Yamez's Kings Dominion Trip!

[Yamez]

Hello everyone! My name is James (Yamez on most boards) I'm currently located in Alexandria, Virginia. I grew up in Toldeo, Ohio (I visited Sea World Ohio!) and basically lived at Cedar Point during the summer as my grandparents all live there. Since this is my first PTR on these boards I figured I'd do that bit of introduction before launching into my trip report.

 

Pictures are above the captions.

 

Anyways, on with the show:

 

Cast of Characters:

 

 

This is me!

 

 

This is Kelly!

 

 

This is me with some awesome black chicks who kept us entertained!

 

 

Kings Dominion is situated a couple miles outside of Richmond (and by a couple I mean about 30 minutes, or 10 if you're Kelly...). Coming from Alexandria this would normally be a 2 hour trip. However because Kelly loves to speed (90mph in the HOV lanes...) we got there in about an hour.

 

**Please note that I do not condone the action of speeding. Speeding is very bad kids, especially when you're approaching intent to kill! Don't speed (or listen to Yamez for that matter, because he's a filthy hypocrite)

!***

 

 

Some of the traffic that we drove through.

 

 

Oh is that a Kings Dominion sign?!

 

 

YES! After several near death experiences we have reached our destination.

 

 

Oh, look at that pretty little thing right there...

 

 

Y HALO THAR DOMINATOR! HOW ARE YOU?

 

Our first ride of the day was Flight of Fear because we didn't want to wait in the 30 minute lines that were Dominator and Volcano. Flight of Fear was a WALK ON, plus it had air conditioning! I didn't take any pictures of the inside (because I'm an epic fail!) and I doubt you care about a steel building. Call it a hunch. After that we headed over to the "Backlot Stunt Coaster", which they really need some better people to name this stuff. Anyways, I got some fun and exciting pictures of it, so have a look see!

 

 

NERD PUMP SHOT OMG!

 

 

I'm proud of this shot, it took me 3 tries to get it!

 

 

A bit of the theming and first helix.

 

 

I thought this shot was fun, this is the drop right after the helix.

 

Since we arrived so late we decided to find some sort of food, we ended up a chick-fil-a paying outrageous prices for some food. Woo. I'm so enthused!

 

Anyways, after that we went up into the Eiffel Tower and I got some nice pictures of the rides and the park.

 

 

Dominator, its so sexy it hurts!

 

 

Go go first drop!

 

 

Trims were off today and the Cobra Roll had AWESOME forces.

 

 

I enjoy overbanked turns...a lot.

 

 

Quick batman! To the brake run!

 

 

Main Street and the fountains therein

 

 

Scooby Doo! I really do like this coaster, great for the kids.

 

 

The left side of the park.

 

 

Kiddie Cars!

 

 

Avalanche, the molestation coaster!

 

 

Volcano and its three, count 'em, THREE in-line twists! Plus that half loop thing.

 

 

Diving down back into the Volcano.

 

 

Anaconda

 

 

Some Anaconda and Backlot Stunt goodness.

 

 

Anaconda diving into the lake.

 

 

Corkscrewed.

 

 

Ok, small side note: I HATE FREE FALL RIDES. That is all.

 

 

Evil...

 

 

The lesser of two Evils. This thing smashed my manhood last year, I refuse to ride it again.

 

 

This was a lot of photos, I'll post some more later if people seem interested. I took just under 120 pictures that day so I've got plenty more to share!

[Electerik]

Thanks for the TR! You've got some good ones in there.

 

Just to be pesky, though: You introduced "Kelly," but she's never in any other pictures.

[Yamez]

There will be more! I just haven't quite gotten to those yet

[KDCOASTERFAN]

Great pics man,keep them coming.

 

Good thing you didn't take pics in the FOF queue,I did th at in the station on opening day & got reprimanded by the ops who came on the PA saying "no flash photography permitted in station" good thing I didn't get booted from the ride for that.Another thing I noticed was the clearing behind Anaconda looks to have the makings of a service road on it....I'll have to review my pics from last year to see if that was already there or not but then again when building a new coaster the service roads are among the last things to be built as they need to tear up the site to place footers first.

[sfmmrules!]

Those rocking upside down ships are rare. There aren't too many of those around. CGA has one known as Endavor. I went on it when I was in 4th grade in 1993 & I was so scared I thought I was going to fall out. I didn't go on it again until 2002. I enjoyed it the second time. I went on it a couple more times but now I can't go on it anymore. Those kind of rides make me feel sick now!!!

[Yamez]

^^ I can't say I've ever had any issues with taking pictures in the park, the employees are pretty good about it. Heck they've even posed with my friends before.

 

^ I didn't know that. My issue with them is the automatic restraints, they press down so freaking hard it hurts!

 

Without further delay, we shall continue the story:

 

Here's a few more pictures from the tower:

 

 

The rear of the park

 

 

Rebel Yell!

 

 

I don't know why I took so many pictures of something I hate.

 

 

Water park shot.

 

 

Americana! "New" for 2009.

 

 

Togo machine of doom.

