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/ August 3, 2026
Kumba, one of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s signature roller coasters, took its final ride on Sunday, August 2, 2026, closing permanently after 33 years of operation. The Bolliger & Mabillard steel looper had been a Tampa Bay thrill-ride staple since it opened on April 21,
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/ July 31, 2026
Dollywood confirmed on July 29, 2026 that NightFlight Expedition, its most expensive attraction ever, will officially open to the public on August 19. Season pass holders get early access during previews from August 15-18. Billed as the world’s first indoor family hybrid coaster and whitewater
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/ July 29, 2026
Six Flags Great Adventure revealed the official name and details of its long-teased “Project Purple” coaster on July 28, 2026: Bakunawa, a 382-foot giga coaster the park says will claim six world records when it opens in 2027. Named for a sea serpent from Philippine
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/ July 25, 2026
UPDATE (July 28, 2026): The reveal is out — Project Purple is Bakunawa, a 382-foot spinning launch coaster claiming six world records, including the world’s first upside-down launch. Full details, teaser and official POV at the link. Six Flags Great Adventure released a second teaser
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/ July 17, 2026
Cedar Point shut its gates at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2026 — roughly three hours ahead of its typical peak-summer closing time — after smoke from hundreds of active Canadian wildfires pushed regional air quality to hazardous levels. The Sandusky, Ohio park, known
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/ July 16, 2026
Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park sits on about 65 acres along the Platte River in downtown Denver, Colorado, combining roughly 40 rides — including six roller coasters — with the adjacent 20-acre Island Kingdom Family Water Park. It’s one of the few U.S. amusement
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/ July 14, 2026
Europa-Park is a 95-hectare theme park in Rust, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, founded by Franz Mack and his son Roland and opened to its first visitors on July 12, 1975. Built as a showcase for the family’s ride-manufacturing business, Mack Rides, it grew from a modest site
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/ July 13, 2026
Phantasialand is a theme park in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that opened on April 30, 1967, founded by dollmaker Richard Schmidt and businessman Gottlieb Löffelhardt. What began as a puppet theater with a handful of boat rides has grown into one of Europe’s most densely
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/ July 13, 2026
Six Flags Over Texas opened Tormenta Rampaging Run this week, a Bolliger & Mabillard dive coaster that claims six world records and the distinction of being the first-ever “giga dive coaster” — a dive coaster standing between 300 and 399 feet tall. The ride officially
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/ July 12, 2026
Plopsaland De Panne is a family theme park in Adinkerke, part of the coastal municipality of De Panne in West Flanders, Belgium. Owned and operated by Plopsa, a division of Belgian media company Studio 100, the park is built around beloved Flemish children’s characters like
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/ July 12, 2026
Energylandia is a large amusement park in Zator, Poland, about 50 km west of Kraków. Opened on July 14, 2014, it expanded rapidly through the following decade, absorbing a neighboring water park and adding a string of headline-grabbing steel coasters that turned a modest regional
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/ July 12, 2026
Movie Park Germany is a film and television-themed amusement park in Bottrop-Kirchhellen, North Rhine-Westphalia, about 50 kilometers north of Düsseldorf. The site began life in 1967 as the fairytale-themed Kirchhellener Märchenwald before being redeveloped and reopened on June 30, 1996 as Warner Bros. Movie World
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/ July 12, 2026
Mirabilandia is a large amusement park located in Savio, a district of Ravenna in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region. Opened on 4 July 1992, it grew from a struggling regional attraction into the biggest theme park in Italy, covering roughly 850,000 square meters (about 210 acres) of
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/ July 12, 2026
Gardaland opened on July 19, 1975, in Castelnuovo del Garda near Lake Garda in northern Italy, becoming the country’s first major themed amusement park. Founded by entrepreneur Livio Furini and inspired by parks like Disneyland, it grew from a modest opening into Italy’s most visited
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/ July 12, 2026
Parc Astérix opened on April 30, 1989, in Plailly, roughly 35 kilometers northeast of Paris, built around the beloved Asterix comic book universe created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Spanning about 34 hectares (83 acres) and operated by Compagnie des Alpes, the park blends
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/ July 12, 2026
PortAventura World is a sprawling theme park resort on Spain’s Costa Daurada, straddling the towns of Salou and Vila-seca in Catalonia. It opened as PortAventura Park on May 1, 1995, and has since grown into a three-park destination — PortAventura Park, Ferrari Land, and the
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/ July 12, 2026
Blackpool Pleasure Beach is a seaside amusement park on the South Shore of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, founded in 1896 by American showman W. G. Bean and John Outhwaite. More than a century later it remains one of Britain’s most visited attractions, drawing millions of guests
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/ July 11, 2026
Nickelodeon Universe is the indoor theme park built into the center of Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Spread across roughly 7 acres of climate-controlled space, it packs in more than two dozen rides and attractions, meaning it runs at full capacity regardless of the
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/ July 11, 2026
Castles N’ Coasters is a family amusement park on North Metro Parkway East in Phoenix, Arizona, built around a Middle-Eastern-themed castle motif with several other design eras woven into its four miniature golf courses. The park traces back to 1976, when it opened as a
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/ July 11, 2026
Morey’s Piers has been a fixture on the Wildwood boardwalk since 1969, when brothers Bill and Will Morey Sr. purchased two boardwalk lots in North Wildwood and opened a single attraction: a 40-foot fiberglass slide called the Wipe Out, where riders paid a quarter to
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