New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the future of the new Luna park (one of the most famous parks of the early Coney Island regime – I wrote a paper which did hold a large focus on this park which you can read here: Pop Culture in 1900 FINAL) which included over twenty new rides and a total package of thirty million dollars in renovations. You can read an article at length here. It’s a bit of a long read, although much of it is spent (wasted, in my mind) …

After getting its very first wooden roller coaster just last year, China is raising the bar once again with a brand new wooden roller coaster that is impressive to say the least. I could let out more prose or describe further just how wonderful this ride looks, but we both know you’re just here for the pictures. So check them out!

I think this ride looks rather fantastic. With huge sweeping curves, and terrain hugging track, how could it not be? What about you guys? Have you booked that flight to …

Remember Kansas’ only amusement park? Okay, minus the “Zonkers” and “All Star Adventures”. The first of which is a former Jeepers and the other of which, well, looks rather abysmal. I’m obviously talking about Wild West World, what had at first glance appeared to be the salvation of Kansas theme park lovers.
However, after only one year in operation the park died. Blaming the lack of money on the large amount of rain, owner Tomas Etheredge tried to make it sound like it was just an amount of bad luck. After …

DateLine Disney’s Twitter account said that Captain EO would be open for Cast Member testing tomorrow. This is generally a sign that the attraction is in its final stages and will be opening soon. So many speculated that the ride would be opening up for Valentine’s Day weekend (because Michael Jackson just screams romance, right?). However, a quote from Al Lutz states that this is likely not the case.

“Hundreds of Disneyland Cast Members will be testing Captain EO on Friday afternoon, but don’t expect it to open this weekend as …

Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
Dick Kinzel’s response would likely fall into the “no” category after the news came out that a Texan investment company (Q Investing) is planning on voting “no” on the Apollo acquisition with his 9.8% stake in the company. The company is urging other investors to do the same, and many will. There has been a growing discontent with the sale, especially of late when stocks have been trading significantly higher than when the deal was first announced ($11.58 at the time of this …

For those of you that have seen it, especially if you were a kid at the time, The Electrical Parade is a masterpiece. And even if you have become jaded in recent years, it likely still holds a special place in your heart. If you fit into this group, and live in the Orlando area, it is time to rejoice. According to the Disney Parks twitter account, The Electrical Parade is going to return to Walt Disney World this Summer. And if you live in the Los Angeles area, you’re …

Working in directly the opposite direction of this site, Six Flags has started a blog at the corporate level. And by opposite, I mean they started with Facebook and Twitter and moved to the blogsphere, whereas Coasterdom started a blog, and bounced into Twitter and Facebook later. Origin stories aside, this could be a cool opportunity to share corporate news with the coaster community without going through the typical media sources i.e. the newspaper companies. It will be nice to be able to link back to Six Flags, as opposed …

The Mason City Council has rejected a plan that would have added a three percent ticket tax and a five percent ticket tax on the Cedar Fair amusement park. The proposed taxes were aggressively fought by the park, claiming that it would hurt business. An article in the Cincinnati Business Courier can be found here.
I am inclined to agree with Kings Island on this one. Having lived in California my entire life, I am all too familiar with increasing or adding taxes in order to boost revenue for something as vague as …

In a press release given out by Six Flags just over an hour ago, the Kentucky Kingdom park is being closed permanently. Citing a breakdown in lease negotiation with the Kentucky State Fair Board, the park will be closed immediately and permanently.  The press release from Sixflags.com is quoted below.

“Six Flags announced today that as it nears the scheduled end of its restructuring process, it has decided to reject its lease with the Kentucky State Fair Board relating to the Kentucky Kingdom park. In recent weeks, Six Flags had proposed a …

Carowinds Twitter account has announced that the Intimidator roller coaster has completed its first test run successfully. The video can be seen right here.

It looks like a nice roller coaster, I have always thought so, but it really doesn’t have a lot of “oomph” while going through its course. Of course it was only the first run, and I understand that things change as the ride heats up (it looked especially cold there in the video) so I’ll withhold any true judgment until then.
In any event, it looks like a …