Traveling the Globe for the Best Coasters and Theme Parks
The internet has burst in the last week with what could be the biggest theme park news to hit the UK in decades. Enthusiasts all across the world are brainstorming ideas for what could be Universal’s most anticipated project yet. Let’s go over what we know and what we’d like to see in the park.
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New roller coaster with a dark ride component is coming to SeaWorld Orlando’s Antarctica area, where the Empire of the Penguin dark ride once stood.
Continue reading “Penguin Trek Roller Coaster coming to SeaWorld Orlando in 2024!”
In 2024, a B&M Family Inverted Coaster will be installed in the Pantopia section of Busch Gardens Tampa. The park demolished Sand Serpent, a wild mouse coaster, earlier this year to make way for the new attraction.
Continue reading “Phoenix Rising – Family Inverted Coaster coming to Busch Gardens Tampa in 2024!”
It seems the rumours were true! A new operator may in fact be coming to PortAventura World!
Continue reading “InvestIndustrial and KKR to sell PortAventura World”
Six Flags Great Adventure shared a teaser message on social media about their upcoming attraction for 2024. However, the information in the message leads to a very thrilling new roller coaster design.
Continue reading “We’re Pretty Sure We Know What Six Flags Great Adventure’s New Coaster is”
The state agency inspecting Carowinds’ record-breaking roller coaster Fury 325 confirmed the discovery of a second fracture. The state released the findings on Friday, July 28th.
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Breaking! Walibi Holland announces several future new attractions! Hold on tight because soon you will ride the world’s first Double RMC Single Rail coaster in this park in the Netherlands. But there’s more to come in line with their new strategy of offering both extreme and family thrills.
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Rarely do American theme park and entertainment firms and their European parks achieve success. However, managing theme parks in varied markets no longer appears to be as challenging as it once was. Recent speculation, particularly in the Spanish and European theme park communities, suggests that Universal may return to the resort it operated from 1998 to 2004. Let’s examine what is known and what is rumored about the potential return of Universal’s PortAventura/Universal Mediterranea.
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Hello all! First and foremost, we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all of our readers who have been with us throughout the many years we’ve been sharing our love, passion, and critique of amusement parks and roller coasters online. This is not a farewell, so don’t worry! As a result of personal changes in our life, we have chosen to modify Coaster Kings’ operations.
Continue reading “Some Changes Coming to Coaster Kings”
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay today announced Serengeti Flyer as the park’s all-new 2023 attraction. Serengeti Flyer will be the world’s tallest and fastest ride of its kind, a screamin’ swing, upon opening in spring 2023.
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A Florida drop tower amusement park ride from which a 14-year-old boy fell to his death in March will be taken down, the ride’s operator said Thursday.
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After years of frequent maintenance on the wooden roller coaster Joris en de Draak at Efteling, the amusement park has decided to equip the ride’s track with steel rails, effectively transforming it into a hybrid coaster.
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Arctic Rescue, one of SeaWorld San Diego’s most anticipated attractions, will open in the spring of 2023. Arctic Rescue will join other thrill rides at the amusement park as the West Coast’s longest and fastest straddle coaster. This family-friendly multi-launch ride invites guests to mount a snowmobile and race through the unpredictable arctic climate at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour in an effort to save endangered animals. Arctic Rescue has a height requirement of 48 inches, but thrill-seekers of all ages will enjoy its thrills and chills.
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Catapult Falls, a NEW water flume coaster, will be built at SeaWorld San Antonio in 2023, the park said today. The first-of-its-kind rollercoaster combines the thrill of a launched roller coaster, the thrill of a vertical lift elevator that elevates riders above the theme park, and a water flume ride with the steepest drop, producing repeated adrenaline rushes as well as spectacular splashes to cool passengers.
Continue reading “SeaWorld San Antonio Will Debut the Only Launched Log Flume in the World in 2023!”
A few weeks have passed since we visited Parque Warner Madrid and provided an update on the 2023 debut of the brand-new Intamin Batman roller coaster. This enormous, VelociCoaster-sized undertaking will include numerous unique elements, inversions, airtime moments, and launches, among others. Since our last update a few weeks ago, a great deal has happened. This update will include new inversions, airtime hills, drops, and more!
Continue reading “New Inversions and Airtime Moments – Parque Warner Madrid Batman Intamin Coaster Construction Update – September 22, 2022.”
Midway through 2023, Toverland will unveil at least four additional attractions in the theme park section Avalon, where visitors can envision themselves in the mythical world of wizard Merlin.
Continue reading “A Closer Look at Toverland’s 4 New-for-2023 Attractions”
A few days ago, we traveled to Parque Warner Madrid and delivered a brand-new construction update on their new roller coaster. A few days later, we returned to take a closer look at the layout, station, construction, and more!
Continue reading “A Closer Look at Parque Warner Madrid’s Batman Intamin Coaster + Construction Update – September 7, 2022”
Rapid progress is being made on the approximately 50-meter-tall new Intamin roller coaster coming to Parque Warner Madrid. In today’s update, we examine some of the ride’s new supports, features, and display buildings in greater detail.
Continue reading “Parque Warner Madrid Batman Intamin Coaster Construction Update – September 5, 2022”
This evening, the brand-new TRON Lightcycle Run roller coaster at Magic Kingdom reached another testing milestone. The ride’s massive canopy, light effects, and on-board audio were all synchronized for testing during park hours. Some trains even carried passengers. In addition, we’ve gotten a closer look at the accessible car at the end of select TRON Lightcycle Run trains, which allows those unable to ride the lightcycle while lying down to do so while sitting upright.
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In what has been an eventful period for Six Flags recently, one of the chain’s parks has made a noteworthy announcement. Six Flags Over Texas, located in Arlington, Texas, has announced that Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast will close on September 11, 2022.
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