Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare
Dark Ride at Kings Island, Mason, Ohio. Opened 2026.
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- Sally Dark Rides
Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare is an interactive family dark ride in the International Street area of Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. It opened on April 18, 2026, in the building that housed Boo Blasters on Boo Hill from 2010 to 2025, and it revives Phantom Theater, a dark ride that ran at the park from 1992 to 2002. The ride was built by Sally Dark Rides.
In the story, a lightning strike frees ghost notes from the Maestro's pipe organ, and riders must return them before the show opens. Guests sit in trackless-style vehicles themed as opera boxes and use flashlights to catch the ghost notes as they travel through haunted hallways, dressing rooms and backstage scenes, meeting characters such as No Legs Larry, the theater's usher.
The park's minimum rider height is 42 inches.
Sources
- sixflags.com/kingsisland/attractions/phantom-theater-opening... (Park page: riders board opera boxes and use flashlights to catch ghost notes released from the Maestro's pipe organ by a lightning strike; haunted hallways, dressing rooms, backstage; No Legs Larry the usher; 42-inch minimum height.)
- attractionsmagazine.com/kings-island-opens-2026-season-with-... (Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare opened April 18, 2026 (passholder preview April 17); trackless-style opera-box vehicles with flashlights; the original Phantom Theater ran 1992-2002.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Island (Boo Blasters on Boo Hill ran 2010-2025; in 2026 Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare replaced it in the same building; Phantom Theater first opened in 1992.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kings_Island_attractions (Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare, Sally Corporation interactive dark ride on International Street.)
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