After 26 weeks featuring 26 different roller coasters, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, we finally wrapped up our 2016-2017 version of our A-Z Coaster of the Week series, and I thought it would be interesting to...
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Floorless Conversion Creates Patriot, Improving Vortex
This weekend California’s Great America opened Patriot, the newly converted Vortex, to the public. Vortex was one of the earliest Bollinger & Mabillard stand-up coasters, actually the company’s second ever coaster, opening in 1991 at the park. Over the years...
Continue reading...What You’ll Find at the Knott’s Boysenberry Festival (Including VR Robots and Boomerangs Final Days)
Knott’s Berry Farm kicks off their fourth annual Boysenberry festival this Saturday, April 1st, with loads of boysenberry food, special events, the final days of a roller coaster, and a new VR attraction. The festival began four years ago in...
Continue reading...Forbidden Journey Goes 4K at Universal Studios Hollywood
The signature attraction of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood has gotten an upgrade, the park announced today. When it opened last year, Forbidden Journey West was similar to the Orlando version, but with the addition of...
Continue reading...Patriot Gets an Opening Date, and more from CA Great America
Patriot Opening Shortly After Opening Day California’s Great America’s new floorless conversion, Patriot (formerly Vortex), won’t quite be ready for opening day, but it’s not going to be too far behind. The park opens for the season this weekend on March...
Continue reading...Food Festivals Flooding Cedar Fair Parks in 2017
Since introducing the Knott’s Berry Farm Boysenberry Festival in 2014, Cedar Fair has steadily been adding more and more food festival type events to their parks. They’ve been doing Taste of the Carolinas at Carowinds since 2015, and last year...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: V2: Vertical Velocity
This week’s “A-Z Coaster of the Week” brings us to the letter V, and a ride that when it was first built wasn’t very unique at all. However, thanks to a city regulation, the ride was modified into something one of...
Continue reading...Galactic Attack VR Coming to Six Flags Magic Mountain and Discovery Kingdom
VR roller coaster overlays burst onto the scene last year in a big way, with every Six Flags park in North America adding (optional) Virtual Reality Samsung Gear headsets and VRCoaster experiences. Today Six Flags announced the next generation of...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: TH13TEEN
We’re heading overseas for our A-Z Coaster of the Week for letter T, as we take a look at “TH13TEEN” at Alton Towers in England . A First of Its Kind Opened in 2010, TH13TEEN replaced the aging Corkscrew at Alton Towers,...
Continue reading...Knott’s Partnering With VRStudios on a New Attraction
Knott’s Berry Farm has teased a new virtual reality attraction coming to the park this year. Details were scant, but in a press release it was announced that the park is partnering with a Seattle-area based company called VRStudios to...
Continue reading...California’s Great America Gets Rezoning Approval From City!
We’ve been tracking the progress on the new Master Plan for California’s Great America since last Spring, when Cedar Fair CEO Matt Ouimet made an announcement about the future of the park, and what the company had in mind for...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week – Revolution
We’re sticking on the West Coast for this weeks A-Z Coaster of the week. For the letter “R”, we’re looking at a coaster that had one of the most important “firsts” in modern coaster history, Revolution at Six Flags Magic...
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