By Robert Niles: This summer's offering plenty to excite theme park fans. The two biggest theme park resorts in America will have completed major new themed lands, giving fans some great choices for their summer vacations. Over at Walt Disney World, the Mouse House will have completed its ambitious New Fantasyland at the end of the month, as the heart of that new land, the Snow White-themed Seven Dwarfs...
By Bryan Wawzenek: School�s almost out and summer�s almost here � which means that prime theme park season is about to begin. To get you roller coaster-ready, here�s a list of songs to add to your pre-park playlist. The 10 tunes below are all about specific theme parks, including some that are quite dear to the songwriters� hearts. None are jingles or soundtracks created for play inside the...
The California Grill at Disney's Contemporary Resort opened on this day in 1995, but if you haven’t been there lately, you might not recognize it....
Gringotts Bank sent out packages containing a very special invitation. ...
By Jeff Elliott : Universal Studios Singapore � Construction quietly has started behind Far Far Away Land. Robert and I agree that if anywhere in that park was going to get axed for a Harry Potter Land, it would be Shrek and friends. Not that we have heard anything, but could they quietly be starting on getting the boy wizard into the park? Busch Gardens Williamsburg � SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment...
By Robert Niles: An owl bumped into my front door this morning, and might have dropped the answer to the question theme park fans have been asking: When is the grand opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley? Let's open this! What's under there? Oooh, shiny wizard gold! But it's what lies within the envelope that might answer our question. It's the invitation from the Universal...
WESH 2's Amanda Ober explores Universal Orlando's newest ride, Escape From Gringotts. The new ride will be part of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter....
Disney's Hollywood Studios is preparing for Star Wars weekends and revealed some of the tastier sides of the event with video....
Enjoy eclectic culinary creations while sipping your favorite wine and listening to performances during Walt Disney World's Eat to the Beat concert series. ...
WESH 2's Amanda Ober explores Universal Orlando's newest ride, Escape From Gringotts. The new ride will be part of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter....
The centerpiece of the new Harry Potter-themed area at Universal Orlando Resort will take visitors into Gringotts bank to help retrieve a magical object and re-create a scene from the wildly popular book and movie series....
Adventure Island will be heating up the park with its summer celebration, Island Nights. ...
The TODAY Show is giving away a trip to Universal Orlando Resort and an invitation to Diagon Alley's Grand Opening. ...
By Robert Niles: Universal Orlando Resort Tuesday morning revealed more details about Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts , the centerpiece attraction at the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley land, opening soon at Universal Studios Florida. We first reported an overview of the story and effects on this new roller coaster dark ride in December 2011, and expanded upon that post...
By Russell Meyer: This new coaster tech series is going to look at the different major types of roller coasters around the world, and how they differ from other types and each other. This first piece will cover one of the most popular styles of roller coasters outside of standard �sit-down� coasters & #8212; namely, inverted roller coasters. Not to be confused with suspended coasters (such...
Today, we are looking at some of our favorite ways to create Disney Dining Traditions -- options you may enjoy so much they just might become a regular occurrence in your life....
By Jacob Sundstrom: In recent history, Six Flags has been trying to find new and exciting ways to get people into their theme parks. While Universal and Disney continue to raise their prices (without hurting attendance, I might add), Six Flags tries to keep the cost of entry low, as its plans to make its money once you get inside the park. It's not quite at the level of Spirit Airlines -- an airline...
By Jim Koehl: The area of Cedar Point known as the Gemini Midway has always been problematic. From the moment it was created it has basically been a wide, flat, open-aired boring hallway, connecting the original Midway with Frontier Town. One side is dominated by Gemini, a massive wooden coaster which was one of the tallest, fastest and steepest wooden racing coasters in the world when built in 1978,...
Walt Disney World is hiring 1,200 workers for a variety of jobs at its four theme parks, two water parks, the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Downtown Disney and more than 20 hotels....
By Robert Niles: Harry Potter and theme park fans can look forward to Monday, when Universal Orlando has promised to reveal new details about Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts on the new Universal Orlando blog . Of course, we told you all about the ride two and half years ago, when we first leaked its details on New Year's Eve 2011. Perhaps Universal will share the one little bit of detail...