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Freestyle Music Park is taking no time in trying to change the image of the park. The Led Zeppelin coaster is being repainted pink and has recieved a siderweb looking metal piece over the back fins of the zeppelin. I believe they have to change the name becasue of licensing, but it is a big change. Below is the latest details on what they might be doing with the ride:
Towering 150 feet in the sky, Freestyle Music Park’s signature roller coaster gets your adrenaline pumping with a high intensity / …
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Diamondback had its preview day yesterday, and is offically opened as of today. From what I am hearing, there is a line that streches from the enterance of the ride to the Eiffel Tower and then back to the splashdown area. O yeah, the queue is completely full on top of that. From everything I have heard, it is worth the wait.
The reviews starting coming yesterday and the ride was compared to Nitro and Apollo’s Chariot, and some said that it was easily better then both. I can’t review it …
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Blue Fire at Europa Park opened yesterday and form all accounts, it is a great coaster. The coaster is built by Mack and features 4 inversions and a launch that goes from 0-62 miles per hour in just 2.5 seconds. Perhaps the most impressive part of this coaster is that it does have a heartline roll, that didn’t need to be taken out before opening day. The other thing is that this is the first major coaster from Mack that we have heard of in quite sometime.
The theming and everything …
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Thanks to our reader NJCoasters7 comment, we now know that Medusa will also be called Bizarro. If that wasn’t enough proof for you Six Flags Great Adventure’s site also has the new name on it. The site has the following to say:
Known for his clumsy and destructive attempts to emulate Superman, everything in Bizarro’s world is twisted and backwards. The Bizarro experience begins the moment you enter the ride queue line through a custom-created comic book story. Climb aboard the newly-designed coaster cars with custom built audio in the headrest. …
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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.
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Manta at Sea World has been flying along. Johnnyupsidedown has posted some great images of the construction.
As you can see the in-line twist and helix has been completed along with several other sections of the ride. I don’t remember a steel coaster like this going up as quickly as this one has. One other note, last day to get you nominations in!
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Johnnyupsidedown.com has just posted a few shots from Manta’s layout. We have been waiting forever to see this thing, and I’m glad we finally got a look. There looks to be a pretzel loop, an in-line twist, a “wing dip,” and a flat spin among other things. Click here to view the full update.
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One of our forum users, SFMMMan17, posted that Medusa at Six Flags Great Adventure will be receiving a revamp much like X did earilier this year. You can get the full details from his post here. It looks like some of the proposed improvements have already started. The most notable is the track repainting. You can check out more pictures of the track repainting here.
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Prowler and Dimondback are moving quickly with their construction. Power’s website posted a bunch of new pictures of the progress being made on the coaster, which you can see below.
Meanwhile, Dimondback has been topped off. This coaster is coming together very quickly and looks very promising. You can check out some of the other updates with this coaster on it’s website.
