season that they were under Paramount's ownership. In 1993, they added a motion simulator attraction, originally in the movie Days of Thunder, and Lion Safari County was removed at the end of the season. The 1994 season saw the addition of a new theme park, part of the 1992 Paramount film Wayne's World, their third full-size wooden coaster, The Hurler recommended a store called the Rock Shop, Stan Mikita and a restaurant similar to the featured in Wayne's World. Since then, Wayne's world Share incorporated into the Candy Apple Grove (since renamed the Grove), Stan Mikita was converted to the Happy Days Cafe, and Hurler not Wayne's World theming, except sprayed a couple of "Wayne's World" logo at the exit of the ride. In the coming years, another area for children, also known as Nickelodeon Splat City, opened near the Shockwave roller coaster. This was later transformed into Nick Central. Smurf Mountain was also removed in 1995, leaving a dormant fiber mountain in the back of the park.
In 1996, Paramount's Kings Dominion introduced its second launch coaster, and the first LIM-launched roller coaster, The Outer Limits: Flight of Fear. The Outer Limits had a 56 miles (90 km) per hour to start, four inversions, and an identical "spaghetti bowl" layout to the ride of the same name in Kings Island. Almost as remarkable as the launch of The Outer Limits was the fact that the whole trip was in the twilight, the riders could not see where they went. (Six Flags America, a nearby park in Maryland, has a other "spaghetti bowl" roller coaster with the same layout as Flight of Fear, better known as The Joker's Jinx. Joker's Jinx, however, is an outdoor coaster) Five years after The Outer Limits opened, Paramount Parks' license agreement to use discussion of the TV show that a train was called expired. The Outer Limits-related themes in the ride and the queue is removed, and the ride was renamed Flight of Fear.
1997 featured the debut of Kidzville, a re-theming of the Hanna-Barbera section. Added the new coaster Taxi Jam and Scooby's park's design theme was a box called Kidz Construction Company. Yogi's Cave was rethemed to Treasure Cave and filled scrappy with other theming rides. Many rides Kidzville like Scooby Doo's Ghoster Coaster, George Jetson's Spaceport, and Huck's Hot Rods were the names of The Hanna-Barbera characters wearing.
Paramount's Kings Dominion continued what became a trend of adding coasters launched in 1998, when she Volcano, The Blast Coaster opened in former Lost World mountain. Previous rounds of the mountain were all removed several years before, and Volcano gave the mountain a major transformation. Volcano, which was manufactured by Intamin AG, was the world's first LIM-launched inverted roller coaster. The ride featured two distinct parts to launch an Immelmann loop style from the top of the mountain, center line and three reels on the way back down. (Huge explosions of fire shot out. The top of the hill for extra effect) was Volcano theme of Paramount's 1997 film Volcano, the other Paramount Parks added or suspended upside down roller coasters theme from Top Gun about the same time. During the next two seasons, Paramount's Kings Dominion Hurricane Reef extended behind the Rebel Yell and renamed the water company. (Most of the original Hurricane Reef remain open from 2006, the two regions connected by a path In the Rebel Yell) The new part of Waterworks includes Pipeline Peak, a set of four enclosed water slides, one (the Night Slider) is. World's tallest free dark fall slide. In 2000, Nick Central opened on what was Nick Splat City and part of Kidzville.
The park added its third launched roller coaster, Hypersonic XLC, in 2001. Hypersonic XLC, a Thrust Air 2000 air-launched coaster made by S & S Power, launch riders from 0 to 80 miles (130 km) per hour in 1.5 seconds, allowing them a 87-degree slope and a 87-degree drop. The whole trip takes about 25 seconds. Hypersonic XLC broke frequently and was closed for the first three months of his second season, no other Paramount Parks installed a similar ride. Nevertheless, helped establish Hypersonic XLC Paramount's Kings Dominion's reputation as "the launched coaster capital of the world". Hypersonic XLC was removed after the 2007 season.
