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| Adventure Express |
| Park: | Paramount's Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Designer/Manufacturer: | Arrow |
| Coaster Type: | Steel - Mine Train - Sit Down |
| Statistics |
| Length: | 2963' |
| Height: | 63' |
| Inversions: | 0 |
| Speed: | 35 MPH |
| Duration: | 2 minutes; 30 seconds |
| Capacity per Hour: | 1600 |
| Cost: | $4,000,000 |
| Other Information |
| # of seats: | 3 trains with 5 cars per train.
Riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows
for a total of 30 riders per train. |
| Structure: | 180,000 board feet of lumber |
| Features: | Wooden structure, steel track;
four themed tunnels
two lift hills |
| Opening Date: | April 13, 1991 |
| Face/Off |
| Park: | Paramount's Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Designer/Manufacturer: | Vekoma |
| Coaster Type: | Steel - Shuttle - Inverted (Invertigo) |
| Statistics |
| Length: | 985' |
| Height: | 160' |
| Drop: | 138' |
| Inversions: | 3 |
| Speed: | 55 MPH |
| G-Force: | 5.0 |
| Duration: | 1 minute; 30 seconds |
| Capacity per Hour: | 672 |
| Elements: | Cobra Roll (Boomerang)
Vertical Loop |
| Cost: | $4,000,000 |
| Other Information |
| # of seats: | Single train with 7 cars.
Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows
for a total of 28 riders. |
| Features: | One row per car is reversed so riders sit
back-to-back with one row,
while looking face-to-face with riders in other rows. |
| Opening Date: | April 17, 1999 |
| Flight of Fear |
| Name History: | Outer Limits: Flight of Fear (1996-2000)
Flight of Fear (2001-present) |
| Park: | Paramount's Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Designer/Manufacturer: | Premier |
| Consultant: | Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH |
| Coaster Type: | Steel - LIM Launch - Sit Down |
| Statistics |
| Length: | 2705' |
| Height: | 74' |
| Inversions: | 0 |
| Speed: | 55 MPH |
| Acceleration: | 0-60 MPH
in 4 seconds |
| G-Force: | 4.5 |
| Duration: | 2 minutes; 24 seconds |
| Capacity per Hour: | 2000 |
| Elements: | Cobra Roll
Sidewinder
Corkscrew |
| Other Information |
| # of seats: | 4 trains with 6 cars per train.
Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows
for a total of 24 riders per train. |
| History: | Flight of Fear originally had over the shoulder restraints.
For the 2001 season, the over the shoulder restraints
were replaced with lap bar restraints. |
| Opening Date: | 1996 |
| King Cobra |
| Park: | Paramount's Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Designer/Manufacturer: | Togo |
| Coaster Type: | Steel - Standup |
| Statistics |
| Length: | 2219' |
| Height: | 95' |
| Inversions: | 1 |
| Speed: | 50 MPH |
| Duration: | 2 minutes |
| Capacity per Hour: | 1250 |
| Cost: | $3,000,000 |
| Other Information |
| # of seats: | 2 trains with 6 cars per train.
Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows
for a total of 24 riders per train. |
| Structure: | The coaster weighs a total of 500 tons, or 1 million pounds of steel.
Approximately 500 yards of concrete were used in the foundations.
A total of 3,000 nuts and bolts were used. |
| Notes: | First standup roller coaster in the world. |
| Opening Date: | 1984 |
| Closing Date: | 2001 |
| Rugrat's Runaway Reptar |
| Park: | Paramount's Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Designer/Manufacturer: | Vekoma |
| Coaster Type: | Steel - Inverted - Family Coaster |
| Statistics |
| Length: | 1129' |
| Height: | 52' |
| Inversions: | 0 |
| Speed: | 25 MPH |
| G-Force: | 2.0 |
| Duration: | 1 minute; 30 seconds |
| Capacity per Hour: | 650 |
| Cost: | $3,000,000 |
| Other Information |
| # of seats: | Single train with 10 cars.
Riders are arranged 2 across in a single row
for a total of 20 riders. |
| Opening Date: | 2001 |
| Scooby's Ghoster Coaster |
| Park: | Paramount's Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Designer/Manufacturer: | Caripro |
| Coaster Type: | Steel - Suspended (Batflyer) |
| Other Information |
| # of seats: | Single car trains.
Riders are arranged inline in a 2 rows
for a total of 2 riders per car. |
| Opening Date: | 1998 |
| Top Cat's Taxi Jam |
| Name History: | Scooby Zoom (1992-1997)
Top Cat's Taxi Jam (1998-present) |
| Park: | Paramount's Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Designer/Manufacturer: | Miler Coaster, Inc. |
| Coaster Type: | Steel - Kids - Sitdown |
| Statistics |
| Length: | 199' |
| Inversions: | 0 |
| Duration: | 52 seconds |
| Other Information |
| # of seats: | Single train with 6 cars.
Riders are arranged 2 across in a 2 rows
for a total of 12 riders. |
| Opening Date: | 1992 |
| Top Gun |
| Park: | Paramount's Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Designer/Manufacturer: | Arrow |
| Coaster Type: | Steel - Suspended |
| Statistics |
| Length: | 2352' |
| Height: | 78' |
| Inversions: | 0 |
| Speed: | 51 MPH |
| Duration: | 1 minute; 30 seconds |
| Other Information |
| # of seats: | 2 trains with 7 cars per train.
Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows
for a total of 28 riders per train. |
| Structure: | Structure consists of more than 660 tons of steel.
Footers for the ride vary in diameter from 30 inches to 5 feet
with the deepest footers 50 feet in the ground.
Approximately 2,000 yards of concrete used for the foundation. |
| Features: | Station theming, designed to resemble an aircraft carrier,
by John DeCuir, production designer for the motion picture, "Top Gun.". |
| Opening Date: | April 9, 1993 |
| Vortex |
| Park: | Paramount's Kings Island
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Designer/Manufacturer: | Arrow |
| Coaster Type: | Steel - Custom Looping Coaster - Sitdown |
| Statistics |
| Length: | 3800' |
| Height: | 148' |
| First Drop: | 138' (55°) |
| Inversions: | 6 |
| Speed: | 55 MPH |
| Duration: | 2 minutes; 30 seconds |
| Capacity: | 1600 |
| Elements: | Loop (2)
Double Corkscrew
Batwing (Boomerang) |
| Cost: | $4,000,000 |
| Other Information |
| # of seats: | 3 trains with 7 cars per train.
Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows
for a total of 28 riders per train. |
| Structure: | Approximately 1,000 tons of steel used in construction. |
| Opening Date: | April 11, 1987 |
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