We’re back with some more news and this week was an interesting one for sure!
The London Resort have revealed 'Base Camp' as one of their planned park areas.
As you might imagine, being a prehistoric nature reserve, Base Camp will feature lots
of dinosaurs, interactive dig sites, live show experiences, advanced dark rides and,
of course, two coasters.
It’s design is set to resemble what a real modern day prehistoric nature reserve might
look like, and instead of presenting what could go wrong with that kind of set up, the
area’s storyline will focus on celebrating and preserving dinosaurs.
So what they’re saying is it’s definitely not, in any way shape or form, Jurassic Park.
It will feature (hopefully) one of Europe’s fastest roller coasters, themed to the flying
pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus, a family-friendly coaster, an arena for shows set amid a tropical
forest, a motion-based 4D ride through prehistoric waters to see sea-dwelling dinosaurs, a dark
ride where guests can track and tag dinosaurs in the wild, and more!
Man this sounds awesome, come on London Resort, I’m counting on you.
Ride Entertainment have announced that Gerstlauer will be building a new record-breaking roller
coaster in May 2022.
Ride Entertainment, who sell Gerstlauer roller coasters in North America, stated that an
agreement has been signed for the construction of a one-of-a-kind ride scheduled to open
in May of 2022 somewhere in the United States.
The ride - which is said to “become a showcase attraction known around the world” - will
have a custom layout and will be built in a “challenging location”.
A lot of people think this will coaster will break the inversion record, featuring 15 or
more inversions.
Honestly I’d be a little heartbroken if it is - come on let the smiler and the UK
keep the record man.
Knotts Berry Farm’s new shooting dark ride is set to open on the 21st of May.
Knott's Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fair, which has replaced Iron Reef, will open for
the celebration of the park’s 100th anniversary.
Guests will be able to grab their jelly blaster to recover the stolen boysenberry pies from
Crafty Coyote's pups!
Kondaa at Walibi Belgium is set to open on the 8th of May.
Initial construction of the new Intamin mega coaster began back in August 2019 and a year
later its signature non-inverted cobra roll went up.
It also features a wall stall, a side-banked double down and 15 airtime moments, and will
mark the opening of the park’s new African themed area.
On 8th May Walibi Belgium will be getting a whole lot better!
There's a new theme park being developed in the US, somewhere... but we don't know exactly
where.
Next month will see the announcement of a brand new theme park in the US - but we have
no idea what or where it will be.
The announcement was originally going to be made last week at Parks Con but has now been
pushed into May.
How does this even happen?
How can you announce a theme park without giving where it will be or what it is?
Bill Kitchen, founder and chairman of US Thrill Rides, has introduced the SkyScreamer, a brand
new terrifying flat ride.
It takes up to three riders into a skydiving experience as they are pulled 300 feet (90
m) into the air and released into a free-fall on a cable, swinging in an arc.
The SkyScreamer is said to be like the SkyCoaster “on steroids” but with 10 times the capacity.
Yay, now more people can plummet 300feet towards the ground at once - great!
We’ve had our first look at the world's first dual powered coaster, coming to Genting
SkyWorlds theme park in Malaysia.
The park has been revealing the lands and rides it will feature when it opens later
this year, and this week announced their "Mad Ramp Peak - Full Throttle Racing" ride in
Eagle Mountain land.
It will be the first installation of the dual powered coaster Dynamic Attractions introduced
at IAAPA in 2018.
Mack Rides have patented the design for a new roller coaster element which looks like
a pair of interlocking zero-g rolls.
The element is said to have been developed for use on a duelling roller coaster, allowing
riders to interact with each other as they go through the roll.
It’s currently not known what ride this element is for, however, it’s been rumored
that MACK Rides will be building the proposed duelling roller coaster coming to Universal’s
Epic Universe.
Will this ride feature interlocking zero-g rolls?
I hope so, they look cool as hell.
Can you imagine being upside down and high-fiving someone, damn.
Disney have done it again, they’re created an even more advanced animatronic.
Disney Imagineering recently revealed ‘Project Kiwi’, an animatronic Baby Groot from Guardians
of the Galaxy.
The animatronic is completely free-roaming, meaning it could be used to interact with
theme park visitors outside of specific rides or attractions.
Currently, it’s just a prototype, but it’s likely that we could see small animatronics
roaming through Disney parks in the future.
All I can imagine right now is a child getting too excited and jumping on baby groot then
everyone gasps as it hits the floor.
I’m sure Disney will figure it out.
And there you go, it’s the end of another episode.
I’m going to go and cry in front of a picture of the smiler, thinking of all the good times
we had together while it still had the record for the most inversions.
It’s just so sad...