On Tuesday the Green Bay city council approved the purchase of the Zippin Pippin coaster. By a vote of 7-4 the council approved the purchase for the rights to the wooden coaster famous for being Elvis Presley’s favorite in the city of Memphis, TN.
Officials are hopeful the ride will debut in about 15 months. About $10 thousand will be paid for the name, history, and rights to the ride while the new materials and construction of the wooden coaster at Green Bay’s Beach Bay Amusement Park will bring the total project to about a $3 million price tag.
Texas Giant at Six Flags Over Texas will have an all-steel track when it opens for the 2011 season. The hybrid wood-steel coaster also will be 10 feet taller and have a 79-degree drop, the steepest on a wooden coaster. The new track will give a smoother ride, and the track will have the ability to bank at 95 degrees, the steepest banking on a wooden coaster.
A veteran SeaWorld Orlando trainer died during an accident at SeaWorld’s Shamu Stadium.
Only weeks after Six Flags announced that Kentucky Kingdom would not be reopening, Kentucky state officials have filed a lawsuit against Six Flags.
Fire burned a toy store and other shops at Adventureland in Iowa Saturday. No one was hurt in the blaze near the front entrance of the park.
In 2010, Six Flags is rolling out a new rewards system for season pass holders called the “Season Pass Funatics Rewards Program”.
Waldameer Park is adding a $500,000 addition for this year, but you won’t be able to take a spin on this new investment. The park is going cashless and introducing its own currency: “Wally Points”.
While Alton Towers was changing its Maurer Sohne spinning coaster from Spinball Whizzer to Sonic Spinball, a pesky squirrel hopped on during test runs and enjoyed itself.