Kings Island Wiki



Welcome to the Kings Island Wiki
Welcome to the Kings Island Wiki. As a local who grew up visiting the park, I thought it would be a good idea to document the history of the park after finding that a wiki for the park, let alone information on the park on the Cedar Fair Wiki, was not available. As a result, this wiki was born.

What is Kings Island?
Kings Island is a seasonal amusement park located in Mason, Ohio, owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company. The park operates from April to Labor Day (September), and reopens for weekends in late September to the end of October for Halloween Haunt, Hallow-Tween, and Tricks and Treats Fall Fest, then closing for a few weekends and reopening in Late November till New Years Eve (December 31) for Winterfest. The park first opened on April 29, 1972, and has been entertaining guests of the Cincinnati, Ohio area.

The park has switched owners numerous times, as told in the newly-released book Kings Island: A Ride Through Time. It was originally opened by the Taft Broadcasting Center, which was headquartered nearby in Cincinnati, in 1972. Kings Entertainment Company (KECO) purchased the park along with Taft's other parks, Kings Dominion, Carowinds, and Canada's Wonderland. in 1987. Film company Paramount Pictures later bought all of these parks, as well as KECO's own Great America, in 1992, and established the now-defunct Paramount Parks subsidiary. Under Paramount's management, many rides would later be based on Paramount properties, such as ​Top Gun and The Italian Job. During this period, Paramount was acquired in 1994 by its current owners, Viacom. This led to the inclusion of themes based on Nickelodeon TV shows, which later replaced the entire Hanna-Barbera family area in 2006. That same year, Cedar Fair Entertainment Company acquired all properties operated by Paramount Parks. Under new ownership, Kings Island and other former Paramount Parks began to remove any references to Paramount and Viacom properties, and once again changed the mascots of the park and family area to its current state, with the characters of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strips.

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