Paramount's Kings Dominion
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| Location |
Doswell, Virginia |
| Website |
Paramount's Kings kings dominon Dominion |
| Owner |
Cedar Fair, L.P. |
| Opened |
1975 |
| Previous names |
King's Dominion - 1975 to 1993
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| Operating season |
April through king dominion October |
| Area |
400 acres kings diminion (? km²) |
| Rides |
27 total
- 13 roller coasters
- 2 water rides
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Paramount's Kings Dominion is a kinds dominion 400 acre amusement park located in Doswell in Hanover County 23 miles (37 kings dominin km) north of Richmond, Virginia and 83 miles (134 km) south of Washington, DC kings deminion on Interstate 95. The park kins dominion is owned by Cedar Fair, L.P., and was part of the former Paramount Parks chain kingd dominion that Cedar Fair acquired from CBS kings domonion Corporation on June 30, 2006.
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Contents
- 1 History
- 1.1 As Kings Dominion
- 1.2 Early kings dominian 1990s / Transition to Paramount ownership
- 1.3 The kings dominiom Paramount Parks years (1993-2006)
- 1.4 Transition to the Cedar Fair era kings domimion (2006-present)
- 2 PKD's kings domanion Eiffel Tower
- 3 Ownership
- 4 Current Rides/Attractions
- 4.1 International kings dominion Street
- 4.2 Old Virginia
- 4.3 The Grove
- 4.4 Nickelodeon paramount kings dominion Central
- 4.5 Kidzville
- 4.6 Congo
- 4.7 WaterWorks
- 5 Ride/Attraction paramounts kings dominion Timeline
- 6 External discount tickets for kings dominion links
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History
As Kings Dominion
Kings Dominion officially opened in 1975 with kings dominion va 15 rides. However, in 1974, the park black college fest kings dominion had a "soft" (partial, low key) opening only for the Lion Country Safari attraction and kings dominion amusement park a junior roller coaster, now discount coupons for kings dominion called Scooby Doo's Ghoster Coaster. By 1975, the park had added the coupons for kings dominion Rebel Yell, a racing roller coaster designed by John Allen; a log flume; antique cars; steam train; and a collection of kings dominion coupons flat rides. Another roller coaster, Galaxie, kings dominion tickets was next to the man-made Lake Charles, which took up discount kings dominion tickets 10 acres of the park's property. In addition, Kings Dominion's 1/3-scale replica flight of fear kings dominion of the Eiffel Tower, which featured an observation deck where people could go in order paramount's kings dominion to see the whole park, was open by the paramount kings dominion company id discount park's first full operating season. In addition to the Lion Country Safari, black college weekend kings dominion the original themed areas of the park were called The Happy kings dominion discount coupons Land of Hanna-Barbera, Old Virginia, and the Candy Apple Grove.
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In addition new zealand kings dominion discount tickets to the King Kobra, Kings Dominion opened a campground and military discount tickets to kings dominion its well-known Lost World mountain before the end of the 1970s. Originally, the Lost World featured three rides: black college day at kings dominion a flume ride called kings dominion discount Journey to Atlantis, a runaway mine train known as Land of the Dooz, kings dominion military discount tickets and a rotor called Time Shaft. Within kings dominion park one year of its 1979 opening, the Lost World lost one of its rides, Journey to Atlantis, which was replaced by the Haunted kingsfest at kings dominion River closest airport to kings dominion themed flume ride in 1980. The Lost World mountain remains in the park discount coupons for paramount kings dominion as of 2006 and has been occupied by Volcano: The Blast Coaster since 1998. Kings Dominion would kings dominion tickets ebay add their second wooden roller coaster, the Grizzly, in the paramount's kings dominion theme park forests of the Old Virginia section of the kings dominion company id discount park in 1982. Kings Dominion opened its rapids ride, White Water Canyon, kings dominion in va in Old Virginia in 1983, and a swinging, inverting pirate ship known as the kings dominion military discount Berserker on International Street the following year.
