News
What happened, and — more usefully — what it actually means.
Every news story here carries analysis: the technology behind the announcement, why the park chose it, and whether the manufacturer’s record justifies the hype. Forty sites will rewrite the press release. This is the other kind of coverage.
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Chessington's Escape the Nether Looks Like an Intamin Multi Dimension Coaster — Here's What That Means
Chessington's Minecraft coaster Escape the Nether is listed as an Intamin Multi Dimension Coaster. Here is what that ride system does, and what is still unconfirmed.
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Hot Beach Olímpia Orders a ProSlide Dueling Water Coaster for 2027: How a Water Jet Replaces the Lift Hill
Hot Beach Olímpia in Brazil will add a ProSlide Dueling RocketBLAST water coaster in 2027. What is confirmed, how jet propulsion works, and what 'first' really means.
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Nigloland's Supersonic 1887: a 47 m Mack Shuttle Coaster Due in 2027
Nigloland's Supersonic 1887 is a €18m Mack Rides shuttle coaster due in 2027. What the verified figures say, what sources dispute, and how a shuttle launch works.
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Energylandia Confirms Rokan: a 62 m B&M Wing Coaster for 2027
Energylandia has confirmed Rokan, a 62 m (203 ft) B&M wing coaster for 2027. Here is what the numbers mean, and how the park's 'tallest in Europe' claim holds up.
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O'Fun Park's First Roller Coaster, Mine Discovery, Is a Zamperla Family Coaster Due in May 2027
O'Fun Park in the Vendée will open Mine Discovery, a 155 m Zamperla family coaster, in May 2027. What the figures say, where sources disagree, and why a gentle first coaster matters.
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Paultons Park's Serpent's Curse: a Mack Water Coaster Due in 2027, and Why It Is Not a Log Flume
Paultons Park's Serpent's Curse is a custom Mack Rides water coaster due in 2027. What the figures say, what is unconfirmed, and what a water coaster actually is.
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Europa-Park's Euro-Mir Will Close in January 2027, to Be Replaced by a Mack Family Coaster
Europa-Park will retire Euro-Mir, its 1997 Mack spinning coaster, in January 2027. A space-themed family coaster from Mack Rides is due for 2028.
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Giant Revolution Opens at Lotte World Adventure Busan: Zamperla's First Double Heart Launch Coaster
Zamperla's first Double Heart coaster, Giant Revolution, opened in Busan on 8 October. What the 50 m, three-launch ride claims, what we could verify, and what 'compact' really buys.
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Mexico's BON Theme Park Opens to Resort Guests on 24 October, With Five Vekoma Rides Planned
VidantaWorld's BON soft-opens on 24 October for resort guests only, with capped crowds. What is confirmed, what Vekoma's Tecuani Beast claims, and what 'luxury' means for a theme park.
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Cacau Park's Dreams, a Vekoma Launch Coaster in Brazil, Has Given Its First Passenger Laps
Dreams, a 55 m Vekoma launch coaster with four inversions, has carried its first riders at Cacau Park near São Paulo. The specs, the sources that disagree, and what the records claim covers.
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Efteling's Ravenring Will Be the First Vekoma WaveCatcher, a Family Ride Where You Control the Swing
Efteling's Ravenring opens on 1 December as the first installation of Vekoma's WaveCatcher, a rotating flat ride with rider-controlled tilt. The specs, and what 'world's first' covers.
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Gröna Lund's Score! Will Be the First Ride to Use Vekoma's Radar-Guided DRX System
Gröna Lund's SEK 205m Score! dark ride opens in 2027 on Vekoma's DRX platform, which navigates by radar. What that means, and what 'world's first' really covers.
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Angry Octo Opens at Boudewijn Seapark: A 1995 Coaster on Its Fourth Park and Seventh Name
Boudewijn Seapark in Belgium has opened Angry Octo, a 1995 Pinfari coaster now on its fourth home and seventh name after Camelot, M&D's and Oakwood.
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Big Dipper Is Still Closed, Nine Weeks After a Timber Track Failure
Blackpool Pleasure Beach's 1923 Big Dipper remains shut nine weeks after a track failure — the engineering reason fixing a Grade II-listed wooden coaster properly takes months, not days.
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Intamin Acquires Simworx, the British Firm Behind Thorpe Park's Ghost Train, Out of Administration
Intamin's owner has bought Simworx, the UK motion-simulator specialist behind Thorpe Park's Derren Brown's Ghost Train, in a pre-pack deal after administration — its second British dark-ride buy in two years.
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The Patent Suit Over SeaWorld Orlando's Surf Coaster Is Over — and B&M Is Free to Build More
Vekoma's patent suit against B&M over Pipeline: The Surf Coaster's restraint has been dismissed with prejudice, clearing the legal cloud over any second surf coaster.
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Efteling's New SafeStrap Lets Riders Keep a Leg Prosthesis On for the Coaster
Efteling has launched SafeStrap, a TU Delft-developed strap that lets people with leg prostheses keep them secured through Baron 1898, Hooghmoed and its swing rides.
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Efteling Clears the Ground for Missie Luminar, Its €50 Million Suspended Launch Coaster
Efteling has begun clearing land for Missie Luminar, a €50m Vekoma suspended launch coaster due in 2029 — though it may not be the first of its kind to open.
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Energylandia Is Building a B&M Wing Coaster It Hasn't Announced
Construction photos show a Bolliger & Mabillard wing coaster taking shape at Poland's Energylandia, spotted by enthusiast trackers weeks before the park has said a word about it.
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Legoland Billund's Minifigure Speedway Stalls Mid-Circuit, Stranding 20 Riders for Nearly Three Hours
Minifigure Speedway at Legoland Billund stalled 10 metres up on 5 August, stranding 20 riders for nearly three hours until fire crews reached them.
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Djurs Sommerland Confirms Denmark's First Single-Rail Coaster, an Intamin Hot Racer for 2027
Djurs Sommerland has confirmed Midgårdsormen, an Intamin Hot Racer single-rail coaster for 2027 — Denmark's first, and only the second in Europe.
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Legoland Windsor Files Plans for a Mack Rides Spinning Coaster on the Viking River Splash Site
Planning documents show Legoland Windsor pursuing a Mack Rides Spinning Coaster, codenamed Project Dojo, on the old Viking River Splash plot — a third build of the ride that debuted in Korea.
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Wiegand Opens Falcon Fly, a Self-Powered Suspended Coaster, Above Montenegro's Bay of Kotor
Wiegand's Falcon Fly has opened at Lovćen National Park, Montenegro — a joystick-controlled Wie-Flyer coaster with no lift hill, no chain and no track below the rider.
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Tivoli Gardens Built Hikari, Its Largest Ever Themed Area, Around a 22-Year-Old B&M Coaster
Tivoli's 2,000 m² Hikari district opens in August 2026 built around a rethemed Dæmonen. The engineering, the economics, and why the 2004 B&M stayed put.
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Dønnervind Opens at Freizeitpark Plohn: the First Multi-Launch Water Coaster
Mack Rides' Dønnervind has opened at Germany's Freizeitpark Plohn — a €11.5m LSM multi-launch water coaster, and a genuinely new category with one asterisk.
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Toverland Replaces Its Bobsled Ride With a Coaster-Track 'Swinging Bobsled' This Winter
Toverland is replacing its bobsled ride with a coaster-track 'swinging bobsled' from ETF Ride Systems — a genuine new hybrid, opening winter 2026.
