Just yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting Gilroy Gardens in Gilroy, California. The park is easily the most beautiful park on the West Coast and features a great variety of family attractions. While the park isn’t exactly what I call thrilling, for anyone who has toddlers as relatives, this is a great place to visit. Lots of stuff for...
Dorney Park’s Talon looks like a super intense B&M invert that features agreat variety of elements, manuevers, and drops. The ride consists of a several inversions, hills and what makes this one stand out is the low to the ground elements. I can only imagine how insane it would be to ride a B&M Invert’s hard core helixes feeling as...
Disney’s Electrical Parade is the beloved, classic parade that currently runs at Disney’s California Adventure Park and serves as the park’s nighttime spectacular. Between the bright lights and electro synth magnetic musical sounds, it is easily my favorite all time parade. For this year’s Summer Nightastic, the park added a new lead float starring Tinkerbell, brought back the Dwarf Mine...
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is one of the last remaining sea side amusement parks on the west coast. However, they do continue the legacy of these beach side boardwalks by constantly adding new attractions and shows every few years. Recently the park opened Sea Swings, a Wave Swinger with artwork that pays tribute to the park’s history. Next year the park...
When parks first announce their new rides, they often will include an animation video of some sort that helps guests get an idea of what the attraction will be like. Here are some of my favorite animated coaster videos:
Pony Express
Pilgrim’s Plunge
S&S Junior Coaster
Insanity the ride
Mystery Mine
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Battle of the Dark Rides!
Busch Gardens and Universal Studios are two parks that provide world class experiences and each compete with Disney in terms of theming. Busch Gardens Europe and Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventure each provide a dark ride that combines motion vehicles, elaborate sets, and 3D imagery to create illusions and effects that no other dark ride can...
Efteling is a wonderful theme park and is home to several true themed rides. One of them is Dream Flight; a spectacular suspended dark ride that takes you through a world of fairies, gardens, trolls, and so much more. I don’t find many things to be truly Disney quality, heck some of the things Disney has built lately aren’t even...