Volcano the Blast Coaster History & Review, Kings Dominion Intamin Launch Coaster | One of a Kind
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- Volcano the Blast Coaster was a one-of-a-kind. This was an Intamin launch coaster through a volcano. The ride opened with multiple records including the fastest invert and tallest inversion. The ride unfortunately closed after the 2018 season, but it will forever be remembered as one of the park's best attractions. This video covers the reasons for the coaster's removal and the on-ride experience.
Video Credits
Canada's Wonderland New for 2025 (The Coaster Spot)- • New 2025 Launch Coaste...
Hypersonic (Sean Flaharty)- • Hypersonic XLC Opening...
Kings Dominion New for 2025 (ML Designs)- • Rapterra - Kings Domin...
Volcano Announcement (Coaster Jeff)- • Volcano the blast coas...
Volcano Fire Effect (Coaster Jeff)- • Volcano the Blast Coas...
Volcano Off-Ride 1 (Sean Flaharty)- • Volcano: The Blast Coa...
Volcano Off-Ride 2 (Coaster Thrills)- • Volcano The Blast Coas...
Volcano Off-Ride 3 (Coaster Thrills)- • Volcano The Blast Coas...
Volcano Opening Year (Coaster Jeff)- • Volcano The Blast Coas...
Volcano POV (Kings Dominion)
Background Music
Epic Dramatic Military Music by Infraction [No Copyright Music] Hero- • Epic Dramatic Military...
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I'll never forget my front row night ride on this in 2017. Still one of my favorite coaster experiences. This was also my first intamin AND my first launch coaster! Even after riding rides likes montu and raptor, this is still my favorite inverted coaster I've done.
It was so good and unique.
The defunct ride I miss the most. I was just thinking about Volcano yesterday. It was an iconic structure at kings dominion. KD hasn’t been the same since.
I think they’ll heavily theme the wing coaster to make up for this loss.
Knowing cedar fairs theming recently I have no doubts it'll be themed well.
I hope so.
10:05 - phenomenal reference!!
Thanks!
Had to look in the comments to see if anyone else mentioned that great Pokemon reference!
We only got to ride this in 2001, and we loved it, but mostly because of the way it launched you out of the top. We still loved the barrel rolls though, and they remain one of my favourite type of inversions. I tell you, I feel very privileged to have experienced the 1-2 punch of Hypersonic XLC and Volcano on the same day! BTW Mike, so close to 40k subs, another milestone! Almost there, congrats!
I was very bummed to have missed Hypersonic. In my first visit, I had 2 days at the park. After waiting 2.5 hrs for Volcano, I didn't want to wait that for Hypersonic. I planned to do thst on day 2, but it sadly never opened.
Excited to see what kings dominion does with the wing coaster. I just hope its well themed and has near misses.
The near misses are my main hope 🤞🤞
I hope so too.
The #1 defunct coaster of all time. I feel for those that never got to experience this amazing ride.
It's one of my favorite defunct ones.
This is probably my all time sentimental favorite. There was nothing like it anywhere, and I grew up in Northern Virginia, just over an hour away. Thanks for this video. I never get tired of hearing about Volcano!
You're welcome.
This is my mom’s favorite coaster ever. She got really desperate to ride it one more time when it was having extensive downtime later in its life. We literally drove 8 hours back to KD in the same year we took a visit after we heard it was back open. And yes, we all had the credit already, she loved it that much. Looking back, that back-row rain ride is one of those rare coaster laps I’ll never forget. Months later, they announced its removal.
Glad you got on it again!
I rode Volcano a lot over the years, including the first year with half the seats. I probably waited two hours+. I really liked it, but I was disappointed by the drop back into the volcano. Without knowing the layout, I thought there was going to be more with all the speed built up. I thought the heart line rows became repetitive and you had to make sure your keys were secured because they were taken so slow.
I didn't mind the repetition since I love hangtime.
loved the pokémon reference hahaha
Couldn't resist.
I love Volcano. I remember watching testing in August 1998 with the 8-passenger trains. Volcano had intermittent closures after it opened that month. I first rode in March 1999. The experience was bizarre and incredible.
I'd credit Superman @ SFMM for Intamin's first launch coaster, but it was essentially their first full-scale LIM coaster, although Linear Gale opened a month earlier.
I'm pretty sure the second launch was there from day 1, but I can't say that with 100% certainty. I'm also not sure the ride was themed after the Volcano film, which was released by 20th Century Fox. Who knows.
