November 1st, 2009 meant the final day for California’s Great America’s 2009 season and Park Thoughts was there to say farewell to the park, and more importantly the wonderful Nickelodeon characters that would be leaving the park forever.
Planet Snoopy will take over both the Kidsville and Nickelodeon Central areas of the park. Kidsville’s main show, The Backyard Circus, would also be having it’s...
Beech Bend, an amusement park and racing complex in Bowling Green, Kentucky has announced a pretty long list of new additions in both the amusement and water park for 2010, it seems like the water park is the main focus this year, but they threw in a few new attractions for the amusement park as well:
For the water park:
Dorney Park, in an annual event run by the Lehigh Valley Health Network, offered its parking lot for a free drive-through flu shot clinic this past Saturday, November 7th. All of the public was welcomed to attend, no matter what age they were. This was not an H1N1 vaccine clinic, rather just a typical influenza shot clinic. Nearly 10,000 people...
We’ve known for a while that Alton Towers new ‘Secret Weapon 6’ would include a feature that would be the first of its kind in the world, however will still don’t know exactly what it is, and it appears that we won’t until the ride opens.
The park has posted several photos and a video of this piece arriving at the construction site...
When Kennywood announced their new LSM Premier Launch Coaster one thing they did not reveal was the name of the attraction. Well after some website searching, it appears that a park fan dug up a picture on Palace Entertainment’s main site that has what appears to be the attractions logo on it. What is unknown is if the piece was...
Holiday World’s Voyage, a Gravity Group hybrid wooden coaster, considered by many to be one of the best wooden coasters in the world will be doing away with its standard PTC trains, and replacing them with the new prototype ‘Timberliner’ trains that were introduced by Gravity Group at last year’s IAPPA Expo. These trains are extremely similar to the famous ‘Millennium Flyer‘ trains...
Universal Studios Singapore construction continues to press on as they try to meet the Spring 2010 deadline. Slowly but surely, more and more scenery, landscaping, and other structures are emerging from the scaffolding showing off what is coming about to be an incredible park. TheThemeParkGuy.com has some great images from the construction around the park. Check them out here.
Universal Studios...