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The Trick To Making A Truly Spectacular Roller Coaster
Larry Chikola shared some insight about roller coaster design in an interview with the WSJ. Chikola, who masterminded the prize-winning $10 million redesign of Six Flag's Texas Giant, starts by...
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This German Theme Park Used To Be A Nuclear Power Plant
Wunderland Kalkar in West Germany has all the gimmicks of your standard amusement park: a roller coaster, a flying elephant ride, and merry-go-rounds. There's just one difference. The kid-friendly...
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Japan Is So Obsessed With Hello Kitty, It Has An Entire Theme Park Devoted To...
Cartoon characters may rise and fall in popularity, but one--Sanrio's Hello Kitty--seems to have the sort of staying power marketers can only dream of. Hello Kitty, who was "born" in 1974 when she was...
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France Plans 'Napoleonland' Amusement Park To Boost Tourism
Would you go to an amusement park where you could watch battle reenactments and ski through a mock battlefield strewn with carcasses? A French politician seems to think so. “Napoleonland” is the...
View ArticleThese Roller Coasters Don't Need Tracks To Fly Through The Streets Of Buenos...
Film director and visual effects artist Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films created this awesome video which shows roller coasters whipping through the air on invisible tracks above the streets of...
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A New British Roller Coaster Is So Extreme That Test Dummies Returned From A...
A new roller coaster about to open at Britain's Thorpe Park twists and turns so violently that the crash dummies on a recent test returned without limbs, according to USA Today. The dummies returned...
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Disney World Closes Obesity Exhibit Because It's Hurtful To Fat Kids
After an unofficial opening last month, Disney World has closed its Epcot exhibit on childhood obesity following harsh criticism, Marni Jameson of the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Habit Heroes...
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An Eerie Tour Of Coney Island Before It Opens
On April Fool's day, Coney Island will open and welcome in its first wave of visitors for the 2012 season. We got a chance to see it in the eerie off-season, when the tourists are gone and the sea...
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Tour An Exact Replica Of Dutch Village That's Located Smack In The Middle Of...
From swimming swans to looming windmills, Huis Ten Bosch looks like a classic village in The Netherlands. There's just one key difference—it's not on the outskirts of Amsterdam, it's located on a...
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The Oppressive Economy Of Six Flags
While I know next-to-nothing nothing about economics, I do know that after going to Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey this weekend, the free market can be a cold and unforgiving arbiter of pain....
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Detroit's Abandoned Neighborhoods Could Become A Theme Park
Perhaps all this talk about bridging the income gap in America is focusing on the wrong things. Rather than open a farmer's market, grocery chain or retail bank, the real solution might be to convert...
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DreamWorks Announces Indoor Theme Park In New Jersey
It looks like Disney and Universal Studios will have some competition soon, as competing Hollywood studio, DreamWorks, is throwing its hat into the amusement park ring. The studio behind such...
View ArticleChinese Theme Park Offers Discount For Women In Short Skirts
A theme park in southern China is holding the kind of event that would never fly in the US. Guilin Merryland Resort is offering a half-price discount to women wearing skirts shorter than 38...
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15 Of The World's Most Extreme Waterslides
As you speed along the ship’s top-deck raft ride, waves break at the ocean’s surface 150 feet below. It’s an acrophobe’s nightmare—and could be the most thrilling moment of your next cruise vacation....
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An Ohio Couple Built Their Own 12-Foot Backyard Rollercoaster
The video: Jon and Natasha Cain of Lancaster, Ohio, are vying for the title of Best Parents in America, thanks to a little something they built in their backyard for daughter Olyvia and son Samual: A...
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These Are The World's Most Popular Theme Parks
Four decades after opening—and transforming Orlando—the Magic Kingdom is still the No. 1 most popular theme park, working its pixie-dust charm on more than 17 million annual visitors. Yet Mickey Mouse...
View ArticleSouth Korea Is Opening The World's First Toilet Theme Park
If you have not yet made vacation plans for the coming year, the city of Suwon in South Korea would like you to consider a visit to their new Restroom Cultural Park, also known as the “World’s First...
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Tour The Legendary Danish Amusement Park That Inspired Disneyland
Walt Disney had a dream of creating a "great, great playground for the children and families of America."He traveled to Tivoli Gardens, one of the world's oldest amusement parks located in the middle...
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There Was A Big Expansion At Disney's Fantasyland
Magic Kingdom has added a forest to Fantasyland, doubling its size and reorganizing it into two mini-lands with polished charm, color, music, storytelling, long-lashed cuteness and talking critters, be...
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Stunning Aerial Photos Of Florida's Amusement Parks
It's one thing to experience Florida's amusement parks from the ground — crowds, noise, and all.Photographer Jason Hawkes gives us another perspective, looking at Universal Studios, Disney's Typhoon...
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