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In an unexpected bit of news it seems Durban in South Africa will be getting its first coaster since the 80s After the old Durban Fun World park next to the beach closed in 2023 the site has been up for development and it seems a new park called Durban Amusement Park will open there in 2027...

As expected (next year is it's 20th anniversary) it has been announced the Colossus clone 10-Loop-Coaster at Chimelong Paradise will close this week. One of the earlier big Chinese coasters the ride jointly held the record with Colossus for most inversions...

In interesting news, Hopi Hari will Retrack their beautiful but rough as a bag of spanners in a washing machine RCCA woodie after the 2026 season. A manufacturer isn't explicitly mentioned apart from being from the USA but all the images in the announcement are RMC coasters The announcement...

In news that many of us will have seen coming a mile off it seems the grand Trans Studio Mini experiment in Indonesia has failed catastrophically and they are closing most if not all of their small mall based parks. (Trans Studio Mini and Kid City brands) Originally Transmart bought 40+ of...

Howdy All Tama Tech is a park that’s intrigued me for decades, I remember first coming across some of the rides in the early 2000s and being fascinated by the weird and wonderful rides. Having done so much research on it I felt it would be nice to collect the info and my musings somewhere. So...

Chinese Roller Coaster club Roller Coaster Dream are reporting that Happy Valley Shanghai will be recieving the 2nd B&M Surf Coaster for their new expansion. No more information just yet but it will add yet another solid coaster to a park with an already pretty great top 3.

Construction has begun on the new Jinma Swing Launch Coaster at Happy Valley Shenzhen. This replaces the original Vekoma Shenlin layout SLC which hit it's 20 year limit recently. Concept art Site plans Supports are now vertical. The plans don't show much about the elevation changes on...

The new inverted coaster from Jinma (ex Golden Horse) is officially the most insane thing I've seen this year. The new ride at Fantawild Ziyang uses the same box track used in their recent launched coaster and flyer models but also features a Finnish Loop with a tunnel This image of the...

It appears Chimelong Paradise one of the world's busiest amusement parks is about to expand. Adding a multitude of new flat rides and two new coasters. The first of the coasters is the most interesting, a Jinma built swing launch coaster which looks to be one of Jinmas more interesting recent...

Legoland Japan has announced an expansion for 2027 which looks like it will be very similar to the Legoland Korea expansion. The area will include a new Mack spinning coaster (Clone of Turbulance in Adventure Land New York), A ninjago dark ride, a Gerst Sky Fly, a couple of flat rides and...

Something a bit out of left field today It seems Mitsui Greenland in Japan will be adding a major new attraction for its 60th Anniversary in 2026 https://rcdb.com/4967.htm And the lesser known Hokkaido Greenland will also be adding something for its 40th Anniversary. https://rcdb.com/5176.htm...

Something a bit leftfield. But seems Noble Rides which is Jinmas's (i.e golden horse) European operation has sold a travelling inverted coaster to a showman in Germany. It appears it will be operated by Vorlop. https://www.vorlop.info/en/ Due to start operation in 2026 the ride features an...

I love finding something weird and this ticks all my boxes, This is the recently opened Roller Coaster at Gohar Park near Sirjan in Iran and it's like nothing I've seen before. Featuring B&M style box track, a vertical loop and a watersplash, the ride was built by Iranian company Shadi Sazan...

A new park for Brazil has been announced for 2027, The park called Cacau Park will be situated near Sao Paulo. The park is being built by Cacau Show which already owns at least one small indoor park in Brazil. And recently bought up the famous Brazilian Playcenter brand...

This one seems to have swept under the radar. Some detective work at park fans has dug up the plans for SFNEs new 2025 coaster and it seems like a decent addition for them. An Intamin family launch straddle coaster not unlike Juvelen, Jet Rescue and their ilk The ride will sit on the site...

Seems GCI has released a ton of new concept to a in the current issue of Amusement Today. And there's some doozys in there. As usual these are just concepts used to advertise to parks so I wouldn't necessarily expect to see these exact rides anywhere (with perhaps the exception of the compact...

Qiddiya the guys behind Six Flags Saudi and the ridiculous Falcons Flight have announced a new theme park themed to the Dragon Ball franchise. Not much else Is know at the moment but there's certainly a coaster in there https://www.arabnews.com/node/2481016/amp For reference this is...

Not theme park news as such as its an individual Ferris Wheel like the London Eye but its such an eye catching design that thought it was worth sharing. Standing at a rather tall 180m (590ft) and situated on top of a 40m (130ft) building the twin tracked "Seoul Twin Eye" has been unveiled as...

In one of the weirder bits of news recently, while starting construction of a new park in the Chinese city of Luoyang the ever busy Fantawild has uncovered hundreds of ancient tombs. Which as you might imagine has delayed the project somewhat. Local authorities are currently carrying out...

Looks like one of the Chinese firms is stepping up their game again. Take a look at the new Vertical Coaster model from Zhipao. Currently undergoing testing at Dinosaur Town in Qingzhen, China. The ride is 35m tall and 750m long, featuring 5 inversions (Loop, Zero-G-Roll, Cobra Roll and Inline...