The early 2000s saw Paramount's Kings Dominion opened new attractions similar to existing rides in other Paramount Parks. In 2002, the park opened its new wild mouse coaster, Ricochet. Carowinds Ricochet also installed them in 2002. Diamond Falls, the giant flume ride at Paramount's Kings Dominion, also closed that season, leading to several years of speculation about which of park visitors ride would take his place. The 2003 season saw the Kings Dominion has become final several of the Paramount Parks opened a Drop Zone Stunt Tower. The Drop Zone at Paramount's Kings Dominion, at 305 feet (93 meters) high, was the highest free fall ride in the world when opened. In 2004, Paramount's Kings Dominion added Scooby-Doo! and the Haunted Mansion, like Scooby Doo-themed dark rides had opened three other Paramount Parks in the previous three seasons. In the next year, Paramount's Kings Dominion added an inverted top spin 'Tomb Raider: Firefall, which was a outdoor version of a similar ride called Tomb Raider: The Ride at Paramount's Kings Island. The differences between the two that were at Kings Dominion riders feet hanging freely and Kings Island is a floor. In the 2006 season, Paramount's Kings Dominion opened the Italian Job Turbo Coaster, its fourth launched coaster. Unlike the earlier built launched coasters at Paramount's Kings Dominion, each of which was faster than its predecessor, the Italian Job Turbo Coaster is designed more as a family car and has various launches at 40 miles (64 km) per hour. Renamed the Backlot Stunt Coaster in 2008, the ride is similar to the Backlot Stunt Coaster rides at Kings Island and Canada's Wonderland, which both opened in 2005.
Cedar Fair era (2006-present)
Logo used briefly in 2007 after moving from Paramount Parks. It is still used and signage in the park on the site.
Control of the Paramount Parks had been transferred from CBS Corporation, Viacom at the beginning of the 2006 season, the parks themselves were on sale offered since the last off season. A number of controversial moves by CBS Paramount's Kings Dominion made during the 2006 season. First, a roller coaster based on The Italian Job had advertised on television as being open at the beginning of 2006, the park season, which is not actually open until late May, almost two months into the season. The placement the ride was rather dubious, some enthusiasts ridiculous the park management to place the entrance of The Italian Job, which was inspired by a street to hunt in the middle of the African-themed park near the Congo section of the Anaconda roller coaster. Second, visitors to the park during the 2006 season showed that trees in the queue of the Grizzly were felled to make way for a new surcharge go-kart attraction called Thunder Raceway. Third, Paramount's Kings Dominion closed Flight of Fear. Paramount's Kings Dominion gave no indication in the previous season, which would be closed Flight of Fear in 2006. Rumours had suggested that it would be moved to another former Paramount Park since Cedar Fair acquired Paramount's Kings Dominion, the park worked to regain the ride can be operated. Flight of Fear reopened on August 18, ending speculation of move the ride and / or sales.
WaterWorks in 2007, which the new Tornado.
On May 22, 2006, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. announced it was purchasing all five Paramount Parks. The sale was finalized on June 30, 2006. The park Paramount's Kings Dominion retained its name by the end of the 2006 season and he returned to his original Kings Dominion name starting in the 2007 season. For the 2007 season, the park with its single-day admission with $ 5 to $ 44.95 reduced one year after Cedar Point had the same change to the ticket prices. This was the first time that Kings Dominion has ever lowered their ticket prices for a full season. Moreover, they returned with their Starlight discount, which allows the Access to the park for $ 29.99 after sixteen. Kings Dominion WaterWorks expanded for the 2007 season, adding a second wave pool called Tidal Wave Bay, a family of four person raft slide called Zoom Flume, and a Tornado ProSlide.
