Since everyone has helped out with the Hershey announcement and all of the games, I figured I would let you in on the fun. Here is a link to the new coaster, and the announcement that should come tomorrow (it’s down). If you missed it, it was a No Limit’s video of the ride. Nothing super big deal, heck the announcement is only 12 hours away.
Now lets see how all of this plays out tomorrow and see if we have all been had (I don’t think we have though).
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While this is totally unconfirmed and based solely off of some connections I have made, I have a feeling that Hershey’s new coaster is going to be named Afterburner. If you have been reading Nantiman’s blog there have been several references to flying and airports. Hershey’s site indicates that the theme will be heat, fire, or something else that is very hot. With all of the airport and plane talk on the blog and the heat information on Hershey’s site, I just tried to connect the dots. Afterburners are very …

I feel a bit like Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. If you haven’t been keeping up to date with Hershey news, apparently they selected 25 people to send pieces of a picture to. Hershey’s own little golden ticket hunt. I just checked my e-mail and I received one of the pictures. The title of the e-mail read 25, and the image file was named hp_r1_c5. You can see it below. If you follow this link, there are the other site’s that they sent pieces to. Apparently they sent …

After Jake’s post on the legitimacy of the Nantimi website, we got some interesting replies. In particular our last reply to date, #5, by M. Tinley. Which doesn’t sound like all that much except that the name also appears on the Nantimi website’s about page. There has also been a blog started by a Martin Tinley. Same names connecting all of this. While this really could be anyone using a fake name, thanks to the wonders of the internet, I can say for certainty that Hershey has a connection to …

So, I am under the impression that there are some of you out there that believe www.nantimi.com is both enthusiast made and bogus. Well I am here to prove you wrong.
For those of you who are unaware, I completed several of the “clues” that were on the nantimi website. Some of you would still say that it’s all an elaborate hoax. So let me explain what the last couple clues led me to do, and how I can prove that this is legit.
Firstly, there ws an email address on the …

Well if you missed the big news this week, IOA announced a new expansion, dubbed “a theme park within a theme park.” You can read the official press release here. The pictures that are given in the release are a bit vague. Our friend Mike has come up with a few concept drawings of his own on how the area will be laid out and how they will fit into the existing park. I then to believe that his ideas are dead on, but take a look for yourself.

According to RCDB the name of the park is indeed changing. If you look at the Great America page it is titled Knott’s Great America. It also indicates that the name change too place in 2007. We are just waiting on an official announcement on this, but if RCDB has it up, I have no trouble believing that it is going to happen. In our original post on this story the domain (that’s the web address) redirected to Great America’s current page. So with these two pieces of evidence, I’m …

Well it seems as if Cedar Fair has purchased www.knottsgreatamerica.com and it redirects you to the Great America page. The park was named Paramount Great America before Cedar Fair bought the chain and dropped the Paramount from all of the park names. This is interesting because it shows possible problems with the Great America name. Six Flags also has a Great America park. Interestingly enough, both “Knotts” Great America and Six Flags Great America were both owned and operated by Marriott, when they were in the amusement park business.
I don’t …

According to the New York Times, RedZone Capital, which is run my Daniel Snyder, is set to acquire the Johnny Rockets restaurant chain. Daniel Snyder as we know bought Six Flags last year. Now the question comes in; will Johnny Rockets be coming to Six Flags? They will have the same owner, and Six Flags parks are a great outlet for any food chain. It has to be only a matter of time before these restaurants start popping up at Six Flags. Johnny Rockets already provides the perfect park …

“Florida’s best ride is about to raise the rush.”  Later this week Busch Gardens Africa will be announcing their new plans for their biggest coaster.  Sometime this year, the Tampa, Florida park is going to receive a pretty major upgrade. This upgrade will make it’s trains floorless to match Busch Gardens Europe’s Griffon. The major construction for this to happen will of course be in the station which will have to feature the unique load/ unload platform other floorless coasters have.