The History of Dominator

Not every coaster at Kings Dominion was born there. Dominator arrived in 2008 as a full-grown adult, moved piece by piece from a park in Ohio that was closing its doors. It came billed as the longest floorless coaster in the world, and it still holds that title.

A Batman in Ohio

The ride opened in 2000 at Six Flags Ohio, part of the Geauga Lake complex near Cleveland, under the name Batman: Knight Flight. It was a Bolliger and Mabillard floorless coaster, the kind where the floor drops away at the station and riders' feet dangle over open track. When Cedar Fair took over the park, it stripped the Batman branding and renamed the ride Dominator. Then Geauga Lake's ride side shut down for good after 2007, and rather than scrap a nearly new coaster, Cedar Fair dismantled it and shipped it to Virginia.

A second life in Virginia

Rebuilt along Kings Dominion's International Street, Dominator reopened in May 2008 as the park's fourteenth coaster. At 4,210 feet it was, and remains, the longest floorless coaster anywhere. It runs five inversions across a fast, smooth layout, including a 135-foot vertical loop, a cobra roll, and a pair of interlocking corkscrews, and reviewers have always praised how glassy it rides for its size.

One thing to know

Dominator is still the longest floorless coaster in the world, at 4,210 feet.

Dominator is one chapter in the fifty-year history of Kings Dominion.

Dominator at a glance