Both Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and Six Flags St. Louis will open Tsunami Soaker interactive water rides in 2014. Tsunami Soaker is similar to the classic teacup ride but with an exciting twist. Six passengers will board one of the...
Continue reading...Six Flags Great America Wooden Coaster for 2014
Six Flags Great America will open Goliath—the tallest, fastest and steepest roller coaster in the world in 2014. “Six Flags Great America is known for introducing record-breaking and first-of-its-kind roller coasters,” said Hank Salemi, Six Flags Great America park president....
Continue reading...Crews Install First Piece of Banshee Track
Construction crews at Kings Island have installed the first piece of the Banshee inverted roller coaster which will open next year. © Kings Island “Construction crews have installed the first piece of track on the new Banshee roller coaster at...
Continue reading...Cedar Point Announces Two Family Rides for 2014
Today, Cedar Point announced its plans for the 2014 season, including two new family rides, changes to the park’s Camp Snoopy area and more details on a two-year renovation project to Hotel Breakers. The two rides to open in 2014...
Continue reading...Cedar Fair Investing $50 Million in Carowinds
According to the Charlotte Business Journal, Cedar Fair will invest $50 million in its Carowinds park over the next three years. © Carowinds While Cedar Fair has not disclosed specifically what the $50 million will go towards, the investment will bring...
Continue reading...Mystery Coaster Monday 004
Here we are into week 4 of “Mystery Coaster Monday!” Try and correctly guess the coaster in the edited picture. We’re keeping track of who guesses correctly and the person that guess the most correct answers at the end of...
Continue reading...Creating My Own Nemesis Review
John Wardley is a world renown roller coaster designer. His most famous creation is the terrain hugging inverted coaster, Nemesis, at Alton Towers in the United Kingdom. John recently released his autobiography, appropriately titled “Creating My Own Nemesis.” The story...
Continue reading...Thorpe Park 2013 Update
Over here in the UK the country’s second most popular theme park, Thorpe Park, is still offering many reasons to visit the small town of Chertsey in the Surrey countryside. The Swarm, which opened to rave reviews in March...
Continue reading...Dollywood Adding Coaster in 2014, Resort in 2015
Dollywood announced big plans today including a total $300 million in capital investments in The Dollywood Company over the next decade. The company revealed specific investments for the 2014 and 2015 seasons: FireChaser Express “Construction has already begun on the...
Continue reading...Heide Park Building Wing Coaster for 2014
Heide Park Resort in Germany will open a Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) wing coaster in 2014. The now nameless wing coaster will stand roughly 13 stories tall and will reach a top speed of 62 mph over the course of...
Continue reading...Mystery Coaster Monday 003
Welcome to the third edition of our “Mystery Coaster Monday” series. Each and every Monday morning we post an edited picture of a roller coaster, and your job is to guess which one it is. We’ll be keeping a running scoreboard...
Continue reading...Banshee Construction Update 8-10-13
One of the treats of participating in BeastBuzz last weekend was a surprise tour of the Banshee construction site (maybe next year the event will be called BansheeBuzz). We got a unique view of the future location of the world’s...
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