California’s Great America shared this photo showing a crane “topping off” their under-construction Gold Striker wooden coaster. Although there is still a significant amount of work left to do on the GCI coaster, the highest piece of the structure is...
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Gold Striker Construction Photos
California’s Great America shared some excellent construction pictures of Gold Striker, which is due to open in a few months. The 100-foot-tall wooden GCI coaster features a nearly 3,200-foot-long layout. All Photos © California’s Great America The coaster is looking great....
Continue reading...Mt. Olympus begins Hades 360 Transformation
Mount Olympus announced plans last month to drastically transform the Hades coaster for the 2013 season. The transformation includes the addition of a corkscrew inversion and 135-degree over-banked turn. The park is wasting no time in constructing the new section...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: American Thunder
Welcome to the newest Coaster101 series: A-Z Coaster of the Week. We’ll feature one coaster each week for 26 weeks (in alphabetical order) all the way until May. First up, we have: American Thunder at Six Flags St. Louis This...
Continue reading...Outlaw Run Virtual Ride
Silver Dollar City released today a full-length virtual onride video of Outlaw Run, the under-construction wooden coaster that is expected to open in the spring of 2013. The coaster will feature the world’s steepest drop on a wooden coaster, an outward...
Continue reading...Historic Vidámpark in Hungary to Close
Vidámpark in Budapest, Hungary, which has been in operation since 1896, will soon be closing its doors, a news story reports. © Vidámpark The park is home to Hullámvasút, a wooden roller coaster that has been in operation since 1922/1926...
Continue reading...Outlaw Run Track Completed
Track work for Silver Dollar City’s monstrous new hybrid wooden roller coaster, Outlaw Run, is complete. Silver Dollar City has released several stunning photos of the huge coaster’s sweeping layout. See here for more photos of the coaster’s progress. The...
Continue reading...Gold Striker Continues to Rise
California’s Great America crews are hard at work building the new-for-2013 Gold Striker wooden coaster. The park has been very diligent in keeping us updated on the coaster’s construction via the park’s Facebook page. Great Coasters International’s beautiful wooden structures are very...
Continue reading...Old Zippin Pippin Car Found
The original Zippin Pippin at the Libertyland amusement park in Memphis, Tennessee closed in 2005 and was subsequently sold at an auction for around $2,500 (yes, you read that correctly). The salvageable artifacts from the ride were sold to a...
Continue reading...Six Flags Fiesta Texas Announces Iron Rattler
Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ Rattler wooden roller coaster will be reborn as Iron Rattler in 2013, a hybrid wood and steel coaster featuring steep drops, over-banked turns, and 360-degree barrel roll. A press release from the park reads: “Six Flags...
Continue reading...Mean Streak Gets Some TLC
Mean Streak, the infamously rough wooden coaster at Cedar Point was the recipient of a reportedly significant rehab during the off season. The park blog reports: “We all know Mean Streak does not share the reputation of Raptor or Millennium...
Continue reading...Europa Park’s wooden coaster construction
Great Coasters International is keeping those interested in the progress of Europa’s 2012 yet-to-be-named wooden coaster updated on their Facebook page. Vertical construction began in late August. Within a week the bottom of the unnamed coaster’s drop was beginning to...
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