21 people were taken to local hospitals with back and neck injuries after 2 trains collided on the famous Big Dipper roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. After the collision, the two trains came to rest on a section of track about 20 feet of the ground, leaving the passengers stranded on the ride until the fire department could respond and...
Today Kennywood finally announced there new attraction for next year; a 50 mph LSM Launched Premier Coaster. Riders will be launced 0-50 mph in just 3 seconds before sky rocketing straight up towards the sky 95 feet. From there, gravity brings them straight back down before they head into a an inverted top hat. After the train will do a...
Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana is set to announce their new ride at 11 am Thursday in Holiday Theater. President Will Koch will make the announcement for the ride that will supposedly cost $5.5 million, the second largest investment in park history. The park will be giving a sneak peak via their twitter page before the announcement.
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Rescue crews had to respond to California’s Great America in Santa Clara today after 32 became stuck on the Vekoma Inverted Boomerang, Invertigo. This isn’t the first time rides of this type have had problems, the infamous and now defunct, Two-Face at Six Flags America was in the news several times for situations similar to this. While not many details have...
Kennywood has long been dropping hints about a brand new attraction and has now been officially said they will be adding a new major attraction next year. While they haven’t said what it is they did say:
…anyone who enjoys the roller coasters will be pleased.
Obviously, the park is likely to announce some sort of roller coaster. One thing that Kennywood...
LA Time’s Funland blog has reported the new additions for this years Halloween Haunt. The brand new maze for this year will be the Toy Factory. While my early sources reported the Doll Factory, the Toy Factory sounds like it will have a similar theme. Also returning this year will be CarnEvil, Werewolf Canyon, Corn Stalkers, Club Blood, and Slaughter House;...
During the park’s VIP preview day, things went haywire and it turned out disastrous. Everything from incredibly long lines for fast food to several injuries, it was just not the parks day. Unfortunately, this is a terrible start for what was turning out to be a great park.
The landmark wooden coaster, Fireball, by the highly respected Gravity Group broke down...