 Welcome back to a brand new video everyone. In today's video I want to discuss the future of Kings Dominion and specifically which roller coaster model they could be receiving next. So stay tuned and we'll talk about several possibilities here. First things first, I got the chance to visit Kings Dominion for the first time in June of 2019 and obviously the whole mountain structure and all of the track of the former volcano the blast coaster had already been torn down. When I rode Avalanche I could see from the top of the hill on that that there's a few supports and pieces of track from volcano still sitting in that area but surely those will be headed to the scrapyard as well. This ride is no more. This leads you to think immediately what is going to replace this massive empty plot of land because based on what I saw this is a pretty good size chunk of land that is just left sitting open with nothing it's just completely vacant and moreover Kings Dominion lost perhaps what was their most popular ride in volcano the blast coaster. Even though the park decided to close volcano early in 2019 that final decision might have been made at that point but the park knew well ahead of this that this could likely be a possibility and I'm sure they were thinking about this at least a year in advance. As we all know volcano operated for only a couple weeks or so at the beginning of the 2018 season and then it closed down and it never opened back up. It was basically closed for all of 2018 and there was a lot of uncertainty about it and then we got the shocking announcement back in February of 2019 that it would officially be removed to many people's dismay. Moving on from volcano what can we expect with Kings Dominion's next coaster? First of all looking at the past at Kings Dominion they are in an interesting place because they've lost a lot of major coasters over the recent years but haven't really received much of anything major. In fact Kings Dominion did not receive a coaster for eight years they got Intimidator 305 in 2010 which was a huge investment but then they didn't get any new coaster until 2018 when they converted the old hurler into the RMC coaster now known as Twisted Timbers which is an excellent addition by the way but in addition to hurler closing at the end of the 2015 season they also lost another major coaster in 2015 which was Shockwave their Togo stand-up coaster and then of course Volcano is now gone as well with nothing replacing it and nothing ever replaced Shockwave so they've been losing a lot and they haven't really received anything major in recent years besides Twisted Timbers. So what coaster model could potentially come to Kings Dominion and take the place of Volcano? I have a few options here actually quite a few options as a matter of fact Kings Dominion has in my opinion a pretty solid lineup of coasters already but it definitely is not the most well-rounded and there's a lot that they could potentially add to this park. With that in mind let's start with one thing that I just want to sort of get out of the way I'm going to start with some of the ones that I think are less likely first of all a B&M dive coaster these have been really popular in recent years especially with Sea of Fair so one would think okay maybe they could add a B&M dive coaster the only B&M coaster currently at Kings Dominion is Dominator after all the Floralist coaster but I don't think a B&M dive coaster is coming to Kings Dominion and that is because Bushkerns Williamsburg is less than an hour and a half down the road and from what I've heard Kings Dominion has stated in the past that they do not want to add anything that Bushkerns has in their lineup apparently and that makes sense the parks are so close together and they're competing it just wouldn't make a whole lot of sense especially when it comes to a dive coaster because they're all pretty similar really another option is a B&M inverted coaster this is kind of a weird one because Elpin Geist is at Bushkerns Williamsburg and while it is the same model it's a much older invert and the inverted models are more dynamic and are more diverse in their elements than say a dive coaster so they could definitely do something unique with us especially if they did a launched inverted coaster which would be awesome to sort of pay respect to Volcano and replace that spot of the inverted coaster while I think an inverted coaster would be awesome for Kings Dominion I don't think it's a very likely option just because it is kind of weird to take out an inverted coaster and then replace it with an inverted coaster even though they would be two very different rides but you have to look at it from a business perspective and from the eyes of the general public and taking all that into consideration I don't really think a B&M inverted coaster is going to happen either one option that Kings Dominion could go for is a Gerstlauer infinity coaster maybe something along the lines of Hangtime at Knott's Berry Farm in recent years Cedar Fair has shown that they're willing to work with manufacturers that they've never worked with before such as Mach Gerstlauer RMC Hangtime which opened in 2018 at Knott's Berry Farm was Cedar Fair's first Gerstlauer coaster and it seems to be doing pretty well I think a Gerstlauer infinity coaster wouldn't be a bad addition to Kings Dominion but I just don't see it being a very likely option I don't think it would add a lot to Kings Dominion's lineup now this could