Go Big, Go Backwards! For a limited time, Batman: The Ride, will be more intense than ever when riders dare to take on an all new experience… going backwards! SixFlags Great Adventure located in Jackson, New Jersey, will open Batman: The Ride in 2015 for the coaster’s 23rd season. Since opening in 1993, Batman The Ride reigns as one of…
Busch Gardens Williamsburg is celebrating “40 Years of Fun” in 2015! The Williamsburg Virginia park has been consistently rated as “the most beautiful park” by both the Golden Ticket Awards, and National Theme Park Historical Society. For the 2015 season, Busch Gardens added yet another amazing roller coaster, a new show, and a whole lot more! The…
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…
Dark Hour Haunted House in Plano, Texas wrapped up the Halloween season by prepping for a holiday event called “Wreck the Halls” last December. Just like many haunts, Dark Hour also offered up Valentine’s Day thrills with a lights out style show, and as an added bonus guests could purchase a “Fine Food & Frights” ticket which…
This is shaping up to be a breakout year for Carowinds with all their new additions to the park. Cedar Fair has invested in a $50 million dollar plan that is about to change the face of Carowinds forever. Fury 325 is a big part of that change, and is a record breaking new Giga-Coaster that delivers the thrills Carowinds is known for….
Let’s just get right to it. Here it is! The long awaited debut of the trains for Cedar Point’s 2015 floorless Coaster, Rougarou, have arrived! Rougarou is the newest attraction for Cedar Point’s 2015 season. The coaster was formerly known as Mantis (The stand up coaster). The park recently re-themed the ride, removed the stand up…
Carowinds is hosting year two of the Run and Ride series featuring some awesome running events and lots of air time on coasters! With a half-marathon, 10k, 5k, and 1-mile fun run to choose from, there is something for everyone to try! Runners will also be able to ride the all new Fury 305! Fury 325 fully embodies this same aggressive…
On Friday, February 13th, Factory of Terror Haunted Attraction in Canton, Ohio opened it’s doors for a special Friday The 13th / Valentine’s event. We were there to check out everything the “World’s Longest Haunted House” had to offer! Continuing their tradition of opening for every Friday the 13th, FOT hosted yet another successful evening of haunted entertainment, this time called…
We love roller coasters, but it’s time for some off season Halloween fun! We just wrapped up the first haunted house convention of the season with HAuNTcon in Baton Rouge, but this weekend is loaded with haunted attractions that are open for business. It’s Friday the 13th, it’s Valentine’s Day on Saturday, AND it’s President’s Day…
Produced by Hero ventures. The Marvel Experience is a first-of-its-kind city to city traveling attraction that features a 3-D stereoscopic Dome, a 4-D motion ride, and other fancy techno words like “augmented reality, multi-person gaming and RFID progress tracking.” Your journey will take you through a 360-degree, 3-D stereoscopic projection Dome, where you’ll get closer than…
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is about to change the park forever with the removal of the giant hat, but in the meantime, why not begin with good coffee! February will see the official opening of Walt Disney World’s fifth Starbucks inside the new Trolley Car Cafe. The Trolley Car Café is themed to a classic trolley car station along…
We here at Coaster Nation take pride in bringing our readers exclusive and up to date news in the amusement industry. But every now and then we like to toss in something from a current event to keep things on the lighter side. With the Super Bowl only one week away, it’s hard to get…