Kings Island (Rides & Roller Coasters HD Overview 2014)

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View HD footage of the rides and roller coasters of Kings Island, one of Ohio's largest amusement parks. Opened in 1972, Kings Island was built as Coney Island's replacement and was built by the Taft Broadcasting Company. The park opened with the Racer as its headline attraction, which is located in the Coney Mall section of Kings Island, paying homage to the original Coney Island in Cincinnati, Ohio. The park awed the world in 1979 with the introduction of the Beast, the largest wooden coaster at its time and is still the world's longest wooden coaster to this day. The park had a prototype coaster built in 1981 named The Bat. The coaster was somewhat of a failure and had its last season of operation in 1983 and was replaced years later by Vortex, the first coaster to feature six inversions. Paramount became owners of Kings Island in 1992 and built Top Gun (now named Bat) as their first attraction, themed after their famous movie that bears the same name. Paramount re-did the Adventure Village themed area to Action Zone and introduced Drop Zone (now named Drop Tower), Face/Off (now named Invertigo), and Son of Beast, the tallest wooden coaster ever built. Cedar Fair purchased Paramount Parks in 2006, which made Cedar Fair the new (and current) owner and operator of Kings Island. Cedar Fair's first addition was Firehawk, a Vekoma Flying Dutchman roller coaster that formerly operated at Geauga Lake. Diamondback opened in 2009 as the tallest coaster built in Kings Island's history and is currently the star attraction of the park. The park introduced its most expensive addition in 2014: Banshee, which is the world's longest inverted roller coaster and one of the tallest inverted roller coasters in the world. Kings Island is located 20 miles northeast of Cincinnati in Kings Mills, Ohio. This video features a visual summary of the park and its attractions.

Filmed August 18th and 19th, 2014.

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