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Volcano: The Blast Coaster, or simply Volcano, was an inverted launched roller coaster located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, United States. Designed by Werner Stengel , it was the first launched roller coaster manufactured by Intamin and the first of its kind in the world to be inverted.
Volcano: The Blast Coaster was an inverted launched coaster that operated at the park from 1998 to early 2018, situated inside of the preceding Smurf Mountain structure. In February 2019, Kings Dominion announced that Volcano had been decommissioned, citing issues with reliability, rider capacity, and overall customer satisfaction.
In 1979, "The Lost World" opened, 4 years after Kings Dominion's opening. With 17 million dollars, ... In February 2019, it was announced that Volcano, The Blast ...
Kings Dominion later explained the closure through a statement released on their official Facebook page on August 28, 2013, which stated that a problem with the weight distribution on the gearbox caused a part to warp and fail. The replacement part had to be custom-built in another country, causing the extended closure.
Anaconda was a steel roller coaster located at Kings Dominion, in the Jungle X-Pedition section of the park.Built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, Anaconda opened in 1991 as the first looping roller coaster to feature an underwater tunnel and the first at Kings Dominion with more than one inversion.
On August 1, 2000, it was announced that Hypersonic XLC would be coming to Kings Dominion for the 2001 season. It would be one of the park's three launched roller coasters, with the others being Flight of Fear and Volcano: The Blast Coaster. To save on costs, the park decided to buy the Thrust Air 2000 prototype from the S&S Worldwide testing ...
The merger of Kings Dominion’s owner with amusement park giant Six Flags became official Monday. It’s the fifth owner in the park’s 49-year-history.
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