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January 7th, 2019, 22:21 Posted By: wraggster
Parc Asterix will open a new 4D Theater in 2019 that will be themed to the park’s famous Asterix characters and be called “Attention Menhir!”. The new theater will seat 300 guests at a time in D-Box dynamic motion seat units that will move in sync with the action on the screen, while mixing in the usual assortment of 4D theater style special effects like wind blasts, water spray, leg ticklers and more.
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January 7th, 2019, 22:20 Posted By: wraggster
Bomber Maxx, a traveling ride that was making the rounds in France, said to be a Fabbri Booster, failed in spectacular fashion when an explosion of sparks errupted out of the center axis of the ride, as caught on video in the Tweet below. A helicopter was called in to aid in the rescue of the riders from the top half of the ride on New Year’s Eve. I believe a firefighter / rescue worker was lifted up to the top of the ride by the helicopter, where he then rigged up a harness system to help lower the riders down one at a time to waiting rescue crews below on cranes.
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January 7th, 2019, 22:19 Posted By: wraggster
While we know 2019 is all about the new Tidal Twister ride, SeaWorld San Diego will also be celebrating the park’s 55th anniversary celebration that year with an assortment of other enhancements. According to a report at BehindTheThrills, this will include a special Celebration Weekend event from Mar. 21-24, new enhancements to the Rescue Plaza, special pass member events, upgrades to the entrance plaza to make security checks go more smoothly, a Sesame Street 50th Birthday Parade in the summer and an upgraded Electric Ocean sky show involving light-up drones in the sky over the park. For the last item, they say they are talking to Intel about it, who you might remember worked on other similar shows in Las Vegas and even Walt Disney World at one point, and they are calling it the BrilliantSea Sky Show.
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December 22nd, 2018, 21:33 Posted By: wraggster
The big news from Orlando today was that Disney purchased a 965 acre plot of land just south-east of Celebration for a cool $23 million. The area has been vacant and up for sale for a long time, known locally as the BK Ranch site. The big question is, what is Disney going to do with it? The answer isn’t quite as exciting as you think, since this is located on the other side of I-4 from the rest of Walt Disney World.
Rumor has it that Disney may be planning to the addition of this huge property to their own in order to simply leave it alone as a natural space as part of the ongoing land-swap game they have to play in Florida that requires a certain amount of land to be left untouched or used for “water management needs” for every acre that is developed. On the bright side, this also means that Disney is looking forward with long-term planning that will involve significant future growth within the existing Walt Disney World property. This isn’t the first time Disney has done this in Florida however, as it was just 2014 when they purchased a 3,000 acre site next to Walt Disney World known as Mira Lago that had been previously ear-marked for a housing project that failed to materialize. Instead Disney planned to restore the wetlands and natural landscape in exchange for being able to develop more of their previously existing property.
So who knows… with more land purchased, perhaps they are even thinking far ahead into the future at the concept of adding the long anticipated 5th park. Like the man said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
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December 22nd, 2018, 21:31 Posted By: wraggster
A new construction update for the upcoming Sesame Street land has been posted to OrlandoParkNews this week. As they point out, most of the old rides that are being kept have yet to any work done to them yet to give them a new Sesame Street theme. For now construction crews are focused on getting the new themed buildings and structures up.
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December 17th, 2018, 21:12 Posted By: wraggster
You may recall back in July we uncovered a few interesting new trademark filing from Universal that sounded very much like possible names for a new theme park. The names includes options for “Fantastic Worlds” as well as “Epic Universe”. Now the other day an interesting photo leaked out from some kind of presentation that put the name “Universal’s Fantastic Worlds” in large letters across one of the concept art pieces Universal has previously shown for Super Nintendo World. At the top of the screen, it also clearly says Universal Orlando Resort, so is it possible that Universal has settled upon this as the official name for the newest Orlando area theme park in development? The choice of graphics also seems to confirm the rumors that Super Nintendo World, once expected to go into the original Universal Studios Florida theme park, is being held on reserve for this new park instead when it appears in the US.
Of course until the official announcement comes, a lot can change of course, but until then, this gives us something to dream about.
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December 17th, 2018, 21:11 Posted By: wraggster
It may be time for Screamscape to hit the high seas in the near future, as Carnival Cruise Line just announced they are building what may be one of most exclusive coaster credits an enthusiast can claim to have with something called “Bolt”. Coming to the the Carnival “Mardi Gras” in 2020 will be the first ever roller coaster at sea! Where a normal purely gravity powered coaster would have difficulty dealing with the sway of the ship, Carnival have solved with problem through the use of the awesome looking “Spike” powered coaster system from Maurer Rides.
Riders will climb onto one of Bolt’s powered two-passenger motorcyle-like cars and gun the thottle up to 40mph though an 800 feet track full of twists, turns and drops, 187 feet in the air above sea-level. Bolt will even take riders for a spin around the Carnival vessel’s iconic shaped funnel atop the ship.
The Carnival Mardi Gras will be based in Port Canaveral, FL (the closest port to Orlando) and make use of a new state-of-the-art terminal building when it launches in 2020. The new Mardi Gras is also said to be the line’s first “XL-class” ship, and more details about other features that will be part of the Mardi Gras experience will be announced throughout the next year. A second XL-class ship will begin construction in 2020 and launch in 2022, though it has not been confirmed if it too will feature a “BOLT’ style coaster.
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December 17th, 2018, 21:10 Posted By: wraggster
A reader visiting the Magic Kingdom this weekend sent in a quick photo of a section of the railroad in front of the future Tron coaster site where the tracks have now been completely removed.
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December 17th, 2018, 21:07 Posted By: wraggster
A new aerial photos of the new Potter coaster posted to Twitter this weekend shows a train on the tracks, with the cars wrapped tightly in white plastic. While you can’t see the details, the trains are seven cars long, and if the Motocycle theme is true, and the shape does look a bit abnormal, then the cars will seat two across, so only 14 riders per train, compared to the 32 riders that fit in a Hulk coaster train, or the 24 that fit in the Gringotts trains.
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December 13th, 2018, 17:32 Posted By: wraggster
Adventureland will add a new coaster in 2019 called The Phoenix. The new $6 million steel coaster is expected to be up and running by June and will be located where Super Screamer and Inverter were previously located. Based on a Facebook post from the park, this will be Maurer compact spinning coaster, 50 feet tall and hitting speeds of 40mph.
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