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…
A live taste of the Old West is coming to Cedar Point this summer! In addition to Forbidden Frontier on Adventure Island, an interactive and immersive storytelling experience, guests of Cedar Point will have more to explore for the 2019 season. The park is introducing new ways to dine and a summertime street celebration in…
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…
Cedar Point has released some more details about their new attraction of 2019. From Tony Clark’s blog post today: “Alright, explorers! We’ve received the first bit of the map from Forbidden Frontier on Adventure Island, so let’s take a look at the image above. We’ve been told that this is the Snake River Swamp. Once…
In 2019, Disney is set to unveil it’s brand new Skyliner transportation system, the largest upgrade to the Walt Disney World’s iconic transportation network since the 1980’s. With the recent build up for the new transportation system, one question still remains: will it be able to handle the crowds? The Skyliner is a gondola based…
At the start of Kings Dominion Virginia’s 2018 season, Volcano: The Blast Coaster was closed suddenly for the entire season. There were rumors flying around the coaster community on whether the ride would reopen in 2019. In a shocking surprise, Kings Dominion has made the following announcement today: “The 2019 operating season is on the…
Construction of the track for Yukon Striker, the world’s tallest dive coaster, was completed last Friday. The final pieces of track consisted of the top portion of the vertical loop. Now with the track completed, work can now begin on the installation of the machinery that makes up the iconic coaster. Yukon Striker promises an exhilarating…
Sharp-eyed visitors to Walt Disney World Resort this week may have spotted something new up in the sky! Disney has begun testing their new Skyliner transport system! Scheduled to open this fall, Disney Skyliner will be a new, state-of-the-art gondola system that will conveniently connect Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Epcot to four resort hotels — Disney’s Art…
Earlier last year, operations of Rye Playland was switched over to Standard Amusements. There was interest by enthusiasts on what the new operators were planning for the future of the iconic park. Today, Standard Amusements revealed their plans and it was much larger than what many anticipated. The new plan released for Rye Playland calls…
Ever since the announcement of Cedar Point’s new Adventure Island attraction, the park has given out limited information about the new area. Details presented during the California’s Great America Master Plan presentation (seen here) may provide us with clues to the nature of the attraction. In the presentation, the park described eventually adding a…
Six Flags Great Adventure, the World’s Ultimate Thrill Park, announces a second major addition for the 2019 season with the introduction of Calypso Springs. This massive activity pool is Six Flags Hurricane Harbor’s largest new attraction since the New Jersey waterpark opened in 2000. “Hurricane Harbor is an industry leader with best-in-class water slides and…