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/ September 29, 2026
Snoopy’s Soap Box Racers is a family boomerang roller coaster that opened May 24, 2024, at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, as the marquee attraction of the park’s new Camp Snoopy area within Planet Snoopy. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, the ride reimagines the classic…
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/ September 28, 2026
All 23 roller coasters in Kings Island history on one timeline, from opening-day The Racer to Orion, including removed rides like Son of Beast, Vortex, King Cobra and the original Bat.
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/ September 25, 2026
WinterFest at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, is the park’s holiday event, and the 2026 edition runs select nights from November 27 to December 31, 2026. The official park page describes festive light displays with millions of shimmering lights, family activities, live entertainment, holiday-inspired comfort…
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/ September 25, 2026
Halloween Haunt at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio runs on select nights from September 25 through October 31, 2026. The park’s official page lists the event as Halloween Haunt Presented by SNICKERS. It is an after-dark event, so the park does not run it every…
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/ September 18, 2026
Adventure Express is a steel mine train roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Arrow Dynamics and opened to the public on April 13, 1991. Designed by Ron Toomer, the ride was conceived as a heavily themed jungle expedition, with park officials…
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/ September 17, 2026
Woodstock Express is a wooden roller coaster in the Planet Snoopy section of Kings Island near Mason, Ohio. It holds a special distinction among the park’s rides: it’s one of the original attractions that opened with Kings Island on April 29, 1972, making it more…
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/ September 17, 2026
King Cobra was a steel stand-up roller coaster that operated at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, from 1984 to 2001. Manufactured by the Japanese company Togo and designed by James Rogan, it stood out in coaster history as the first stand-up roller coaster in the…
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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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/ August 15, 2026
Deep in the wooded hills behind Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, The Beast has been devouring riders since 1979 — and no wooden roller coaster on Earth has ever matched its sheer size. At 7,361 feet (2,244 m) of track sprawled across 35 acres of…
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/ July 16, 2026
The Racer is the wooden racing roller coaster that opened Kings Island itself on April 29, 1972 — and more than five decades later, its twin Blue and Red trains are still launching side by side across Coney Mall for a photo-finish sprint to the…
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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
Few coasters anywhere still do what The Bat does. Tucked into the Action Zone section of Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, its trains don’t lock onto the rails — they hang from them, swinging freely on pivoting axles so every banked curve sends riders arcing…
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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 about four seconds, then get thrown through four inversions in total darkness before…
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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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