The much-anticipated expansion of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando is expected to be unveiled in late June with a dark ride through the cavernous vaults of Gringotts Bank, a virtual journey on the Hogwarts Express train and a faithful re-creation of London’s Diagon Alley.
Six Flags Great America will launch the latest salvo in the ongoing wooden coaster war this summer with the addition of a steel-wood hybrid aimed squarely at dethroning the reigning king and knocking the heir apparent down a notch.
In a place better known for bourbon, baseball bats and thoroughbred racing, Louisville’s Kentucky Kingdom was once the state’s top tourist destination.
A long-overdue renovation of the Calico Mine Ride will introduce state-of-the-art technology to the first major Knott’s Berry Farm attraction while preserving the groundbreaking work of a legendary theme park innovator.
As summer approaches, 2014 already looks like a great year for ride enthusiasts around the world as a number of new theme parks are planned for Europe and Asia and several major attractions are in the works for North America.
The visually stunning and chaotically thrilling Despicable Me Minion Mayhem attraction is the latest proof that nobody does movie-based motion simulator rides better than Universal Studios Hollywood.
Only at Disneyland would they tear down an old and dilapidated gold mining town in order to build a new and identical gold mining town and make it look old and dilapidated again.
A $10-million first-of-its-kind attraction coming to Canada’s Wonderland will combine a 4-D interactive dark ride with a roller-coaster track inside the Toronto-area amusement park’s decades-old Wonder Mountain centerpiece.
The dual-launch FireChaser Express debuting at Dollywood on March 22 will blast riders backward out of an exploding fireworks factory on a themed family coaster that combines pyrotechnic special effects with a terrain-hugging ride.
The Flight of the Demon winged coaster debuting March 29 at Germany’s Heide Park will swoop through the dark along a twisting track bathed in devilish lights and lasers.
A new hybrid dark ride-roller coaster at Germany’s Europa-Park will take visitors through a microscopic universe populated by ants the size of elephants, bumble bees as big as fighter jets and blades of grass taller than skyscrapers.
A new $10-million roller coaster paying tribute to Coney Island’s past marks another step in what New York City officials hope will be a rebirth of the seaside amusement park known as “America’s Playground.”
