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/ September 12, 2026
The Bat is a steel suspended roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on April 9, 1993. It first ran as Top Gun, themed around the Paramount film of the same name, complete with jet-fighter trains and movie-inspired
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/ September 12, 2026
Backlot Stunt Coaster was a steel launched roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Premier Rides and designed by Werner Stengel. It first opened on May 20, 2005 as Italian Job: Stunt Track, themed to the climactic chase scene from the 2003
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/ September 8, 2026
Invertigo is a Vekoma inverted shuttle coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, best known for seating riders in face-to-face rows as the train is launched backward and forward through a vertical loop and a cobra roll. It’s one of only four Invertigo-model coasters Vekoma
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/ September 8, 2026
Diamondback opened at Kings Island on April 18, 2009, as the park’s first Bolliger & Mabillard creation and, at the time, the largest capital investment in the park’s history at roughly $22 million. Built as a steel hypercoaster with an out-and-back layout, it introduced Cincinnati-area
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/ September 7, 2026
Vortex was a steel looping roller coaster that operated at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, from 1987 until 2019. Built by Arrow Dynamics for roughly $4 million, it opened on April 11, 1987, on the same plot of land once occupied by the original suspended
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/ August 16, 2026
Son of Beast was a towering wooden roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that opened on April 28, 2000, as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster in the world. Built by the Roller Coaster Corporation of America with track design by Werner Stengel’s
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/ July 16, 2026
The Racer is a wooden racing roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that opened with the park on April 29, 1972. Designed by legendary coaster architect John C. Allen and built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, it features two parallel tracks, Blue and Red,
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/ June 30, 2026
Soak City is the 35-acre water park inside Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, and it’s included free with every Kings Island ticket and season pass — no separate water park admission required. With 36 water slides, two wave pools, a lazy river, a dual-racing water
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/ June 20, 2026
Kings Island is a 364-acre amusement park in Mason, Ohio, about 24 miles northeast of Cincinnati, known for one of the densest roller coaster lineups in North America. Since opening in 1972, it has grown into a seasonal destination anchored by record-setting coasters, a full
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/ June 17, 2026
The Bat is a suspended steel roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on April 9, 1993. Unlike traditional coasters, its trains hang freely below the overhead rail on pivoting axles, swinging outward through every banked turn to
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/ June 17, 2026
Flight of Fear is famous for one thing above all else: a launch so violent it feels faster than its numbers suggest. Riders go from a dead stop to 54 mph in four seconds, then get thrown through four inversions in total darkness before they’ve
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/ June 15, 2026
Mystic Timbers is the wooden roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that turned a lumber-company ghost story into one of the most talked-about finales in the coaster world. Built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and opened April 15, 2017, it winds through 3,265
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/ May 23, 2026
Kings Island in Mason, Ohio ranks among the most coaster-rich regional parks in the United States, currently operating 16 roller coasters across its 364-acre footprint just north of Cincinnati. Originally opened in 1972, the park combines a serious thrill lineup with a charming themed setting
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/ May 3, 2024
Millennium Force: The Coaster That Changed Everything When Millennium Force opened at Cedar Point in May 2000, it shattered records and redefined what a roller coaster could be. Standing 310 feet tall and reaching speeds of 93 mph, it became the world’s first giga coaster,
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/ August 10, 2023
Standing in line for Orion, the first thing that hits you is the scale. Kings Island’s giga coaster climbs 287 feet into the Ohio sky, and from the crest of that lift hill you can see the entire park spread out below before the train
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/ August 3, 2023
Banshee at Kings Island doesn’t pause at the top of the lift hill. The train crests 167 feet and immediately pitches into a 150-foot, steeply banked dive loop, with inversions starting before riders have time to brace. What follows is 2 minutes and 40 seconds
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/ July 31, 2023
The Beast: A Legend Among Coasters The Beast at Kings Island is not just a roller coaster. It is a journey. Opened in 1979, this legendary wooden coaster holds a special place in the hearts of enthusiasts worldwide. At 7,359 feet long, it was the
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/ July 24, 2023
Orion is Kings Island’s giga coaster — and one of only seven in the world. It stands 287 feet tall, drops 300 feet at a near-vertical 85-degree angle, and hits 91 mph before tearing through seven more hills of sustained airtime. Since opening on July
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/ July 24, 2023
The moment Diamondback’s train hooks the chain at the base of the hill, the clock starts. For the next several seconds, a steady mechanical clatter hauls 32 riders — seated in open, stadium-style rows with nothing but a T-bar across the lap — up 230
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/ July 22, 2023
Few moments in a theme park day stop foot traffic like Diamondback’s splashdown. A 32-passenger train crests a 230-foot lift, hurtles down a 215-foot drop at 74 degrees, tears through airtime hills at 80 mph — and then, in its final seconds, skims a water
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