One was Dominator, which was actually previously located at Geauga Lake, the now-closed park which was the first park I ever worked at. There are two other coasters at the park, though, that were real stand-outs for one reason or another. Volcano-The Blast Coaster was yet another, and it was a launched inverted coaster that blasted riders vertically out of a man-made mountain.
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Another was the Backlot Stunt Coaster, formerly known as The Italian Job – Stunt Track, a smaller launched coaster with cool thematic elements from the movie (the movie reference was removed when Cedar Fair bought Paramount Parks). There was Grizzly, a wooden roller coaster buried in the woods that was crazy fun. As far as the roller coasters went, there were a few highlight rides. The park, along with its sister park Kings Island, was built with a 1/3-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower (complete with observation deck), and in each case they stand at the far end of some beautiful fountains and cool-looking buildings.
The park possesses far more roller coasters than Busch Gardens, and it also has what may be one of the greatest entrance plazas of any park I’ve ever visited. Kings Dominion, located very close to RIC, came the following day, and with it some outstanding experiences of its own. Griffon riders plummet vertically two hundred feet to the ground below The new-to-me roller coasters were Griffon, a monstrous ride with a signature vertical drop (it actually holds riders in place at the precipice for a few moments to heighten the fear factor), and Verbolten, a ride with a goofy, bizarre theme and that also featured the signature drop of the ride it replaced, the Big Bad Wolf. Three of them were at the park during my last visit: the towering out-and-back Apollo’s Chariot, the twisted, enormous inverted Alpengeist, and the classic Loch Ness monster, a ride whose interlocking loops are famous in the amusement industry. The five adult roller coasters at the park possess an average quality that few other parks can match. There aren’t many coasters there, but if there’s one thing that the Busch Gardens/SeaWorld parks are known for believing, it’s that quality counts more than quantity. I hadn’t been to the park in six or seven years, so it was great to get back. It’s an award-winning park not too terribly far from ORF. The first weekend in the tour was a trip I had been trying to take for a few years: a road trip to Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Kings Dominion, Virginia’s two major amusement parks.Īlpengeist features a massive swooping first drop into a ravineīusch Gardens Williamsburg came first. I basically went through a four-week rush to a number of different amusement parks in the United States, Canada, and Germany.
So how have things gone since the last recap? I’m now sitting at seventy-six roller coasters on the year with a lifetime track record that now sits at two hundred and seventy-two. Seeing as the pace at which I was riding roller coasters for the first half of the year wasn’t nearly quick enough to hit one hundred, I had to pick things up a bit.
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