American Adventures, the Atlanta area small amusement park in Marietta, GA, recently announced its closure via the park’s website.
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All Stories for ‘News’American Adventures posts closure noticeMonday, February 8th, 2010Kentucky Kingdom lease rejected, Park to closeThursday, February 4th, 2010
Carowinds’ Intimidator takes its first lapThursday, February 4th, 2010
Elvis favorite Zippin Pippin meets its endTuesday, February 2nd, 2010On Thursday crews began dismantling the Zippin Pippin rollercoaster at the former Libertyland amusement park in Memphis, TN. Work crews are clearing the land for redevelopment. Libertyland closed in October 2005. Zippin Pippin stood without maintenance exposed to the elements since then, rotting away. In November crews removed a small portion of the coaster ride to determine if it was salvageable. An expert told the city of Memphis that it would take millions of dollars to restore or rebuild the ride to bring it back to an operating condition. Mr. Six set to dance into Magic MountainThursday, January 28th, 2010
Coney Island amusement operator named by cityThursday, January 21st, 2010On Tuesday New York City officials chose an operator for the amusements section of Coney Island. The US subsidiary of the Italian rides firm Zamperla was chosen as the new amusement park operator. Zamperla USA was among several bidders for the project, others being Ripley’s Believe It or Not and the Steel Pier of Atlantic City, NJ. Cypress Gardens to transform into LegolandThursday, January 21st, 2010Merlin Entertainment, the new owner of Cypress Gardens have announced that the park will be changed into a Legoland like it’s sister parks in California and England. The park is not scheduled to open until the end of 2011. It will have about 40-50 attractions added into the park and has shaved years off of developing the park due to it already being used as an amusement park. The company will be pouring a few hundred million dollars into the park and expect it to open with some of the existing attractions. Merlin buys Cypress GardensSaturday, January 16th, 2010
Merlin Entertainments Group, owners of the Legoland parks, Madame Tussaud’s wax museums and the London Eye has purchased Cypress Gardens. Stratosphere to debut SkyJump, 855 free fall experienceMonday, January 11th, 2010Gamblers in Las Vegas will soon have the ability to take the fall off the 1,149-foot Stratosphere tower and hotel. The hotel that has made its name offering an observation tower with unique over the top thrill rides will add a 855 foot freefall experience called SkyJump Las Vegas. Thrill seekers will be able to take a controlled freefall from the top of Stratosphere tower to a landing platform located on the second level. SkyJump would join Big Shot, Insanity, and X-Scream at the top of the tower. Based on a similiar experience off the Auckland Sky Tower in New Zealand the $3 million SkyJump Las Vegas began construction this month. It is expected to debut in April with a rider cost of $100. Guide wires will keep riders from slamming into the concrete structure of the 100 story Stratosphere as they descend. Legoland California to open water parkMonday, January 11th, 2010Residents of southern California will soon have a new water park in their backyard. The world’s first Lego water park will open at Legoland California this June. The park will be situated on five and a half acres in the northern part of the park between the Adventurers’ Club and the Lego Factory Tour. |
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Today, Six Flags announced as it is moving through its restructuring process that it will reject the lease of Kentucky Kingdom from the Kentucky State Fair Board and that the park will close immediately.
Good news out of Charlotte has been somewhat hard to come by these days. With the financial fallout of Bank of America and Wachovia, which were both headquartered in the Queen City until Wells Fargo stepped in and bought Wachovia, the city has been reeling from the effects of numerous layoffs and cutbacks by the banks.
For several years the Coaster Wars raged between Cedar Point and Six Flags Magic Mountain. One park would always try to top the other in the design of their new ride and on top of that try and take the coveted title of the park with the most coasters in the world. Well, I guess you could say the war was just taking a ceasefire, as Six Flags has thrown down the gauntlet and added two coasters within two years.
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