Cedar Fair, the parent company of Cedar Point among other theme parks, announced record revenue for the third quarter of 2015. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol “FUN”. Despite Cedar Point not winning the Amusement Today Golden Ticket Award for “Best Amusement Park” at this year’s…
This week we got our big dose of Valravn updates from Cedar Point! Cedar Fair’s flagship park gave glimpses of some of the first track being laid for the World’s Tallest, Fastest and Longest Dive Coaster! Cedar Point’s Director of Communications, Tony Clark, provided the photos of video via social media of the…
We recently took a trip to Knott’s Berry Farm’s annual Halloween event, Knott’s Scary Farm, which has been in operation since 1973. The 43rd season of the Haunt attractions have brought out the usual attractions of the Green Witch, Elvira shows and Halloween themed food. The entire Cedar Fair chain of parks are a buzz…
Experience evil incarnate for yourself, with haunted mazes and vile creatures, at one of the largest, most terrifying Halloween events in Ohio, The annual Halloween Haunt at Kings Island. Halloween Haunt at Kings Island will start September 25 and run every Friday and Saturday night through October 31. A veritable playground of terror, Halloween Haunt…
When news was officially released by Cedar Point about 2016’s Valravn dive coaster, that turned the attention of Cedar Point guests to the attractions that’ll neighbor the new 10 time world-record breaking coaster. The site of Valravn used to be the home of the Good Times Theatre and the Turnpike Cars for a number of…
The theme park trade publication Amusement Today held their 17th annual Golden Ticket Awards at Luna Park in New York City this past weekend to crown the Best In Class around the industry. Every year, Amusement Today conducts an international survey of knowledgeable and experienced theme park fans to get their votes on the Best in…
The day has finally arrived and the rumors were totally true! Today, we attended a invite only media event at Cedar Point, the pride of Sandusky, OH, where they announced that in 2016, they will indeed be getting a world class, record-breaking dive coaster named Valravn (Val-RAY-Ven)! This will be the 18th coaster to…
Cedar Point is now ready to make their big announcement on what’s coming to the Sandusky, Ohio park in 2016. The announcement will take place on Wednesday, September 9th at 9 AM EST at the Jack Aldrich Theatre at the park. As we wrote to you earlier this month, the initial announcement that was scheduled for…
On Thursday, August 27th, Carowinds announced what will be making a big splash at the park in 2016! As we wrote to you recently, the Charlotte, North Carolina based park has dropped hints in anticipation of their big announcement with the social media hashtag, #WaterYouDoing2016. Starting next season, Boomerang Bay will be known as Carolina…
Kings Island has been big on giving back to special causes since the park came into the Cedar Fair fold in 2006. The mission of making an impact to the community was further emphasized when the Mason, OH-based theme park presented two checks on Sunday, August 23rd to three charitable organizations as part of their…
Cedar Fair has been on a roll this week with a slew of announcements from numerous parks throughout their portfolio. On Wednesday, August 19th, Kings Island unveiled Tropical Plunge, the 65-foot complex of six different water slides, that will be nearly seven stories tall. It’ll debut in the park’s Soak City section, as well as new toll…
Carowinds is preparing to reveal their next big attraction! Fans are all speculating, but we have a pretty good assumption of what is being installed… All hints point towards a new… waterslide complex. A previous Carowinds application for incentives from the city of Charlotte mentioned a $2.5 million waterslide as a part of the park’s future expansion. Carowinds sent out…