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 …

Our buddy Joel, better known as the Coaster Critic just posted a great interview with Louis Alfieri, the designer of Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit.  A few highlights from the article include:

It’ll feature 30 songs from 5 genres with 3 legacy artists and 3 contemporary artists in each genre. Songs to be announced soon!
A Day Ride and A Night Ride; The track will be eluminated and the LEDs of course will enhance the night ride.
5 cars on the track at the same time (I think he meant 5 trains with two …

The coaster blogging world is a pretty small and well connect group of people who try to provide the lastest in the amusement industry. Today, NewsPlusNotes updated their site with a new look. I have got to say it looks really, really nice. I especially enjoy the logo. It reminds me of the old Cedar Point animated headers. So check out NewsPlusNotes when you get a chance and tell them how you like their new layout.