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Park News - (5/25/09) Check out these Pictures and a Video taken at the Funnel Cake eating contest at Kings Dominion this past weekend. Keep going through the photos to see even more pictures of the park.
  (5/19/09) Lots of fun at Kings Dominion this weekend as the park will not only open up Waterworks this weekend, but will also play host to the World Funnel Cake Eating Championship” competition, featuring fifteen of the biggest Major League Eaters.
  (5/12/09) We’ve been told that Kings Dominion re-opened Grizzly last weekend, though it only seemed to be running one train.
  (5/6/09) According to the park’s website, the rehab taking place on Grizzly will keep the ride closed until May 23rd.
  (4/22/09) Despite the odd events of the past two days over a clearing behind Anaconda, it seems evidence proving the park is planning a possible new coaster for 2010 has been uncovered. Scroll down to the 2010 entry to read more.
  (4/21/09) The pictures of the “clearing” behind Anaconda on the KDFansite forum have since been removed by the poster. It seems they got a little embarrassed or something when the pictures became the subject of one of our news updates. As I pointed out before, it really was nothing to worry about and certainly not for a new coaster or big. Move along… nothing to see here.
  (4/20/09) If you take a look at a few pictures posted to the KD Fansite this weekend, you’ll see there is some kind of large clearing behind Anaconda. It seems a bit far and out of the way for a new attraction, so I’m going to hazzard a guess that perhaps this may be either for a new haunt structure or for a new park storage building. Cedar Fair has been investing in new infrastructure improvements like this at some of the parks lately, for example last year not only did Carowinds get a new perminant building to be used for the Haunt, but they also built a sizable new backstage building as well behind their Simulator. Anyone know more?

2009 - Americana & El Dorado Drive In - (5/6/09) A video of the Americana ferris wheel showing off it’s new light package has been posted to YouTube.
  (4/9/09) The Americana ferris wheel apparently did not open yet, but is due to open either today or Friday at the latest. Apparently the ride has been seen testing lately quite frequently.
  (3/20/09) KDFansite has posted news update and pictures from Kings Dominion this week, showing off El Dorado and Americana.
  (1/30/09) While I don’t believe they have been added to the website yet, new logos for the Americana giant wheel and El Dorado Drive-In were sent out in a park e-newsletter advertising the fact that they were now hiring for 2,500 positions. I figured they wouldn’t mind, so I lifted them from the newsletter and have reposted the logos here for your enjoyment.
  (1/16/09) KDFansite has posted a new blog update showing off new off-season pictures taken in the park, including a look at the old Hypersonic site.
  (12/23/08) Make the jump over to KDFansite to see their latest video Podcast that goes behind the scenes inside the park to check on the new construction progress.
  (11/21/08) Kings Dominion itself has now finally confirmed the addition of the 110 foot tall Americana Ferris wheel and El Dorado in the Grove area somewhere between the Rebel Yell and Hurler areas. They point out that Americana will be the first ferris wheel in the park ever.
  (11/20/08) According to one reader, during the ACE Fall Thrillfest event someone from the park informed the group that upon inspection the Black Squid was not in good enough shape to be run again and wouldn’t be installed as originally planned.
  (11/19/08) A press release from Cedar Fair outlining their plans for $62 million in capital projects for the 2009 season confirms that “The Americana Ferris wheel” and “El Dorado” are coming to the park’s Grove section in 2009. Nothing at all was mentioned about the Black Squid ride also sent in from Geauga Lake so perhaps they have changed their mind about that one.

2010 - New Coaster - Under Construction -  (7/1/09) A reader has sent in a few new pictures of the red track taken a couple of days ago. Meanwhile the KD Fansite has posted some new coverage of their own, spotting some of the first footers being formed.
  (6/26/09) The latest track photos from Kings Dominion reveal that the new coaster will apparently have a cable lift, as track sections similar to those used on Millennium Force’s lift have been identified at KD Fansite. Of course the launch sections of their Rocket coasters also use a cable system, and kind of look similar also. So… cable launch or cable lift? You decide.
   (6/23/09) A new construction update for the Kings Dominion 2010 coaster project can be found at KD Fansite as more track is arriving at the park. Meanwhile a new set of pictures posted to Theme Park Review have also confirmed that the new ride is only an Intamin (with the spotting of an Intamin shipping label) but also the text labeling the ride as a “Giga Coaster” on a box of bolt washers.
  (6/19/09) Some new pictures show off the construction of new footers for the coaster, posted to KD Fansite.
  (6/18/09) Thanks to one of our readers I’ve got a few pictures of the few yellow supports that were left behind when all the iSpeed style supports were loaded up and taken away.
  (6/15/09) New red coaster track has arrived on site at Kings Dominion now that has quite a unique look, with a double-spine as you can see in the pictures sent to Screamscape. While at first I was tempted to label this as being Premier Rides track, my sources tell me that this is in fact a new track design from Intamin, which was first spotted a few months ago being installed over in Abu Dhabi at the Ferrari World park there. In the case of Ferrarri World, the track was being used for a coaster promised to be a contender for the coaster world speed record, but no exact details have been given. Could Kings Dominion also be in line for such a high speed style ride as well? You can also see even more pictures of the track posted to the Coaster Crew website.
  (6/11/09) In a strange move all those supports we’ve seen dropped off at Kings Dominion over the past week have been packed back up in the trucks and hauled off. Yep… hauled off. Could these Intamin pieces have been delivered to the wrong park? Seems so as the Coaster Crew was on site with a video camera when they shockingly discovered that the pieces were being loaded back onto the truck. Could those pieces be on the way to Carowinds now? Too strange… but I’m sure everyone now has their eyes peeled to find them again.

