One of the top roller coasters on the planet, Eagle Fortress will be closing down forever. Located in one of South Korea’s most popular theme parks, Everland, Eagle Fortress is a Arrow Suspended coaster that opened in 1992. What made Eagle’s Fortress unique was it’s train conforming track that wined through the landscape only hopping over the tree line a...
Sea World Parks & Entertainment will be giving free one day tickets to all of the stranded passengers due to the Volcanic Ash cloud over the Atlantic. For those unfamiliar with the event, a volcano in Iceland has been producing volcanic ash across the Atlantic creating a massive cloud. This prevents planes from flying through them. As a result, many...
NBC Bay Area does a series in the morning called ‘Bay’s Best’. And a few weeks ago, it was ‘Bay’s Best Roller Coaster’. Needless to say that numero uno was Medusa at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. Included in the video package was the broadcaster taking a spin on the B&M Floorless coaster. Unfortunately, he wasn’t exactly able to handle what...
As part of the off season refurbishment, California’s Great America removed the Hanna Barbera characters from the KidZville section of the park. Also, the attractions got a nice touch up so they would match the new for 2010 Planet Snoopy area. The park really did a nice job of applying the same nostalgic style to the characters the park invented...
With just a few more weeks before the opening of Holiday World, the park is putting on the final details for excited guests. 2010 will bring Wildebeest, the world’s longest water coaster, new trains for the Voyage, and Real Country, a theater spectacular.
Holiday World, being big fans of going viral with various videos has posted several updates recently about them...
LIFE Magazine has been covering top news stories for years. And at a time, Disneyland was the number one newstory so the magazine featured a number of articles about the park. Recently, LIFE and Google teamed up to create a unbelievable gallery of several of the magazine’s images throughout the years dating back to the 1860s. For Disney aficionados such as...
A few days ago, we showed you California’s Great America’s newly rethemed Planet Snoopy, but another opened last weekend as well, at Carowinds. Since this isn’t the big addition for Carowinds with Intimidator, the park’s new B&M hyper coaster, also debuting this year, Planet Snoopy has kind of fallen into its shadows, literally. The first thing you notice when standing in...