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…
If you were traveling between Ohio and Florida over the past two days, you may have spotted a shiny new piece of coaster track being transported via flatbed. In 2016, SeaWorld Orlando announced they will be adding an all new 200ft roller coaster to their lineup of attractions. The track is being manufactured by the famed coaster manufacturers, Bolliger…
At the beginning of summer, during an employee meeting at SeaWorld Orlando, park execs made an announcement that coaster manufacturer B&M would be installing a new 200 ft coaster called Mako, at the park in 2016. B&M has started shipping pieces of track from their Ohio plant to Orlando. The park has launched a marketing campaign…
At the beginning of summer, Cedar Point began clearing out a large area of land where the former Good Times Theater used to be for a new attraction. Since they began excavating, a construction wall has blocked off the surrounding area. The park then hung up a sign on the construction wall that said “A…
May The Force Be With You, Mickey & Pluto!! On August 15th at the D23 Expo, Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, announced that Star Wars themed-lands were coming to Disneyland in Anaheim, California AND Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. The D23 Expo is billed as bringing together all of…
Cedar Point executives indefinitely delayed a major announcement planned for Tuesday, potentially unveiling a new ride for next year. The decision, made on Friday came just one day after the Raptor roller coaster struck and killed James Young. (story here) The 9 p.m. Tuesday announcement was not only scheduled to be historic and record-breaking, but was…
Doesn’t Snoopy look all fun & innocent when you see him at Cedar Point? BUT, is he telling the truth at Cedar Point?!!?!! With the newest curve ball, cardboard glasses were received in the mail this week for the Big Announcement that’s coming on August 18th at 9 PM EST in Celebration Plaza. There was also a…
There’s another long-time coaster that’s about to retire in the Cedar Fair portfolio. This time it’s Kings Dominion’s Shockwave, located in Doswell, Virginia; the stand-up coaster had been operating since 1986 and will ride for the final time on this Sunday, August 9th. As we told you this past week, Carowinds’ Thunder Road has kicked the…
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…
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…