With announcements for next season being made last week, Cedar Fair parks have started to transition into the 2018 season, and this includes the availability of 2018 Season Passes and their respective all-season add-ons. In many cases, the sooner you...
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An Interview with VP/GM of Kings Dominion, Gary Chadwick
Here at Coaster101, we enjoy taking you behind the scenes and talking with people help who make your favorite theme parks run like clockwork. This interview is no different, as this time, we’re talking to Kings Dominion’s General Manager and...
Continue reading...What to Eat (and See and Hear) at Taste of Orleans at CA Great America
This past weekend the second annual Taste of Orleans festival at California’s Great America kicked off. If you didn’t make it down, the festival continues this coming weekend (July 30-31), and it’s definitely worth a trip. Many of the attractions...
Continue reading...We Guess the 2018 “SR1” Coaster at California’s Great America
Construction markers started popping up at California’s Great America (CGA) earlier this summer, with the cryptic notation “SR1” on them. Just a couple of weeks ago construction walls started popping up at the park (HT Robert Ingle). The park also recently...
Continue reading...What You Should Eat and Drink at Red, White & Brews
Last weekend we got a chance to continue our series of visits to Cedar Fair food festivals (we’ve been to ones at Knott’s and Carowinds so far), this time checking out Red, White & Brews at California’s Great America. The festival continues...
Continue reading...What You’ll Find at the Red, White & Brews Festival at CA Great America
California’s Great America (CGA) will be hosting their first ever “Red, White & Brews” beer and food festival later this month on both Memorial Day weekend (May 27-29) and the following weekend (June 3-4). This is one of the many food related...
Continue reading...When Will California’s Great America Start Building From the Master Plan (and How We Got Here)?
Back during the media event for the opening of the newly converted floorless coaster, Patriot, at California’s Great America, the guest speaker was the Mayor of the city of Santa Clara, Lisa Gillmor. The reason for this is because the city...
Continue reading...Speculation on Cedar Fair’s 2018 Mystery Coasters
UPDATE: The 2018 Cedar Fair Coasters have been announced! Our speculations weren’t perfect, but we did come close(ish). The “new type of coaster” is indeed a Raptor, but it’s not coming to Knott’s, it’s coming to California’s Great America as...
Continue reading...Cedar Point Teases Mean Streak Transformation
Cedar Point posted a short video teasing the Mean Streak transformation on their Twitter page today. The video itself is no joke , it does exist, but seeing as how it was released on April 1st, is the content of the...
Continue reading...Food Festivals Flooding Cedar Fair Parks in 2017
Since introducing the Knott’s Berry Farm Boysenberry Festival in 2014, Cedar Fair has steadily been adding more and more food festival type events to their parks. They’ve been doing Taste of the Carolinas at Carowinds since 2015, and last year...
Continue reading...Knott’s Partnering With VRStudios on a New Attraction
Knott’s Berry Farm has teased a new virtual reality attraction coming to the park this year. Details were scant, but in a press release it was announced that the park is partnering with a Seattle-area based company called VRStudios to...
Continue reading...More Hints at Future California’s Great America Attractions Revealed
Earlier this week the Santa Clara City Council Planning Committee held a special meeting to discuss the new proposed master plan and rezoning for California’s Great America. Included in the documentation related to this meeting is a presentation (presumably from...
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