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...

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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/x/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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[CrashCoaster]

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

 

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An event hall in Eifelpark in Germany caught fire Friday evening, causing significant damage to the structure valued up to half a million euros. Fortunately, no injuries were reported, and quick response from local emergency services prevented the fire from spreading to other attractions. The park reopened on Saturday as normal.

Evenementenhal in Duits pretpark afgebrand: half miljoen euro schade

Een grote hal in een Duits attractiepark is vrijdag in vlammen opgegaan. Omstreeks 17.00 uur brak brand uit in Sterndl Alm, een evenementenocatie in...

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[Lori Marie Loud]

May not be small (or recent). But apparently Six Flags has decided to give every last one of their trapdoor slides the axe.

("It" = Bonzai Pipelines at SFNE)

Bonzai Pipelines at SFA is already long gone, as is the slide of the same name at SFSTL (that one's cabanas now), and the Bonzai Pipelines at SFNE have been walled off and are likely to be removed shortly (along with Typhoon most likely, because that was seriously damaged in the same 2021 storm that sent Fireball to an early grave). Keep an eye on the rest of the SF trapdoor slide sites...

 

[Matt N]

Oh my, that’s unexpected!

Has there been some sort of incident or something involving a trapdoor slide that has spurred Six Flags to do this, as it seems odd to just systematically remove all of them at once without some kind of extrinsic motive to do so?

 

[Lori Marie Loud]

Oh my, that’s unexpected!

Has there been some sort of incident or something involving a trapdoor slide that has spurred Six Flags to do this, as it seems odd to just systematically remove all of them at once without some kind of extrinsic motive to do so?

Another post in that thread went along the lines of "Manufacturer said remove them all due to an accident". So yea

 

[Matt N]

Another post in that thread went along the lines of "Manufacturer said remove them all due to an accident". So yea

That’s odd… as far as I’ve heard, no other chains’ trapdoor slides have had the same problem.

 

[Lori Marie Loud]

Hey look Legoland California's doing a thing

https://www.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/comments/1738vat

(the two removals in question are likely Safari Trek and Fairy Tale Brook btw)

EDIT: Fairy Tale Brook isn't on the chopping block. Or at least this isn't replacing it.

EDIT 2: disregard above, FTB is outta here

 

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Unrestricted Park Hopper returns to the four Walt Disney World parks in January.

https://x.com/ScottGustin/status/1712060697503305792?s=20

 

[JoshC.]

Heide Park Resort (Official) on Instagram: "Im Heide Park Resort entstand gegen 14:30 Uhr ein lokal begrenzter Brand an der alten Verwaltung im Eingangsbereich. Etwa 100 Feuerwehrkräfte sind derzeit dabei den Brand in dem leerstehenden Gebäude zu lös

178 likes, 0 comments - heideparkresort on October 11, 2023: "Im Heide Park Resort entstand gegen 14:30 Uhr ein lokal begrenzter Brand an der alten Verwaltung ..."

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Small fire at Heide Park in an old office near the park entrance.

Firefighters are currently tackling it. No reported injury concerns but the park is being evacuated.

 

[Lukas D]

Hey look Legoland California's doing a thing

https://www.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/comments/1738vat

(the two removals in question are likely Safari Trek and Fairy Tale Brook btw)

EDIT: Fairy Tale Brook isn't on the chopping block. Or at least this isn't replacing it.

EDIT 2: disregard above, FTB is outta here

Interesting. Screamscape speculated here this might be the LEGO Factory Adventure Ride from New York (and Korea), but the stated hall is both significantly larger and a few meters taller than that ride. So might this fit a themed indoor coaster? Merlin are currently adding coasters to LEGOLAND parks all over their portfolio so it wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Lori Marie Loud]

SFGAm is giving some of Demon's rockwork the axe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/comments/17810jd

Apparently the rockwork was in awful state outside and in even worse state inside, but this development has kicked off a flurry of discussion stating the ride's going to be removed. I don't buy it. If it were on the chopping block it'd have been teased/announced already. As it stands it appears we're only losing Revolution and Mardi Gras Hangover (although Screamscape suggested the 2004 on that gravestone could actually represent King Chaos which MGH replaced so it may only be MGH, but more likely it's both).

 

[Matt N]

Sorry to double post, but it is being hinted on a Fright Nights gravestone that Thorpe Park may be retiring its infinity logo after this season:

https://www.facebook.com/thorpeparkmania/posts/821631229962734

I remember there being rumours of a logo change last closed season… could this be coming to fruition?