Six Flags America announced a new Mardi Gras section of the park along with the addition of two exhilarating new rides. Ragin’ Cajun, a spinning, fast-track roller coaster, will be the theme park’s 9th roller coaster. Ragin’ Cajun will be...
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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...Banshee B&M Invert for Kings Island 2014
Banshee, the world’s longest inverted roller coaster, opens at Kings Island in April of 2014. The Bolliger & Mabillard coaster will send riders through 4,124 feet of track and seven inversions at speeds up to 68 mph. The ride begins...
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...Full Throttle Opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain
Six Flags Magic Mountain’s newest coaster, Full Throttle, opened this past weekend. The launched Premier coaster now holds the title as the world’s tallest and fastest looping roller coaster. Full Throttle riders face a zero-to-70 mph launch up and over...
Continue reading...My Favorite Amusement Park Sounds
Two months ago, I wrote about my favorite amusement park aromas, and writing that made me think of what my other senses encounter when at an amusement park. My attention turned to my ears. Your ears inundated with different sounds...
Continue reading...Review of Cannonball Run at Waterville USA
Rising from Alabama’s Gulf Shores skyline stands Cannonball Run at the Waterville USA amusement and water park. The 1995 Custom Coasters International (CCI) wooden coaster is 65 feet tall and only 1,700 feet long. Although it may seem unassuming, Cannonball...
Continue reading...Hades 360 Testing Videos
Hades 360 at Mt. Olympus officially opens today. The park released an onride and offride video of Hades 360 maneuvering through its new corkscrew inversion. Watch the videos below: Onride video: Offride video: Hades 360 originally opened as “Hades” in...
Continue reading...Name Washington State Fair’s New Coaster
Washington State Fair is building the relocated Typhoon coaster from the Santa’s Village amusement park, and fair officials need your help in choosing a name for the coaster. Pictured above is the Typhoon coaster model at the Los Angeles County...
Continue reading...White Lightning Construction Thunders Ahead
Work on the White Lightning wooden coaster at Fun Spot Action Park in Orlando, Florida continues. Great Coasters International (GCI) shared some beautiful photos of the coaster’s progress on the company’s Facebook page. The coaster is 2,000 feet long and...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Phantom’s Revenge
This week we travel to West Mifflin, PA to visit Phantom’s Revenge at Kennywood! It originally opened as Steel Phantom in 1991 and included four inversions. In 2000, DH Morgan Manufacturing was brought in to refurbish the ride and take...
Continue reading...Outlaw Run Opens This Friday
The long months of anticipation are nearing an end as Silver Dollar City prepares to open its new wooden coaster, Outlaw Run, this Friday, March 15, 2013. © Silver Dollar City The park posted the above photo on the park’s...
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