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Great Pumpkin Coaster
Steel Family at Kings Dominion, Doswell, Virginia. Opened 1997.
- Height
- n/a
- Drop
- 8 ft
- Top speed
- n/a
- Length
- 200 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- E&F Miler Industries
Great Pumpkin Coaster is a small steel family roller coaster in the Planet Snoopy area of Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. Built by E&F Miler Industries, it opened on March 29, 1997, as Taxi Jam and was rethemed in 2013 to the Peanuts story of Linus and his search for the Great Pumpkin.
After a short chain lift, the oval track runs through two turns, small hills and an 8-foot drop; Wikipedia gives its length as about 200 feet. A single train of six cars seats 12 riders. The park calls it a perfect first coaster, and riders must be at least 36 inches tall.
Kings Island in Ohio has its own Great Pumpkin Coaster, a separate ride.
Sources
- sixflags.com/kingsdominion/attractions/great-pumpkin-coaster (Park page: junior steel coaster with two turns, hills and dips; one train of six cars (12 riders); opened 1997, rethemed 2013; originally named Taxi Jam Coaster; minimum height 36 inches.)
- rcdb.com/456.htm (RCDB: operating since March 29, 1997; E&F Miler Industries oval family coaster; drop 8 ft, 0 inversions; chain lift; single train of 6 cars, 12 riders; former name Taxi Jam (1997 to 2012).)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Dominion (Wikipedia Kings Dominion: Great Pumpkin Coaster, 1997, E.F. Miler; a 200-foot-long children's coaster; formerly Taxi Jam.)
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