Virginia Kings Dominion announces brand new roller coaster for 2025 Construction on Rapterra is already in progress on the grounds where the former Volcano: The Blast Coaster once stood.

World's tallest, longest ‘launched wing' roller coaster coming to Virginia's Kings Dominion Rapterra will become the park's 14th roller coaster, replacing Volcano: The Blast Coaster, which was ...

It would be the park’s 14th roller coaster. Volcano: The Blast Coaster opened at Kings Dominion in 1998. It stopped operating in 2018 and closed in 2019. MARK GORMUS, Times-Dispatch ...

In 1998, Kings Dominion removed those rides and replaced them with Volcano, an inverted roller coaster that launched at 70 mph and shot riders out of the top of the mountain.

Riders will find the 89-second coaster at the site of the former Volcano roller coaster that towered over Kings Dominion for decades. The ride was taken down in 2019.

Riders will find the 89-second coaster at the site of the former Volcano roller coaster that towered over Kings Dominion for decades. The ride was taken down in 2019.

Rapterra will become the park's 14th roller coaster, replacing the inverted launched roller coaster, Volcano: The Blast Coaster, which the park retired in 2018.