Due to a very slow news week, and being New Year’s Eve, we are foregoing another show, but we’ll be back on Wednesday with a new show.  From Nate and I, we wish you all a happy and safe New Year.

Sorry guys, no podcast tonight. Kevin is home and unable to record from his house. I just finished working a couple of 10 hour days at work and I could use the time off a bit. This weekend we should have a show ready to go again. Hopefully the news will start flowing. Hope you all have a happy New Year.

Another slow news week, but we have a little show for you.

Lake Compounce Review w/ special guest
Cedar Fair’s yearly budget
Roadtrip to New York

That’s all we have this week for you guys. Have a Merry Christmas and if you don’t celebrate Christmas, enjoy whatever you do celebrate. RSS, iTunes, direct download, or the link on the right sidebar are the best ways to listen to our show.

25 new photos have been added to the photo gallery courtesy of Coasters2k. Photos include Knott’s Berry Farm, Paramount’s Kings Dominion and Islands of Adventure.

Sorry the delay, it’s the busy time of year. But anyway, here is today’s, or should I say yesterday’s, show:

Coney Island’s future plans
Kennywood additions
SFGAdv updates
S&S Tower price
Dick Kinzel staying till 2012
Roadtrip to Connecticut
Rest of CCI’s history

If I do say so, this was one of the most entertaining shows for us, and hopefully for our listeners as well. RSS, iTunes, direct download, or the link on the right sidebar are the best ways to listen to our show.

It was a really, really slow news week. Somehow we managed to talk for a half hour about some things in the industry. Anyway on this weeks show:

Why hasn’t Six Flags St. Louis announced their spinning coaster yet?
XLC for sale?!?
PKD lowers their admission prices
Very brief roadtrip to Rhode Island
1st half of our two part overview of CCI’s coasters

RSS, iTunes, direct download, or the link on the right sidebar are the best ways to listen to our show.

In this, our longest show to date, Kevin and I discuss:

Tons of Six Flags Conference call news
Universal Studios Singapore artwork
Offseason Road Trip to Massachusetts
SF selling something big for a bargain
BGW’s (BGE) Griffon construction update
Kevin shares a story from Dorney’s Coaster Madness

Theres lots of good stuff in this podcast, and its highly suggested that you listen to it. It happens to be one of Kevin and I’s personal favorites. Also, if you didn’t listen to the last show, I suggest that you listen to 9:55-10:55 in it, we found it entertaining. …

Sorry for the delay, we didn’t get to do this show at our normal time on Sunday night. We did the show this afternoon and editing took a bit. Anyway, here’s whats on todays show:

Tony Hawk’s Big Spin
SFGAdv’s freefall going bye bye
Universal’s land sale
Hard Rock’s sale
Hershey’s new CEO
Singapore’s new parks
SOB news
Starflyer being copied?
2006 Wood Coaster Poll results
Offseason Road Trip- this week Vermont

You can download the file directly here. If you want to listen now, click the listen now logo to the right. iTunes is a good bet also.

Well if you have been listening to the podcast at all for the past couple of weeks, we have been telling you about this new coaster. There is going to be another one announced sometime soon, but Six Flags Fiesta Texas has announced their coaster. To quote the press release, “Six Flags Fiesta Texas announced today a new family-style attraction planned for 2007 that will leave riders spinning with delight. The new addition, Tony Hawk’s Big Spin, defies gravity just like Tony Hawk does with acrobatic spins on his skateboard; …

Well, as you might’ve heard in the podcast, I made 2 coaster wheels for my term project for my manufacturing class. They are made entirely of aluminum. We used the a lathe to smooth them out and to get our desired dimensions. We used CAD and CAM in order to actually create the designs of the wheels in the CNC Milling Machine.