After nearly a year of anticipation, riders were finally able to experience Yukon Striker, the world’s tallest, fastest, and longest dive coaster at Canada’s Wonderland! Winners of a charity draw along with select media took their first ride on Yukon Striker, the world’s tallest, fastest and longest dive roller coaster. With the park’s season opening…
Today, we got our first look at a magical creature that guests will encounter in Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure – the epic new addition to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, opening June 13! Known as the “Blast-Ended Skrewt,” this unique creature will be one of the most life-like animated figures Universal Orlando has…
It’s almost time to bring Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge to life! Today, we hear hear directly from the creative forces at Walt Disney Imagineering and Lucasfilm about the journey to transporting our guests to the planet of Batuu! WATCH Below as we join the biggest Star Wars fans at the Star Wars Celebration in Chicago…
Just in time for the holiday weekend, Busch Gardens Tampa will officially open Tigris, a triple-launch steel roller coaster, on Friday, April 19, 2019. The new attraction is Florida’s tallest launch coaster and the ninth coaster in the park’s collection, solidifying Busch Gardens Tampa as Florida’s thrill ride leader! Tigris will catapult riders through an exhilarating array…
From 1972 until 2004, Kings Island provided guests with the opportunity to stay at a campgrounds resort. It seems that guests may once again have that option. The proposed Kings Mills Outdoor Resort is a 52.7 acre resort directly adjacent to Interstate-71. The plan calls for 334 sites consisting of 182 sites for recreational vehicles, 114 …
The tallest piece of Kennywood’s new Steel Curtain roller coaster has been bolted into place! Construction crews hoisted the apex of the lift hill to a height of about 220 feet above Kennywood Park and attached it to the growing structure that overlooks Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River. Watch below as the highest piece of track is…
Minutes ago, Disney shared an exciting announcement many of you have been waiting to hear– Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is opening ahead of schedule on May 31 at Disneyland Resort in Southern California and August 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida. It’s debuting early because of high guest interest in experiencing this new, immersive land – but there’s a catch… Guests will…
After a three-year hiatus, the iconic Colossos wooden roller coaster at the Heide Park returns this year promising to be better and more immersive than ever! In early January 2018, Heide Park (located in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany) announced that Colossos, the giant Intamin wooden coaster at the park, would be renovated. Colossos, which has…
Today, Universal Orlando revealed the name and opening date for the highly-anticipated, new coaster coming to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter this summer. Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure will feature the most highly-themed coaster yet! For the first time ever, guests will fly with Hagrid on a thrilling roller coaster ride that plunges into…
This past Saturday, February 16th, we stopped by Kentucky Kingdom for their annual off season tour; King Louie’s Winter Walk-Thru. This allowed us to see the park in the off-season and get an exclusive look at the construction of Kentucky Flyer, the new Gravity Group woodie opening in 2019. We kicked off our visit with…
Amusement park guests young and old, are demanding sweet treats that are indulgent yet better for them than high calorie ice cream and sugary ice pops. Now, guests no longer need to choose between healthy or indulgent products. For 2019, Totally Bananas is offering SIX delicious banana novelties, all coated in a rich dark chocolate!…
John Hildebrandt, the former general manager of Cedar Point, wrote a book a few months ago about his decades of work at the park, titled “Always Cedar Point”. Always Cedar Point, a Memoir of the Midway gives the reader a rare insider’s view of the operations of one of the world’s greatest amusement parks, Cedar…