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Tripsdrill's owners in a recent interview have shared that they are looking into options for adding a dark ride, either before or at the latest in 2029 for the park's 100th anniversary. Source The 2024 addition beside Volldampf appears to be a small flat ride, speculated online to perhaps be...

A 57 year old woman has tragically died from her injuries after falling out of the Gerst bobsled coaster in Germany's Freizeitpark Klotten. The park will remain closed tomorrow. No further details are known yet. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/pa…20090101-220806-99-299235

Phantasialand have removed the last mentions of Hollywood Tour completely from their website. Likely confirming its suspected end. The 1990 Intamin boat dark ride closed mid season in 2020 after an incident with water damage in the show building. Both the ride and Fantissima dinner show theatre...

A significant win for Phantasialand in their decades of fighting for an expansion. The NRW state government has at last agreed to sell to the park the land west of the park which has been the subject of the last 10 years of expansion debate. However before we celebrate too early - now the final...

Concerning rumours are circulating that Hansa Park are in discussions with international park groups about a possible sale. The owning family are neither confirming or denying it. https://www.looopings.nl/weblog/16543/Hansa-Park-wil-niet-ingaan-op-geruchten-over-mogelijke-verkoop.html

After Foodloop a few years ago Europa Park is working on a new world's first restaurant concept. Called 'Eatrenalin' it will be directly beside the resort Hotel Kronasar (opposite the Rulantica water park) and the VR midway attraction YULLBE. It is set to "combine gastronomic performance with...

Pictures from Gardaland Fan Page on Facebook show that track from the park's Vekoma looping coaster Shaman has been removed. Its unknown yet whether this is for maintenance, a retracking or complete removal of the ride.

Ravensburger Spieleland in south Germany, near Lake Konstanz, will be opening in 2021 a 90m long SBF Visa spinning coaster with 2 of those Hamster Wheel cars that were shown off at IAAPA last year. Source Certainly will be a bizarre and unique attraction for the park's first ever coaster...

Following 2017's Holiday Indoor (thread), which they now open in winter too so the park has some year round income, the next phase in Plopsa's development plan for Holiday Park has been retheming the park's 1984 rapids Donnerfluss. New for this year it has been themed as "Dino Splash" (as...

EDIT: Fake News! No rides are being removed before the 2019 season after all. Go to Page 6 for VR announcement. Could it be the end for Geister Rikscha at Phantasialand? The oldest ride in the park might be closing permanently at the end of the winter season this Sunday. Geister Rikscha is a...

Last month Screamscape reported on some new trademarks filed by Paultons Park. In this blog from Coaster Connection its reported that the park are relocating and rebuilding new and improved enclosures for their Pelicans and Flamingos. The former enclosure site is still fenced off with...

The Macks have announced a new project - a cable car is planned to be built from Europa Park in Germany across the Rhine river and into France. Connecting together Germany and France. The goal is to relieve the burden on the streets around Europa Park with the park's ever increasing visitor...

Supports and track are now being stored on site at Disney World for the Guardians coaster. Source Work the ride building continues with the side panels being added. The former Ellen building has been stripped for reuse as the station building. How the building might look when done based of...

According to these documents filed here Liseberg are planning a new dark ride for 2020. Will be interesting to see what they do. https://www.opic.com/upphandling/attraktion-2020-dark-ride-(liseberg-ab-goteborg)-aid9aeabafa7c202bf7d5494b4729fcf7ee/?p=1 http://screamscape.com/html/liseberg.htm...

Hansa Park have started teasing something new for 2019. "Something big is coming" To be announced 17th August. Not known yet if this will be a ride or something else. Although I think it would be odd to use the phase 'something big' if this isn't for a ride.

Legendia in Poland has started teasing a new attraction for 2020. CoasterFriends.de user Vince took these pictures yesterday showing the teaser signage. Seemingly some sort of water ride - flume, rapids, water coaster? A 2020 teaser has also appeared on the park map. The new attraction will be...

The hilly terrain and the way the park is built up with a lot of concrete makes it difficult to get an uniformly strong mobile reception through the park. After two years of planning of planning and coordination with three different service providers Phantasialand has installed a new hidden...

It seems Parques Reunidos is about to claim another victim... I mean acquire another park. ;) PR has started a merger process for the indirect acquisition of EVENT PARK GmbH, the operator of Belantis, at the Federal Cartel Office. If there are no major objections from the authorities the...

Bobbejaanland, the unloved child of Parques Reunidos, added VR to their indoor coaster Revolution in 2016. Now the park's next new addition this year will be: another VR coaster! Dreamcatcher, the oldest coaster in the park (Vekoma Suspended 1987), will receive wild west themed VR. As part of...

I came across this news article about Colin Glen Forest Park, near Belfast, and their plans to add an alpine coaster. The article doesn't outright call it an alpine coaster so I contacted the park to confirm it (their response was it will be like the Fforest Coaster in Wales). The coaster will...