Dollywood
700 Dollywood Lane
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
United States
Thunderhead, located in Thunderhead Gap at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN, is a monster twister built by Great Coasters International. From the first twisting dive, it delivers strong laterals, a healthy dose of airtime, and enough high banked turns to make any coaster green with envy. With turns banked so [...]
Knoebels
Route 487
Elysburg, Pennsylvania
United States
In 1985, Knoebels was looking to add a coaster to it’s arsenal of great rides and found one. The only problem was that it was sitting abandoned in the closed Playland Park in Texas.
Instead of purchasing a new coaster, Dick Knoebel took the initiative to move this Schmeck gem to Knoebels [...]
Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. says it plans to eliminate the dividend it has paid out to investors every year since 1987.
It’s something Chairman and Chief Executive Dick Kinzel once said he would never think of doing. But times are tough for Sandusky-based Cedar Fair, which says it saw 1.2 million fewer visitors at its 11 [...]
Cedar Point
1 Cedar Point Rd
Sandusky, Ohio
United States
At a cost of $25,000,000, Cedar Point broke another precedent with the construction of Millenium Force. The first complete circuit coaster to break the 300 ft. mark.
From it’s elevator style lift, to the overbanked turns that litter the course, Millenium Force became a crowd favorite and quickly placed [...]
One of New England’s most beloved roller coasters was the Giant Coaster at Paragon Park. When the Nantasket Beach park closed its gates in 1985, most folks probably presumed that the wooden behemoth was reduced to a pile of rubble. Good news! The coaster was moved piece by piece to Six Flags America near Washington, [...]
Six Flags Great Adventure
Route 537
Jackson, New Jersey
United States
El Toro’s unique design, inspired by the agility and strength of the brave Matadors, features a hybrid design including a classic “out and back” track with four fast-charging drops, multiple highly-banked turns and a beastly “twister” finale. El Toro will also deliver nine “airtime” opportunities, giving riders the [...]
Kings Dominion announced today the addition of the United States’ 2nd giga coaster. This ride will be 305 feet tall and travel more than 90 mph. Some fans have been disappointed that it isn’t exactly what their imaginations had expected, but at $25 million we can hardly complain in this economy. It should be a [...]
Confirmed Roller Coasters & Rumors for 2009
Kings Island will be getting a B&M hyper coaster for 2009. Construction has been pretty apparent even though no official announcement has been made. The layout which first appeared in First Drop magazine last November looks great. It will ride off into the woods behind the Tomb Raider ride, [...]
With the popularity of hybrid wooden coasters, those constructed with a steel structure instead of wood or the newest variation built with a pre-fabricated wood track, many roller coaster fans have been wondering if those constructed entirely of wood are going to be a thing of the past.
It’s not that fans don’t enjoy the new [...]
BUENA PARK, Calif. — An amusement park in Southern California says a cable snapped on a roller coaster, sending a 12-year-old boy and a man to hospitals with injuries.
Knott’s Berry Farm spokeswoman Jennifer Blazey says the accident on the Xcelerator roller coaster happened shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Orange County amusement [...]
