Kingda Yeeeeee-aaaaaahhhh!
Friday June 30, 2006
A year after I tried to ride the record-breaking Kingda Ka coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure, I finally rocketed to 456 feet at 128 mph a few days ago. ... Read More
Fans All Shook Up as Pippin Sells for a Pittance
Friday June 30, 2006
Suspicious minds want to know: How could Elvis Presley's favorite roller coaster, the Zippin Pippin, sell for a measly $2500 at a public auction? That would have barely paid for ... Read More
12-year-old Dead after Riding Rock 'n' Roller Coaster
Thursday June 29, 2006
A young boy died en route to the hospital after he was found unresponsive on the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster at Walt Disney World's Disney-MGM Studios in Florida earlier today. ... Read More
Flying Coaster is Super, Man
Tuesday June 27, 2006
Superman may be returning to movie theaters, but the guy in the red and blue tights never left Six Flags parks. There are a bunch of rides that bear his ... Read More
Magic Mountain: Six Flags Disappearing Act?
Monday June 26, 2006
If nothing else, the new regime at Six Flags has been newsworthy. Saddled with debt, Daniel Snyder, the chain's chairman, and Mark Shapiro, its CEO, came on the scene about ... Read More
Chicagoland to Get More Water
Friday June 23, 2006
Coming on the heels of the announcement that the Grizzly Falls Resort Indoor Waterpark will be opening in 2008 near O'Hare International Airport, developers revealed that a second property, Sun ... Read More
Universal Orlando's Latest Ride: A Dollar Rental Car
Thursday June 22, 2006
Every day a gazillion people with theme park stars in their eyes arrive at Orlando International Airport itching to get on the rides. Getting from the airport to the parks, ... Read More
Bully! Six Flags' El Toro Bucks Coaster Conventions.
Tuesday June 20, 2006
A new breed of thrill machine, the exhilarating, adrenaline-pumping, airtime-filled, smooth-as-silk El Toro that just opened at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey is among the best wood coasters ... Read More
A Desert WaterWorld
Friday June 16, 2006
Global warming is a bunch of phooey, you say? I say, check out Al Gore's wonderful and improbably popular new flick, An Inconvenient Truth. Naysayers may nitpick the film, but ... Read More
Six Flags Deep Sixes Wyandot Lake
Thursday June 15, 2006
Saddled with debt, Six Flags' new management team has been shedding some of its under-performing properties. The latest park to get the axe is tiny Wyandot Lake, near Columbus, Ohio. ... Read More
Born to Be (Really) Wild
Monday June 12, 2006
If Italian ride manufacturer Zamperla has its way, you'll be able to get your motor running and explode into space when a park near you purchases the company's new MotoCoaster. ... Read More
How the Wet Was Won
Sunday June 11, 2006
A business hotel near an airport may seem like an unlikely place for kids to be hooting and hollering as they get drenched by a bucket of water, but the ... Read More
One of the Best Parks, Bar None
Friday June 9, 2006
How can you not love a park where the theme is chocolate? Pennsylvania's Hersheypark has a huge assortment of rides and attractions, including a world-class array of roller coasters. New ... Read More
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart--and Disney--Makes
Thursday June 8, 2006
Disney's 18-month "Happiest Celebration on Earth," in honor of Disneyland's 50th anniversary, comes to an end this September. But Disney will keep the synergy going with another worldwide celebration, the ... Read More
Yet Another Coaster on Track for Cedar Point
Tuesday June 6, 2006
Although it already has 16 roller coasters, Ohio's Cedar Point will be adding one more for 2007. Purportedly to be called Maverick, little is officially known about the ride now, ... Read More
Dolly Parton Likes Putting Her Attractions Out in Front
Monday June 5, 2006
The 2006 theme park season has barely begun, and once again Dollywood is among the first to announce a new ride for the 2007 season. The Smoky Mountain park, part ... Read More
Dust Off Your Ruby Slippers. You Could Be Off to See the Wizard.
Friday June 2, 2006
Plans for a park themed to The Wizard of Oz have been brewing for a few years. Developers originally set their sites on Kansas (for obvious reasons), but that project ... Read More
Coasters and Pastrami? Can Life Get any Better?
Thursday June 1, 2006
Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey has one of the greatest arrays of roller coasters, including the world's tallest and fastest, Kingda Ka (which after yet another bout of ... Read More