All-aboard! What’s a visit to a theme park without a ride on a classic steam locomotive? Here’s our picks for the best theme park steam trains in America. To come up with this non-scientific list, we looked at many factors...
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7 Ideas for a DinoLand USA Replacement at Animal Kingdom
Last fall, as I walked through the slowly fossilizing DinoLand USA area at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, my mind began to spin thinking of all the things Disney Imagineers could do with the half-dead space. After all, it has remained largely...
Continue reading...Theme Park Twitter 101: 101 Must-Follow Theme Park-Related Accounts
Twitter is a unique social media platform. Where else can you follow strangers on the internet, and interact with their views, opinions, memes and gifs, all in 280 characters or less? (Don’t answer that question.) The subsection of theme park...
Continue reading...Top 10 Theme Park Lands in the US
Frontierland. Adventureland. Fantasyland. Tomorrowland. With Disneyland’s grand opening in 1955, the ability to bring lands of imagination to life was born. They featured buildings and attractions from the past, future and fiction for guests to experience like never before. Since...
Continue reading...Updated List of 2021 Opening Dates for Amusement and Theme Parks
Update: Find 2022 park opening dates here. When will you be able to ride your favorite coaster in 2021? Theme parks and amusement parks across the country have begun to announce their 2021 season opening dates. And many year-round parks...
Continue reading...The World’s Fastest Coasters, By Each Letter of the Alphabet
It was Dame Judi Dench who once said, “Remember how easy it was to learn your ABC’s? Thank the Phoenicians, they invented them.” Spaceship Earth references aside, we wanted to examine all of the world’s operating roller coasters (sorry, no...
Continue reading...Who Should Be the Next Professional Sports Team to Get Their Own Attraction?
On a recent episode of The Coaster101 Podcast, twitter user @Coaster365 posed an interesting question: “Who do you think will be the next pro sports team to have a roller coaster themed after it?” After the success of Steel Curtain, the centerpiece...
Continue reading...These are the New Coasters Opening in Australia in 2021
Theme parks in Australia are gearing up for what they believe will be a post-pandemic travel frenzy. Four Australian parks in particular will open a combined total of six new coasters in 2021. They range from record-breaking, triple-launch coasters to...
Continue reading...Pros and Cons of Visiting Disney World During a Pandemic
Walt Disney World, along with other Orlando- and Central-Florida theme parks, reopened this summer amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Like many parks across the country, they have implemented numerous health and safety protocols to reduce the risk of guests and...
Continue reading...How to Cope With Not Getting a Rise of the Resistance Boarding Group
Ever since Galaxy’s Edge was announced in 2015, I dreamed of visiting the expansive Star Wars-themed land and, of course, riding Rise of the Resistance. A lifelong Star Wars fan, I waited for the day that a true Star Wars...
Continue reading...Kings Island Coasters Ranked 2020
Kings Island is home to an impressive lineup of 14 roller coasters, one of which is a two-track racing coaster. After visiting the park several times over the last 10 years, I decided to take on the challenging task of...
Continue reading...10 Best Coasters of the 1970s Still Operating Today!
Last year we brought you our list of our favorite coasters over 50 years old that are still going strong today. Now, we’re moving forward to look at the best US coasters from the 1970s that you can still ride!...
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