The Most Thrilling & Iconic Theme Park Rides in North America

The Beast

The Beast is a wooden coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. It opened back in 1979 and was the tallest, fastest, and longest wooden coaster in the world at the time, and is one of the world’s most famous coasters.

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The More You Know

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