  (6/4/09) After some study time with the photos of new supports on site at the park and consultations with several other sources on the matter, I can now say that the new coaster will be an Intamin ride of some kind. The new square supports mixed with the cylinder top section are identical to those just installed on iSpeed in Italy this year.
  That said, the rumors so far are pointing to a couple of possibilities as for what kind of coaster it is. Given that the park just removed Hypersonic, it seems a good bet that this new coaster would very likely be another launched coaster experience, perhaps even with a giant Top Hat hill after the launch, to kind of make up for the loss of Hypersonic. This doesn’t mean that we’re looking at another iSpeed or even something more like Maverick however, as Intamin is always full of surprises. One possible rumor going around is that this could perhaps be the American premiere of the Wing Rider style coaster, like Furius Baco at PortAventura. Either way, a launched coaster is the most likely possibility. More on this when we find out.
  Finally check out the video clip below from the Coaster Crew who went to check out the coaster supports for themselves as well as check out the clearing for the new ride, which has grown to include a new narrow strip heading out behind Rebel Yell from what I’ve been told.

  (6/3/09) I’m surprised that they showed up so soon, but a truck load of yellow coaster support pieces arrived at the park the other day and have quickly become the hot subject in the coaster community. It’s hard to tell just what kind they are from the photos posted at KD Fansite, but from my limited view if I had to guess I would say that they’re not B&M. While they could be Intamin, something just doesn’t look right, so I’m thinking it could be something else... I just don’t know yet. It has been pointed out that Intamin’s new iSpeed coaster does have a new style square support instead of the traditional round ones, which you can see here. That weird octagon shaped base section and the fact that many sections are square instead of round is throwing me though, anyone seen something similar on another coaster anywhere else? Oh, head to Page 3 and you’ll see that land clearing has also begun.
  (6/2/09) The latest word from local sources claims that there is very little going on at the proposed site for the 2010 coaster… no obvious visible survey markings, nada. That said, the latest rumors do indicate that the plan is to develop the site next to Flight of Fear in a similar fashion to how Firehawk was installed next to FoF at Kings Island, with guest access using the same pathway and all. That said, the ride location may lie more behind Anaconda than Rebel Yell. I’ve heard a couple of conflicting reports about equipment on site as well, with one trusted source telling me that they saw no heavy equipment at all on site, while another claims to have seen a few items. If the equipment is on site, we may expect to see some land clearing sometime this month.
  (5/28/09) According to a reader a survey crew may have been spotted on site behind Anaconda this week. According to their story, the workers may have been making some marks with orange paint, leaving a few marks here and there, but still nothing major. Anyone else seen this?
  (5/25/09) According to a reader who did a little more digging, they uncovered a little more info about the plans for the new coaster. From what they saw, the site for the new ride indicated on the expansion plans cleared showed off that the site for the 2010 coaster would be in the area behind Anaconda and Rebel Yell. Anyone else know more?
  (4/22/09) About a dozen people sent in news today that proof that the park was planning a new coaster had been discovered. Click on this link to open a page from the local government that was released last week that mention expansion plans for Kings Dominion for a “New Roller Coaster”. Unfortunately it doesn’t give off any other information about the project, instead focusing on things like grading, erosion and stormwater runoff sites. With all this talk about water and such, it would make sense if the new coaster were going to somehow be built alongside or interact with lake.
  Who knows... perhaps they’ll even expand the lake, making it a much more prominent part of the park once again as it once was long ago. I can think of at least one reader who would be overjoyed at the thought of that concept alone. Of course, just because they mentioned adding a new coaster, this doesn’t mean it will be a big one. It could be any size ride at this point, as it’s too early to tell, or even a hybrid style ride, like a water coaster as the park could really use another water ride on that side of the park now. Of course the last time Cedar Fair altered an existing park lake, we got Diamondback at Kings Island. Take that for what you will, more on this as we find out.