Kings Island has posted a bunch of new photos of Diamondback testing. The photos include our first look at the water splash and also the water scoops (for you geeky ones out there). The trains look great, the ride looks great, I really have nothing bad to say. Well, nix that, I have one bad thing to say; I’m not going to have the chance to get to Kings Island anytime soon.

You can check out the rest of the photos here.

Ever since I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to throw spare change into a fountain. I don’t know why, I have always just enjoyed doing it. Well it looks like someone is getting use out of that spare change. Hersheypark collects the money from their fountains and waterways every year and donates it to the Children’s Miracle Network. This year they raised over $12,000! Pretty incredible stuff. The full press release is below.
Press Release
(Hershey, Pa.) Each year Hersheypark hosts millions of visitors, many of …

With our new look we need a new logo and we want you to help us. Clearly we are not good at the graphical end of things, so we thought that one of our readers could help us out and design a sweet new logo for Coasterdom. There are a few requirements, but the list is pretty short.

Must say Coasterdom
177px × 39px
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Some type of coaster look to it

If you think you could help us out, please leave a comment with a link to your logo design or use the …

After several months of basically nothing, we have finally revamped Coasterdom. With our new look things should be easier to find and there are a bunch of new features.
Among the new features are the Headlines and Featured areas of the site. As expected the more prominent stories will be shown there so that you can get to the important thing first. Under that area is a link bar to all of our content categories. And finally under that is the normal blog that you all have grown so acustom to.
Our …

Hey guys, we decided to finally get the podcast back on track. There is some stuff on the site’s future in there as well as a bunch of other news.

Future of the site
Ride construction
Six Flags haircuts?
Some really sad news
2009 pricing
and more…

As always the link to the right, a direct download, or RSS are the best ways to get out show.

Hey everyone,
I need your help. What should we do with Coasterdom? As you can see the site hasn’t been regularly updated for some time, and we need to do something about it. I’m kind of growing out of the blog phase, especially since there are some many other coaster blogs out there now. I feel like we all post the same things, and it is kind of redundant. So I’m asking you, what should we do. Below are a couple of ideas that the staff and I have discussed. Please …

Hey guys, I’ve been really slacking on getting the Coaster Web Awards up and posted. They will be along within the next day or so. I just finished up my semester and anyone in college can tell you the last few weeks of the semester are hectic to say the least. The future wife also flew in yesterday from Texas, where she attends grad school, and her flight had to make an emergency landing because the plane filled with smoke! So my plans for the day were a bit thrown …

Universal Studios is having a Grinchmas celebration this year for Christmas. The event starts today! There is a lot of stuff going on with it and the full press release is below, but here are some of the highlights.

Meet the Grinch and take your photo for a one-of-a-kind holiday memento
Play in the Grinch’s Winter Playground filled with real snow
See Whoville come to life on the Studio Tour backlot
Family fun activities including holiday cookie decorating
Nightly tree lighting ceremony at the 40-foot Whoville Tree

Flying Phil has taken a couple of pictures of what Medusa has changed into. The track looks to be totally done, which happened really fast. I’m still not sold on the blue and purple thing, but it is nice to see something fresh. Check out more of the pics here.

Back as promised, in this week’s show:

IAAPA 2008
New coasters for Europe
Park closing
Silly Six Flags
Construction and deconstruction updates
and more

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