In December 2006, Kings Dominion's Hypersonic XLC also put up for sale. The park announced plans to keep it running until a buyer was found. From the end of the 2009 season, it is not sold. It remained in force during the 2007 season and was closed and dismantled a few weeks before the season 2008 began. Also during the 2007-2008 offseason, Cedar Fair renamed the park the last two rounds to open Paramount theming. The Italian Job: Turbo Coaster was Backlot Stunt Coaster, and Tomb Raider: Firefall was called The Crypt. The Paramount Theatre also changed its name to King's Dominion Theatre.
The seasons 2008 and 2009 saw Kings Dominion gets three runs, which had operated at its Geauga Lake amusement park's last dry season. On October 23, 2007, Kings Dominion announced Dominator, a floorless roller coaster would be moved to Kings Dominion, located in the International Street section. Dominator opened on May 24, 2008, becoming the first roll Kings Dominion roller coaster with five inversions. For the 2009 season, two plane rides ever located at Geauga Lake as Dominator, opened in 2009. Located near Rebel Yell, Kings Dominion Americana was the first Ferris wheel. El Dorado, a pendulum ride, opened in the former site of Hypersonic XLC next Xtreme Skyflyer.
For the 2010 season, Kings Dominion has installed Intimidator 305, a 305 ft (92,464 ft) high giga coaster by Intamin AG. The ride will feature a cable car hill, a drop of 85 / 1 and a maximum speed of at least 92 mph (145 kph). The ride Inspired by the late NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, was announced on August 20, 2009, and represents the park's largest ever capital investment. It is scheduled for the start of the 2010 season. Also for the 2010 season, the Universe and Nickelodeon Kidzville parts of the park rethemed to Planet Snoopy, just like the children's areas in Canada Wonderland and Kings Island. The park has been renamed the Hanna-Barbera theme Kidzville journeys to Planet Snoopy theme park, ending the 35-year run with Scooby Doo and other Hanna-Barbera characters.
Current rides / attractions
Dominator, a floorless Bolliger & Mabillard coaster formerly located at Geauga Lake, opened in 2008 along International Street Theatre.
International Street Theatre Festival
International Street is the main park area, which greets guests when they park. Both sides of the street are lined with shops, including two park-related souvenir shop just inside the front gate of the park. International Street also has a flat ride, Berserker. Originally, only the streets and shops were considered part of the International Street Theatre area, while Paramount years the park, the boundaries of the International Street extended to the Theater to take action.
Like Kings Island, Kings Dominion is the center of the 1 / 3 scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, located across the International Street Theatre Festival fountain from the main entrance. This tower was built by the late Bristol Steel Company, which was based in Richmond, Virginia. An elevator takes patrons regularly to the tower, which opportunity for the park has to offer. The observation deck offered the best views of the nightly fireworks show (which no longer runs) and the Fourth of July fireworks, which set off behind the Anaconda roller coaster.
Grand Entertainment Tent features live shows
Eiffel Tower (opened 1975) is a 1 / 3 scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, guests can ride elevators up to the observation deck at 275 feet (84 m).
Berserker (Opened 1984) is a swinging Viking ship similar to a Looping Starship.
Action Theater motion simulator ride is open in the Park since 1993. Go back to 1975, the park had a country-western theme show in the same location called Hoedown, although it was considered a part of the Old Virginia section. In the early year 1990, this became the Crossroads Country amphitheater. The Country Crossroads Amphitheater park closed after the 1992 season and was replaced by Days of Thunder, a motion simulator at this point, International Street Theatre expanded the boundaries of Days of Thunder. After five seasons with the Days of Thunder movie, the action theater got its present name and has been playing a number of films in its two motion simulator theaters, including James Bond 007. The Action Theatre is currently showing Spongebob Squarepants 3-D, during the Halloween Haunt season are known to see Elvira's Superstition.
Dominator (opened 2008) is a floorless roller coaster built by Bolliger & Mabillard. It has five inversions, one of the most roller coasters Kings Dominion, and keeps records the largest vertical loop on a roller coaster (135 m) and the world's longest floorless coaster (4210 ft). It originally operated Geauga Lake.
