Thorpe Park announced recently that a hotel will open inside the park next season, but it’s no ordinary hotel. The Crash Pad, a portable hotel (yes, portable), will offer guests affordable overnight accommodations in one of...
Seaworld Parks & Entertainment announced today that it will buy Knott’s Soak City in San Diego from Cedar Fair and will reopen it in 2013 as the chain’s third Aquatica-branded waterpark. SeaWorld revealed that significant...
Since purchasing the iPhone 5 last week, I have been in an app-downloading frenzy. Conveniently, a brand new coaster game app launched this week entitled “Coaster Crazy.” The 3D game, developed by Frontier Developments Limited (the...
Kings Island recently shared this saddening photo of Son of Beast’s lift hill falling to the ground. Now, very little remains of the once-giant coaster. The park is expected to upload a video of the...
We’re looking for one or two extra pairs of hands around the Coaster101 office. We want to branch out to different parts of the coaster world, and what better place to look than our diverse...
Disney has seen success (and failure) with its movie adaptions of its popular theme park attractions. The Pirates of the Caribbean series was wildly successful, while The Haunted Mansion, didn’t experience as much success. Now, ABC (which...
The annual IAAPA (International Association of Amusement Parks and Aquariums) conference took place this past week in Orlando, Florida. IAAPA is a yearly colossal expo show where park representatives are on hand to try and...
It’s that time of year again. The holiday season is upon us. For many, the Christmas decoration process takes days, but for Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, the entire Mainstreet USA area is decorated in...
Mount Olympus announced today at the IAAPA Attractions Expo that Hades will become “Hades 360” in 2012 with the addition of a “360 degree upside down loop and a 135 degree over-banked turn.” The park...
The annual IAAPA Attractions Expo began today in Orlando, Florida. Around 25,000 people are expected to attend the week-long convention showcasing the innovations and new products within the amusement industry. Several exciting announcements and surprises...
Disney has seen success (and failure) with its movie adaptions of its popular theme park attracks. The Pirates of the Caribbean series was wildly successful. The Haunted Mansion, on the other hand, didn’t see as much success...
Test Track at Epcot is currently undergoing a major overhaul and is expected to reopen on December 6, 2012. Chevrolet released today several impressive renderings of the re-imagined attraction. Chevrolet designers and Walt Disney Imagineers...
