Playland’s Castaway Cove made an announcement Tuesday to construct a major new roller coaster for the summer 2016 season. The 125-foot-tall coaster dubbed as GaleForce will feature a triple-launch, speeds of 64-mph, seven “thrilling” elements including a beyond-90-degree drop as it winds its way around the track. Playland is between 10th and 11th streets on the…
Well, look at what we have here!! There’s some footage that has surfaced on YouTube from the Trevor Bondi Media account in the last couple of weeks that shows what appears to be 3D video of what Valravn could look like at Cedar Point in 2016. As we’ve been telling this year, there’s rumors running rampant about a…
Starting this weekend, Carowinds guests will notice something different in the County Fair section of the park: they can no longer ride Thunder Road. It’s been a great run for nearly four decades for the wooden roller coaster, which ran to the public for the last time this past Sunday. The coaster was unique in the…
Kentucky Kingdom is retiring their classic Twisted Twins wooden roller coaster which has been closed since 2007. But with the coasters departure only means one thing.. A NEW COASTER is coming! The park is transforming the former Twisted Twins (previously Twisted Sisters) into an amazing single-lift, single-track steel-on-wood-on-steel hybrid coaster! Kentucky Kingdom has officially shared details…
Cedar Fair CEO Matt Ouimet has announced plans earlier this year for their chain of parks to get a dark ride in the near future. As we told you back in April, Ouimet says that we should eventually see dark rides in all Cedar Fair parks. While this is no new category of entertainment for…
Lake Compounce (the United States’ oldest theme park) has officially announced that the park will make it’s largest investment to date in a new 150-foot-tall roller coaster named Phobia Phear. For a few weeks the park did a great job running teasers via social media creating some excitement. They teased the new attraction on social media,…
Huss Rides, The manufacturer of the famed enterprise ride has something new on the way. The company has re-imagining of The Enterprise ride that was designed in the 80’s and utilized throughout the 90’s. the new twists called Enterprise G2, features open air seating with OTS restraints opposed to the classic cages of the past….
FINALLY! The legends and leaders over at Nintendo are getting the theme park treatment via the creative and whimsical folks over at Universal Studios. The announcement came recently that Nintendo and Universal Studios were going to be teaming up and featuring rides and attractions after the Japanese based video game company. Tapping into the gamer…
Universal Orlando has officially announced they will be closing Wet ‘n Wild, Orlando. The longstanding waterpark located on International Drive will close FOREVER December 31, 2016. Even though the park will close in December of 2016, expect some of the slides attractions to close and slowly disappear well before that time. Wet ‘N Wild Orlando originally opened…
First it was Leviathan at Canada’s Wonderland, (people can say that now), then Rougarou at Cedar Point, (people can kind of say that now), and now “Valravn“? Cedar Fair, specifically “Cedar Point Park LLC”, has filed the trademark for “Valravn” for a multitude of uses, including an amusement park ride name and merchandise. What is…
The long time rumor is now officially true! During an employee meeting at SeaWorld Orlando, park execs made an announcement that a new 200 ft coaster would be installed at the park in 2016. The news comes a little more than a month after SeaWorld Entertainment announced Joel Manby as the company’s new President and CEO. After the…
Cedar Fair plans to debut a new dark ride concept throughout all of it’s parks including Cedar Point. The company owns and operates eleven amusement parks, three outdoor water parks, one indoor water park, and five hotels across the United States. Cedar Fair also manages Gilroy Gardens under contract with the city of Gilroy, California. Cedar…