Old Virginia
Along with the International Street, Old Virginia is the only original section of Kings Dominion, which has kept its same name throughout the history of the park, one of the current attractions, the Shenandoah Lumber Company (Log Flume), is one of the longest running park rides. In the year 1970, Old Virginia had an Intamin Flying Dutchman flat ride called Jamestown landing behind, Old Virginia had a steam train ride, the Old Dominion Line, which ran through the forest at the back of the park. Jamestown Landing closed in 1980, the Old Dominion Line stayed in the park until it closed in the 1990s. Whitewater Canyon, park rapids ride, opened in 1983. Since then, Old Virginia added his current flat ride, Flying Eagles, who moved from the park during the former Wayne's World section.
The Grizzly's lift hill
Kings Dominion Theatre (opened 1975 as Mason Dixon Music Hall, served through 2007 as the Paramount Theatre) is the park's largest indoor theater and has hosted a wide variety of shows, including ice skating and musicals.
Flying Eagles, a set of Bisch-Rocco Flying Scooters, first opened the park in 1975 and has a number of position changes and name changes since it first opened. In the year 1970, the ride was called Parrot Troopers and was located in the Safari Village section, overlooking Lake Charles. Parrot Troopers closed in the year 1980 and reopened in the new Wayne World section of the park as Scream Weaver in 1994. Scream Weaver was established on part of the former Hypersonic XLC site; it to make room for the new roller coaster, Kings Dominion Scream Weaver moved to Old Virginia, across from the Kings Dominion Theatre, and renamed (and rethemed), the Flying Eagles to fit in the old Virginia section.
Shenandoah Log Flume (Opened 1975), one of the original rides in the park, is a whitewater course with two hills and a course that travels through the woods of Old Virginia and past Whitewater Canyon queue.
Whitewater Canyon (opened 1983) is a rafting trip with six-person boats, waterfalls and geysers. Whitewater Canyon also has a covered area by the end of the ride. In the recent years, the ride is often open at noon (along with water works) than the rest of the official opening time and the popularity trip also gives one of the longest lines in the park.
Blue Ridge Turnpike (opened 1975) is an antique car ride, where riders drive gas-powered antique cars (led by rail) around a track.
Grizzly (opened 1982), the park's second full-size wooden roller coaster, a Coney Island Wildcat design. California's Great America's Grizzly, which also has a Coney Island Wildcat layout, but is slightly larger and longer, opened four years later.
The Grove
The Grove, which the park opened in 1975 as "Coney Island" was renamed Candy Apple Grove, and is currently the biggest section Kings Dominion. The Candy Apple Grove first opened with an orchard theme, complete with singing mushrooms, and contained 3 large candy apples and apple-themed flat rides, a company called Apple Turnover, a Himalayan named Adam's Apple and a Monster model known as Bad Apple. It lost much of the theming in the year 1990 and changed its name to the Grove in 2001.
Today, The Grove is the location of the main center of the park, the park's largest arcade opened in the year 1970, continues to work there. The Grove has grown several times since early 1990. From the years 1980 to 1995, the park had a small part in the Shady Grove location Shockwave and the Showplace Theatre. At Nickelodeon Splat City opened in 1995, most of the Shady Grove section was demolished and the Slime Zone in his stead, Shockwave has since part of the Grove. The park also operated a Wayne's World theme section for several years, starting in 1994 with the opening of Hurler. Pitcher (which travels over a portion of the former Old Dominion Old Line site in Virginia) are now part of The Grove. The Grove is also known for the Rebel Yell roller coaster, the park's first full-size roller coaster, Drop Tower Scream Zone World's tallest drop tower, and the carousel, which was first built in 1917. In 2009, El Dorado and Americana added.