 

 

Shockwave...

 

 

One last picture of the Togo standup.

 

 

This ride is AWESOME

 

 

Ricochet! I <3 you.

 

 

Hurler! Teehee.

 

 

Grizzly wasn't running today

 

 

Grizzly station and transfer track.

 

 

Really boring log flume. It goes up down turn around up down done. Bleh.

 

 

Another flat ride that I enjoy immensely.

 

 

Sky Swing and El Dorado. El Dorado is a pretty big hit with the KD crowds.

 

 

Kings Dominion actually has a surprising amount of foliage. Somewhere in there are antique cars.

 

 

See!

 

 

Construction for 2010?

 

 

It wasn't too busy today.

 

 

Creeper shot.

 

After that we left the tower to go walk around some more and hit some rides. We rode Scooby Doo's Ghoster Coaster (because we're just big kids anyways) and had a blast. But then again we're slightly dumb, so it all works out

 

 

Scooby Doo!

 

 

Dominator shot from Scooby Doo's line.

 

 

Another Dominator shot.

 

After Scooby we decided it was hot enough to go find a way to cool off. We walked toward the log flume and rapids but they were about a 2 hour wait. Not happening. So we headed over to Flight of Fear which surprisingly only had a 45 minute wait (in air conditioning!) so we decided to hit that up.

 

 

Kelly is OH so attractive when shes hot and fussed.

 

 

Only Guard kids would take their shoes off in line.

 

Anyways, after FoF we went over to Volcano whose line wasn't too bad. About an hour, so we decided we might as well wait and get the credit done.

 

 

Molestation machine!

 

 

Dictator shot.

 

 

Why Kelly, you look so very attractive!

 

 

Small side story: Every time we come to Kings Dominion we always manage to find a condom of some sort (open, unused, closed, etc). We win the game today!

 

 

Spinny spin spin FLIP

 

 

Its gonna getchu!

 

 

Train shot.

 

 

Nerd shot.

 

 

LIM stators are GO!

 

 

 

Again, why did I take pictures of this? Its out to get me, its stalking me...

 

After Volcano we moved our way down the midway toward Americana to relax a bit. We rode Rebel Yell (walk on!) and then hit Americana to get our headaches to subside. I got some really nice shots up there and the view is spectacular at the top for its location. Going light on the commentary, I'm sure everyone will appreciate it

 

 

 

 

Kelly!

 

 

Bright lights 1. James 0.

 

 

 

Artsy I thought.

 

 

 

One of the few shots with us both in it.

 

After Americana's 30 minute cycle we wanted to hit a few water rides so we went and dropped off the camera at the locker. However, Kelly took this awesome picture of the Eiffel Tower on the way up there.

 

 

After taking this picture we got ourselves a little wet, then hit up Avalanche and Dominator one last time before heading out of the park. I'll end this trip report with a pretty night shot of the Eiffel Tower and the fountains at the front of the park.

 

 

Hope you all enjoyed and feel free to insert suggestions, comments, and questions below!

[palmerleeberry]

Great Photo trip report on my favorite park (Thirty-one seasons of going there and counting!!!).

 

I understand that weekend at Kings Dominion was hot and sunny. Tis a shame the waterpark won't be opened until May 23 (Then that should cut down the line to the Log Flume and White Water Canyon - or maybe not).

 

Did I see both sides of the Rebel Yell running in one of your photos?

 

You hate the Drop Zone? You are not the only one. (Last time I rode the Drop Zone, I rode next to someone who must have found religion: he kept screaming "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!!!" as we dropped down to the ground.).

 

Sucks that the Grizzly wasn't running. (They are retracking that coaster so it'll run so much smoother from previous years. If you want proof on how much smoother that coaster should be, ride the Rebel Yell: that coaster ran SMOOTH)

 

I'm planning on returning to Kings Dominion on May 23 (when the waterpark is opening up its first day) and using my Platinum Pass for the second time this season.

[KDCOASTERFAN]

Nice shots,especially from americana.Grizz should be up & running on may 23rd so I plan to hit the park twice in may....first on saturday & again on the 30th to get my grizzly laps in for the season.

 

I really am having my doubts about anything going on in the anaconda clearing for 2010 & am starting to lose confidence in getting a hyper next year since carowinds is already fencing off a section of their parking lot & from what I read on another site they're simply putting down mulch in that area for the time being.

[Yamez]

^^ Yes, Rebel Yell was running both sides all day. It was extremely hot and sunny so anything that cooled you off had a huge crowd of people.

 

^ I posted that shot because its been the big rumor going around, someone may or may not find some use out of it. Who knows?

 

Next PTR I hope to have a better camera, that one is about to die as it is and the Zoom was having issues (as you can tell from some of the photos). Maybe then I'll get some clearer pictures of some things.

[CoasterNERD502]

OMG I love Kings Dominion!!! I haven't been there since 07 so I guess I gotta find a way to make it back and ride Dominator! Hopefully this summer that happens!

 

Great TR BTW!! Reminds me to get my butt up and get down to KD