A new chocolate factory will be joining the all-star restaurant lineup at Universal Orlando’s CityWalk in 2016. The new Toothsome Chocolate Factory & Savory Feast Emporium at Universal CityWalk will be located in the former NBA City restaurant location, and will offer both a full-service menu and a retail store full of gourmet sweets that guests…
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…
Lory Landing at Busch gardens Tampa is getting another rehab. We stopped by the park to check out progress on their new coaster Cobra’s Curse, but discovered crews working on the Lory Landing aviary exhibit. This came as a surprise to us as the area was just upgraded in 2013. At Lory Landing, Lorikeets are the…
You’ve seen the movies. You’ve seen the cars. And soon, you’ll be able to live it at Universal Orlando! One of the most successful film franchises of all-time will soon become one of Universal Orlando Resort‘s most action-packed ride experiences! Buckle your seatbelts, because in 2017, Fast & Furious: Supercharged is coming to Universal Studios Florida. You’ll…
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…
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…
Move over Kingda Ka, a new coaster is about to take the World’s Tallest Roller Coaster title! In 2017, “Skyscraper” is scheduled to debut at 570 feet tall. It will feature the worlds tallest inversion just before the coasters first drop at the rides maximum height. Joshua Wallack, a Florida developer, also dreamed of taking this vertical coaster design to Atlantic City, New…