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/ August 31, 2026
ZooParc de Beauval is a sprawling zoological park in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, in France’s Centre-Val de Loire region, founded in 1980 by Françoise Delord and now run by her son Rodolphe Delord. Over four decades it has grown from a small bird park into one of the
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/ August 31, 2026
Cedar Fair was an American regional amusement park operator headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio, formed in 1983 when the management of Cedar Point combined the historic lakefront park with Valleyfair, which it had acquired in 1978. The company traced its lineage to Cedar Point’s 1870 opening
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/ August 31, 2026
Jersey Devil Coaster is a single-rail steel roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, themed around the legendary creature said to haunt the nearby Pine Barrens. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction and designed by Alan Schilke, it opened to the
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/ August 31, 2026
Theme park news today centers on a stormy early shutdown at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, plus Aaron Donald’s surprise return from retirement to the Los Angeles Rams. Also in today’s theme park news roundup: Disney California Adventure’s Oogie Boogie Bash sells out every October date,
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/ August 31, 2026
Legion Field opened on November 19, 1927, in Birmingham, Alabama, and quickly earned the nickname “The Football Capital of the South” for the sheer volume of major college football it hosted. Over the decades it served as a home field for the Alabama Crimson Tide,
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/ August 31, 2026
Harvard Stadium has stood along the Charles River in Boston’s Allston neighborhood since 1903, making it the oldest stadium structure still in use for college football in the United States. Built for the Harvard Crimson, the horseshoe-shaped venue was also the nation’s first large permanent
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/ August 31, 2026
Central Park SummerStage turns Rumsey Playfield into New York City’s biggest free concert stage every summer, drawing genre-crossing lineups from jazz legends to breakout hip-hop and Latin acts without a ticket required most nights. Run by the nonprofit City Parks Foundation and now officially billed
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/ August 31, 2026
Forest Hills Stadium is an outdoor concert venue on the grounds of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. Built in 1923, the horseshoe-shaped stadium was originally constructed to host tennis, serving as the home of the U.S. National Championships
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/ August 31, 2026
Hellabrunn Zoo sits on the banks of the Isar River in Munich, Germany, and first opened to the public on August 1, 1911. Financial troubles tied to the aftermath of World War I forced it to close in 1922, but it reopened on May 23,
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/ August 31, 2026
Tierpark Berlin opened in 1955 in the Friedrichsfelde district of East Berlin, created as the divided city’s eastern counterpart to the Berlin Zoological Garden in the west. Built around the grounds of the 17th-century Friedrichsfelde Palace, the park was laid out using landscaping traditions dating
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/ August 31, 2026
Green Lantern was a stand-up roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, from 2011 until its closure after the 2024 season. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it sent riders through five inversions at speeds up to 63
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/ August 30, 2026
Mind Bender opened at Six Flags Over Georgia on March 31, 1978, and was marketed as the world’s first triple-loop roller coaster. Built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by engineer Werner Stengel, the steel sit-down coaster cost about $2.8 million and quickly became
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/ August 30, 2026
Grizzly is a wooden roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, that has been rattling through the park’s forested Old Virginia section since it opened on March 27, 1982. Designed by noted coaster engineer Curtis D. Summers, its double-figure-eight layout closely follows the blueprint
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/ August 30, 2026
How loud is a roller coaster? A packed NFL stadium? A sea lion at feeding time? Decibel levels shape every live experience we cover on ThrillZing — from the ear-splitting roar of a record-chasing crowd to the surprising hush of an aquarium gallery. This guide
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/ August 30, 2026
Theme park news takes center stage this Sunday, August 30, 2026, as demolition crews continue dismantling Islands of Adventure’s Lost Continent to make way for a future attraction, with the Poseidon’s Fury facade and the former Sindbad stunt arena already down and the nearby gift
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/ August 29, 2026
Stanford Stadium sits on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, and has served as the home of Stanford Cardinal football since it opened on November 19, 1921, with a Big Game matchup against rival California. The original horseshoe-shaped stadium was a massive concrete bowl
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/ August 29, 2026
Rossetti Architects was a Detroit-based architecture firm founded in 1969 by Gino Rossetti, initially focused on healthcare, corporate and retail work before pivoting toward large-scale sports and entertainment design. The firm’s breakthrough came in 1984, when it was hired to design The Palace of Auburn
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/ August 29, 2026
AECOM is a multinational infrastructure consulting firm, currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that ranks among the most prolific players in modern stadium and arena development. Formed in 1990, the company grew into a Fortune 500 engineering giant with roughly 51,000 employees worldwide, offering architecture, engineering,
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/ August 29, 2026
Cedar Fair Entertainment Company was one of the largest seasonal amusement park operators in North America, running iconic properties like Cedar Point and Dorney Park for four decades before merging into Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in 2024. The name still shows up constantly in park
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/ August 29, 2026
Compagnie des Alpes is a French leisure conglomerate founded on January 26, 1989, originally to consolidate and operate ski resorts across the French Alps. Headquartered in Paris and listed on Euronext Paris under the ticker CDA, the company’s leading shareholder is Caisse des Dépôts, the
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