As summer winds to an end and the calendar marches into September, Theme Parks start gearing up for their annual Halloween events. To get you ready, we put together a run down of all the major Theme Park Halloween events...
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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and La Ronde Getting Giant Discovery Rides for 2017
Six Flags announced that both Discovery Kingdom and La Ronde will be getting new giant pendulum type rides for 2017. In the case of Discovery Kingdom, the ride will be another entry in their growing DC collection, named Wonder Woman...
Continue reading...Coaster101 Roundtable: Theme Park Social Media
Whether you’re in a park tweeting about your day, or at home, checking the Snapchat stories and Instagram posts from your favorite park, more and more parks are turning to social media to help enhance the guest experience. We wanted to take...
Continue reading...Six Flags Announces New Interactive VR Coasters
Six Flags announced today they are expanding their collection of virtual reality roller coasters. Last year Six Flags introduced virtual reality to roller coasters at nine different parks using Samsung Gear VR Headsets and partnering with VR Coaster. The rides had one of...
Continue reading...The Joker Twists, Turns, Makes Me Laugh Like a Child
The Joker Media Day Festivities After watching the Joker, the new RMC conversion at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, construction progress over the past 9 months, it was incredibly exciting to see the finished product at the media day for the...
Continue reading...The Joker Construction Tour – April 2016
Construction on the Joker at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom is getting pretty close to completion, so the park offered one final hardhat tour of the construction site to allow us a chance to look at the progress, and really a couple...
Continue reading...Joker Construction Tour at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
This Friday I got a chance to take a a behind-the-scenes hard hat tour of The Joker at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, the new Rocky Mountain Construction hybrid of the former Roar set to open this Spring. The tour was timed to...
Continue reading...Pacific Rim “5-D Experience” Coming to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom THIS MONTH!
Earlier this week Six Flags Discovery Kingdom teased that something might be happening in their old Iwerks theater, which opened in 1997 and has been used for storage and Halloween mazes since 2008. Today they announced what’s happening, and it’s...
Continue reading...The Joker Construction Photos from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
The Joker Construction Update I swung by Six Flags Discovery Kingdom yesterday to take a look at the how the construction has been going on The Joker, the new Rocky Mountain Construction conversion of the Great Coasters International “Roar” coming...
Continue reading...Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Announces RMC Hybrid, The Joker
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom has announced what we all expected, that the recently closed Roar (check out our post on our visit to Roar’s final day) is being converted to a hybrid coaster by Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) called “The...
Continue reading...We Say Farewell to Roar on National Roller Coaster Day
August 16th was the final day of operation for Roar, the Great Coasters International wooden coaster that has carried over 11 million riders at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom since it’s opening on May 15, 1999. While it doesn’t have quite...
Continue reading...Dare Devil Chaos Opens at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
The Giant Loops opening at four different Six Flags parks are now all open or about to open. We got a chance to go to a small preview event of the loop at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Dare Devil Chaos,...
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