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Cedar Fair wanted to test the system before deploying to every location, and Kings Island was chosen for that purpose. [3] Fast Lane received positive feedback, and it generated nearly $1 million in half a season. [4] Cedar Fair deemed it a success and decided to roll out Fast Lane to the rest of their parks in 2012. [4]
Amusement Today awarded Kings Island with the Golden Ticket Award for "Best Kids' Area in the World" for eighteen consecutive years (2001–2018). [127] [128] Kings Island's Planet Snoopy was also the largest in the Cedar Fair(now Six Flags) chain until 2013, when Kings Dominion doubled the size of its Planet Snoopy section. [129]
Inside Kings Island's main entrance. Kings Island is a 364-acre (147 ha) amusement park located in Mason, Ohio.The park is known for releasing record-breaking and first-of-a-kind rides over the years, such as Flight of Fear, the world's first launched roller coaster using a linear induction motor, and The Beast which opened as the world's tallest, fastest, and longest wooden roller coaster in ...
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The ride reopened at Kings Island the following year under the new name Firehawk. On September 27, 2018, Kings Island announced that they would remove the ride from the park following the 2018 season due to increased downtime and the manufacturer, Vekoma, had stopped supporting the model, causing parts for the ride to become scarce.
Paramount Communications, previously known as Gulf+Western, in turn had acquired the parks from Nelson Schwab and his management group.Schwab and his KECO Entertainment acquired the group in a management-led LBO from the Taft Broadcasting Company, which had built Kings Island in Cincinnati using rides that were moved from the Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio Taft had just closed.
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Xtreme Skyflyer (known as RipCord at Carowinds [4]) is a Skycoaster at several Six Flags parks. The Carowinds and Kings Island models opened in 1995, while the Canada's Wonderland and Kings Dominion models opened in 1996 followed by California's Great America which opened their model in 1997.