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Six Flags Magic Mountain to add family coaster for 2010
November 3, 2009 6:26pm
Six Flags Magic Mountain will add its 17th roller coaster in 2010, bringing the Valencia amusement park into a tie for the most coasters in the world, officials said.
Scheduled to open in early summer 2010, the family coaster will be located in the northwest corner of the park between the looping Déjà Vu coaster and the Johnny Rockets Shakes and Fries food stand.
The steel coaster moves Magic Mountain into a statistical tie with Ohio’s Cedar Point for the coveted title of “roller coaster capital of the world,” according to Roller Coaster Database.
California’s Great America to add swing ride, re-theme kids area for 2010
October 23, 2009 5:55am
California’s Great America officials expect the Screamin’ Swing ride at Knott’s Berry Farm to be relocated to the Santa Clara theme park by summer 2010.
Knott’s is removing the pneumatically powered pendulum swing ride to make room for Demon Drop, a 26-year-old thrill ride being removed from Cedar Point and relocated to the Buena Park theme park.
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Knott’s Berry Farm to add 1980s-era thrill ride in 2010
October 20, 2009 11:01am
Knott’s Berry Farm’s new attraction for 2010 is an aging hand-me-down thrill ride that’s older than many of the Buena Park theme park’s patrons.
The Demon Drop attraction will be relocated from sister park Cedar Point in Ohio, where the ride debuted in 1983 — when Ronald Reagan was president, Michael Jackson introduced the moonwalk and leg warmers were in fashion.
Knott’s officials confirmed that the installation of the drop tower ride will begin in January with a grand opening scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend 2010. Knott’s will keep the Demon Drop name, color scheme and theme.
Halloween events at U.S. theme parks
October 1, 2009 12:16pm
If the calendar on the wall says October, then it must be time for Halloween mazes, monsters and mayhem to take over theme parks across the U.S.
Here’s a rundown of the haunted attractions:
Six Flags Magic Mountain to reclaim coaster crown in 2010
September 30, 2009 5:36pm
The back-and-forth war of one-upmanship between Six Flags Magic Mountain and Cedar Point resumes next summer when the amusement park behemoths battle again for the coveted title of “roller coaster capital of the world.”
Six Flags President and Chief Executive Mark Shapiro said this week that Magic Mountain would add a “family attraction” for 2010, with an official announcement expected in November. But regular Funland readers already know that the “family attraction” will be a new roller coaster.
Magic Mountain’s 17th roller coaster would move the Valencia amusement park into a statistical tie with Ohio’s Cedar Point for coaster supremacy, according to Roller Coaster Database.
Golden Ticket awards honor top amusement park rides of 2009
September 10, 2009 5:43pm
Amusement Today magazine awarded the Golden Ticket today to the Prowler wooden coaster at Worlds of Fun in Missouri as the best new amusement park ride of 2009 in the United States.
The Voyage at Holiday World in Indiana remained the all-time favorite wooden coaster, with Prowler claiming the eighth spot in the Top 10 wooden coaster list.
Diamondback at Kings Island in Ohio was named the best new steel coaster for 2009, moving into the seventh spot on Amusement Today’s all-time Top 10 steel coasters list. Bizarro (formerly Superman – Ride of Steel) at Six Flags New England in Massachusetts maintained the all-time top spot in the steel coaster category.
Schlitterbahn water park in Texas snagged best new water ride of 2009 honors for Congo River Expedition.
Theme park news: Cedar Point water ride, Fantasmic dragon debuts, Rihanna at Magic Mountain
September 5, 2009 7:16am
A roundup of my theme park Twitter updates for the last week:
* Cedar Point in Ohio unveils the $10.5-million Shoot the Rapids water ride for 2010 set amid an illegal moonshine still.
* Report: Shanghai Disneyland to open in 2013 on a site four times the size of Hong Kong Disneyland.
* Video: New fire-breathing Fantasmic dragon at Disneyland looks stunning and pleases crowd in debut but seems a bit stiff and fails to “breath” fire.
Theme park news: Bye-bye Big Bad Wolf, Club 33 waiting list, fact-checking Epcot’s future, Darth Vader dance-off
July 25, 2009 7:04am
A roundup of my theme park Twitter updates for the last week:
> Popular Mechanics fact-checks five Epcot rides that predicted the future. (Orlando Updates)
> Waiting list for one of 480 membership slots at Disneyland’s private Club 33: 18 years. (OC Weekly)
> Video awesomeness: Darth Vader dances to MC Hammer’s “You Can’t Touch This” at Star Wars Weekends 2009 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Longer version. (Orlando Attractions)
> Free X2 after-hours ride time on Friday nights this summer at Six Flags Magic Mountain plus 2 free tacos and milkshake with paid admission.
Coaster Wars II: Magic Mountain vs. Cedar Point
April 2, 2008 8:56am
Which amusement park is the true “roller coaster capital of the world”?
With the peak summer season drawing near, the title remains in dispute as the industry’s two coaster heavyweights lay claim to the coveted title.
Cedar Point proclaims itself the coaster king on its website and an official count at Roller Coaster Database gives the Sandusky, Ohio, amusement park the edge worldwide with 17 coasters.
“We’re certainly well-known around the world for having the most coasters,” said Cedar Point spokesman Robin Innes.
Six Flags Magic Mountain recently relinquished the title after trimming two coasters from its fleet, but that hasn’t stopped the Valencia amusement park from running radio advertisements this week claiming the crown.
“When it comes to being the coaster capital of the world, it’s measured in thrill quality, not ride quantity,” said Magic Mountain President Jay Thomas. “At Magic Mountain, thrill seekers are fond of saying that they look at the competition and ask ‘Where’s the beef?’ That’s the standard by which we operate. Always pushing to distance ourselves from other coaster parks.”
Magic Mountain relinquishes coaster crown
January 16, 2008 11:59am
Sadly, it’s official. California’s Six Flags Magic Mountain is no longer the “roller coaster capital of the world” — surrendering the title to Ohio’s Cedar Point amusement park.
With the dismantling of Magic Mountain’s Flashback now underway and the addition of Cedar Point’s Maverick in 2007, the world record for most roller coasters at a single amusement park officially moves from Valencia, Calif., to Sandusky, Ohio.
The score: Cedar Point 17, Magic Mountain 15.
“That’s indisputable,” said Cedar Point spokesman Robin Innes.
Magic Mountain vows to reclaim the coaster crown after the jump.
