Posts tagged with: "kings island"

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Vortex

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TripAdvisor lists Top 10 theme parks outside Orlando

TripAdvisor has announced its list of the Top 10 amusement parks in the U.S., outside of the Orlando area. The parks are Hershey Park in Hershey, PA, Busch Gardens in Tampa, FL, Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH, ... [More]

The Beast

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The Italian Job: Stunt Track - PKI

Kings Island's newest ride, The Italian Job: Stunt Track, is based on the closing scenes from the 2003 film "The Italian Job," taking riders on a high-speed car chase sequence. The cars, designed to look like the souped-up MINI Cooper automobiles featured in the... [More]

White Water Canyon

A typical white water rapids ride, White Water Canyon takes riders back through the forest areas of Kings Island while threatening them with the proposition of getting absolutely soaked. Multiple viewing areas provide the curious a place to see the ride before they board,... [More]

Vortex

Vortex is Kings Island's big, looping steel coaster. Custom-designed for the park, it features six inversions, and was the first coaster in the world to do so. It features a distinctive blue-and-orange paint job, and sits towards the back left corner of the park.... [More]

Top Gun - PKI

Top Gun is a suspended coaster that was designed to create the sensation of flight through a wooded area. The ride, hidden deep in the corner of the park's Action Zone area, unfortunately doesn't share the inverted design of its California counterpart, which continues... [More]

Tomb Raider: The Ride - PKI

Tomb Raider: The Ride, based on the popular movies starring Angelina Jolie, is an indoor thrill ride that takes place in partial darkness and features both fire and water effects. Guests are turned upside-down four times and stare face-first at the ground from high... [More]

The Wild Thornberrys River Adventure

This newly re-themed ride was originally part of Coney Island, then spent 1972-1999 as the Kings Island Mills Log Flume. It was closed for the duration of 2000, and when it reopened, it had been named after the Nickelodeon characters to match the newly... [More]

Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Castle

This interactive dark ride replaced the park's much maligned — and vandalized — Phantom Theater. Inside, guests board mini-Mystery Machines to help blast ghosts and solve a mystery. Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby are all featured in the ride, offering a bit of... [More]

Rugrats Runaway Reptar Roller Coaster

The world's first inverted kid's coaster, the Rugrats Runaway Reptar Roller Coaster is based on an episode of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon in which the kids try to escape an overgrown Reptar. The ride was designed so that parents could join their kids in... [More]

Flight of Fear - PKI

Flight of Fear is a unique coaster experience. Originally named The Outer Limits: Flight of Fear, it was one of the first coasters to feature a Linear Induction Motor launch system. The coaster rockets out of the station, going from standing to full-speed in... [More]

Face/Off

Face/Off is an inverted coaster with a layout very similar to the boomerang rides that can be found at many Six Flags parks throughout the country. It features six inversions, three experienced forward and three backward, although the order depends on which direction you... [More]

Drop Zone Stunt Tower

Drop Zone Stunt Tower, once the world's tallest gyro-drop ride, features 40 riders that face outward on a ring that spins counterclockwise as it ascends the ride's imposing tower, then free-falls back to the ground with a rush of air, and a surprising amount... [More]

Delirium

Delirium is a Giant Spin ride, spinning guests on a continuous ring in a 240-degree arc up into the air, reaching heights greater than one hundred feet. Perhaps best described as a giant, spinning boat-style ride, it can be found near Son of Beast... [More]

Congo Falls

Congo Falls is the park's large flume ride, holding 20 passengers per boat. If you've ever had an entire bucket of water dumped on you, you have an idea of how wet you get on this ride. Tucked away in the far left-bottom corner... [More]

Adventure Express

Adventure Express is the park's family coaster. It's a "mixed media" coaster, featuring a wooden structure with a steel track, along with four themed tunnels and two lift hills. The themed tunnels feature a mixture of robotic statues, lighting effects, and music.... [More]

The Beastie

The Beastie is a kiddie wooden roller coaster. The ride opened with King's Island in 1972, and was originally called the Scooby Doo. The name was later changed to the Beastie, and a tunnel and new Beast-matching paint scheme were added to make it... [More]

The Racer

A classic out-and-back wooden coaster, The Racer is a twin-track coaster where one side "races" against the other down the first hill and back to the station. When one track began backwards operation in 1982, it became the first backwards facing coaster in the... [More]

Son of Beast

Son of Beast was built to compliment the park's classic coaster, The Beast. The world's first looping wooden roller coaster, the ride also boasts several other records including world's Tallest Wooden Roller Coaster, Longest Wooden Roller Coaster Drop, and the Fastest Wooden Roller Coaster.... [More]

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