Small News From The Theme Park Industry

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Terra Magma at Bobbejaanland is currently closed after multiple employees working on the ride fell ill from a suspected bacterial infection. The park says they've done checks on humidity and temperature levels inside the building but found nothing out of the ordinary, but any bacteriological tests will have to be carried out by an external company, hence the park closing the ride as a precaution until such tests can be carried out in the coming days. There have been no reports as of yet of any guests falling ill.

Bobbejaanland sluit waterattractie Terra Magma uit voorzorg na onwelwordingen

Bobbejaanland heeft de overdekte waterbaan Terra Magma uit voorzorg gesloten. Zondagmiddag werden even voor 17.00 uur twee medewerkers van de attractie onwel. Het management heeft toen besloten om de recent vernieuwde publiekstrekker voor de...

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[Hyde]

Figured this was the right spot for this, given it’s for small people! RMC had some fun DMing snippet photos to various coaster community channels (CF being one of theme), which come together to show a rendering of their family coaster. I’m sure we’ll get to discuss in more detail once one of these is built by a park!

https://x.com/rockymtnconst/status/1691837265520267608?s=46&t=Iv0WdWX8PAOjqCaXagc4qA

 

[ECG]

...I honestly look forward to the day Elitch shuts down and they build condos or something else there. Denver should have a park somewhere out east of the city...

Looks like your wish will partially come true. Elitch isn't shutting down, but is moving to a new location in Colorado (possibly Aurora) to make space for a new downtown Denver development project.

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[Knortie307]

https://www.looopings.nl/weblog/232...wt-nu-ook-darkrides-met-hangende-gondels.html

Vekoma is now selling suspended darkrides. More attractiontypes are comming i heard from internal sources.

 

[embean01]

I just spotted how much Disney have increased prices for Genie+

This was around $15 a day in 2022 - what the heck! Disney really are taking the Mickey…

Edit - apparently this might be seasonal surge pricing? Regardless, mad dollar.

Glad i got to go in may when it was still one solid fee. It is more expensive but still not unreasonable, especially compared to the price of other park’s skip the line passes. Disappointing though.

 

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Looks like the song selection on Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit has been reduced to a single track per genre. The hidden selection seems to still be active, however.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1696599719198281899

 

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Kennywood has announced that the last rides of the season on Racer will be tomorrow, Saturday, September 15th, before the wooden dueling coaster undergoes retracking as part of a multi-year project this fall for the amusement park's preservation program. The park says a team of carpenters, electricians and maintenance technicians will work on replacing more than 1,000 feet of track. Having worked with the park's maintenance team many times over the years, I'm assuming this will be an in-house project.
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Black Mamba at Phantasialand is back open after being down since late August due to an alleged structural weakness at the bottom of the loop. Track and supports in that section were apparently replaced.

Phantasialand heropent Black Mamba na vervangen baandeel

Black Mamba in Phantasialand is weer operationeel. De afgelopen weken was de populaire inverted coaster gesloten vanwege een spoedreparatie. Een...

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Black Mamba at Phantasialand is back open after being down since late August due to an alleged structural weakness at the bottom of the loop. Track and supports in that section were apparently replaced.

Phantasialand heropent Black Mamba na vervangen baandeel

Black Mamba in Phantasialand is weer operationeel. De afgelopen weken was de populaire inverted coaster gesloten vanwege een spoedreparatie. Een...

www.looopings.nl

Yeah I'm not gonna be getting over the fact it spited me by a few days anytime soon.