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    Qiddiya Announces Dragon Ball Theme Park

    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...
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    Seoul Unveils Insane New Ferris Wheel Design

    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...
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    Fantawild Project Delayed After Finding Hundreds Of Ancient Tombs Within Construction Site

    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...
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    Zhipao New Vertical Coaster Debuts

    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...
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    Does China Have An Enforced 20 Year Service Life On It's Coasters?

    Note: Before we dive in I dont have a conclusive answer for this but its been an interesting bit of research for me so thought I'd put some notes down on here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This has been an...
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    Yomiruiland Jewellumination

    Bit of a left field post here but i always feel this is somethings that relatively unknown (and should be more known about) and it's also something that is so high on my theme park bucket list I should shout about it more. Yomiuriland in Tokyo has started their annual Illumination event, Called...
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    Legend Land - Croatia

    This can probably be filed under the never gonna happen section of new parks but worth a thread anyway Legend Land is a new park announced for Zagreb in Croatia. The list of rides in the website is genuinely insane including and Intamin LSM, a hyper coaster and yes an actual Aquatrax...
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    Futuroscope | Mission Bermuda | Mack Rocking Boat Ride | 2024

    Seems this has gone a bit under the radar. But Futuroscope have announced their 2024 ride as the first installation of Macks interesting looking rocking boat ride system. The ride called Mission Bermuda will have a number of show scenes and I guess by the long straight section a proper drop...
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    Happy Valley Shenzhen Expansion Announced

    The original Happy Valley park located in Shenzhen has announced a large expansion of the park. This continues the recent renovation of the wild west area and replacement of their mine train coaster (and closure of their aging SLC) The area themed to an IP I have no idea about which appears to...
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    Asian Odyssey - Part 2 - Dragon Park Vietnam

    I've recently been going through some old photo and realised i never posted a TR. So 4 years late here is my Pre Covid trip around Asia. Park 1: Happy Valley Beijing The main reason to fly out to Asia was to go and visit some friends. My old uni housemate was at the time serving in the British...
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    Chimelong Qingyuan International Forest Resort | China | Theme Park

    Anyone remember those insane concept art images of a giraffe hotel meant for Chimelong's 3rd park heading to Qingyuan north of Guangzhou? Well like many Chinese parks this one had a 2021 opening planned that silently slipped away with no news. I believe what actually happened is the delay with...
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    Japan's Many Expo's And Their Coasters

    Japan has an interesting history of hosting huge world and local expositions over the years. Many of which hosted small amusement parks with coasters. It's something we did in the UK way back at the start of the 20th century with numerous Scenic Railway type rides going from those Expos to...
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    The Mukaab - 360° Cinema The Size Of The Empire State Building

    Wasnt sure if this should go on a coaster forum, however it is basically a giant stand alone amusement park attraction and its pure ridiculousness needed talking about 🤣 Not content with just a few giant mega projects that will stall half way through and become huge white elephants sat empty...
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    OCT Dinosaur Dream Works| China | Huangshi

    Some concept art and construction photos from a new park by OCT, the owners of the Happy Valley and Visionland parks in China. This is Dinosaur Dream Works (恐龙梦工厂) in Huangshi and the concept art shows a new...
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    Megafobia Retracked.

    Looks like Megaphobia is getting a lot of retracking this off season with 40% of the ride being redone by the Gravity Group The first and second drop will be redone and reprofiled with the 1st drop becoming steeper as a result...
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    Playland (Vancouver) | Thundervolt | Zamperla/Intamin Launched Coaster | 2024

    Big update from PNE Playland in Vancouver, Canada today that they'll be adding a new Zamperla launched coaster Watch through the live feed here. https://fb.watch/gB574lBCFt/ A couple of screen grabs from the video (at an oblique angle) The coaster in the video however is clearly Senzafiato...
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    Blackgang Chine To Close Cliffhanger Coaster

    Sounds like the Cliffhanger Coaster at Blackgang Chine is on its way out. But in good news it sounds like it will be replaced by something new next year. Dominic Wray, Parks Director, has said: “Cliffhanger has thrilled guests for almost 20 years, providing a new level of themed attraction...
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    Accident On Coaster At Royal Melbourne Show.

    Theres been an accident on a small coaster called the Rebel Roller Coaster at the Royal Melbourne Show down in Australia. The Revel Roller Coaster is a small zyclone style coaster that travels around the country. Sounds like its the type of accident we've all heard about 100 times where someone...
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    Storms Hit Italian Ferris Wheel.

    Not much else to say when the title says it all. I'm unsure of the location of the wheel beyond Piombino but this looks a little mad. https://fb.watch/e_cbsQ7EYP/
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    Most Used Words In Roller Coaster Names

    I got bored again and bored me usually leads to something dumb. Here is a word cloud of every single word in every single coaster name on the RCDB. The full zoomable and scrollable image can be seen here (it was WAY too big to upload here) I have removed the word "Unknown" from the cloud...
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