Merlin Entertainments Chief Executive Officer Nick Varney officially announced today that LEGOLAND® New York is being built in Goshen, New York and will open in 2020. “We have spent a lot of time building relationships in the community, listening and responding...
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Ranking The Scares of SCarowinds 2017
This weekend, I visited SCarowinds for the third consecutive year. Now in its 18th year, Carowinds‘ annual Halloween Haunt event has grown from a modest two haunted mazes and 60 monsters to a terrifying six mazes and six scare zones,...
Continue reading...10 Best LEGO Sets for Amusement Park Fans
If you love roller coasters and amusement parks, then these are the top ten best LEGO sets for you! Two out of the ten are not actually made by LEGO but are compatible with them. You’ll see a few of...
Continue reading...Inside an Abandoned Geauga Lake with Photographer Alice Heart
Ten years have passed since Cedar Fair announced that Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio, would not reopen for the 2008 season. Remnants of the park, once owned by Six Flags, still dot the 550-acre property, which has yet to be...
Continue reading...Previewing Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Fall may be my favorite theme park season. Smaller crowds, shorter waits, but probably my favorite thing about visiting a theme park in the fall is Halloween events. Recently, we had the opportunity to visit Busch Gardens Williamsburg, and preview...
Continue reading...Cedar Fair Announces Planned Leadership Succession
Today, Cedar Fair Entertainment Company announced that Richard Zimmerman, its president and chief operating officer, will succeed Matt Ouimet as chief executive officer effective January 1, 2018. On the same date, Ouimet will take the newly created role of executive chairman of the board...
Continue reading...Ranking the Coasters At Oktoberfest 2017
Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany is best known for being the worlds largest beer festival. But there’s a lot more to do there than just drink beer and eat pork (although those are both good). Oktoberfest is kind of like an...
Continue reading...C101 Roundtable: The $15 Coaster Lineup
On our social media channels recently, we’ve challenged our readers to build their ideal coaster line-up from various park chains around the country. In this chapter of C101 Roundtable, we asked the C101 team to come up with their own...
Continue reading...Q&A With John Stevenson, Author of Libertyland: Images of Modern America
Nestled in the heart of Memphis, Tennessee, the Libertyland theme park debuted on America’s bicentennial: July 4, 1976. The quaint park celebrated America’s history, heritage and culture. Not only was it home to Elvis Presley’s favorite roller coaster, Zippin’ Pippin,...
Continue reading...Sesame Place adding Oscar’s Wacky Taxi in 2018
Sesame Place announced today that they will be adding Oscar’s Wacky Taxi, a new family wooden coaster, and also the park’s first wooden coaster, to the park in 2018. One of the largest new attractions in the park’s 37-year history,...
Continue reading...The Daytime Details of Halloween at Carowinds
Now entering its 18th year, SCarowinds is Carowinds’ Halloween Haunt event, and takes place on select weekend nights; Fridays and Saturdays in September and Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October. We’ve visited SCarowinds at night the last two years (you can check...
Continue reading...Recapping the 2017 Golden Ticket Award Winners
Last Night, Amusement Today held their 20th annual Golden Ticket Awards Celebration at Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT. These awards represent the “best of the best” in unique theme park categories. The Golden Ticket Awards are calculated from an international poll...
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