Carousel (opened 1975) was first built in 1917 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, prior to the opening at Kings Dominion in the first season of the park, she was active in the Riverside Amusement Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1917 to 1938, and at Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1938 to 1973. All wood carousel has 50 horses, 16 standing horses and two wagons, spread across four rows.
Ricochet (opened 2002) is a Mack wild mouse coaster. Its compact layout contains a series of hairpin bends.
Triple Spin (opened 2002) is a Huss Troika.
Scooter Bumper Cars Car park opened in 1975 and are located on the edge of the Grove section near the Backlot Stunt Coaster.
Drop Tower: Scream Zone (opened in 2003 as Drop Zone: Stunt Tower) is the world's tallest drop at 305 meters (93 ft) high. Drop Tower may take up to 56 riders a time on the 272-foot (83 m) decrease, they travel 72 miles (116 km) per hour for the ride magnetic braking slows them. Both this trip and her sister attration, Drop Tower: Scream Zone at the Kings Island claim to the highest towers in the world drop. In fact, both the correct title. Kings Island structure is 10-feet (3.0 m) higher than King's Dominion. However, Kings Dominion Tower begins breaking down the structure, allowing riders to drop 8-foot (2.4 m) higher than that riders at Kings Island.
Pitcher
Pitcher opened in 1994 as part of Paramount's Kings Dominion's Wayne's World section, since that part of the Grove. Pitcher has a triple out-and-back layout.
Rebel Yell (open 1975) is a racing wooden roller coaster with an out-and-back layout which travels along one side of Lake Charles. Early in the year 1990, featured a rear-facing train tracks, and riders can choose to forward or reverse. This feature was removed in 2008, and both tracks have now trains only go forward.
Shockwave (opened 1986) is an TOGO stand-up roller coaster Located in a part of the former Shady Grove Park section. It features a vertical loop and a helix.
Wave Swinger (opened 1975)
Xtreme SkyFlyer (opened 1996) is SkyCoaster a bungee jump ride
El Dorado (opened 2009) is a family-friendly swinging pendulum ride, a 1950-style theme in El Dorado convertible, which a total of 40 riders can carry up to 85 feet in the air.
Americana (opened 2009) is Kings Dominion in the first Ferris wheel. It is 110 meters high and is located at the former location of the launch pad, just off exit's the Rebel Yell.
Nick Central
Meet Blue is a meet and greet area where guests can meet star of Blue's Clues.
Nickelodeon Meet & Greet is a meet and greet area, this time with characters like Tommy, Chuckie and Angelica from Rugrats, SpongeBob and Patrick from SpongeBob SquarePants, and Cosmo and Wanda from The Fairly OddParents.
The Showplace is a theater with shows and game shows with Nickelodeon characters.
Slime Zone, a maze filled with pipes shooting water in all directions, was one of the original Kings Dominion Nickelodeon Splat City landmarks.
Rugrats Toonpike is one where children can ride through a simulated small-town Rugrats cars in a closed circuit set up to resemble a miniature city.
Nickelodeon Space Surfer is a chance Morgan Aviator where riders board and kite-like vehicles glide by air at an angle of 90 degrees. Riders on the surrounding trees and reaching almost the same height as the nearby roller coaster, Shockwave. The cars seat 1-2 riders in seats resemble an inverted roller coaster.
KidzVille
KidzVille is an area for children between the International Street and Congo. It opened with the park 1975 as Hanna-Barbera Land and became known as KidzVille early in the season of 1997. It, along with Nickelodeon Central, rethemed to Planet Snoopy will be in 2010.
Treasure Cave a haunted house with precious stones in the walls and tilted floors. It has been renamed twice and rethemed, it was first mentioned Yogi Bear's Cave and the name Pirate Cave.
Boo Boo Hill to Blasters (opened in 2004 as Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Mansion) is a shooting dark ride theme for a great ghost. Passengers riding in a car and shoot at objects to earn points.
