If you’ve noticed, there have been some interesting developments with attractions associated with the Southern Confederacy of the United States. No matter where you stand, this marks an interesting time in the themed entertainment industry. And if you’re not familiar with these changes, let me get you up to speed. Over at King’s Dominion in
Six Flags Over Georgia has combined a virtual reality experience with a real-life roller coaster to create one of the world’s first fully interactive Virtual Reality Roller Coasters: Rage of the Gargoyles. The new attraction will run throughout October at Fright Fest and we got to be one of the first to test it out! The Victims Two crazy
I must have passed by this a million times but never gave it a second thought. Growing up, Six Flags Over Georgia was my home park and I visited several times a season. As a kid, you don’t stop and enjoy a park for the details as much as you try to cram in as
To celebrate their third year wedding anniversary on June 1st, 2015, Gina and Michael Rivera decided to go to Six Flags Over Georgia by buying season passes and riding roller coasters. “We wanted to do kind of a Ferris Bueler’s Day Off kind of thing where we went around town and did a few things,”
Growing up in a small town near Atlanta, my first theme parks memories all come from Six Flags Over Georgia as a kid. My first dark ride anywhere was Monster Plantation and it blew my 6-year-old mind apart. Six passenger boats floating along a canal past 107 animatronic characters. To this day it stands as
Six Flags Over Georgia unmasked its newest rides on Friday—the Joker Chaos Coaster and Harley Quinn Spinsanity—and Theme Park University got to be one of the first to try them out. After a brief welcoming ceremony and opening remarks, Park President Dale Kaetzel cut the ribbon signaling the duo’s grand opening. The Chaos Coaster’s
In what may be a world’s first, Universal Orlando started a test where guests went through metal detectors before entering the queue for Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit on March 25, 2015. While the test only lasted a few hours in the morning, it looks like the resort wants to make this permanent on Rockit and the Hulk coaster at
I am constantly surrounded by theme park fans who are relentlessly craving for more. Disney, Universal, Six Flags and Sea World should all be opening a new E-ticket attraction every six months, according to my fellow park junkies. The reality of the business is, theme parks come with a mountain of operating costs that the