Monthly Archives: August 2009

During my trip to Myrtle Beach, I was able to spend a day at the newly transformed Freestyle Music Park. Here are some of my thoughts on how the park is doing under the new management:

Freestyle Music Park's beautiful lagoon

1. Ride Operations: The ride operations were pretty good. Round About, formally Maximum RPM, was open all day and was cycling...

It appears that two websites for the Halloween Haunts have gone live: California’s Great America and Carowinds.  Lets take a look at this years Halloween Haunt at those two parks.

2009 will be be California’s Great America only 2nd year at running Halloween Haunt.  After being very succesful last year, this year the park added a few new additions that are...

For those of you who wanted a preview of  Holiday Worlds upcoming water coaster Wildebeest take a look at a video that Proslide has created of their Rockets model.

Notice how smooth the ride is as it goes downhill it essientally goes uphill at nearly the same speed.  This provides for a consistant ride with minimal jerking and terrific speed.  So even...

The first ever ten inversion roller coaster opened on the 22nd of March 2002 at Thorpe Park, England. The initial reception of Colossus was great, being the most inverted roller coaster in the world was a real challenge for rides and wasn’t for the faint hearted. Four years later Chime-Long Paradise opened a replica of Colossus the only difference being...

All new for 2010, Planet Snoopy.  That is correct, Snoopy and Friends will be joining the Canada’s Wonderland family by taking over two children s areas to create one mega area.  Included will be 3 new rides, a new ice show, and the retheming of several rides and structures.  This comes as no surprise and expect too see a similar...

The next morning after I visited Six Flags Discovery Kingom (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) me and my family headed out to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.  I wasn’t expecting much as I only did a little bit of research on the park but I was really quite impressed.  Not only was the park well rounded, but the employees...