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/ August 10, 2026
KeyBank Center is a multipurpose arena in downtown Buffalo, New York, that has served as the home rink of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres since it opened on September 21, 1996. Built to replace the aging Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, the arena sits at 1 Seymour H.
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/ August 10, 2026
Tucked into the foothills of the Wasatch Range at the mouth of Red Butte Canyon, the Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre is the outdoor concert venue of Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, a 100-acre botanical garden operated by the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
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/ August 10, 2026
Meadow Brook Amphitheatre is an outdoor concert venue on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, about 25 miles north of Detroit. Opened in 1964 on land once part of the Meadow Brook estate of automotive pioneer John Dodge, the venue combines a
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/ August 10, 2026
Britt Pavilion is an open-air amphitheater tucked into a pine- and madrone-covered hillside in Jacksonville, Oregon, on the former estate of 19th-century photographer Peter Britt. The site’s natural bowl shape and clear acoustics made it a magnet for music long before any formal stage existed
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/ August 10, 2026
The Lisbon Oceanarium, known locally as Oceanário de Lisboa, opened in 1998 as the centerpiece of the Expo ’98 world’s fair and has since grown into one of the largest indoor aquariums in Europe. Built on a pier in an artificial lagoon within Parque das
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/ August 10, 2026
Chimelong Ocean Kingdom opened on March 29, 2014, on Hengqin Island in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China, as the marine-life centerpiece of the sprawling Chimelong Ocean Kingdom Resort. Designed by PGAV Destinations and built for its first phase, the park set five Guinness World Records on
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/ August 10, 2026
Ocean Park Hong Kong opened on January 10, 1977, on the southern coast of Hong Kong Island in Wong Chuk Hang, making it the territory’s second-oldest theme park. Spread across roughly 226 acres (91.5 hectares) of hillside and waterfront, the park splits into a Waterfront
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/ August 10, 2026
The Joker is a steel hybrid roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. It opened on May 29, 2016, after Rocky Mountain Construction reworked the wooden coaster Roar, welding its signature I-Box steel track onto Roar’s original support structure to create an
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/ August 10, 2026
Wildfire is a steel Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The $14 million ride opened to the public on April 4, 2001, and was designed by Werner Stengel’s engineering firm, giving the Ozark Mountains theme park its first major
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/ August 9, 2026
Theme park news for Sunday, August 9, 2026 is led by a permanent Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza restaurant confirmed for American Dream in 2027, plus Disney’s new TikTok creator partnership on Disney+ following the collapse of its $1 billion OpenAI deal. Also in today’s roundup: a
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/ August 9, 2026
Nationwide Arena is the downtown Columbus, Ohio home of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, and one of the few U.S. major-league arenas built with its own attached practice rink. Since opening in 2000, it has anchored the surrounding Arena District and hosted everything from an
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/ August 9, 2026
Isleta Amphitheater is the name most Albuquerque concertgoers still use for the city’s largest outdoor concert venue, even though the sign out front now reads something else. Set in the Mesa del Sol development on the south side of town, it has hosted everyone from
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/ August 9, 2026
If you’re trying to figure out how many people the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre holds, or you’ve heard fans call it by five other names and want to know why, this guide covers both in full. The venue on the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm
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/ August 9, 2026
Alpine Valley Music Theatre is a 30,000-capacity outdoor amphitheater on County Highway D in East Troy, Wisconsin, built in 1977 within the Alpine Valley ski resort. Boz Scaggs christened the venue with its inaugural concert on June 30, 1977, and for over a decade it
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/ August 9, 2026
Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo opened on November 4, 2008, inside the Dubai Mall, instantly becoming one of the largest suspended aquariums on Earth. Its centerpiece is a viewing panel that once set a Guinness World Record as the largest acrylic panel ever made, measuring
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/ August 9, 2026
This list ranks currently operating roller coasters by top speed in miles per hour, the number posted at each coaster’s fastest point on the track, whether that’s off a launch or at the bottom of a first drop. It spans hydraulic-launch sprinters, magnetic-launch coasters, and
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/ August 9, 2026
The New York Aquarium sits along the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn, where it has operated since relocating there in 1957. Originally opened on December 10, 1896, at Castle Garden in Battery Park, it holds the distinction of being the oldest continually operating aquarium
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/ August 9, 2026
Blue Streak is a classic wooden roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, and it holds the distinction of being the oldest roller coaster still operating at the park. Built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company and designed by John C. Allen and Frank F.
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/ August 9, 2026
Scorpion was a steel looping roller coaster that opened on May 16, 1980, at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. Built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf with engineering from Werner Stengel’s design firm, it arrived as part of the park’s Timbuktu section during a
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/ August 8, 2026
This list ranks currently operating roller coasters by their peak g-force — the maximum force riders feel pressed into their seat or harness at any single point on the ride, measured in multiples of Earth’s gravity (g). It’s a different metric than speed or height:
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