We love roller coasters, but it’s time for some off season Halloween fun! We just wrapped up the first haunted house convention of the season with HAuNTcon in Birmingham Alabama, but this weekend is loaded with haunted attractions that are open for special Valentines Day events! Photo shot by DesignByAly.com at The Factory of Terror in…
We’re officially in the hibernation part of the season and Cedar Point is hard at work with their 18th roller coaster, Valravn; as we’ve noted previously, the weather has certainly been in their favor. It’s a good thing for the Roller Coaster Capital of the World as their opening day is just under 3 months away…
Are you planning on attending Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia this upcoming season? Take a look inside at the amazing events they have planned! There are a variety of performances you will not want to miss! The fun starts on March 19th when “Elmo Rocks!” returns for children and their families. Everyone is sure…
Notice how the weather around Cedar Point has been very cooperative in the last couple of months? Fans of the Roller Coaster Capital of the World have been getting glimpses of the new Valravn. Through social media, a webcam, construction blog entries and video diaries, The Point has showing how they’ve been keeping very busy…
Kentucky Kingdom strikes again with another new roller coaster! If you haven’t already heard, the park is officially retiring their classic Twisted Twins wooden roller coaster which has been closed since 2007. Twisted Twins (previously Twisted Sisters) will be transformed into an amazing single-lift, single-track steel-on-wood-on-steel hybrid coaster! “Storm Chaser“ will be the addition of the parks…
Ladies and gentlemen, hold on to your ears! Today we step into the newest “Happiest Place on Earth”! Ok, well that is at least for a few more months until Shanghai Disneyland opens in June, but nonetheless get ready to step into the world of Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy… Hong Kong style! Hong Kong…
If you didn’t already know, Dollywood will debut a new wooden coaster called Lightning Rod in 2016. The new wooden masterpiece is billed as “The World’s First and Fastest Wood Launch Coaster” and the trains are designed after sweet, tricked out 1950’s hot rods. The ride is being built by Rocky Mountain Construction. Today, they released these…
As you may know, we love drones here at Coaster Nation, especially since our sister site, FlyingVids.com is built off of this technology. New reports show that Disney may fly 50 drones at a time in its Disneyland fireworks shows! So the next time Cinderella looks out her castle window, it won’t be odd to see…
Move over Kingda Ka, a new coaster is about to take the World’s Tallest Roller Coaster title! In 2017, “Skyscraper” is scheduled to debut at 570 feet tall. It will feature the worlds tallest inversion just before the coasters first drop at the rides maximum height. Joshua Wallack, a Florida developer, also dreamed of taking this vertical coaster design to Atlantic City, New…
Tonight we experienced the final farewell of the famed Christmas lights display at Walt Disney World. The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights at Disney’s Hollywood Studios has shined one last time with a VERY EMOTIONAL ENDING! Osborne lights have been a fan favorite and shining bright since 1995. Disney fans from around the world showed up for…
Quench your thirst for action at this 1940’s airplane hangar turned dive bar… which happens to be the ex-home of Indiana Jones’ sidekick and pilot! How did Indiana Jones’ barnstorming pilot Jock Lindsey end up in Disney Springs? The two globetrotters stumbled on Disney Springs in 1938 while chasing down a mythology-based tip in central Florida….
Everyone ages, even a princess… If your a Disney fan, then we have something special for you! Its been several decades since these princesses were in their prime… so what would they look like today? Well.. Now you can see Ariel, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and more, all imagined with wrinkles and grey hair. An artist by the name of…