After three seasons without a new roller coaster, kings dominion seating chart Kings Dominion unveiled its TOGO stand-up roller coaster, Shockwave, in 1986, the print free kings dominion coupons online same year that the park removed King Kobra. Shockwave, like spain kings dominion discount tickets King Kobra, has one loop but also has a helix. (The similarly-named King Cobra roller coaster at Paramount's King's Island, kings dominion cheap tickets which was a stand-up coaster similar to Shockwave, closed in paramounts kings dominion campground 2002.) The third and last roller coaster that Kings Dominion added restaurants near kings dominion during the 1980s was Avalanche, which remains the only kings dominion corporate discount Mack bobsled roller coaster in the United States. [2] The trains of Avalanche are themed after the United States', France's, kings dominion discount code Germany's, and Switzerland's bobsleds, so that riders in different trains can kings dominion discount coupon simulate being in a bobsled race in the Winter kings dominion map Olympics. [3]
Although the Lion Country Safari attraction kings dominion motorcoach trip was the first portion of the park to open, it was military discount at kings dominion phased out by the late 1980s. Much of the Lion Country military discount for kings dominion tickets Safari occupied the land behind the Anaconda roller coaster; Paramount's Kings Dominion still owns military discount tickets and kings dominion the land but has used most of it primarily for storage since paramont kings dominion the safari closed, rather than opening new attractions on it.
Early 1990s / Transition admission price at kings dominion to Paramount ownership
Kings Dominion continued adding new areas to its park in the early- kings dominion company id to mid-1990s. In 1990, they expanded Hanna-Barbera Land to include more rides for children. The kings dominion home page in virginia 1991 season saw the addition of their next large roller coaster, the Arrow military discount kings dominion virginia looper Anaconda, which was also the world's military discount tickets for kings dominion first coaster to feature an underwater tunnel. (Its paramount kings dominion va tunnel went under part of Lake Charles.) Anaconda was also originally billed as having paramount's kings dominion campground six loops and continues to be billed that way. [4] However, unlike Drachen Fire, a telecompioneer day at paramount's kings dominion six-inversion Arrow looper which was opened volcano roller coaster at paramounts kings dominion at Busch Gardens Williamsburg the following year, the Anaconda actually has only four inversions: a buy ntickets to parimont's kings dominion vertical loop, a sidewinder, and two consecutive corkscrews. [5]
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The Paramount kings dominion hotel Parks years (1993-2006)
Kings Dominion continued its growth when it became part of kings dominion in williamsburgva Paramount Parks in 1993 and switched kings dominion rides its name to Paramount's Kings Dominion. New attractions and areas of the park themed to Paramount's television kings dominion sold cedar fair shows and movies appeared at Paramount's Kings Dominion almost every season that kings dominion vacation packages they were under Paramount's ownership. In 1993, they added a Days of Thunder movie into kings singapore dominion discount tickets their motion simulator attraction. The 1994 season saw the addition of a new memories of kings dominion area of the park themed to the 1992 Paramount motion military discount kings dominion picture Wayne's World, which paramonts kings dominion featured their third full-size wooden roller coaster, The Hurler, a shop called the paramount kings dominion discount tickets Rock Shop, and a Stan Mikita's restaurant similar to the paramount's kings dominion homage one featured in Wayne's World. Since then, the Wayne's World section has been merged into the Candy Apple parimont's kings dominion Grove (since renamed the Grove); the Stan Mikita's was converted to the Happy Days Cafe, and paromont kings dominion theme park rides the best restaraunts near kings dominion in virginia Hurler no longer has Wayne's World theming. In the next year, another children's area, known as Nickelodeon Splat City, cedar point kings dominion opened near the Shockwave roller coaster.
In 1996, Paramount's Kings Dominion introduced corporate discounts kings dominion its second launched roller coaster, and first LIM-launched roller cost of construction kings dominion eiffel tower coaster, The Outer Limits: Flight of Fear. The Outer Limits had a 56-mile-per-hour launch, four inversions, and a similar "spaghetti bowl" coupons for kings dominion nc layout discount kings dominion coupons to the ride of the same name at Paramount's Kings Island. Almost as notable as the econo lodge kings dominion launch of The Outer Limits was the fact that the entire ride free kings dominion coupons was in semi-darkness; the riders could not see where they were going. (Six Flags America, a nearby park giant coupons at kings dominion in Maryland, giant discounts at kings dominion features another similar roller coaster to Flight of Fear, known as Joker's Jinx. kings dominion + va Joker's Jinx, however, is an outdoor coaster.) Five years after The Outer Limits opened, Paramount Parks' licensing agreement kings dominion 2007 season pass to use theming from the television show after which the ride was named expired; kings dominion amusement park discounts the Outer Limits-related theming kings dominion and va in the ride and its queue was removed, and the ride was renamed Flight of Fear.
