What ride did Kings Island take down?

On Friday, word was finally leaked that Kings Island Amusement Park will be removing the “Son of Beast” roller coaster ride due to ongoing injuries and problems the ride has produced.



In late 2025, Kings Island officially retired Boo Blasters on Boo Hill, a long-standing interactive dark ride in the Planet Snoopy area. The ride originally opened in 1992 as Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Castle before being re-themed in 2010. This closure made way for the park's major 2026 attraction, Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare, which serves as a spiritual successor and nostalgic "reimagining" of the fan-favorite Phantom Theater that occupied the space in the 1990s. The new ride features updated animatronics and modern special effects while paying homage to the original characters. This move is part of a broader 2026 trend at Six Flags/Cedar Fair parks to revitalize classic IP and dark rides to appeal to both new families and long-time fans of the park’s history.

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Both were surpassed the following year with the debut of Shockwave at Six Flags Great America. On September 27, 2019, the park announced plans to close Vortex permanently on October 27, 2019. Area Manager Don Helbig stated that the coaster had reached the end of its service life.

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After more than six months of re-tracking work, The Beast roller coaster is scheduled to re-open to Kings Island guests on Sunday. The Kings Island world-famous roller coaster, The Beast, will break its own record in 2022.

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On September 27, 2018, Kings Island announced that Firehawk would close permanently on October 28, 2018. The ride was demolished prior to the 2019 season. Firehawk's trains were shipped to Carowinds to be used as spare parts for Nighthawk. In 2020, Firehawk was replaced with a giga coaster named Orion.

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Banshee is a steel inverted coaster located in the Action Zone area of Kings Island. It opened in 2014 as a replacement for Son of Beast. In addition, the Thunder Alley go-karts attraction was also removed to make room for the queue line of this ride.

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Grand Carousel Family Ride at Kings Island Kings Island's magnificent carousel was manufactured by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1926 and is the oldest ride in the park. It is one of approximately 90 carousels built by the company from 1904 to 1934.

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The ride experienced its first major incident on July 9, 2006, during which a train passed over a structural track failure that severely jolted riders. Son of Beast closed for the remainder of the 2006 season while repairs were made, and Kings Island decided to replace the original trains with lighter models.

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Surveying the 80-acre landscape of what would become Kings Island's parking lot when the park opened in 1972, the construction project manager had 35,000 dump truck loads of dirt to move. He needed the project to stay on schedule and standing in his way was a cemetery, hidden somewhere on the giant plot of land.

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King Cobra was a steel stand-up roller coaster located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, USA. Built by Togo, the ride operated from 1984 to 2001.

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It was given its current name when Cedar Fair purchased the Ohio park in 2004. However, following Six Flags Ohio (renamed back to Geauga Lake by Cedar Fair)'s eventual permanent closure in 2007, the coaster was relocated to Kings Dominion, where it soon opened on May 24, 2008.

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The Haunted Castle fire at Great Adventure: the most deadly theme park accident in history. The Haunted Castle at New Jersey's Great Adventure amusement park was the site of the most deadly theme park accident in history. On May 11, 1984, at around 6:30 p.m., a fire broke out in the maze-like, walk-through attraction.

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Both sides of the track raced forward until May 28, 1982, when the trains on one side of the track were reversed to ride backwards. The Racer became the first racing roller coaster in the world to do so.

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While still popular with many guests, park officials state the ride has simply reached the end of its service life, officials said. Final rides (or rites) will begin this weekend, with its last days of operation occurring the final weekend of Halloween Haunt and The Great Pumpkin Fest.

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Anyone ever go to this place? If not, then some background info: The Kings Island theme park in Mason, Ohio (near Cincinnati) used to have an animal-themed area with a few loose exhibits and a monorail that tracked through 4 or so fields of animals. It closed in 1993, shortly after Paramount bought the park.

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