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The Twilight Zone - Tower of Terror

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Park: Disney's Hollywood Studios (Lake Buena Vista, FL USA)
Type: Fixed Ride - Enclosed
Builder: Unknown
Status: Operating since 7/22/1994
Features: Picture, if you will, the abandoned Hollywood Tower Hotel.

American Adventures posts closure notice

Posted February 8th, 2010 at 6:34 pm in News by Leo C

AAlogoAmerican Adventures, the Atlanta area small amusement park in Marietta, GA, recently announced its closure via the park’s website. “Due to circumstances beyond our control, we will be closed until further notice. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.” The park was built as an addition to Six Flags White Water. Starting in May 2008 Zuma Holdings began leasing the park. Six Flags season pass holders did not have included admission to American Adventures with their season passes. The park had moved from paid admission to the pay per ride option.
For more information please visit: http://www.americanadventuresfunpark.com/

Kentucky Kingdom lease rejected, Park to close

Posted February 4th, 2010 at 9:31 pm in News by Leo C

KentuckyKingdomToday, Six Flags announced as it is moving through its restructuring process that it will reject the lease of Kentucky Kingdom from the Kentucky State Fair Board and that the park will close immediately.

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Carowinds’ Intimidator takes its first lap

Posted February 4th, 2010 at 7:55 pm in News by Wes

RSGcompGood news out of Charlotte has been somewhat hard to come by these days.  With the financial fallout of Bank of America and Wachovia, which were both headquartered in the Queen City until Wells Fargo stepped in and bought Wachovia, the city has been reeling from the effects of numerous layoffs and cutbacks by the banks.

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Elvis favorite Zippin Pippin meets its end

Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 12:06 am in News by Leo C

On Thursday crews began dismantling the Zippin Pippin rollercoaster at the former Libertyland amusement park in Memphis, TN. Work crews are clearing the land for redevelopment. Libertyland closed in October 2005. Zippin Pippin stood without maintenance exposed to the elements since then, rotting away. In November crews removed a small portion of the coaster ride to determine if it was salvageable. An expert told the city of Memphis that it would take millions of dollars to restore or rebuild the ride to bring it back to an operating condition.

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Mr. Six set to dance into Magic Mountain

Posted January 28th, 2010 at 9:50 pm in News by Wes

sfmmmrsix-smFor several years the Coaster Wars raged between Cedar Point and Six Flags Magic Mountain.  One park would always try to top the other in the design of their new ride and on top of that try and take the coveted title of the park with the most coasters in the world.  Well, I guess you could say the war was just taking a ceasefire, as Six Flags has thrown down the gauntlet and added two coasters within two years.

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Come and join us in the 2010 Coaster Draft

Posted January 28th, 2010 at 1:14 am in Site Announcements by Leo C

ThrillNetwork version 3 logoCalling all ThrillNetwork members! We are looking for participants for the 2010 Coaster Draft!

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Coney Island amusement operator named by city

Posted January 21st, 2010 at 10:41 pm in News by Leo C

On Tuesday New York City officials chose an operator for the amusements section of Coney Island.

The US subsidiary of the Italian rides firm Zamperla was chosen as the new amusement park operator. Zamperla USA was among several bidders for the project, others being Ripley’s Believe  It or Not and the Steel Pier of Atlantic City, NJ.

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Cypress Gardens to transform into Legoland

Posted January 21st, 2010 at 4:23 pm in News by Katie

Merlin Entertainment, the new owner of Cypress Gardens have announced that the park will be changed into a Legoland like it’s sister parks in California and England.

The park is not scheduled to open until the end of 2011. It will have about 40-50 attractions added into the park and has shaved years off of developing the park due to it already being used as an amusement park. The company will be pouring a few hundred million dollars into the park and expect it to open with some of the existing attractions.

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Merlin buys Cypress Gardens

Posted January 16th, 2010 at 4:54 pm in News by Wes

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Merlin Entertainments Group, owners of the Legoland parks, Madame Tussaud’s wax museums and the London Eye has purchased Cypress Gardens.

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Stratosphere to debut SkyJump, 855 free fall experience

Posted January 11th, 2010 at 11:45 pm in News by Leo C

Gamblers in Las Vegas will soon have the ability to take the fall off the 1,149-foot Stratosphere tower and hotel. The hotel that has made its name offering an observation tower with unique over the top thrill rides will add a 855 foot freefall experience called SkyJump Las Vegas. Thrill seekers will be able to take a controlled freefall from the top of Stratosphere tower to a landing platform located on the second level. SkyJump would join Big Shot, Insanity, and X-Scream at the top of the tower. Based on a similiar experience off the Auckland Sky Tower in New Zealand the $3 million SkyJump Las Vegas began construction this month. It is expected to debut in April with a rider cost of $100. Guide wires will keep riders from slamming into the concrete structure of the 100 story Stratosphere as they descend.

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