Talk:Kings Dominion

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Kings Dominion is obviously closely related to Kings Island, sharing some attractions, former attractions and started by a joint venture that included Kings Island founder Taft Broadcasting. Should details of that be included? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.208.251.23 (talk • contribs) 15:33, 10 November 2005

I would think so. Being part of the "Kings" chain of parks would have had a profound influence on the original park layout and choice of rides. Canonblack 18:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] My recent expansion to this article...

Please check it for WP:NPOV, especially the section about the Cedar Fair purchase, and add more sources if you know of any. Having been to this park before, I thought I had a lot of good information to add; but, at the same time, I don't want my bias to be weighing in on the article. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 04:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flight of Fear up for sale

Can I get a citation/source for Flight of Fear being for sale? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.174.53.193 (talk • contribs)

The Screamscape page, which is already cited in the article, said that there were reports that FoF was sold to another park for over $7 million, although they didn't give a link to the actual report. However, most of what's on Screamscape is only rumors. PKDPlace has had extensive discussion about it (45 pages so far), but their forum is closed to non-members. I'm trying to find other sources besides forums; news articles would be best, but we aren't likely to get any until FoF either reopens at PKD or moves somewhere else. Essentially, what they were saying at PKDPlace was that Paramount Parks was planning to start a "ride rotation" program which would send FoF to Carowinds or Canada's Wonderland (PKD's to PCW, and PKI's to PC). Another plan, I think, was to sell the ride to a non-Paramount park. After Cedar Fair bought PKD, the ride rotation plan was canceled. Cedar Fair has a reputation for not letting rides which are in decent working order just sit around and not get used, which is in stark contrast to trip reports I've read from Six Flags and Paramount Parks this year. So rumor has it that FoF is currently undergoing the maintenance that it would have gotten in the offseason last year (several people who have seen what's going on from Volcano or Anaconda have reported that there is some painting going on around the ride, and that ride operators on other rides have been mentioning FoF more lately) and may be reopening at PKD within the next several weeks. These are only rumors, so please keep that in mind. PKD's PR staff have been responding to all queries about FoF this year with "Flight of Fear will not operate here during the 2006 season" and have not been giving anyone any additional information. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 19:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Is there a reason other than the lack of availability that there are not photos in this article? I actually have some photos, but I don't want to share them if they're either unwanted or inappropriate somehow. Erechtheus 21:31, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I can detect no reason not to share the photos, so I will upload and add them when I can. Erechtheus 21:43, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Land of the Doz/Dooz

This ride was really called Land of (the) Dooz, not Doz (as in Doswell, Virginia). For evidence, one can see this Kings Dominion map from 1980, posted at PkdPlace. I'll change the article accordingly.

Also, for those interested, this 1978 park map gives a good idea of how big Lake Charles used to be, although things don't look like they're drawn to scale very well on this map. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 18:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expanding attraction lists

I expanded the list of WaterWorks attractions just now by adding a history of WaterWorks and descriptions of each attraction. I'm planning to do the same for the other sections of the park within the coming days and weeks. This isn't too "park fan-crufty", is it? The article will probably get very long by the time I'm done. I just figured that expanding the section was better than simply giving a bullet-point list of the attractions, per Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia's quality scale guidelines. I was a little surprised that this article is still only start-class despite the history expansion and all of the sources and pictures that have come with, and since, it; I hope that less reliance on bullet-point lists will start pushing this article up the quality scale. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 04:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I've also done the Congo section tonight. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 04:42, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PkdPlace is now closed

I used PkdPlace for most of my source material in writing the history sections of this article. After several days of downtime earlier this month, the owners, who lost interest in the park during the CBS ownership in early 2006 and have been running a new site for Busch Gardens Europe, have taken the site down. You can use the site's most recent listing in the Internet Archive to access the old files. That version of it should have most of the same source material that I posted in the ref tags. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 01:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] KD's Future

Do you think we should include an article of Kings Dominion's future?BeaverWithChainsaw 23:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. Do you have any references/reliable sources that describe the future of Kings Dominion? ~a (user • talk • contribs) 01:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I have sources. BeaverWithChainsaw 11:56, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

A section in the KD article should be fine then. You might want to read this section that talks about how/when to describe future events. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 13:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] lot's of pictues

I'm going to be adding tons of new pictures. Be ready people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BeaverWithChainsaw (talk • contribs).

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Kd media image.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Paramount's Kings Dominion logo.gif

Image:Paramount's Kings Dominion logo.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:31, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Man decapitated on the Galaxie???

I'm questioning part of this article that claims that a man was decapitated on the Galaxie roller coaster. I believe that he died due to a blow to the head, having stood up and hit part of the frame, but he was not decapitated.

I do not have any sources to quote on this, other than having worked at the park a few years after this event, and talked to some first-hand witnesses.

Does anyone else have any more information about this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dskinner42 (talk • contribs) 03:59, 2 February 2008 (UTC)