Paramount's Kings Dominion continued what kings dominion codes became a trend of adding launched roller coasters in 1998, when they kings dominion coupon popeye's opened Volcano, The Blast Coaster in the kings dominion coupons discount coupons former Lost World mountain. The mountain's previous rides had all been removed several years prior, and kings dominion deals Volcano gave the mountain a major transformation. Volcano, which was kings dominion discount budapest tickets manufactured by Intamin AG, was the world's kings dominion discount tickets british airways first LIM-launched inverted roller coaster. The ride featured two separate launch sections, a vertical loop out of the top of the mountain kings dominion discounts and coupons virginia (which is kings dominion eiffel tower accompanied by fire being shot out of the mountain behind the riders), and three heartline rolls on the way back kings dominion employee down. Volcano was themed to Paramount's 1997 film Volcano; the other Paramount Parks kings dominion fast pass added inverted or kings dominion flight of fear suspended roller coasters themed to Top Gun around the same time. During the next two seasons, Paramount's Kings kings dominion hotels Dominion expanded Hurricane Reef behind the Rebel Yell and renamed it Waterworks. (Most of the original kings dominion hotels tickets discounts Hurricane Reef remains open as kings dominion military discountcoupons of 2006; the two areas are joined by a path under the Rebel Yell.) The new kings dominion military discounts portion of Waterworks includes Pipeline Peak, a set of kings dominion park map four enclosed water slides, one of which (the Night Slider) kings dominion past rollercoassters is the world's tallest dark free-fall slide. [7]
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Transition to the Cedar Fair era (2006-present)
Control of the Paramount Parks had been transferred from Viacom to CBS Corporation at the start of the 2006 season; the parks had themselves been up for sale since the previous offseason. CBS made several controversial moves with Paramount's Kings Dominion during the 2006 season. First, the Italian Job roller coaster had been advertised on television as being open at the start of the park's 2006 season, whereas it did not actually open until late May, almost two months into the season. The placement of the ride was rather dubious; some enthusiasts ridiculed the park management for placing the entrance of Italian Job, which was themed to a street chase, in the middle of the park's African-themed Congo section near the Anaconda. [11] Second, visitors to the park during the 2006 season found that the trees in the queue of the Grizzly were cut down to make room for a new upcharge go-kart attraction called Thunder Raceway. [12] Third, Paramount's Kings Dominion closed Flight of Fear. Paramount's Kings Dominion gave no indication in the previous season that Flight of Fear would be closed for 2006. [13] Rumors had suggested that it would be relocated to another former Paramount Park; since Cedar Fair acquired Paramount's Kings Dominion, the park worked to get the ride operable again. Flight of Fear reopened on August 18, ending speculation of the ride's relocation and/or sale. [14]
On May 22, 2006, Cedar Fair, L.P. announced that they were purchasing all five Paramount Parks. [15] The sale was finalized on June 30, 2006. [16]
PKD's Eiffel Tower
The centerpiece of Kings Dominion is its 1/3 scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, located just across the International Street fountain from the main entrance gate. This Tower was built by the late company, Bristol Steel, which was located in Richmond, Virginia. Elevators regularly take patrons up to the lookout tower, which provides a chance to see the entire park. The observation deck offered the best view of the nightly fireworks show (which no longer runs), and the Fourth of July fireworks, which are set off from behind the Anaconda roller coaster.
Ownership
The theme park was originally built and owned by Family Leisure Centers, a joint venture between Top Value Enterprises and Taft Broadcasting Company, both of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1993 Paramount purchased Kings Dominion and changed its name to Paramount's Kings Dominion.