I remember the coaster opened with three trains and later ran with only two after the changes you mentioned.
I like that Intamin replicated the heartline rolls as design elements in future coasters, such as the multi-inversion coasters.
I'm glad I had the chance to ride Volcano several times over the years, and I was also devastated when its closure was announced!
I agree Superman and Tower of Terror came first, but when the park contacted Intamin to build Volcano, they hadn't successfully opened a launch coaster yet.
Great video! Cool coaster! Sounded like a great coaster although it had technical and capacity issues.
Thanks!
@@CanobieCoaster You're welcome!
I miss this coaster. It was one of the best rides in the park, even for spectators.
I agree.
That's pretty cool that you were able to ride that. I had no idea. You're lucky.
I'm glad I rode it several times through the years.
Great video and ride! While it was very unique those launches and rises into the volcano make it in my top 30!
Thanks!
I rode it back in 2005, along with Hypersonic. It was a fun ride but it always looked like an eyesore to me. It looked like the mountain was surrounded by scaffolding.
I also never understood why they chose those colours for the ride. Yellow track with purple supports. I feel like the track should have been red like lava and supports the colour of the mountain.
I remember hearing a rumour that Canada's Wonderland was going to get their own version of Volcano in the late 90's. I am guessing they did not want to add it because of the issues Volcano had. I was actually relieved because I was worried that it would ruin the appearance of Wonder Mountain.
What are your thoughts about Wonderland potentially building the coaster through Wonder Mountain next year?
@@CanobieCoaster I am ok with it as long as you do not see most of the ride when you first enter the park.
I am more concerned about the front appearance of the mountain. If you see too much of the track it could ruin the appearance.
I’ve always wondered what people really thought about it, because I always hear people raving how “Volcano was incredible!” But I started thinking, was it like top 25 quality, or…
It’s in my top 25!
It was very good. Just not perfect.
I remember waiting 2 hours to ride this. It was totally worth the wait
It was such a great coaster.
I miss this ride but I’m happy we’re finally getting a replacement. Volcano was my 3rd favorite coaster behind I-305 & F-325 before its closure, which continues to hurt my heart to this day. KD had probably the most incredible top 3 for a park for literally WEEKS!! (Btw Miltank is a beast. Hope Piplup’s whirlpool would give it a challenge🐧)
Hopefully the wing coaster is great!
@@CanobieCoaster if it’s anything like Thunderbird at Holiday World, it’ll definitely be great 🐧
The hanging position also improved the launch. Back row gave good hang through the rollout esp. when heavily loaded. Front was even better lightly loaded -- solo rides reached 75 MPH, very rough and crazy, and hitting that awesome first turn way harder. As a local spent many late nights hitting Volcano up last for the short lines, maybe more (rerides were extra weird back in the dual station days, they had to check restraints both positions). 3 hours for the first ride.
My view was that it wasn't the best, but always a perfect finale.
That must have been a rare treat not having to get off.
One of a kind / very unique ride, I was sad to see it go. However, I am excited to see what replaces it!!!
I was only able to have ridden it twice (04 & 09). The 04 ride was first thing on a very cool morning in March and the ride had next to no punch as it seemed to barley make it through each element. But my ride in 09 was amazing and I saw how powerful and fun this ride could be.
Glad you got on it!
Rode it the week it opened, waited 3.5 hours due to the reduced capacity but it was worth it back then! My favorite seat was the back because the minute you hit the straight away the launch kicked in and it was wild!
That's fair. I liked the front for the launch for the wind and suspense.
I hope Intamin anr Vekoma now have the ability to re-make this concept (though intamin has already done so with Dueling Dragons, even more to an extent than Volcano was)
I'd welcome Volcano 2.0.
I finally rode lightning rod, it ended up being my number 2 overall. I really was not expecting it to be that good
It's an amazing ride.
Not stopping before you launch was cool
The timing was definitely a thrill.
I never got to ride it. My first visit was in 2018, less than a year after hearing that this park existed. I did get to see it, my 2nd most painful SBNO non-credit, behind Texas Tornado at Astroworld, that I think I would have liked more.
Sorry you missed it.
I got three rides on Volcano, twice in 2014 and once in 2016. Despite my first visit being a Saturday in August, the park was fairly empty and my family waited 30-45 minutes for Volcano. Such a phenomenal and memorable ride experience. I have a good feeling Kings Dominion will knock it out of the park with their replacement, I just hope the theming is even better than its predecessor.
