Viking Voyage has traveled a lot in its history. From 2003 to 2008, it was Jack Rabbit at Celebration City in Branson, Missouri. It opened when that park switched over from Branson USA to Celebration City in 2003. The coaster closed when Celebration City closed permanently at the end of the 2008 season. Two years later, it opened as Viking Voyage. After an eight year stint here, the coaster left this spot in Georgia in 2018 and was relocated to Fayetteville, Georgia. In 2019, it sat unassembled in a grassy lot next to the newly renamed Fun Spot America Atlanta. That park was called Dixieland Fun Park from 1990 to 2012 and Fun Junction USA from 2012 to 2018, but was purchased by Fun Spot America Theme Parks in 2017 and was renamed in 2019. Since 2007, that park has been home to Scream'n Eagle, a slightly smaller version of the same coaster design from the same manufacturer as Viking Voyage, so it seemed like an odd location to reassemble the ride. Sure enough, the pieces of the coaster were moved to Kissimmee, Florida in the fall of 2019. Fun Spot America announced that the ride would be opening there in 2020. However, to be precise, the coaster is expected to be situated on the south end of the Old Town shopping area, the complex immediately to the west of Fun Spot. Old Town had some rides and a few coasters in the past, but those were all removed in the end of 2014. In 2017, Fun Spot opened a few kiddie rides on this area, so it looks like they have taken over the land previously occupied by Old Town's amusement rides.
©2019 Joel A. Rogers.