Dark Hour Haunted House in Plano, Texas is known for hosting special events at their haunted attraction each holiday. After wrapping up the Halloween season, their marketing and design team immediately starts brainstorming and putting together their holiday shows for the following year. For 2016, Dark Hour is producing a Saint Patrick’s themed haunted event dubbed…
St Patrick’s Day is all about the Irish, Green Beer, parades, and…. haunted houses? Yes, you read that correct.. More and more haunted attractions around the world are opening for off season events. Majority of those off season events are themed around holidays. The Factory of Terror in Canton, Ohio is continuing that tradition by…
A drone has flown over Cedar Point’s newest roller coaster “Valravn,” and the view is amazing, as you’ll see in the video below. If you haven’t already heard, Cedar Point is debuting a new dive coaster called Valravn for the park’s 2016 season. Construction has been progressing very fast through the winter months as the…
If you’re making a trip to a Six Flags park this summer, virtual reality will be a new option for some of their biggest and most popular roller coasters. After many rumors, Six Flags has officially announced the addition of a new VR Coaster experience being added to a coaster at several of their theme parks. Unlike…
A lot has happened since our last visit to the King Kong construction site. Construction work visible from inside and outside the park, has been under way on Skull Island: Reign of Kong since last summer. Universal Orlando construction crews are working diligently hidden behind construction walls and tall trees to wrap up the the project for its…
After reports about Shoot The Rapids, aka STR, being dismantled were recently unleashed, guests at the annual Winter Chill-Out event on Saturday at Cedar Point were able to confirm that news for themselves and then some. The second lift hill and drop have already been removed from the site. The park says the decision was due to rider…
Cedar Point’s wet and wild attraction that was a hat-tip to a former ride in the park is likely to also become a distant memory. According to a report from the Sandusky Register, Cedar Point is in the process of removing it’s 5 year old Shoot The Rapids water ride located in Frontier Town. Since the…
We’re officially in the hibernation part of the season and Cedar Point is hard at work with their 18th roller coaster, Valravn; as we’ve noted previously, the weather has certainly been in their favor. It’s a good thing for the Roller Coaster Capital of the World as their opening day is just under 3 months away…
Are you planning on attending Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia this upcoming season? Take a look inside at the amazing events they have planned! There are a variety of performances you will not want to miss! The fun starts on March 19th when “Elmo Rocks!” returns for children and their families. Everyone is sure…
Notice how the weather around Cedar Point has been very cooperative in the last couple of months? Fans of the Roller Coaster Capital of the World have been getting glimpses of the new Valravn. Through social media, a webcam, construction blog entries and video diaries, The Point has showing how they’ve been keeping very busy…
Kentucky Kingdom strikes again with another new roller coaster! If you haven’t already heard, the park is officially retiring their classic Twisted Twins wooden roller coaster which has been closed since 2007. Twisted Twins (previously Twisted Sisters) will be transformed into an amazing single-lift, single-track steel-on-wood-on-steel hybrid coaster! “Storm Chaser“ will be the addition of the parks…
If you didn’t already know, Dollywood will debut a new wooden coaster called Lightning Rod in 2016. The new wooden masterpiece is billed as “The World’s First and Fastest Wood Launch Coaster” and the trains are designed after sweet, tricked out 1950’s hot rods. The ride is being built by Rocky Mountain Construction. Today, they released these…