Kidz Construction Company is a large playground for the children structure of theme to a site with slides and ball pits at Chuck resemble those E. Cheese.
Alleycat 500 is a small Topcat theme driving the car. It has a cow that the riders pass.
Boo Boo's Tree Swings is a small swing ride located next Treasure Cave.
Kei Bumpers is an indoor bumper cars riding for children.
Dick Dastardly's Airfield is a junior small flat ride in an aircraft that is circle over a creek.
George Jetson's Spaceport is a junior airplane ride the theme of the Jetsons.
Huck's Hot Rods, a floating trip with Huckleberry Hound, Alleycat is located near 500.
Ranger Smith Jeep Tours is a small jeep ride for small children.
Topcat's Turnpike is a junior driving.
Touche Turtle's Clipper is a ship ride similar to a scaled-down, Tamer Berserker.
Taxi Jam Coaster is an 8-foot junior roller coaster.
Ghoster Coaster (opened 1974 as Scooby Doo, Then as Scooby-Doo's Ghoster Coaster), a junior roller coaster, is located near the front of the park next to the former site of the Racing Rivers slides. American Coaster Enthusiasts gave the ride an ACE Coaster Classics plaque, but have been removed from their list of the trip due to design changes.
KidZVille Gazebo is a meeting children's shows.
Congo
Congo is predominantly African and Western Kings Dominion theme section. It was inspired by one of the original attractions in the park, the Lion Country Safari. With a boat ride and a monorail train through a nature reserve, the department concluded in the year 1990 but the issue remains. Congo department has several of the major attractions, including Volcano, Anaconda, the crypt, or Intimidator 305
Avalanche (opened 1988) is from 2009, the only Mack bobsled coaster left in the United States, the cars in the trains are themed to Olympic bobsled from five countries.
Scrambler (reopened 2003), one of Congo's two flat rides, a classic attraction similar to a Huss Breakdance. It was originally located on International Street and was moved to Candy Apple Grove in 1993, near the site that currently occupies the Drop Tower the day, it was moved to the Congo section in 2003.
Anaconda Roller Coaster, seen from the queue
Anaconda (opened 1991) remains well known for its tunnel, which travels in Lake Charles. The ride crosses are still most of the layout of the lake. If Anaconda opened, four inversions, the most of any roller coaster in the park.
Backlot Stunt Coaster (opened 2006 as The Italian Job: Turbo Coaster) was third LIM-launched roller coaster Kings Dominion. It was inspired by a car chase and an almost exact replica of rounds are at Kings Island and Canada's Wonderland. Original theme from The Italian Job, it was the last ride with open Paramount theming of the park and was renamed in 2007 offseason.
The Crypt (opened in 2005 as Tomb Raider: Firefall) is a Top Spin originally suspended the theme of the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. It still has the same physical theming but was renamed in 2007 in the offseason after changing the park property.
Volcano, The Blast Coaster (opened 1998), the second of Kings Dominion LIM-launched roller coasters, is also the fastest roller coaster park (after removing Hypersonic XLC). The ride in the former mountain "Lost World" is remarkable for two launches, the first 70 mph (110 kph).
Flight of Fear (opened 1996 as The Outer Limits: Flight of Fear) is one of the first two LIM-launched roller coasters in the world, along with the Flight of Fear at Kings Island, with which it shares the same layout and theming. It's an indoor roller coaster in complete darkness, a theme to Area 51 military-style installation. It was renamed in 2001 when Paramount lost the right to Outer Limits. In 2001, the over-the-shoulder belts were replaced with lap bar restraints After five seasons of guests complaining about a rough ride experience.
