Other parks getting flying coasters include Paramount's Canada's Wonderland near Toronto, and Rye Playland in New York. For more info about flying coasters, click over to my review of Batwing at Six Flags America.
The spinning coaster, a variation of the venerable Wild Mouse coaster in which the cars freely spin on an axis as they navigate the hairpin-turn tracks, has become quite popular. Six parks will debut spinning coasters this year, including DelGrosso’s Amusement Park in Tipton, Pennsylvania, Camp Snoopy at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, where it will be known as the Timberland Twister, Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, Six Flags Great America near Chicago, where it will be known as the Ragin' Cajun, Worlds of Funin Kansas City, MO, where it will be known as Spinning Dragons, and Sea Breeze in Rochester, New York.
A non-spinning Wild Mouse coaster, the Cheetah Chase, will open at Bush Gardens Tampa this season. It is a transplanted coaster from Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
Magic Springs in Hot Springs, Arkansas, will be introducing The Gautnlet, an off-the-shelf Vekoma suspended looping coaster. Like other SLCs, the coaster will rise 100 feet and reach speeds of 60 mph. Technically, Knott's Berry Farm in southern California will be rolling out its new Silver Bullet inverted coaster in 2004, but not until the very end of the year. Set to debut on Christmas Eve, the B&M coaster will send riders up a nerve-rattling 146 feet for a wild ride in cars suspended from the track.
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