Kings Dominion · Operating · 1997

Great Pumpkin Coaster

12 ft · 16 mph

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Kid rideKings Dominion Official park sitePlanet SnoopyE&F Miler Industries12 ft · 16 mph

Great Pumpkin Coaster opened in 1997 as Taxi Jam, an E&F Miler Industries kiddie coaster built for the debut of Kings Dominion's KidZville area on the former Hanna-Barbera Land footprint. The compact steel layout needs just two turns and a handful of small hills to give guests as short as 36 inches their first roller coaster ride, running a single six-car train that carries 12 riders at a time. The park rethemed the ride around Snoopy and Linus's search for the Great Pumpkin in 2013 as part of Planet Snoopy's expansion, giving the junior coaster its current name and Peanuts-branded queue.

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Ride profile

Scaled against Kings Dominion's operating coasters

Steel

Park intensity

Height

12 ft

#12 of 12 at Kings Dominion

Height12 ft

Speed16 mph

Length318 ft

InversionsNone

Ride experience

Ef Miler
Kiddie
Steel

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History

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Timeline

1997
Opens as Taxi Jam Coaster
E&F Miler Industries kiddie coaster debuts as the centerpiece of the new KidZville area, built on the former Hanna-Barbera Land footprint.
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2013
Rethemed as Great Pumpkin Coaster
Retheme casts the ride around Snoopy and Linus's search for the Great Pumpkin as part of Planet Snoopy's expansion.
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Background

Kings Dominion built its second children's coaster in 1997 as part of a larger transformation: the park's original Happy Land of Hanna-Barbera was rebuilt and reopened that summer as KidZville, a five-acre kids' zone promising "some of the most unusual play elements ever seen." E&F Miler Industries supplied the centerpiece coaster, a compact steel layout named Taxi Jam after one of the new area's cartoon-adjacent attractions.

The ride asks little of first-time riders — just two turns and a handful of small hills at a 36-inch minimum height, run on a single six-car train carrying 12 passengers at a time — making it, alongside Woodstock Express, one of the park's two dedicated entry-level coaster credits.

As Planet Snoopy replaced the last vestiges of Hanna-Barbera branding across the park in the early 2010s, Kings Dominion rethemed Taxi Jam in 2013 around Linus's yearly vigil for the Great Pumpkin, giving the ride its current name and Peanuts-branded queue dressing without altering its layout, height requirement, or train configuration.

More than 25 years after its debut as Taxi Jam, the Great Pumpkin Coaster continues to serve exactly the purpose it was built for in 1997: a gentle, low-intensity first roller coaster for the park's youngest guests.

History primarily sourced from sixflags.com. See also our data policy.