Its time for a quick round up of the news that Park Thoughts has unfortunately missed in the past few days.
First up is the now gone, but not forgotten, Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom is now the subject of a battle between Six Flags and the Kentucky Fair. Each of them have filed a lawsuit against each other, Why is the...
First and foremost, I would like to apologize for the past two days. Sadly, due to an unfortunate accident, my entire city lost power early this week and since they have fixed it, there have been power surges in the city ever since. So due to the lack of power, there may be a shortage of posts in the coming...
New York City mayor, Micheal Bloomberg, and Centeral Amusement International (CAI) pulled back the curtain on the plans to expand the Coney Island district greatly with new expansion plots along the waterfront. CAI will be leasing three sections of land for new amusement park development. They are pouring $30 million into developing and maintaining this new park for at least...
China seems to get all the fun stuff, first a new 4D Coaster, and now a huge GCI terrain coaster. Yes, GCI made the big reveal today after playing mind games with the coaster enthusiast world. Opening this season at Knight Valley in Shenzen, China will be an incredibly huge, terrain following wooden coaster. Topping off at about 147 feet...
In Memorial Day Weekend of 2009, I took a family trip to Reno, Nevada. Like every other coaster enthusiast on this planet, I scrambled all the attraction-related brochures as I could during my visit. Reno, is a beautiful, Casino town, almost a mini-Vegas, however there was no theme parks in the area. While grabbing some brochures I got one called...
S&S Worldwide has unveiled plans to debut a new 4th Dimension coaster in China. The one of a kind coaster style will open in Changzhou, China as part of the upcoming, Dinosaur Park. This will be only the third time a 4th Dimension coaster has opened up in the world, with the other two being X2 in Six Flags Magic Mountain,...
Waldameer will be introducing a unique cashless system in this upcoming 2010 season. “Wally Points” will be the parks own currency, so paying for each ride will be completely different. This new system will revolutionize how you pay for food, drinks, games, souvenirs, and rides.
At a cost of approximately $500,000 (thats a whole lot of Wally Points), the park manager...