Back in February 2016, Brady MacDonald of the Los Angeles Times broke the news that Cedar Fair had acquired a number of vintage flat rides from parks around the world. After a series of entertaining teases as part of their...
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Construction Update: Carowinds’ County Fair
Yesterday, Coaster101, along with several local area media and journalism students, were invited to take a hard hat tour of Carowinds‘ new County Fair area. A ton of progress has been made since we were at the park back in...
Continue reading...Carowinds Winter 2016 Construction Update
With the addition of the new County Fair area at Carowinds in 2017, it makes sense that there would be a lot of construction going on in the park during the winter off-season. But, there’s more going on at the...
Continue reading...Carowinds to Add New County Fair and Winterfest in 2017
After a successful re-election campaign, Carowinds‘ Mayor, Earnest Lee Higginbotham, made good on his campaign promises and announced a new County Fair area for the park, as well as a new Winterfest, both to debut in 2017. A new lineup of...
Continue reading...Carowinds Announces “Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare: 3Z Arena” for 2016
Back in August, Carowinds‘ Carolina Harbor announcement proved that Carowinds was not content with resting on their laurels after a successful 2015 season — a season that brought the tallest and fastest Giga Coaster in the world, Fury 325, to the North and...
Continue reading...Great America Construction and Deconstruction
Six Flags Great America is building one roller coaster while simultaneously taking another one down. Needless to say, there’s a lot going on at the park: Thanks to the X-Flight construction site, you can now see clearly from Demon’s corkscrews all the way to...
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