The park didn’t add any entirely new rides for the occasion - its last coaster, Orion, is only two years old - but it will be adding new musical acts around the park and bringing back its summer concert series. MASON, Ohio When the iconic Racer roller coaster opens for the season, officials at Kings Island promise a smoother ride. Kings Island is celebrating its 50th anniversary this season. Work has initially set to be complete before the park opened for the season in April but was delayed by bad spring weather. The work has done by the Gravity Group, the Ohio-based coaster firm behind woodies such as The Voyage at Holiday World and had replaced portions of another Kings Island coaster, Racer, during the 2020-21 offseason.īeast mode! #KI50 /EnnxknIocv The first drop also got steeper, going from 45 degrees to 53 degrees. User Park Rating: 95 Register or Login to rate Current Waits. In 2021, Kings Island’s Racer will enter it’s 50th season of operation.

The Mason, Ohio theme park will start its 50th anniversary season on April 15 for. Home > Waits > Cedar Fair > Kings Island. The Racer roller-coaster, one of the most famous coasters in the country, is being renovated and repainted for the first time in 31 years. the use of a single Fast Lane pass per visit, a couple bring-a-friend. Kings Island is celebrating its 50th anniversary season this year by making a major change to one of its most popular rides. 2,000 of its 7,361 feet of track were replaced (in fact, the coaster got slightly longer), including the first drop, the turn towards its second drop and its 540-degree helix tunnel. Park News - (9/11/22) Kings Island has confirmed their list of haunts for the 2022. The Beast at Kings Island reopened on Sunday, May 8, following an offseason of extensive upgrades. The world’s longest wooden roller coaster is once again roaming the woods around Mason, Ohio.

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