For October, we asked what was your favorite Halloween event. Readers gave us their park thoughts and after lots of input, where is the best place to spend their Halloween: Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, Knott’s Scary Farm, Knobel’s Hallo-fun!, Busch Garden’s Howl-O-Scream, or Kennywood’s Phantom Fright Nights. No surprise, but the clear winner in this race was Universal’s Halloween Horror...
In 2011, Quassy and Gravity Group will introduce Wooden Warrior, a family friendly Gravity Group coaster made for the bigger kids attending the park. Construction is well under way and we’ve just received images of progress as Wooden Coaster continues to rise from the dirt and emerge as Gravity Groups venture from thrills to tots with this smaller, much more...
Both Six Flags and Cedar Fair are reporting financial improvements for Quarter 3 of 2010.
Six Flags is reporting an income of $475.6 million, a $25.7 million or 6% increase over last year third quarter. Profits between the beginning of the year and September 30, 2010 hit $854.1 million, a $56.3 million or 7% increase.
Cedar Fair is reporting net revenues of...
After much anticipation, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay revealed their massive new addition for 2011, Cheetah Hunt. Custom designed for Busch Gardens Tampa, guests will get to experience, the grace, speed, and power of a Cheetah as it races across the African savannah for it’s prey. Featuring multiple LSM (linear syncronized motor) launches, nearly a miles worth of track, and one...
On this eerie night, as the ghouls come out, and ghost come to life you might just get your pants scared off at your local amusement park’s Halloween event. From all of us at Park Thoughts, Happy Halloween!
The designers of World of Color have promised long before the show’s debut that they would continue to update the show. And did they deliver. Last night, after the second showing of World of Color, the park unveiled World of Color’s first ever encore performance for TRON: Legacy.
The park has already added ElecTRONica a club style party in Hollywood Pictures Backlot themed to...
Tokyo DisneyResort just released new attendance numbers from the 1st half of the fiscal year and so far, it’s nothing but good news. The resort as a whole had a total of 12,9540,000 people in the first half of this fiscal year (April 1st – September 30th), a 5.3% increase from last year. For Tokyo Disneyland, the first quarter brought...