For the last 20 or so years, there have been two primary wooden roller coaster maker: Great Coasters International and the Gravity Group. Custom Coasters International dominated the wooden coaster market in the 1990s. Before CCI, names like Dinn and...
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Cedar Fair Parks Postpone Multiple Events Until 2021
Yesterday, updates were posted from all parks across the Cedar Fair Chain in regards to the 2020 operating season. While no future park opening dates were announced, the parks all provided updates on the status of multiple 2020 events and...
Continue reading...Cedar Fair Hints At What Their Parks Might Look Like When Re-Opening
Cedar Fair held their investor earnings call and released their first quarter earnings results yesterday. As expected, most of the focus was on the impact of COVID-19 on the company and the parks. A few nuggets of information on park...
Continue reading...Every Cedar Fair Park is Extending Season Passes to 2021
In posts to their social media and on park websites today, April 14, 2020), every amusement park owned by Cedar Fair announced that they are extending their 2020 season passes to cover 2021 as well. This a response to park...
Continue reading...Orion Begins Testing at Kings Island
Kings Island dropped some exciting news yesterday when it released a video of Orion completing its first test run. “After months of construction, Kings Island’s new Orion roller coaster completed its first test run at 5:29 p.m. on Saturday,” said...
Continue reading...Report that Six Flags Is Interested in Buying Cedar Fair, and the Reaction To It
Is Six Flags Trying to Buy Cedar Fair? If you’re a regular follower of theme park news, you may have seen this morning that a report came out from Reuters that Six Flags made a stock-and-cash merger offer to Cedar...
Continue reading...Vortex at Kings Island Closing in October
The Vortex roller coaster at Kings Island will close at the end of the 2019 season, the park announced today. Vortex is an Arrow steel roller coaster that opened on April 11, 1987. It replaced The Bat, which was the...
Continue reading...Coaster101’s Thoughts on Cedar Fair’s 2020 Announcements
As with past years, the Cedar Fair park chain (including parks like Carowinds, Knott’s Berry Farm, King’s Island, and Cedar Point) used the weekend of National Roller Coaster day to make the majority of their “new for 2020” announcements. Every...
Continue reading...Pricing Out 2020 A Cedar Fair Season Pass
Though it feels like the 2019 park season just started, we’re quickly approaching the end of daily operation, and the regular season, making way for Halloween, winter events, and then, the dreaded off-season. As the season winds down, for many...
Continue reading...Orion Giga Coaster Coming to Kings Island in 2020
After months of speculation, we now know what’s going on behind the fence where Firehawk once stood at Kings Island. Tonight the park announced Orion, the tallest, fastest, and longest steel coaster at Kings Island. It will one of only seven...
Continue reading...#TEOTWAWKI: Inside The Clues of Kings Island’s 2020 Announcement
Since the closure and subsequent removal of Firehawk at Kings Island, there has been constant speculation as to what would replace the Vekoma flying coaster in the park’s X-Base area. With all signs pointing to a new roller coaster to...
Continue reading...19 for ’99: Face/Off at Paramount’s Kings Island
The final year of the 90’s brought Paramount’s Kings Island the second Vekoma Invertigo to the US: Face/Off. Named for the Paramount film of the same name, this Vekoma Invertigo brought the park its first inverted roller coaster. With its...
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