After months of teasing, Kings Dominion made their biggest announcement in park history today, announcing the all-new Twisted Timbers coaster as well as the addition of Winterfest for the 2018 season! Twisted Timbers is a Rocky Mountain Construction conversion of the former Hurler wooden...
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An Interview with VP/GM of Kings Dominion, Gary Chadwick
Here at Coaster101, we enjoy taking you behind the scenes and talking with people help who make your favorite theme parks run like clockwork. This interview is no different, as this time, we’re talking to Kings Dominion’s General Manager and...
Continue reading...Analyzing Kings Dominion’s 2018 Teases
Something big is happening at Kings Dominion in 2018. We’re going to analyze each tease the park puts out, and see what we can figure out! (Keep in mind that we’re not treating this as science, just having some fun...
Continue reading...Cedar Point Teases Mean Streak Transformation
Cedar Point posted a short video teasing the Mean Streak transformation on their Twitter page today. The video itself is no joke , it does exist, but seeing as how it was released on April 1st, is the content of the...
Continue reading...Food Festivals Flooding Cedar Fair Parks in 2017
Since introducing the Knott’s Berry Farm Boysenberry Festival in 2014, Cedar Fair has steadily been adding more and more food festival type events to their parks. They’ve been doing Taste of the Carolinas at Carowinds since 2015, and last year...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster Of The Week: Hypersonic XLC
Hello friends, and welcome to another edition of A-Z Coaster of the week, where we highlight a coaster that begins with the corresponding letter of the alphabet. For our “H” Coaster, we’re heading to Kings Dominion, and opening up the...
Continue reading...Kings Dominion Announces Snoopy Rides and More for 2017
Kings Dominion today announced the park’s 2017 plans: a Planet Snoopy addition with three kid-friendly rides as well as a number of in-park amenities. The park held a live event to make the announcement — you can watch the video here....
Continue reading...Kings Dominion Announces New Vice President & General Manager
In a press release today, Kings Dominion has announced that Gary Chadwick will be the park’s new Vice President and General Manager. Chadwick joins the Kings Dominion team with 13 years of leadership experience in the amusement park industry. Most...
Continue reading...First Visit to Kings Island Trip Report
As a resident of North Carolina, it’s not often I have the opportunity to travel to the Midwest for a theme park trip. So I knew that when the Coaster101 team planned their inaugural meetup at Holiday World for the last...
Continue reading...Kings Dominion to add “Delirium” in 2016
There was great speculation of what would replace the now-closed (and for sale) Shockwave at Kings Dominion when the park announced the coaster’s August 9 closure in July. We now know what will be occupying that space — “Delirium.” Delirium will be...
Continue reading...Kings Dominion Coasters Reviewed, Part 2
Earlier this month, I visited Kings Dominion for the first time. With 13 new coasters under my belt, I decided to rank them from least to most favorite. Read the first part of my review here. While determining which six...
Continue reading...Kings Dominion Coasters Reviewed, Part 1
I visited Kings Dominion for the first time last week, so I had a lot of coaster-riding to do in my 10 hours at the park. Fortunately, I was able to ride all of the park’s coasters except the very...
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