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Park News - (3/10/10) KDFansite has posted details about a special overnight Tailgate Party taking place on April 1st and 2nd leading up to the season opening of the park as well as Intimidator 305. You can read all the details here.
    Meanwhile the park has also posted details about the Intimidation 2010 event taking place at the park on May 1st. You can read up on all the details on their Facebook page.
    (1/20/10) The Kings Dominion website has now listed the new name for the former Scooby Doo dark ride attraction, calling it Boo Blasters on Boo Hill. Sigh... this is a bad name, even for Cedar Fair. Well I guess we can consider ourselves lucky that they didn’t call it the Fright Deck. Meanwhile the former Scooby Doo Ghoster Coaster will now simply be the Ghoster Coaster.
    (1/15/10) Kings Dominion will be hosting a coaster enthusiast event (Intimidation 2010) on May 1st which will include ERT on the new Intimidator 305. You must be a member of either the Coaster Zombies or Coaster Crew to attend, but members can bring one guest. Watch for more details to appear here soon.

2010 - Planet Snoopy - Confirmed - (8/25/09) The Kings Dominion website has revealed a new secret for the 2010 season… that Planet Snoopy is on the way. On the new season pass pre-sale page it confirms the news by saying that “Snoopy, Charlie Brown and friends are moving into their new home and taking over Nickelodeon Central and Hanna-Barbera Land. Kings Dominion’s newest arrival lands on Planet Snoopy in 2010!”

2010 - Intimidator 305 - (3/15/10) Intimidator 305 has finally made a test run which was caught on tape by The Coaster Crew and posted to YouTube. Embedded below… Enjoy!

    (2/20/10) Intimidator 305 has begun some initial testing this past week according to the pictures posted to Behind the Thrills. No full speed tests yet, but they’ve been doing a pull-through of the train on the tracks.
    (2/12/10) A couple of teaser photos showing off the back of a new Intimidator 305 train have been posted to the official I305 Construction Gallery.
    (2/5/10) The auction to be one of the first riders on Intimidator 305 has been announced in time for the coaster’s grand opening on April 2nd. Kings Dominion has partnered with the Dale Earnhardt Foundation to raise money for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, Challenge Discovery Projects and USO of Hampton Roads. The auction has now started and will continue through to the end of March 25th. Read all the details and bid here. While you wait, a few new pictures of Intimidator 305, covered in snow no less, have been posted to Behind the Thrills.
    (1/26/10) A few new pictures of the massive looking Intimidator 305 have been posted to Behind the Thrills.  I gotta say, that is a scary looking first drop for sure.
    (1/15/10) A new video showing off the now complete Intimidator 305 has been posted by KDFansite here.
    (1/14/10) We’ve got two incredible pictures of Intimidator 305 to enjoy today, thanks to KDFansite.com. Make the jump over there to see even more!). The trackwork for the coaster is now also complete.
    (1/7/10) Kings Dominion reports that they hope to have the last pieces of Intimidator 305 track installed by the end of this week. You can find a good new construction video of the coaster on YouTube this week, posted by KD Fansite.
    (12/23/09) Check out Intimidator 305 in the snow at the official construction photo gallery.
    (12/17/09) A new Intimidator 305 construction update has been uploaded by Coaster Crew and KDFansite, and embedded below.

    (12/9/09) KDFansite has posted a construction update for Intimidator 305 this week with a ton of new pictures. If you prefer pictures that move, then check out the video version of the construction update.
    (11/24/09) Kings Dominion finally did it… they topped off Intimidator 305. You can check out a video of the action as well as some pictures over at KD Fansite.
    (11/23/09) Looks like the crews at Kings Dominion are working late to get the top piece of Intimidator 305 ready for topping off. A picture was just uploaded a few hours ago by the park showing off the top piece rigged to fly into place.
    (11/12/09) Lots of updates from Kings Dominion this week, thanks to KD Fansite. Track work has begun on Rebel Yell, plus Intimidator 305 construction updates.  A video update can also be found at YouTube.
    (10/28/09) CoasterNet has posted some new Intimidator 305 construction pictures this week.
    (10/22/09) A new Intimidator 305 construction update has been posted to KDFansite.
    (10/14/09) A new video construction update can be found posted over at YouTube.
    (8/28/09) A reader sent us a link to check out a better photograph of Intamin’s ‘shoulder strap’ harness system as used on Inferno at Terra Mitica. This is most likely what we will see from Intimidator 305.
    (8/27/09) After all this talk and second guessing about the restraint system that will be featured on Intimidator 305, I went right to the source and asked John Pagel, KD’s Marketing Manager, to try and clear up the issue for us. According to John, “The restraint system will not be like the ones seen on the animations and on Maverick.” Now this is where things get tricky, as even John isn’t 100% certain exactly what it will be as the only official descriptive information they have right now is what’s on the website that labels them as, “over the shoulder straps”. So until the train actually arrives on site at the park, we wont know anything for sure. HOWEVER… I’m going to make an educated guess that what we’ll see may end up being the new “should strap” looking version of the restraint just installed on Bakken’s new spinning coaster, Tornado. You can see them quite well in this Tornado video clip down below. If anything, the new belt looking system will fit the NASCAR theme quite well.

    (8/23/09) There has been some debate about the style of restraints to be used on Intimidator 305 ever since the announcement. The first press release that came out really said nothing about the restraints, but the video animation clearly showed off Intamin’s current style of OTS restraints. Once the Intimidator305.com website went live, it confused people a bit more by mentioning that the restraints would only be over the shoulder lapbars… which seemed to imply they may have been more like the system installed on Pilgrim’s Plunge. However the site has been updated once again to more clearly label the restraint system as featuring an, “overhead lap bar with shoulder straps”. Meanwhile you can see a bunch of new pictures posted to Coaster-Net and Coaster Connection.
    (8/21/09) The big news of the day… and I mean BIG… is Intimidator 305, the new coaster going into Kings Dominion for 2010. The coaster was named and themed after famous NASCAR racer, Dale Earnhardt, with the trains being decorated to resemble is classic black #3 car. As you can see in the artwork, the layout kind of a hybrid of Millennium Force mixed with the popular Mega-Lite layout.  It will feature a quick cable lift taking you 305 feet into the sky, dropping you 300 feet to the ground at 85º where you will rush around through turns and air-time hills at speeds up to 92mph. There are many videos on the official site, but I’ve embedded one I found on YouTube below for your immediate enjoyment down below.
    One more thing… if you take a look at the trains you will notice that they feature Intamin’s current over the shoulder restraint system instead of a simple lap-bar. This has caused quite a few people to wonder why… and while the park made no statement about it, the true meaning is clear and cuts to the bone.  After ten years of complaints from larger american’s not being able to fit on Millennium Force and Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point, it seems they just chose to avoid the problem just as Six Flags did with Kingda Ka, and install the more roomy OTS restraint system instead. The OTS are much more accommodating for larger riders… but are still too tight a fit for many. Chances are, if you fit in a Big Boy seat on a B&M like Dominator, you will probably just fit on Intimidator. Oh… and a few new construction pics were also posted to Behind the Thrills.