It’s that time of year again! This weekend industry professionals from across the globe gathered to honor the best of the best in the amusement industry. The Golden Ticket Awards by Amusement Today are like the Oscars for amusement parks. Each year, a detailed survey is sent to a database of experienced and well-traveled amusement park experts around…
The world’s premier Halloween event, Halloween Horror Nights, is now open at Universal Orlando Resort – unleashing the most terrifying names in horror and haunting original nightmares upon guests, creating the ultimate Halloween experience. As the sun sets on days filled with thrills, the nights will awaken with a frightening chill as crazed cult favorites,…
If you have a fear of water, the latest haunted house announced for Halloween Horror Nights will be the stuff of nightmares. Today, Universal Orlando revealed “Depths of Fear” as the second original content haunted house coming to Halloween Horror Nights 2019 – the world’s premier Halloween event. Depths of Fear mixes all the elements of…
After the success of their 2018 “Conspiracy of Shadows” show, Midnight Syndicate will return to Cedar Point’s Halloweekends in 2019 with a bran new performance! Composers Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka, known collectively as Midnight Syndicate, will be bringing an all-new immersive performance experience to Cedar Point this fall. After seeing their previous shows, we…
It’s that time of the year again! It’s New Year’s Eve and 2019 is just hours away. We here at Coaster Nation are incredibly thankful for another great year and we’re proud to spend another year as your source for theme park news. As holiday events wind down at all the parks, we’d like to…
Our annual Haunted House poll is back! Every Halloween season we hear about the BEST or SCARIEST haunted houses. Haunted attractions today are comparable to Hollywood movie productions, becoming more elaborate and more immersive than ever before! According to the Haunted Attraction Association, the haunt industry is a $8 billion dollar industry with more than…
Every once in a while we stroll across a hidden gem, and that’s exactly what happened when we traveled off the beaten path to Haunted Hollow in Pennsylvania. As one of the most anticipated haunted houses to visit in 2018, Haunted Hollow is reimagining everyone’s worst nightmares! Located in Rockwood, PA, (70 miles Southeast of…
As we creep into mid October, monsters are coming alive at North Carolina’s Woods of Terror — and no one knows what’s lurking in the dark! Legend has it that the land is inhabited by the souls of Great Depression era victims. Many people perished as a result of the tolls of the Great Depression….
Great Pumpkin LumiNights returns to Dollywood’s Harvest Festival this fall. This year’s event is bigger and better than ever with several new immersive displays, exciting activities and an expanded footprint that’s more than twice the size of last year’s event. The Harvest Festival itself is also growing in 2018 with six additional days added to…
There’s nowhere to hide at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. Fear returns this Friday, September 21 at Busch Gardens Howl-O-Scream. Terrifying haunted houses and scare zones and creepers on coasters will create an air of fear that sweeps over the park. This year’s event includes two new houses designed to terrify: Insomnia – The doctor is…
Fans of the popular Netflix Series, “Stranger Things” are in for a treat at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights. To complement the new “Stranger Things” maze debuting at both Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood, guests will be able to enjoy foods inspired by the series. The executive chef and culinary teams at each…
Midnight Syndicate’s new show, Midnight Syndicate: Conspiracy of Shadows, opens this Friday, September 14th, at Cedar Point’s HalloWeekends 2018. Gavin and Ed have been very guarded about the details on the show, except to say that it will be an experience guests will not easily forget. Midnight Syndicate: Conspiracy of Shadows is included with the price of admission to…