The Footprints of King Kobra

In the off season Will and I were taken on a ride back stage, so John Pagel could give us a good view of Lake Charles drained. When we were back stage standing under the Anaconda we saw something interesting. Footers that are still there for the King Kobra roller coaster.



The King Kobra was a Schwarzkopf shuttle loop coaster that used to stand on the same spot as the Anaconda life hill on the shores of what used to be a very large Lake Charles. Kings Dominion opened in 1975 with 15 rides. Two years later in 1977 they opened the King Kobra. This was Kings Dominions fourth roller coaster. The coaster had a 9 year run, and closed in 1986. The spot remained empty until 1991 when Arrow Dynamics was hired to build the Anaconda roller coaster. When the coaster was removed from the park it moved around to several amusement parks like Jolly Rogers and Alton Towers. You can now find the coaster in Brazil at Hopi Hari, its name Katapul.

Kings Dominion has a very large back stage area that has a lot of different rides in what is called there ride grave yard. So when we were back at the Anaconda, it was really cool to be able to take a few picture of what is left of the Kings Kobra.

Pictures of King Kobra Footers

Pictures of King Kobra at Kings Dominion are from Roller Coaster Database




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Posted at 6/24/2009 02:43:00 PM - 1 Comments

Day 22 for Project 2010

Today marked day 22 for Project 2010. It was perfect weather for working at the site. Maybe a little hot but it was dry, and a lot of people were busy working hard.



When I arrived at the park today there was a crain unloading more track from a container. It had three large double spined pieces of track bringing the total of double spined pieces to 9.

I was also told that earlier today another truck unloaded a total of 12 small track pieces. These pieces are easy to pick out as intiman track. They look just like the Top Thrill straight away pieces at the end of the ride, or Volcano's station pieces. You can also tell that these pieces most likly will be station and transfer track pieces. No new supports have arrived, but the ones that were left earlier this month are still there.

There are also to very large continers that are on site but not on a truck. These were dropped off in the last few days and its unknown what is on them.

Now we know we are looking at an intiman! Lets move on to the site work. Cement trucks were seen pulling in and out for most of the day. No more clearing is going on, but they are still moving land and it looks like they started work on footers today. They have two very large drills on site (witch I assume is for footers), and two large crains. There was a very large group of guys working on something with rebarb. Also a lot of big equipment is still on site for moving dirt.

I am going to try to keep everyone up to date every Monday, by making a trip down to the park and uploading pictures to my facebook page, and tweeting anything and everything.

Clint Novak's Facebook Page

Coaster Crew Twitter Page

You can also find updates with pictures and videos at the following links

Coaster Crew Youtube page

KDfansites Gallery



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Posted at 6/22/2009 04:47:00 PM - 0 Comments