When I was young I lived in Louisville, KY. I remember visiting the State Fair when I was at a very early age and seeing the soaring coasters of Kentucky Kingdom behind the fair’s midway. That’s where my love of coasters started.
Here’s the brief history of Kentucky Kingdom:
Six Flags announced today that it would not continue it’s lease for Kentucky Kingdom from the Kentucky State Fair Board after they unsuccessfully tried to work out new agreements. So, basically this means that the park will no longer operate.
There were clear signs, mainly being the closing of a good portion of the park a couple years back and the removal of...
Around 4:15 PM EST today Intimidator got the green flag and took its first test run with the train flying through the ride’s mile long track. While neither of the ride’s 2 trim brakes appeared to be on and the mid course brake run barley slowed down the ride, it’s pretty obvious that this ride will live up to its...
After months of pretty much nothing interesting happening with Cedar Point’s 2010 addition, Shoot the Rapids, the crews finally started putting steel into place for the two hills. Despite no real news until now, the ride has made significant progress, a good amount of the water troughs are either done or currently being poured, what appears the be a maintenance building has been constructed, and it...
Changzhou Park will be opening a very unique attraction next year, a Dinosaur themed, Zamplera MotoCoaster. The family friendly attraction will be part the new Chinese park and will have cars themed to prehistoric Dinosaurs. Pictured above, you can see they are very interesting looking.
At a bit over 30 mph and around 70 feet, the ride will be small but...
We broke the rumor to you back in October, however now it is official. The Oriental Land Company has finally declared Fantasmic! as Tokyo DisneySea’s 10th Anniversary attraction. With the recent additions of Tower of Terror, Monsters Inc Ride n’ Go Seek, Turtle Talk with Crush, as well as the upcoming additions of Mickey’s Philarmagic, a Cinderella castle walk-though attraction,...