Have you ever thought about what it would be like for you and 99 of your closest friends to have two full hours of ERT (Exclusive Ride Time) on two of Carowinds’ most exciting roller coasters, the Golden Ticket Award-winning...
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19 for ’99: BuzzSaw Falls at Silver Dollar City
“You never even ‘Saw’ it coming!” and “The Wildest Ride in the Woods” were two of the frequently used taglines of Silver Dollar City’s BuzzSaw Falls, which was dubbed the world’s first “liquid” roller coaster. Welcome to another installment of...
Continue reading...The Tallest Roller Coaster in Each State
According to our friends at the Roller Coaster Database, there are more than 750 roller coasters operating across the 50 United States. If you’re a coaster enthusiast, you might be able to point out a few of the tallest roller...
Continue reading...From Tame To Thrilling: The Roller Coasters of Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Update: Originally written in 2019, this list has been updated to include DarKoaster, which opened in 2023. I consider Busch Gardens Williamsburg to be one of my “home away from home” parks. I try to make it to Busch Gardens...
Continue reading...My Favorite Quotes from John Hildebrandt’s “Always Cedar Point”
I recently finished reading John Hildebtandt’s fantastic book, Always Cedar Point: A Memoir of the Midway. As John himself says, his book is not a history of Cedar Point nor a corporate history of the park, but rather his personal...
Continue reading...19 for ’99: Bizarro at Six Flags Great Adventure
We’ve selected 19 of our favorite roller coasters that are celebrating their 20th anniversaries this year, and will profile them every other Thursday for the next several weeks. This week we’ll be taking a trip to Six Flags Great Adventure...
Continue reading...How Entech Innovative Engineering Can Build Just About Anything
Designing and building something that has never been constructed before? That’s what the team at Entech Innovative Engineering has done for 25 years on a startlingly wide range of unique projects in the themed entertainment industry. We recently caught up...
Continue reading...Introducing the 2019 Coaster101.com Park Mania Champion: Hersheypark
How Sweet it is..and by Sweet, of course we mean the Chocolate! We started with 68 parks. After more than 65,000 total votes cast, we’ve narrowed it down to the one winner of 2019’s edition of Park Mania: Hersheypark! Originally...
Continue reading...CONTEST: Enter to Win a Coaster101.com Copperhead Strike Prize Pack!
At Coaster101, we’ve had a great time covering Carowinds‘ newest roller coaster, Copperhead Strike, from teases, to announcement, to construction (and more construction, and more construction, and more construction, and more construction!) to actually getting to experience the Carolinas’ first double launch...
Continue reading...Examining The “Easter Eggs” of Carowinds’ Blue Ridge Junction
If you look at a calendar, you’ll see that Easter isn’t for a few more weeks, but it’s clear that Carowinds didn’t get the memo when constructing their all-new Blue Ridge Junction. The new seven acre area is full of...
Continue reading...Coaster101.com 2019 Park Mania: The Finals
It Started with 68. Now we’re down to 2. Here at Coaster101, while we love a good bracket pool, we decided to have some fun with the bracket system this year, and bring back our annual event, this year (in...
Continue reading...Book Review + Giveaway: Walt Disney World Hacks
As someone who is planning a trip to Walt Disney World trip, I have to admit that I’m a little intimidated. I haven’t visited a Disney park in nearly 10 years, and I know a lot has changed — new...
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