Traveling the Globe for the Best Coasters and Theme Parks
Berry Bloom starts this Saturday, and thus Knott’s for the Cure will end for the year. Some rides have reopened after being down for a long time. We have Fastlane updates for Xcelerator. Additionally, we have lots of Iron Reef construction! Continue reading “Knott’s Berry Farm Update – March 25th 2015”
Jurassic Park the Ride has finally reopened from its refurbishment, and we have an in-depth overview. Additionally in this update, we have a crazy amount of other Universal Studios Hollywood things to discuss, such as the walls of Springfield coming down, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter construction, the Furious 7 promotion, Studio Tour construction, and more! Continue reading “Universal Studios Hollywood Update – March 25th 2015”
Let’s take a look at a part of coasters we all seem to love. Inversions. California has a total of 72 inversions. Half of which are all found at Six Flags Magic Mountain, that with the world’s largest collection of coasters, has 18 coasters and 36 inversions. This doesn’t mean the best ones are all at Six Flags Magic Mountain! Take a look at the 5 best inversion in California, and you’ll know which one to ride next! Continue reading “The 5 Best Inversions in California”
Six Flags Magic Mountain is opened daily from today on, so it was their last shot to make some big changes last week. Let’s take a look at what they’ve done so far. This update includes Screampunk District coverage, 2015 park maps, and much more! Continue reading “Six Flags Magic Mountain Update – March 21st 2015”
Now the Scream! repaint is pretty much finished, we’ll be back to focusing on Twisted Colossus itself. They are currently busy installing all sorts of things, including the green track for the Top Gun stall! Continue reading “Twisted Colossus Update – March 21st 2015”
We’re back with a Throwback Thursday! And in style, less than two weeks ’til the 2015 season start’s at California’s Great America, we bring you a California’s Great America Throwback! This time we’re talking about a ride that’s not commonly seen in american amusement parks anymore, but was once a hit! We’re taking a look at The Edge. Continue reading “Throwback Thursday: The Edge”
Disneyland. Claimed to be the ‘Happiest Place On Earth’. Every child wants to go there, and pretty much any adult in the state of California has been there. Many even grew up with it. Disneyland. The theme-park that set the standards for modern-day amusement parks, and is arguably the world’s most famous theme-park. Now what do people not know about Disneyland … Here are 5 Disneyland facts you may not know! Continue reading “5 Disneyland Facts You May Not Know!”
This Update will be a short one, but let’s check in with the happenings at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk! There were some pretty decent crowds due to the cheer-leading competition held directly adjacent to the park, so it made for a very interesting trip. Continue reading “Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Update – March 15th 2015”
It’s off-season, and Six Flags Magic Mountain is undergoing some changes. In this update we’ll be looking at some repaints, rides that are reopening, and many other changes around the park. In addition, we have an operations schedule included, showing what rides will be operating one train for the next few weeks! Continue reading “Six Flags Magic Mountain Update – March 15th 2015”
There definitely isn’t as much progress made as the last couple of weeks before. But sure enough important changes to report on Twisted Colossus. There’s a lot of prep going on for perhaps the most complex element of the ride, the Top Gun! For Scream!, interestingly enough the repaint hasn’t been completed yet. Continue reading “Twisted Colossus and Scream! Update – March 15th 2015”
For weeks it was known that Jurassic Park was to reopen on the 14th of March, after a big refurbishment! So we didn’t want to miss out, and headed over. Then things didn’t go as planned, and many angry guests later, Universal Studios still didn’t manage to resolve the issues in time. Nonetheless we’ve got a wonderfully diverse update for you! Continue reading “Universal Studios Hollywood Update – March 14th 2015”
We’re taking a look at V2: Vertical Velocity at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom! This coaster is a rather unique variation on the Intamin manufactured inverted shuttle coaster, the Impulse Coaster. It had quite a history, and it’s also quite amazing! Continue reading “V2 – Six Flags Discovery Kingdom – Review”
California is a great state if one’s looking to ride some great roller-coasters! We might not have the most renowned line-up of Wooden Coasters in the state, but we sure have a thrilling collection of these wooden giants. Here’s the 5 best woodies in California! Continue reading “The 5 Best Woodies in California”
Rocky Mountain construction and Six Flags Magic Mountain really picked up the pace! Twisted Colossus has a huge amount of new track installed, including the craziest twisting double-down anywhere. Scream!’s repaint is almost complete. We have many pictures of both! Continue reading “Twisted Colossus and Scream! Update – March 7th 2015”
The Six Flags Magic Mountain 2015 Map has arrived! Take a look! 
Twisted Colossus is surprisingly listed as a ‘Moderate Thrill’. I definitely believe that it will be a bit more intense than that, but perhaps this is to attract a larger audience. Scream will not change its name, and will be opening again as Scream, it seems. Which would make sense for a themed area that’s called ‘Screampunk District’. The park-map also isn’t updated to Scream’s new color scheme. The new restaurant, Twisted ‘Wiches Street Deli is on the map, and will not have Dining Pass options for the 2015 Season. The Magic Moments Theater is renamed the ‘Gearwork Theater’. (Which sounds way better than ‘The Looking-glass Theater’). Also, the new ‘Walk-Around Characters can be found in the new Screampunk District! As far as Flashpass goes, you may notice that there isn’t a Flashpass logo next to Twisted Colossus. Which indicates that it’ll likely have an up-charged Flashpass, like X2, Full Throttle, and apparently Superman: Escape From Krypton.
Click to download the 2015 Map; Six Flags Magic Mountain 2015
For our most recent Twisted Colossus and Scream Update, click here! And make sure to leave a comment on here as to what you think of the 2015 Map!
It was an absolutely gorgeous day in Vallejo, and we couldn’t have been happier to be at this awesome and unique park. There’s a whole lot of work going on throughout the park. Such as the move of the park’s elephants, ride refurbishments, the first real signs of Dare Devil Chaos Coaster’s construction, and much more!
Continue reading “Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Update – March 1st 2015”
This day was a very interesting day at Universal Studios Hollywood. What started off as quite a sunny day, lead to floods. And not the staged type that guests find on the Studio Tour! In this update, we’ll have some Springfield, Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Jurassic Park refurbishment, DIG, and more! Continue reading “Universal Studios Hollywood Update — March 1st 2015”
It’s a busy off-season, though most of the work is of course being done over at Twisted Colossus and Scream!. Nonetheless, I’ll be providing short Six Flags Magic Mountain Updates for our audience, which are separate from our longer, more elaborate, Twisted Colossus and Scream! Updates. Here’s this weekend’s update! Continue reading “Six Flags Magic Mountain Update – February 28th 2015”
Another week has passed, and though the Twisted Colossus process made may not look as much, the construction of the world’s longest Hybrid Coaster is still progressing rapidly. The Scream! repaint, which is entirely done by hand, is almost completed. Let’s get to the update!
Continue reading “Twisted Colossus and Scream! Update – February 28th 2015”
We’re returning with Disneyland Resort coverage! This past week at Disneyland Resort was another week filled construction and refurbishments! Many rides are down for refurbishments recently, marking a true off-season for Disney, and the park is getting ready for its huge 60th Anniversary Diamond Celebration.
Continue reading “Disneyland Resort Update – February 22nd, 2015”