On January 27, 2006, the website of the Dayton Daily News reported that CBS Corporation would be selling Kings Dominion and other parks in its Paramount Parks division. [17]
On June 30, 2006, Cedar Fair, L.P. acquired Kings Dominion along with the rest of the parks owned by Paramount for a price of $1.24 billion USD. [18]
Current Rides/Attractions
International Street
- Grande Bandstande
- Eiffel Tower
- Berserker
Old Virginia
- Paramount Theatre
- Flying Eagles
- The Log Flume
- Paramount Action F/X Theater
- White Water Canyon
- Xtreme Skyflyer
- Blue Ridge Tollway
- Grizzly
The Grove
- Carousel
- Ricochet
- Triple Spin
- Dodgem Bumper Cars
- Drop Zone: Stunt Tower
- Hurler
- Rebel Yell
- Shockwave
- Wave Swinger
- Hypersonic XLC
Nickelodeon Central
- Meet Blue
- Nickelodeon Meet & Greet
- Paramount Showplace
- Green Slime Zone
- Rugrats Toonpike
- Nickelodeon Space Surfer
Kidzville
- Treasure Cave
- Scooby-Doo! And the Haunted Mansion
- Kidz Construction Company
- Alleycat 500
- Boo Boo's Tree Swings
- Boulder Bumpers
- Dick Dastardly's Airfield
- George Jetson's Spaceport
- Huck's Hot Rods
- Ranger Smith's Jeep Tours
- Topcat's Turnpike
- Touche Turtle's Clipper
- Taxi Jam Coaster
- Scooby Doo's Ghoster Coaster
- KidZVille Gazebo
Congo
- Avalanche
- Scrambler
- Anaconda
- The Italian Job: Turbo Coaster
- Tomb Raider: Firefall
- Volcano
- Flight of Fear
WaterWorks
- Big Wave Bay
- Lil' Barefoot Beach
- Lazy Rider
- FreeStylin' (previously known as Tidal Wave)
- Baja Bends (previously known as Pipeline)
- Pipeline Peak
- Shoot the Curl (previously known as Cyclone)
- Spiral Chute (previously known as Torrential Twist)
- Surf City Splash House
Ride/Attraction Timeline
- 1975: Park opened. Rebel Yell (coaster).
- 1976: Apple Turnover.
- 1977: King Kobra (coaster)
- 1978: Campground opened.
- 1979: Lost World themed area, featuring Journey to Atlantis, Land of the Dooz, and Timeshaft.
- 1980: Haunted River replaced Journey to Atlantis.
- 1981: Widescreen movie theater.
- 1982: Grizzly (coaster); Showplace Amphitheatre.
- 1983: White Water Canyon.
- 1984: Smurf Mountain replaced Land of the Dooz; Berserker.
- 1985: Diamond Falls; Scooby's Play Park.
- 1986: Shockwave (coaster); King Kobra coaster removed.
- 1987: Racing Rivers.
- 1988: Avalanche (coaster).
- 1989: Sky Pilot.
- 1990: Hanna Barbera Land expansion
- 1991: Anaconda (coaster).
- 1992: Hurricane Reef water park.
- 1993: Days of Thunder.
- 1994: Hurler (coaster); Old Dominion Line steam train removed.
- 1995: Nickelodeon Splat City. Showplace Amphitheatre reopened as Kingswood Amphitheatre. Smurf Mountain is removed.
- 1996: Outer Limits; Extreme SkyFlyer.
- 1997: Taxi Jam (coaster); Hanna-Barbera Land renamed KidZville.
- 1998: Volcano, The Blast Coaster (coaster); Paramount Action FX Theater replaces Days of Thunder.
- 1999: Expansion of Hurricane Reef water park to Waterworks.
- 2000: Nickelodeon Central; Pipeline Peak added to Waterworks.
- 2001: HyperSonic XLC (coaster); 7th Portal. Outer Limits renamed to Flight of Fear.
- 2002: Ricochet (coaster); Triple Spin; Diamond Falls closes.
- 2003: Drop Zone Stunt Tower (freefall ride); SpongeBob SquarePants 3D.
- 2004: Scooby Doo and the Haunted Mansion.
- 2005: Tomb Raider Firefall (top spin). Kids area of Waterworks is removed.
- 2006: Italian Job Turbo Coaster; Flight of Fear shut down until mid-August, when it reopened.
External links
- Official website of Paramount's Kings Dominion
- PkdPlace » Your Place for Paramount's Kings Dominion
- ThrillNerds
- Historical Kings Dominion Gallery
- Kings Dominion to open section featuring five water attractions - 1992 article from Travel Weekly announcing the opening of Hurricane Reef (requires subscription)
- COASTER-net.com page for Paramount's Kings Dominion
- ThrillNetwork.com Paramount's Kings Dominion information site
| Roller coasters at Paramount's Kings Dominion |
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Anaconda - Avalanche - Flight of Fear - Grizzly - Hurler - HyperSonic XLC - Italian Job Turbo Coaster - Rebel Yell - Ricochet - Scooby-Doo's Ghoster Coaster - Shockwave - Taxi Jam - Volcano, The Blast Coaster
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