Kings Dominion is finally REOPENING! The Virginia theme park was unable to open for its spring and summer seasons due to COVID-19. But on December 5, Kings Dominion’s Taste of the Season: An Outdoor Holiday Experience will open just in time for the holiday season! Taste of the Season: An Outdoor Holiday Experience will feature…
During the IAAPA Attractions Expo in November of 2019, Great Coasters International (GCI) revealed an all-new steel track. To obtain a patent on the new design, the track was installed on very short stretch of White Lightning at Fun Spot Orlando. After seeing this, many coaster fanatics were wondering when the new GCI steel track…
In 2019, Kings Island retired one of their historic coasters — Vortex. The ride, built in 1987, was the first complete circuit coaster to invert riders six times. With the ride’s removal, questions soon emerged about what would replace the gap left by Vortex. Kings Island has vastly expanded over the course of the past…
A recent trend in amusement ride manufacturing is to combine different types of rides into new hybrid rides that feature the best aspects of each. Parks and manufacturers have recently been working together to create interactive dark rides / coasters designed for family entertainment. Zamperla, a leading ride design and manufacturing company based out of…
Idlewild Park in Pennsylvania, has announced that they will be retiring 3 of their classic Attractions. The Rainbow Wheel in Raccoon Lagoon Bubbling Springs Ball Pit in Jumpin’ Jungle The Ferris Wheel in Olde Idlewild “One thing that is a constant in life is change. At Idlewild & SoakZone, part of our evolution over the…
In the late 1970’s Kings Island was a booming park. After it’s 1972 opening, the park vastly expanded adding large attractions such as Kenton’s Cove Keelboat Canal, Screamin Demon, Lion Country Safari, and of course the Beast. After many meetings, Kings Island executives agreed that the park needed a new innovative record breaking coaster to…
Carowinds is finally reopening in November with a new limited-time event called “Carowinds Taste of the Season: An Outdoor Holiday Experience“. The park traditionally hosts a Winterfest event which draws thousands of guests each year as well as a family-friendly New Year’s Eve countdown celebration. Both of those have been cancelled due to Covid-19. The…
Award-winning Executive Producer Greg Nicotero gets a first look at the spectacular creativity that goes into Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights in an all-new video featuring a haunted house planned for next year’s event, Puppet Theater: Captive Audience. A longtime fan of Halloween Horror Nights, Nicotero joins Mike Aiello, Universal Orlando’s Senior Director of Creative…
Kings Island has introduced a new event for the 2020 Halloween season — Tricks and Treats Fall Fest! The new event features foods, shows, games, activities, and rides for the whole family. The signature part of the event is the introduction of the Tricks and Treats tasting stations around the park. In addition the the regular offerings,…
Fun Spot amusement parks in Orlando and Kissimmee are getting all spooky this fall with some new additions during their “Huge Halloween” event. The kid-friendly event will offer three major highlights: trick-or-treating, a limited-time offering of tasty “Fright Bites”, and an all new escape room! We stopped by the park this afternoon for a sneak peek…
Kennywood Park’s former Laser Loop shuttle coaster is for sale! The ride is being offered via (usedrides.com) for an asking price of $490,000. The ride operated at Kennywood from 1980 to 1990. It was then removed and sold to La Feria Chapultepec Magico in Mexico City — there, it operated as Cascabel 2.0 from 1994 to 2019….
With Six Flags pushing numerous 2020 additions to 2021, many thrill seekers were curious as to what would happen at parks that had already completed their installations for 2020 additions before COVID-19 struct. We finally have that answer.. Six Flags Over Georgia has posted a mysterious video to Instagram with the caption “Catch the Wave”….