sort of be the spot of like the dive coaster since it sort of is like a dive coaster hangtime is anyway how it has the holding brake at the top and it's been marketed as a dive coaster so it could be like getting a dive coaster for Kings Dominion while being completely different than Griffin right down the road Gerstlauer infinity is an interesting option I don't think it's very likely for Kings Dominion I don't think it would do a whole lot for their lineup to be quite honest now from here on out I'm going to talk about a few models that I think could be much more likely than the previous ones I mentioned and to start off I'm going to talk about a Mach multi-launch coaster Copperhead Strike which opened this year at Carowinds has been a great success and I believe that we will be seeing at least a couple more of these coming down the line in the Cedar Fair chain I would be quite happy about that I was a really big fan of Copperhead Strike it has excellent theming and it's a great coaster that bridges the gap between family and thrill it's still a very thrilling ride but it's not too intense and everybody can enjoy it it's just a really fun ride Kings Dominion does have a couple launch coasters already in the form of flight of fear and LSM inverting launch coaster by premiere which is over 20 years old at this point and also there's Backlot stunt coaster but that is very much a strictly family coaster I think this would be a great success for Kings Dominion it could be marketed very well these Mach multi launches have proven time and time again to be very successful and especially with the opening of Copperhead Strike I believe we could be seeing more of these and even though Kings Dominion has a launched family coaster this is definitely much more thrilling than something like Backlot and it would feature a few inversions and very comfortable lap bars and it would just provide a whole new experience for the park in addition to replacing an old launch coaster and I'm sure it would pay tribute to Volcano in some way moving on we have a BNM wing coaster now I think a BNM wing coaster could actually be very likely for Kings Dominion we've only seen one of these so far in the Cedar Fair chain in the form of Gatekeeper at Cedar Point and Kings Dominion only has the one BNM coaster up to this point which is Dominator I think they could really use another BNM in their lineup it would help to round it out a little more a wing coaster I think could be a great icon in the park they're very nice looking rides and very well presented I believe that the plot of Land War Volcano sat could occupy a really good size wing coaster and moreover they could make it a launched wing coaster potentially like Thunderbird at Holiday World which is by and far the best wing coaster out there it's an excellent ride if they utilize the Land War Volcano sat and made a larger scale launch wing coaster I think that would be an amazing fit it could be a new icon for that area which is sorely lacking now and overall I think it would just help to round out Kings Dominion's lineup really well they do have a couple launch coasters already but they would be very different from this and this would be a great fit the last option that I want to talk about for Kings Dominion is a BNM hyper coaster so if you look at all of the other cedar fair parks that have a giga coaster namely cedar point carowinds and Canada's Wonderland they all also feature a hyper coaster carowinds and Canada's Wonderland have a BNM giga and a BNM hyper coaster while cedar point has an Intamin giga and an aerodynamic hyper coaster it's really interesting that they added this wild super intense giga coaster built by Intamin and never added any sort of hyper it seems to be one of the missing spots in their lineup and furthermore if they added a BNM hyper it could also serve as a alternative to Intimidator 305 which I think many guests find to be just too extreme it never really has long lines at all a lot of times it's just a walk on and it's such an intense ride that a lot of people just don't want to ride it over and over a BNM hyper would be a good alternative to that because they're not very intense rides but they're still very large thrilling and attract a wide audience so I think it'd be a great business move for Kings Dominion to put something like a BNM hyper in I don't know how much they could fit into this land exactly but I'm sure they could get creative and work something in there and come up with a pretty unique BNM hyper layout that would really do good things for Kings Dominion and alternatively as I mentioned earlier Cedar Fair has been working with different manufacturers that they've never worked with before in recent years including Mach so instead of getting a Mach multi launch coaster they could maybe do a Mach hyper coaster something along the lines of DC rivals which would be absolutely incredible to see in the United States so what do you guys think about all these options what do you think Kings Dominion is going to see as the next major coaster in their lineup I believe that they could be receiving a new coaster within the next couple years seeing as they've lost so many in recent years especially losing volcano which was seemingly their most popular ride and they really need something to bring more guests in so what do you guys think what do you think is the most likely option out of these or maybe there's 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