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/ August 11, 2026
This list ranks the 25 longest roller coasters currently operating anywhere in the world, measured in feet of track length — not height, speed, or duration, though a longer layout usually means more time in the seat. It draws on ThrillZing’s own coaster database and
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/ August 10, 2026
Here are today’s 11 verified theme park & live event stories, covering Theme Parks & Roller Coasters, Stadiums & Arenas and Live Music & Venues. Every item below links to its original source. The TLDR Theme Parks & Roller Coasters Arnolds Park’s Mad Mouse Coaster
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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 8, 2026
Theme park news is led today by Six Flags, which launched its 2027 Season Pass sale alongside brand ambassador Travis Kelce at what the company calls the lowest price guests will see this year or next, while the Orlando Dreamers pitched a $975 million stadium
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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 11, 2026
Elitch Gardens is Denver’s 65-acre theme and water park, and one of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the United States, with roots stretching back to 1890. It’s also a park whose future has been in the news almost as much as its rides,
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tz
/ July 9, 2026
It's not just speed. From weightless airtime to blackout-inducing G-forces, here's what actually makes a coaster feel unstoppable — and why your brain believes every second of it.
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/ July 4, 2026
Flying Aces is the biplane-themed wing coaster that anchors the aviation corner of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin and opened to the public on February 24, 2016. As only the second wing coaster Intamin had ever produced, following Skyrush at Hersheypark,
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/ June 27, 2026
SeaWorld San Diego is the original park in the SeaWorld chain, opened on Mission Bay in 1964 and still evolving more than six decades later with new coasters, a redesigned aquarium wing, and a conservation-focused approach to its marine animal programs. This guide covers everything
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/ June 26, 2026
Shanghai Disneyland opened in 2016 as the newest, boldest castle park in the Disney portfolio — and it pushed the company’s imagineering to new heights. Built to blend Disney storytelling with Chinese culture, it features the largest castle Disney has ever built: the Enchanted Storybook
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/ June 26, 2026
When Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983, it became the first Disney park built outside the United States — and decades later, fans still argue it’s the best-run Disney park on Earth. Tucked into Urayasu just outside Tokyo, it pairs the familiar Magic Kingdom layout with
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/ June 25, 2026
Off-season theme park travel offers a dramatically different trip than a peak summer or holiday visit — different economics, different crowds, different weather, and a different list of things that can go wrong if you don’t plan around them. Most major North American parks run
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/ June 22, 2026
Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon is the storm-wrecked tropical paradise at Walt Disney World where a shrimp boat sits marooned atop a volcano, a wave pool churns out 6-foot swells, and a lazy river winds past waterfalls and mist-filled caves. It’s one of the largest and most
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/ June 6, 2026
When a roller coaster sends you upside down, you have just experienced an inversion — the defining element of every modern thrill coaster. From the weightless float of a zero-G roll to the sustained gut-punch of a pretzel loop, every inversion type is engineered to
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/ May 2, 2026
Traveling to theme parks on a budget doesn’t mean settling for a lesser experience. It means being strategic about where your money goes so you spend it on rides, shows, and memories instead of overpriced parking, marked-up hotel rooms, and $7 bottles of water. A
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tz
/ April 29, 2026
Haunted attractions and Halloween theme parks have evolved far beyond rubber masks and strobe lights. Today’s top events deploy Hollywood-quality prosthetics, immersive theatrical storytelling, scent machines pumping fog laced with the smell of decay, and actors who’ve trained for months to exploit your specific fears.
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/ April 20, 2026
Finding the best water parks in the United States for families means cutting through hundreds of options to find the ones that actually deliver — thrilling enough for teens, gentle enough for toddlers, comfortable enough for the adults keeping everyone happy. In 2026, the top
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/ April 20, 2026
Thrill news April 2026 kept fans glued to their feeds this week as Disney locked in a major coaster opening date, Six Flags unveiled record-shattering track stats, and the NBA playoffs tipped off with two blowout openers inside the loudest arenas in basketball. Whether you
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/ April 14, 2026
Amusement park, theme park, water park, carnival, and fair get thrown around like they’re interchangeable, but each one describes a genuinely different kind of day out. Get the amusement park vs theme park question wrong and you’ll show up expecting the wrong thing entirely —
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/ April 12, 2026
Roller coaster news April 2026 is packed this week — from Disney reopening a legendary ride to Lionel Messi christening a brand-new $1 billion stadium. Here’s every essential thrill ride, concert, and sports venue story you need to know from April 5-12, 2026. Roller Coasters
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