Intimidator 305 (under construction, scheduled for April 2010) is the second giga coaster in North America (third in the world), After Millennium Force in Cedar Point. The ride, named and themed after the late NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Sr., who sits on land originally used for the Lion Country Safari has passed since the unused Safari closed in the early 1990s. Using a similar cable car system hill Millennium Force, Intimidator 305 has 305 riders before they set foot on a 85-degree, 300-foot first drop to drop. The amount corresponds to the total amount of Drop Tower: Scream Zone and the first drop is equal to the first drop of Millennium Force. It will be the steepest drop-to-date on a giga coaster. The drive maximum speed of 92 miles per hour was the fastest ever achieved by a drive located at Kings Dominion, and the fifth fastest roller coaster in North America.
WaterWorks
WaterWorks, Kings Dominion water park, can be thought of in terms of the two sides, North Side, formerly known as Hurricane Reef, which is the newer and Southside portion of waterworks. The WaterWorks rides that had as Hurricane Reef in the mid-year 1990 are in the front of the Rebel Yell roller coaster, the newer attractions are behind the Rebel Yell and are accessible by walking under the Rebel Yell on a walkway between Baja bends and shoot the curl. The original Hurricane Reef attractions at Kings Dominion received new names renamed to the WaterWorks water park in 1999.
Lazy Rider (opened 1992 as the Lazy River) is a lazy river that travels around the center of the water park. With the exception of freestylin ' all other slides that originally opened by Hurricane Reef travel over Lazy Rider, which makes the lazy river a few short tunnels in the classroom. From 2005, the Lazy Rider's entrance and exit located on different parts of the river, riders kept making more than one round without having to leave.
Baja Bends (open in 1992 as Pipeline) is a set of four green open water slides located behind the Lazy Rider and in front of Lake Charles. Baja Bends Slides ride over Lazy Rider and end with a landing pool.
Spiral Chute (opened in 1992 as Severe Twist) is a pair of enclosed slides that wrap around each other in a spiral manner. The queue for Spiral Anaconda runs under chute, charging for the slides was built over the lake. Spiral Chute was closed for part of 2005 as a construction road for the Backlot Stunt Coaster was cut from its queue, making the drive inaccessible. The slides reopened in 2006, but Spiral Chute was not open for the 2009 season, due to structural deficiencies structure of the platform, and now state, but not active.
Shoot the Curl (opened in 1992 as Cyclone) is a set of three enclosed blue slide is in front the Rebel Yell, the slides travel over the Lazy Rider. The center slide is a free fall slide, but not as big as Night Slider Pipeline Peak. The other two slides each mirror and feature 360-degree helixes.
Freestylin '(Opened in 1992 as Tidal Wave) is a pair of white open slides, which riders on a person inner tubes; the slides end in a landing pool. Because the riders each have their own tubes, the ride has two separate loading stations on connected towers, and the queue, as a queue begins, divided into two parts of the way up.
Big Wave Bay (opened 1999), the first park wave pool has 650,000 liters of water, wave machines generate its four-foot waves.
Surf City Splash House (opened 1999) is a multi-level water play structure with several smaller slides and a 800-gallon bucket that dumps all its water on guests every few minutes.
Lil 'Barefoot Beach (opened 1999) is a small water play structure for young children.
Pipeline Peak (opened 2000), the park's largest slide structure in 2006, is a set of four enclosed slides manufactured by ProSlide. The highest level of the tower features two body styles flumes: Night Slider, which at 77 feet (23 m) high, is the world's longest free fall dark slide, and Power Plunge, a long, winding slide that is 77 feet (23 meters) high at the beginning. Turbo Twister Slide and Rip, who his 50-foot (15 m) of the tower lower level, two-person raft slides open in several places in the middle of their natural spray water on riders.
Tidal Wave Bay (opened 2007), the park is the second wave. Several other Cedar Fair parks are multiple wave pools. Dorney Park was half wave pool in 2006, California's Great America will open their second wave in 2007, and Michigan's Adventure has three wave pools of varying sizes and depths.
Tornado (opened 2007) is a 65-meter high slide that deposits riders into a large funnel. ProSlide Tornadoes have opened in many Six Flags parks and various other Cedar Fair parks in the early year 2000, Kings Dominion is the second former Paramount Park received a tornado.
