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Park News - (9/30/09) Screamscape has been informed that Kings Dominion has also confirmed that Scooby Doo will be coming out of the park’s dark ride for the 2010 season. The ride will remain open, just all the Scooby Doo themeing will be removed.
    (8/18/09) Some new construction pictures from the park have been posted here, which show of the now cleared out Dodgem building which will become a new Haunt this year. Meanwhile KD Fansite has the list of all the haunts and scare zones posted. The list mentions Medieval Macabre and Slaughterhouse as the two new haunts, along with the return of Maze of Madness, Blue Ridge Bloodbath, Blackbeard’s Revenge, Club Blood, Toxic Plague, Big Top Terror and Alien Outpost.

2010 - Planet Snoopy - Confirmed - (8/25/09) The Kings Dominion website has revealed a new secret for the 2010 season… that Planet Snoopy is on the way. On the new season pass pre-sale page it confirms the news by saying that “Snoopy, Charlie Brown and friends are moving into their new home and taking over Nickelodeon Central and Hanna-Barbera Land. Kings Dominion’s newest arrival lands on Planet Snoopy in 2010!”

2010 - Intimidator 305 - (11/12/09) Lots of updates from Kings Dominion this week, thanks to KD Fansite. Track work has begun on Rebel Yell, plus Intimidator 305 construction updates.  A video update can also be found at YouTube.
    (10/28/09) CoasterNet has posted some new Intimidator 305 construction pictures this week.
    (10/22/09) A new Intimidator 305 construction update has been posted to KDFansite.
    (10/14/09) A new video construction update can be found posted over at YouTube.
    (8/28/09) A reader sent us a link to check out a better photograph of Intamin’s ‘shoulder strap’ harness system as used on Inferno at Terra Mitica. This is most likely what we will see from Intimidator 305.
    (8/27/09) After all this talk and second guessing about the restraint system that will be featured on Intimidator 305, I went right to the source and asked John Pagel, KD’s Marketing Manager, to try and clear up the issue for us. According to John, “The restraint system will not be like the ones seen on the animations and on Maverick.” Now this is where things get tricky, as even John isn’t 100% certain exactly what it will be as the only official descriptive information they have right now is what’s on the website that labels them as, “over the shoulder straps”. So until the train actually arrives on site at the park, we wont know anything for sure. HOWEVER… I’m going to make an educated guess that what we’ll see may end up being the new “should strap” looking version of the restraint just installed on Bakken’s new spinning coaster, Tornado. You can see them quite well in this Tornado video clip down below. If anything, the new belt looking system will fit the NASCAR theme quite well.

    (8/23/09) There has been some debate about the style of restraints to be used on Intimidator 305 ever since the announcement. The first press release that came out really said nothing about the restraints, but the video animation clearly showed off Intamin’s current style of OTS restraints. Once the Intimidator305.com website went live, it confused people a bit more by mentioning that the restraints would only be over the shoulder lapbars… which seemed to imply they may have been more like the system installed on Pilgrim’s Plunge. However the site has been updated once again to more clearly label the restraint system as featuring an, “overhead lap bar with shoulder straps”. Meanwhile you can see a bunch of new pictures posted to Coaster-Net and Coaster Connection.
    (8/21/09) The big news of the day… and I mean BIG… is Intimidator 305, the new coaster going into Kings Dominion for 2010. The coaster was named and themed after famous NASCAR racer, Dale Earnhardt, with the trains being decorated to resemble is classic black #3 car. As you can see in the artwork, the layout kind of a hybrid of Millennium Force mixed with the popular Mega-Lite layout.  It will feature a quick cable lift taking you 305 feet into the sky, dropping you 300 feet to the ground at 85º where you will rush around through turns and air-time hills at speeds up to 92mph. There are many videos on the official site, but I’ve embedded one I found on YouTube below for your immediate enjoyment down below.
    One more thing… if you take a look at the trains you will notice that they feature Intamin’s current over the shoulder restraint system instead of a simple lap-bar. This has caused quite a few people to wonder why… and while the park made no statement about it, the true meaning is clear and cuts to the bone.  After ten years of complaints from larger american’s not being able to fit on Millennium Force and Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point, it seems they just chose to avoid the problem just as Six Flags did with Kingda Ka, and install the more roomy OTS restraint system instead. The OTS are much more accommodating for larger riders… but are still too tight a fit for many. Chances are, if you fit in a Big Boy seat on a B&M like Dominator, you will probably just fit on Intimidator. Oh… and a few new construction pics were also posted to Behind the Thrills.