After sitting dormant for six years, the Wildcat roller coaster at former Celebration City is set to be demolished. The process will take several months and will start immediately. Celebration City is owned by Herschend Family Entertainment, the same company...
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Mystery Coaster Monday #209
Welcome to the ninth installment of Mystery Coaster Monday! How to Play To enter, simply post your guess below in the comment section. You can also tweet us:@Coaster101 or on the post on our Facebook page. Mystery Coaster Monday #209 Below you’ll...
Continue reading...Thoughts on Tayto Park and the Cu Chulainn coaster.
I am sure that quite a few people were surprised when little known Tayto Park announced the expansion plans, which included a wooden roller coaster, the Cu Chulainn. It’s rare nowadays to hear of such a large initiative for a...
Continue reading...Guest Blog: Inside Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter
My friend (and Coaster101 reader) Clint Hannah is currently studying abroad in the United Kingdom, and recently took a visit to “The Making of Harry Potter” tour at Warner Bros. Studios in London. I asked him if he wouldn’t mind...
Continue reading...California’s Great America End of Season Report
This past weekend I swung by California’s Great America for a last visit of the season, which ends November 1st. I went in the morning, so missed the Halloween Haunt events, but the crowds were delightfully small during the middle of...
Continue reading...Mystery Coaster Monday #208
Here comes round eight of our Mystery Coaster Monday series! Every Monday, we post a distorted photo of a roller coaster, and it’s up to you to correctly guess its identity! How to Play To enter the Mystery Coaster Monday competition, simply...
Continue reading...A Weekend Trip to SCarowinds
Despite living in North Carolina for 15 years, I had never attended SCarowinds before. But I knew that after seeing the preparations for this year’s SCarowinds first hand, I had to take a trip to Carowinds and see the real...
Continue reading...3 Awesome Virtual Reality Rollercoasters You Can Ride
It’s a wonderful world we live in when we can ride roller coasters from our living rooms. With mobile virtual reality now, well, a reality, there are so many possibilities! Here are 3 of the most promising virtual reality roller...
Continue reading...Mystery Coaster Monday #207
We are already to round seven of our Mystery Coaster Monday series! Every Monday, we post a distorted photo of a roller coaster, and it’s up to you to correctly guess its identity! How to Play To enter the Mystery Coaster Monday...
Continue reading...Carowinds Announces “Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare: 3Z Arena” for 2016
Back in August, Carowinds‘ Carolina Harbor announcement proved that Carowinds was not content with resting on their laurels after a successful 2015 season — a season that brought the tallest and fastest Giga Coaster in the world, Fury 325, to the North and...
Continue reading...Mystery Coaster Monday #206
It’s Week Six. How many of our Mystery Coasters have you guessed correctly? Try to correctly guess the coaster in the edited picture. We’re keeping track of who guesses correctly and the person that gets the most correct answers at the...
Continue reading...Disney’s Flying Roller Coaster Concept
I recently stumbled upon a patent for a flying roller coaster with a vertical load and launch. I figured this patent would be listed under Vekoma or B&M, the two most popular manufacturers of flying coasters. I was shocked to see the...
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