What happened to King Cobra at Kings Island?

Following the 2001 season, Paramount Parks began to dismantle King Cobra and put it up for sale. The trains were stored inside the Flight of Fear building and the track in one of Kings Island's graveyards located on old Wild Animal Habitat land.



King Cobra was a landmark stand-up roller coaster at Kings Island in Ohio that operated from 1984 to 2001. Manufactured by the Japanese company TOGO, it was the first coaster in the world designed from the ground up to be a stand-up model. The ride was eventually closed because TOGO went out of business in 2001, making replacement parts extremely difficult and expensive to acquire. Following its closure, the coaster was dismantled and the park attempted to sell it; however, no buyer was found. While the track was eventually sold for scrap metal in 2006, the trains were sent to sister park Kings Dominion to serve as spare parts for their similar TOGO coaster, Shockwave. Today, the physical space where King Cobra once stood is occupied by parts of the Action Zone, specifically the area around the SlingShot attraction (which has since closed) and the massive inverted coaster Banshee, which opened in 2014 and utilizes a portion of the old Cobra footprint.

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