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If anyone’s curious if any of the non-Six Flags B&M hypers have shut because of this, apparently Mako hasn’t opened yet today. Silver Star, Shambhala, and Hollywood Dream have all been running, however. Hersheypark’s closed on weekdays so jury’s out on Candymonium at the moment.

The Wild Swing epidemic has claimed its next victim reached Europa-Park, with the park today announcing multiple additions for the 2027 season to mitigate the closure of Euro-Mir before its replacement arrives in 2028. The Portugal area will receive a yet-unnamed ART Engineering Wild Swing XL...

Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind and Rock n Rollercoaster Starring the Muppets at Walt Disney World are both getting holiday overlays this year

The SoCal parks have always been on my bucket list and X2 was a large reason why when it comes to Magic Mountain in particular, especially given its prominent inclusion in one of my favorite video games ever, but I understand why they ultimately made this call. At least I’ll have Eejanaika to...

The height requirement has apparently been raised from 1.3m to 1.4m during the closure. https://www.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/s/Szn21RUyx9 The park website confirms this: https://www.parquewarner.com/en/experiencias/atracciones/Batman-Gotham-City-Escape

Gotham City Escape has reopened as of Friday evening. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdtiDVKsjjG/?stkn=ejdjYXBlaXgzbGJm

RMC has apparently changed its name to Rocky Mountain Coasters as opposed to ”Construction”. This has been made in conjunction with IAAPA Europe and the website url hasn’t been updated to reflect this change yet. https://rockymtnconstruction.com/

EQT Partners is reportedly preparing to sell off their majority stake in Parques Reunidos, with an asking price of €1.7 billion. Other theme park operators such as Merlin and Compagnie des Alps are apparently thought of as potential buyers. (source in Spanish)...

Lagoon will announce the Jet Star 2 replacement next week. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1K1ze3WkbK/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Toverland will be testing a free-to-enter/pay-per-ride model between November 28th and December 16th of this year. Visitors will be able to enter Toverland for free and buy a ”credit” for 2 euros each, with rides costing between 1 and 3 credits. Unlimited rides will be available with the...

Europa-Park will open for the 2027 season two weeks earlier than usual on March 7th, with the park testing the waters on a ”pre-opening” season with reduced entry prices. The park cautions that not all attractions are garanteed to be operating during this window, however, but which ones are at...

The front car of Durango was presented at IAAPA Europe today Source: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1LYjpYKhJQ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Speaking of Mack, they’re teaming up with Karl’s on a brand new attraction concept that will debut at IAAPA Europe this Tuesday.

Confirmed to be a Funtime observation tower named Buddenbrook-Turm, basically a successor to their old observation tower. Opening next year. https://www.hansapark.de/attraktion/276/details/neu-2027-buddenbrook-turm?language=de

A floorless coaster and an inverted coaster with stats identical to Patriot and Flight Deck have been spotted in a Six Flags passholder survey, suggesting there are plans to relocate at least some of the coasters from CGA once it closes. A single-rail coaster similar to RailBlazer was also...