Kings Dominion - Wikipedia. Kings Dominion is an amusement park in Doswell, Virginia 2.

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Richmond and 7. 5 miles (1. Washington, D. C., off Interstate 9. The 4. 00- acre (1. May 3, 1. 97. 5,[2] and is currently owned by Cedar Fair and offers over 6. The name given to the park is derived from the name of its sister park, Kings Island, and the nickname for the state of Virginia, "Old Dominion".

History[edit]Early history as Kings Dominion (1. The park entrance as seen from the observation deck of the replica Eiffel Tower. Following the success of Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, northeast of Cincinnati, Family Leisure Centers (a partnership formed between Taft Broadcasting Company and Top Value Enterprises) decided to expand into a new region of the country by opening a second park. A 4. 00- acre (1.

Doswell, Virginia, north of Richmond in the heart of the Mid- Atlantic, and construction began on October 1, 1. The new park was designed with Kings Island in mind as the blueprint using similar themes, rides, and activities. Kings Dominion officially opened on May 3, 1. Rebel Yell, the Lion Country Safari Monorail, Galaxie, and a junior wooden roller coaster known as Scooby Doo. Also present at the opening was a log flume, steam train, a collection of flat rides and a cable- car sky ride that transported visitors between Old Virginia and The Happy Land of Hanna- Barbera.[5] In addition, Kings Dominion's 1/3- scale replica of the Eiffel Tower and the International Street Fountain greet visitors near the main entrance to the park. Original themed areas included The Happy Land of Hanna- Barbera, International Street, Lion Country Safari, Old Virginia, and Coney Island.[7] Daily admission price in 1. Kings Dominion added their fourth roller coaster, a Schwarzkopfshuttle loop known as the King Kobra, in 1.

The King Kobra featured a 5. It was in the park for nine seasons before being relocated to Jolly Roger Amusement Park in Ocean City, Maryland and later to Hopi Hari in Brazil where it exists today as Katapul.[8] Also in 1. Kings Dominion was one of several amusement parks serving as location for the film Rollercoaster. A campground was completed in time for the 1.

Lost World mountain debuted in 1. Originally, the Lost World featured three rides: a flume ride called Voyage to Atlantis, a children's attraction mine ride known as Land of the Dooz, and a rotor called Time Shaft. Only a year later in 1.

Haunted River. Kings Dominion later expanded Old Virginia with the addition of the park's third wooden roller coaster, the Grizzly, in 1. White Water Canyon in 1. Growth under KECO management (1. The replica Eiffel Tower at Kings Dominion. Taft Broadcasting Company sold its theme park division in late 1.

Kings Entertainment Company (KECO), a new company formed by senior executives and general managers of Taft's Amusement Park Group.[9] Three parks were involved in the sale — Kings Island, Kings Dominion, and Carowinds — along with a 2. Canada's Wonderland. American Financial Group later purchased KECO in 1. KECO to continue to manage operations at the amusement parks.[1. One of the first additions under the new management group was Berserker — a looping starship ride added to International Street in 1. Also that year, Smurf Mountain replaced the mine ride Land of the Dooz, transforming the Lost World into The Smurfs theme. Kings Dominion unveiled a TOGOstand- up roller coaster in 1.

Shockwave, the first of three roller coasters to be added under KECO. Shockwave has one loop like the older King Kobra but adds a helix. Opposite Day Full Movie.

King Kobra was removed at the end of the season. A water slide complex known as Racing Rivers opened in 1.

Avalanche, which remains the only Mack bobsled roller coaster in the United States, debuted the following year in 1. The trains of Avalanche are themed after bobsleds from various countries including the United States, France, Germany, Canada and Switzerland creating the experience of a bobsled race in the Winter Olympics.[1. Kings Dominion continued to expand over the next few seasons starting with Hanna- Barbera Land in 1. A new, looping roller coaster from Arrow Dynamics called Anaconda was introduced the following year in 1. Lake Charles. Anaconda was also originally billed as having six loops,[1. Arrow's six- inversion coaster Drachen Fire that opened at Busch Gardens Williamsburg the following year, the Anaconda actually has only four inversions: a vertical loop, a sidewinder, and two consecutive corkscrews.[1.

A new 2. 0- acre (8. Hurricane Reef opened in 1. To build the water park, Kings Dominion filled in two- thirds of Lake Charles near the Candy Apple Grove region of the park. Originally it featured the Monsoon Chutes (two pairs of free- fall body slides, at 7.

Torrential Twist (two enclosed body slides which wrapped around each other), the Pipeline (four open body slides), Cyclone (three enclosed body slides, the center of which was a free- fall), Tidal Wave (two open slides, which riders rode on inner tubes), Splash Island (an area for children with five water slides), and a lazy river.[1. Paramount era (1. The Paramount Theatre (Now known as "Kings Dominion Theater")Kings Dominion continued its growth when it became part of Paramount Parks in 1. Paramount's Kings Dominion. New attractions and areas of the park themed to Paramount's television shows and films appeared at Paramount's Kings Dominion almost every season that they were under Paramount's ownership.

In 1. 99. 3, they added a motion simulator attraction, originally featuring the Days of Thunder film, and Lion County Safari was removed at the end of the season. Also in 1. 99. 3, Smurf Mountain was removed, leaving only the Time Shaft and Haunted River remaining in The Lost World Mountain until 1. The 1. 99. 4 season saw the addition of a new area of the park themed to the 1. Paramount motion picture Wayne's World, which featured their third full- size wooden roller coaster, Hurler, a shop called the Rock Shop, and a Stan Mikita's restaurant similar to the one featured in the film. Since then, the Wayne's World section has been merged into the Candy Apple Grove (since renamed the Grove); the Stan Mikita's was converted to the Happy Days Diner, and the Hurler no longer has Wayne's World theming, except for a few spray painted "Wayne's World" logos near the exit of the ride. In the next year, another children's area, known as Nickelodeon Splat City, opened near the Shockwave roller coaster, this was a product of Viacom purchasing Paramount in 1.

This was later converted into Nick Central. In the 1. 99. 5 season, The Skyride and The Singing Mushrooms were removed. In 1. 99. 6, Kings Dominion introduced its second launched roller coaster, and first LIM- launched roller coaster, The Outer Limits: Flight of Fear. The Outer Limits has a 5. Flight of Fear at Kings Island.

Almost as notable as the launch of The Outer Limits was the fact that the entire ride was in semi- darkness; the riders could not see where they were going. Five years after The Outer Limits opened, Paramount Parks' licensing agreement to use theming from the television show after which the ride was named expired; the Outer Limits theming in the ride and its queue was removed, and the ride was renamed Flight of Fear. Kid. Zville, a re- theming of the Hanna- Barbera section.

The park added the new Taxi Jam roller coaster, and Scooby's Playpark became a construction themed playpen called Kidz Construction Company. Yogi's Cave was rethemed to Treasure Cave and many rides in Kid. Zville, such as Scooby Doo's Ghoster Coaster, George Jetson's Spaceport, and Huck's Hot Rods, continued to bear the names of Hanna- Barbera characters.

Overview of Volcano, The Blast Coaster and Flight of Fear in the background. Watch Management Online Full Movie. Kings Dominion added another launched roller coaster in 1.

Volcano, The Blast Coaster, in the former Lost World mountain. The mountain's previous rides had all been removed several years previously, and Volcano gave the mountain a major transformation.