I hope it is well-themed. The layout looks good.
Kd us my home park and it has not felt the same without the mountain smurf mountain was the lamest ride but haunted river was very cool i thought it always felt cool knowing what all the empty holes in the mountain was in the past
The mountain always looked cool.
I only visited Kings Dominion in 2014 so this was the only time I rode this
Glad you got on it!
Can confirm, seating was not fluffy friendly 😂
Sadly.
@@CanobieCoaster B&M is notorious for that, even with the larger seats in the middle rows. Missed out in riding Pipeline due to that, I seen a lot of average size guys turned away on opening day. Manta on the other hand, tons of space.
Thankfully I'm not that size anymore, and I fit on everything
We really need a revival of inverted coasters, especially more launched ones. I do not understand why no park has tried something similar to Volcano. The technology is more reliable now and with better computer simulation stress on structures could be minimised.
Intamin can do it too. Look at Dueling Dragons in China.
5:02 after an accident only operated with 2 trains. It originally had 3 trains.
Was that the 2006 incident?
@@CanobieCoaster I think so. I know that the 2006 accident wasn't the first time it happened, but I'm pretty sure it's the one that damaged the launching stuff on train 2 beyond repair (and KD opted to just not use 3 trains after that, because they could run faster on two). After that it only ran trains 1 & 3.
Did Kings Dominion ever take and sell pictures of you riding Volcano: The Blast Coaster? And my god, could you imagine what MandJTV's reaction to this would be like?
I’m pretty sure they did in the gift shop.
They also did onride videos at least one year.
I don't remember, sorry.
Im so sad i missed this beast.
It was so good.
Wait, this thing was theamed to a movie? First I've heard of it and I'm the one that named an actual volcano in Oregon "Mt Intamin", in honour of this ride (couldn't find its true name so I went into the coaster nerd well).
As for the ride itself my experience is a hard knock of the lesson "if you have the opportunity to go to a park, GO!". Shortly after Twisted Timbers was announced I had a chance to go. I instead chose to wait a year because both Twisted Timbers AND Coaster Con. As a result, it will forever be in the "seen but not ridden" category, which is sad for a coaster that isn't just as much a product of my urbex hobby as it is my coaster hobby (Nightmare at Joyland, Cyclone at Williams Grove, I guess you could technically put Fairyland Wildcat there since I saw the footers and some of the structural steel) to end up on (T3 is also on that list, and I'm dissapointed about that one for different reasons. Notably, I'm the "um, ow" kid from the "what did you think of T3" meme, which was actually shot at Kennywood). And I didn't even get to climb around it the way I climbed around Nightmare, Cyclone, and Wildcat.
Yeah it was themed to a bad, but profitable movie.
@@CanobieCoaster Guess I never thought about it because Cedar Fair never renamed it (wanted to make some merger jab and say Six Flags, but Cedar Fair existed at the time of removal so I don't need to do that).
thx
You're welcome.
i hope they can built another volcano the blast coaster just make it good as rapterra and faster and big drop
I wish Rapterra had some more theming, but the layout looks fast and fun.
will kings dominion rebuilt another volcano with bigger steep drop with zero g install inversion it would probably take few years to put it somewhere else to have more room
Milktank!!!!😂😂😂 Ive been getting into rom hacks
Legendary Pokemon
I'm pretty sure Tower of Terror and Superman were their first launch coasters, not Volcano.
Superman and Tower of Terror opened first, but when Intamin was picked for this project, neither had opened yet.
Not too many coasters have the biggest drop at the end!
It's a rare quirk.
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Nice!
Unpopular opinion: this was one of the most overrated coasters I've ever been on. After the initial launch it was bothimg but a series of slow rolls and left turns. Mid af. It was cool to look at though!
Let people grieve the loss of this one-of-a-kind roller coaster.
I loved the 4 inversions after the launch and the visuals.
The launches and that inversion out of the volcano was awesome. The rest of it was okay. Great ride. The wing coaster is meh. Not a worthy replacement. They really needed something unique and awesome. Miss.
You don’t even know what the layout is. All we have is what someone thinks the layout is.
Entitled coaster enthusiast spotted.
It's not even confirmed yet. Chill out.
@@giancarlofelicianocastaned9316 they already have built a lot of the layout surprisingly.
@@Themeparkfan630 Oh. My bad