Zoom Flume (opened 2007) is a four-person family raft slide.
Kings Dominion Timeline
1974: Preview Center opens with a cinema, a kiddie-style wooden roller coaster (then called the Scooby Doo) and Lion Country Safari. (At that time, visitors had their own Vehicles drive through the Safari section, later replaced by a monorail system a few years later.) Rebel Yell racing wooden roller coaster that was completed on time, but did not open until the spring of 1975 along with the rest of the park.
1975: Park opens in spring 1975 (one week after Busch Gardens The Old Country "in nearby Williamsburg, Virginia)
1975: Apple Turnover (Enterprise style flat ride)
1977: King Cobra (steel coaster)
1978: Kings Dominion Campground opens
1979: Lost World subject area, with Journey to Atlantis, Land of Dooz, and Time Shaft (a rotor ride)
1980: Haunted River replaced Journey to Atlantis
1982: Grizzly, Prestige Property Amphitheatre also opened
1983: White Water Canyon, Galaxie Closed
1984: Smurf Mountain replaced the Land of Dooz; Berserker
1985: Diamond Falls, Scooby's Play Park
1986: Shockwave, King Kobra removed
1987: Rivers Racing
1988: Avalanche
1989: Sky Pilot (flat ride took the place of Apple Turnover)
1990: Hanna-Barbera Land expansion
1991: Anaconda
1992: Hurricane Reef water park
1993: Days of Thunder (motion simulator theater)
1994: Hurler, Old Dominion Line steam train removed
1995: Nickelodeon Splat City, Showplace reopened Kingswood Ampitheatre Ampitheatre, Smurf Mountain was removed
1996: Flight of Fear; Xtreme SkyFlyer
1997: Taxi Jam Coaster, Hanna-Barbera Land was renamed KidZville
1998: Volcano; Action Theater replaces Days of Thunder
1999: Expansion of the hurricane Reef water park WaterWorks
2000: Nickelodeon Central; Pipeline Peak added to waterworks
2001: Hypersonic XLC (Xtreme Launch Coaster)
2002: Ricochet; Triple Spin, Diamond Falls closes
2003: Drop Tower, SpongeBob SquarePants 3-D in the Action Theater
2004: Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Mansion
2005: The Crypt, Kids field of waterworks is removed
2006: Backlot Stunt Coaster, Flight of Fear stopped until mid-August, when it reopened, fear fest last year, before switching to a new level of fear, Halloween Haunt
2007: Tidal Wave Bay, Tornado, Zoom Flume added by water companies last year for Hypersonic XLC; Halloween VOUS
2008: Dominator (B & M coaster Floorless from Geauga Lake)
2009: El Dorado & Americana (Both moved from Geauga Lake)
2010: Intimidator 305 (giga Intamin AG coaster) and Planet Snoopy (Rethem van Nickelodon Central.)
Retired Attractions
1975-1983: Galaxie (Galaxi) created by SDC
1977-1986: King Cobra (Steel Coaster)
1979-1980: The Lost World Mountain: Journey to Atlantis, The Mine Train Shaft and Time (Located in the mountains of the volcano)
1980-1997: The Haunted River (located in the mountains of the volcano)
1984-1995: Smurf Mountain (located in the mountains of Volcano)
2001-2007: Hypersonic XLC air-launched coaster made by S & S Power
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External links
Official website
Official website of Intimidator 305
Kings Dominion Historical Gallery
Photos of Kings Dominion c. 1981.
Kings Dominion to open area with five water attractions – 1992 article from Travel Weekly announced the opening of Hurricane Reef (subscription required)
Kings Dominion amusement Timeline
The People's Park: Kings Dominion always takes you back – article in the Hook weekly
Kings Dominion Timeline: 1971-2005
Old Kings Dominion Pictures: 1975-2004
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