Triotech, creator of award winning media-based attractions, celebrates its 350th installation worldwide and continues its growth as “Creators of fun”. The star product of this success is Triotech’s XD Dark Ride interactive theater. In fact, Triotech deployed its 180th XD Dark Ride attraction in Ecuador. This installation is located in Safari Xtreme park at Malecon…
Update added 12/22/2015 in red at bottom Cedar Point has been chock full of Valravn photos, videos and updates since they’ve started full-time construction during the offseason. Once the Halloweekends party let out at the beginning of November, the weather has been cooperating for the Roller Coaster Capital of the World and it’s allowed them to crank…
This past Friday afternoon, a 12 year old boy fell 30 feet from the water log ride at Castles N’ Coasters, located in the Phoenix, AZ area. The boy is in critical condition at the Phoenix area Children’s Hospital and is in a medically-induced coma after receiving two hours of surgery on his brain, according to…
During Epcot’s 2015 Food & Wine Festival, this drunk (so they say he was drunk) decided to climb the pyramid on the outside of the Mexico Pavilion. An Instagram user who posted the video didn’t find the daring feat too impressive… “This man is going to ruin Epcot for everyone,” @Missinth posted to the social media…
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…
Recently, the good folks over at Coaster Force took a tour of the Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) facility to see their operations and to get some sneak peeks of what new things the company expects to be churning out to it’s clients. With RMC President Fred Grubbs as their guide, Coaster Force got to see a…
Six Flags has been on a roll recently with the unveiling of new rides at parks throughout their portfolio, including Total Mayhem coming to Six Flags Great Adventure next spring. On Thursday, September 4th, Six Flags over Georgia announced the park was getting a total of 12 (TWELVE) new rides in 2016 as they are…
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…
May The Force Be With You, Mickey & Pluto!! On August 15th at the D23 Expo, Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, announced that Star Wars themed-lands were coming to Disneyland in Anaheim, California AND Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. The D23 Expo is billed as bringing together all of…
Dolly’s done it again! Dollywood, the pride of Great Smoky Mountains, TN, unveiled on August 7th the renderings and layout of their new wooden coaster, Lightning Rod, which will open next year in the Jukebox Junction section of the park. This is billed as “The World’s First and Fastest Wood Launch Coaster” and the trains…