Today, Six Flags Magic Mountain announced the addition of CraZanity, the world’s tallest pendulum ride for 2018! This comes shortly after the park announced that they would be beginning year-round operation at the beginning of 2018. When it debuts in late spring, CraZanity will stand at a record-breaking 17-stories reaching speeds up to 75 mph….
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, the world’s largest regional theme park company, has announced thrilling new offerings for 2018! The lineup includes new coasters, water rides, and even some never before seen rides! Don’t want to read? Watch this video highlighting all the new rides! Six Flags New England – Western Massachusetts: The Thrill Capital of New…
Today, Six Flags Great America in Chicago, announced the addition of the world’s largest loop coaster for 2018! When it debuts in late spring, the ride will be the World’s largest coaster of its kind. Standing at 100 feet tall, it will take riders forward and backward on a gigantic loop before suspending them completely upside down for…
Today Six Flags Magic Mountain announced that they will be launching 365-day operation beginning January 1, 2018. This move into the destination travel market will make Six Flags’ operating calendar on par with all of the other theme parks in southern California. Currently, both Magic Mountain and its accompanying water park, Hurricane Harbor, have limited…
Six Flags Fiesta Texas spilled the beans today on their 2018 plans with a surprise announcement. The park plans to add an entirely new type of roller coaster to their all star lineup of thrill rides complete with a Wonder Woman theme! Wonder Woman: Golden Lasso Coaster is being built by the hugely popular Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC)…
Today, Six Flags Entertainment Corp announced that Chief Executive John Duffey has “retired from the company” after 17 months in the position. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation’s board of directors has appointed Jim Reid-Anderson, who has been serving as Executive Chairman of the company since February 2016, as the company’s new Chairman, President, and CEO effective…
Saturday evening, a fourteen year old girl fell from the Sky Ride at Six Flags Great Escape in Lake George, New York. The ride is a slow moving chair lift sky ride with two-person pods that travels across the park. Authorities said a ride operator stopped the ride right away after hearing a rider was…
Just one day after Six Flags held their quarterly conference call with investors where they had said that the company was looking to acquire or lease more parks in North America, Six Flags announced that they were welcoming Waterworld in Concord California back into their family of world class amusement and water parks. Six Flags has reached an agreement with…
Six Flag’s Over Georgia has announced an exciting new ride for it’s 50th anniversary season. In partnership with Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Six Flags announced a brand new virtual reality experience, Drop of Doom VR today. Drop of Doom VR is the country’s first-ever permanent drop tower VR attraction, opening on March 11. “We continue…
Six Flags and Samsung have joined forces to unveil a new Galactic Attack Virtual Reality Coaster at Six Flags Over Texas. Unlike the two previous virtual reality experiences that Six Flags had on the Shockwave coaster last year, “Galactic Attack” allows riders to see the real world mixed with virtual elements during the ride. This new mixed…
Theme parks around the world are getting ready to kick off their 2017 season of thrills! A new season means new rides — more importantly, NEW COASTERS! There’s some exciting new roller coasters debuting in 2017. Some steel, some wood, and even some for the kids. We take a look at 10 U.S. coasters you…
Last year, Six Flags teamed up with Samsung Electronics America and brought us North America’s first Virtual Reality Roller Coasters. 10 different rides at 10 different Six Flags parks received a VR experience — either the Superman experience or the New Revolution experience using Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus . This year, the companies…