Kings Island is offering Beast fans the chance to get an up close and personal look at the legendary wooden roller coaster while simultaneously supporting a great cause. Behind the scenes tours of the Beast at Kings Island are available...
Continue reading...Casino Pier Reopens After Hurricane Sandy
Casino Pier, the seaside amusement park that was partially destroyed in late October 2012 by Hurricane Sandy, reopened late last week. While all of the pier’s rides are not yet functional, the reopening represents significant progress made by countless people...
Continue reading...Kings Dominion Hiring for Halloween Haunt
Do you have a knack for scaring the living daylights out of people? You’re in luck, as Kings Dominion is hiring the largest scare force in the region for the park’s 13th season of Halloween Haunt. The park is looking...
Continue reading...Photo Contest 2013 Results
The results are in! We had many amazing works of photography submitted for this year’s photo contest. Below you will find the photos that readers voted the best: Original Category First Place: Jeremie K., Shivering Timbers at Michigan’s Adventure Honorable Mention:...
Continue reading...Silver Dollar City Trip Report July 2013
Last Saturday, I visited Silver Dollar City after attending the Outlaw Run “Drop in the Dark” event the previous night. Interestingly enough, I was last at the park (during the day) exactly ten years earlier. I knew that the park...
Continue reading...Six Flags Mexico’s Medusa to Close
Six Flags Mexico used the hashtag #AdiosMedusa on Facebook to announce that the park’s only wooden coaster would close this year. A caption along with the above photo roughly translates into: “Did you know that Medusa has had more than...
Continue reading...Outlaw Run in the Dark Review
Last weekend, I attended Silver Dollar City’s Outlaw Run “Drop in the Dark” event. There, around 50 coaster enthusiasts were some of the first to ride the park’s new Rocky Mountain Construction wooden coaster in the dark. In true...
Continue reading...Ride Accidents at Cedar Point and Six Flags Over Texas
Friday, July 19 2013 has been a dark day for the amusement industry. Accidents have occurred at two of America’s biggest amusement parks. The Sandusky Register reported that a boat flipped over and injured riders on Cedar Point’s Shoot the...
Continue reading...The Dark Knight Rises Coaster in RCT3
Last year, I wrote about my fantasy Dark Knight Rises-inspired wing coaster. Earlier this year I decided to illustrate that idea by using Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Yes, some of us still play the game. Watch a video of The Dark...
Continue reading...Is Kings Island Building a B&M for 2014?
This afternoon we had an interesting anonymous tip on our Twitter feed. After we re-tweeted Kings Island’s cryptic “670200029” tweet, “Kings Island Expo” tweeted us a link to this picture: The tweet read: “It is the bar code on a...
Continue reading...Vote for Your Favorite in the 2013 Photo Contest
It’s time to vote for your favorite photos in the 2013 Coaster101 Photo Contest! The voting period will run through Wednesday, July 24, 2013. We will announce the results soon after the voting period ends. You can vote for one photo...
Continue reading...Drop Gate Water Slides Scarier than Coasters?
Anxiety and adrenaline don’t consume me before riding a roller coaster like they did when I was younger. I can’t think of a roller coaster that I would be afraid to ride. However, that anxiety and adrenaline of long ago...
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