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/ September 12, 2026
Theme park news today is led by Six Flags Magic Mountain’s announcement of Thrill Glider, a new Vekoma-built coaster set to open in 2027 as a world-first ride category combining flying, motorbike, and suspended-coaster technology. Beyond today’s theme park news, the roundup also covers stadiums…
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/ August 16, 2026
Summit Plummet is the most famous water slide in America: a 120-foot free-fall body slide styled as a ski jump, dropping off the top of Mount Gushmore at Disney’s Blizzard Beach in Orlando. When it opened with the park on April 1, 1995, it was…
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/ July 30, 2026
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is the most popular ride at Magic Kingdom, and also one of the most misunderstood: it looks like a kiddie ride from the queue, then surprises first-timers with real drops, banked turns, and a cart that sways side to side like…
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/ June 25, 2026
Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened on Earth Day, April 22, 1998, at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. Spanning 580 acres, it was the largest theme park in the world at its debut, and it remains the only Disney park built around…
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/ June 24, 2026
EPCOT opened on October 1, 1982, as the second theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. Derived from Walt Disney’s original vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, the park was reimagined after his death as a permanent world’s fair…
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/ June 24, 2026
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is the movie- and Star Wars-themed quarter of Walt Disney World, built on 135 acres in Bay Lake, Florida, and split into seven distinct lands anchored by the roughly $1-billion Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. It opened on May 1, 1989, as Disney-MGM…
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/ June 23, 2026
Magic Kingdom opened on October 1, 1971, as the anchor park of Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. Modeled closely after Disneyland in Anaheim, the 107-acre park debuted with 23 attractions spread across six themed lands, welcoming guests with admission priced at $3.50…
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/ June 21, 2026
Theme park news this week was dominated by a world-record-shattering giga dive coaster inching toward its June 26 debut, a legendary wooden coaster rising from an extended closure, and Universal’s newest resort unveiling its first permanent nighttime spectacular. From Disney policy shifts to Halloween event…
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/ June 20, 2026
Magic Kingdom is the most kid-friendly of Walt Disney World’s four theme parks, but seven of its rides still have a minimum height a rider must clear before boarding — and one of those minimums just changed. When Big Thunder Mountain Railroad reopened on May…
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