Disneyland Resort, which includes Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure, announced a couple updates to their Fastpass program today. MaxPass Later this year Disneyland Resort is going to be updating their nearly 20 year old FastPass program with the introduction of MaxPass...
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A-Z Coaster of the Week: Quicksilver Express
This week we head back to California for our “Q” A-Z Coaster of the Week, to a unique coaster in a small amusement park just south of San Jose, Quicksilver Express at Gilroy Gardens! Gilroy Gardens opened in 2001 as...
Continue reading...More Hints at Future California’s Great America Attractions Revealed
Earlier this week the Santa Clara City Council Planning Committee held a special meeting to discuss the new proposed master plan and rezoning for California’s Great America. Included in the documentation related to this meeting is a presentation (presumably from...
Continue reading...Coaster101’s Top 8 Features of 2016
Happy New Year everybody! Over the last eight days we’ve been counting through eight of our favorite features and interviews of 2016 over on Facebook and Twitter. Along with our “Year in Review” post today, we also wanted to share all...
Continue reading...First Ever WinterFest at California’s Great America – Review
Tonight marks the final evening of the first ever WinterFest at California’s Great America, which ran for about a month from Thanksgiving up to today. This is the first time since the park’s first season that it was open for...
Continue reading...Is Spike the Next Great Roller Coaster?
Next week at the IAAPA Expo in Orlando, one of the attendees will be showing a very different type of roller coaster, the Spike Coaster. Spike is a new type of powered coaster developed by Maurer Rides, and the first prototype began...
Continue reading...New Knott’s Ride and Return of Ghost Town Alive
Earlier this year Knott’s Berry Farm announced a water park expansion for 2017. Now they’ve announced they’re also adding a new flat ride, expanding their popular Boysenberry Festival, and on top of that bringing back and expanding the awesome (and...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Giant Dipper
It’s “G” week here at Coaster101 in our ongoing A-Z Coasters of the Week series! We’re swinging over to the West Coast this week to continue our “Dipper” suite in the series, taking a look at one of the most...
Continue reading...How to Refurbish a Roller Coaster: Q&A With Great Coasters International
Two of the biggest roller coaster projects that opened this past year were not new rides, but re-openings of once popular wooden coasters. GhostRider at Knott’s Berry Farm and The Legend at Holiday World both received major refurbishment this offseason to bring...
Continue reading...SeaWorld San Diego Adding New Area and New Dark Ride in 2017
SeaWorld Entertainment came out with their full announcement on what’s coming to their parks in 2017 today. While SeaWorld San Antonio is getting a new roller coaster, their West Coast sister park, SeaWorld San Diego, is adding a new area called...
Continue reading...Rage of the Gargoyles VR Arrives at Discovery Kingdom
Thursday morning I got a chance to visit Six Flags Discovery Kingdom to preview their new virtual reality roller coaster, Rage of the Gargoyles, which has been added to Kong. This is one of several new VR coasters Six Flags is...
Continue reading...How to Enjoy a Theme Park Halloween in California
As summer winds to an end and the calendar marches into September, Theme Parks start gearing up for their annual Halloween events. To get you ready, we put together a run down of all the major Theme Park Halloween events...
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