Cedar Point’s wet and wild attraction that was a hat-tip to a former ride in the park is likely to also become a distant memory. According to a report from the Sandusky Register, Cedar Point is in the process of removing it’s 5 year old Shoot The Rapids water ride located in Frontier Town. Since the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s been nearly two decades since Millennium Force was erected at Cedar Point, yet it’s still arguably the top steel coaster in the world! Cedar Point has released a video showing us the day it’s highest piece of track was dropped in. As you can see, the winds were whipping and the temperatures were very […]

Pandora–The World of Avatar is a themed area currently being constructed in the south-west portion of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World, Florida. Sunday we made a quick visit to the park, mainly to check out the progress on Avatar Land. Construction walls surround the new area. Now, take a look beyond the […]

Crews have broken ground on Guntersville Alabama’s first amusement park! Just off of Highway 431 near Lowes in Guntersville, a small new amusement park called “Lake City Amusement Park” is set to open in April of 2016.   In a recent interview with local Guntersville news, Lake City Amusement Marketing Director, Jay Velez said: “We’ll have about 35 […]

Oriental Land Company released new details on the largest expansion in Tokyo Disney Resort’s history! Oriental Land Company revealed the theme for the eighth port in development at Tokyo DisneySea Park will be Scandinavia with a portion of the area themed to the Disney film “Frozen”. Additionally, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Alice in Wonderland” […]