Sea World just made the major announcement on Thursday that they will end their orca breeding program. The 56 year old marine entertainment company says the killer whales that are being taken care of at their parks will be the last generation that will inhabit Sea World and orca breeding will end immediately. According to Joel…
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…
Today, the famed waterpark and attractions company known as WhiteWater, celebrated their birthday! 35 years ago the WhiteWater Waterslide & Recreation Complex in Penticton, BC broke ground. Today they celebrated with their amazing team in the Richmond, BC office and thanked them for making WhiteWater into the global leader it has become. WhiteWater has pioneered innovations throughout the waterpark industry such…
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…
What The What?!!?! You read the headline right. Kevin Dumont is the owner of Liquid Planet in Candia, New Hampshire and has opted to chain himself to a water tower slide. Dumont calls it his last effort to save his park from closing it’s doors for good. Unfortunately, the park was foreclosed on by the lender and…
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…
The theme park trade publication Amusement Today held their 17th annual Golden Ticket Awards at Luna Park in New York City this past weekend to crown the Best In Class around the industry. Every year, Amusement Today conducts an international survey of knowledgeable and experienced theme park fans to get their votes on the Best in…
Cedar Fair has been on a roll this week with a slew of announcements from numerous parks throughout their portfolio. On Wednesday, August 19th, Kings Island unveiled Tropical Plunge, the 65-foot complex of six different water slides, that will be nearly seven stories tall. It’ll debut in the park’s Soak City section, as well as new toll…
Carowinds is preparing to reveal their next big attraction! Fans are all speculating, but we have a pretty good assumption of what is being installed… All hints point towards a new… waterslide complex. A previous Carowinds application for incentives from the city of Charlotte mentioned a $2.5 million waterslide as a part of the park’s future expansion. Carowinds sent out…
Today, Kings Island announced a new addition to their park for the upcoming 2016 Season. The 43 year old park’s Soak City waterpark will be opening “Tropical Plunge”, a complex of six different water slide experiences towering nearly seven stories. Three of the slides on the 65-foot tall complex will start with guests climbing inside an…
With Summer winding down, YaHoo Travel has named America’s top 10 waterparks. While it was said to be a very tight race to number 1, they praised Busch Gardens’ Water Country USA for its cleanliness, kid-friendly attractions, and thrill rides like Colossal Curl and Vanish Point! Water Country USA topped the list as Americas Best! Check out…
Kari Byron and Tory Belleci explore the science behind the World’s wildest thrill rides on Travel Channel’s new series “Thrill Factor”! Before the kids go back to school and the leaves start to change, Travel Channel is keeping the summer fun going with its all-new series “Thrill Factor,” premiering with back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, August 12 at…