Maurer have released images of their new spinning coaster heading to Hangzhou Sunac Tourism City in
China. It’s a clone of the ride currently under construction at Motiongate in Dubai.
Both rides were originally designed for two proposed Six Flags parks
in those locations which never came to be. The coaster will feature a non-inverting loop
which, on a spinning coaster, is a first for China.
Legoland New York will open for previews on the 29th of May. The park will be welcoming
guests during its final stages of completion to explore their seven themed lands, including
miniland and Ninjago world. Their final land, Lego Pirates, and the Legoland hotel will open
later this summer. The park was originally set to open on July 4th 2020 but due to the pandemic
construction was halted. Currently the new opening time is somewhere in the first half of 2021.
Krampus Expedition at Nigloland in France is set to open on the 12th of June. The new Mack
water coaster is themed around the mythical monster, Krampus, and will plunge guests down
mountain slopes and past waterfalls. On opening it will be the park’s biggest attraction to date!
Silverwood theme park in Idaho has released a POV of their new RMC coaster, Stunt Pilot,
which is set to open on 29th the May. The coaster uses a monorail-esque
track system that lets the train run along a single 15.5" thick rail and the stunt pilot theme
pays homage to the daily air shows that were once hosted at the park from 1988 to 1996.
And speaking of RMC, Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey has released a POV of their new
RMC coaster too. The Jersey Devil Coaster, set to open this year, is themed around the Jersey Devil,
a mythical creature rumored to live in the New Jersey Pine
Barrens. The ride looks to have the same fast paced and snappy characteristics of the other
RMC raptor roller coasters. However, unlike these, jersey Devil has longer
12 person trains - perhaps that'll mean an even more intense back row experience!
Walibi Rhône-Alpes in France have revealed plans for the investment of 15 million Euros in the
park between 2022 and 2025. The plans include a restaurant and aquatic playground opening in 2022,
and a bigger attraction opening in 2024. The big ride has been described as innovative and
thrilling, which suggests it could be a Europe’s first - who knows? Recently,
the park has been retheming some of its areas: in particular festival city and explorer’s adventure.
It will be interesting to see how they invest in the future and whether all their plans come to be.
Finally, Gröna Lund have recently revealed their plans to expand the park. In 2024 the
current car park used by the park will be turned into a new area, full of rides and restaurants.
Gröna Lund have said that it will feature a collection of rides for all the family,
some more thrilling than others. The rough concept art currently shows a large roller coaster
attraction - hopefully something of a similar scale to their new ride Monster. The park are also
committed to having 25% of the expansion be green space, full of trees and other vegetation. They
also plan to create a pier-like walkway along the front of the area, allowing non-Grona Lund guests
to quickly access surrounding attractions and enjoy the view. Currently there are no extremely
detailed plans, but the expansion as a whole has been granted permission to go ahead by the
City Council of the City of Stockholm, but has been rejected by the Land and Environment Court.
Now Gröna Lund are appealing that ruling to an even higher government authority,
the Supreme Land and Environmental Court. Adding supreme sure makes it sound authoritative! It
would definitely be a huge shame if this expansion didn't go ahead, so fingers crossed everyone!
Well that's it for another episode of dispatch.