Monthly Archives: November 2008

New Age Retro Looper

Holy crap, this off season isn’t even a month old and I’m already in ‘theme park withdrawl.’ There’s not a coaster or flatride in site for quite some time unless I spring for an impromptu visit to Florida or So Cal. Then again I could always just do it the virtual way…wait that sounded kind […]

The Coney Island land grab, buy back saga continues with the Bloomberg administration looking to purchase 10.5 acres of property in Coney Island…property that Thor Equities owns. Devloper Joe Sitt is said to be “ready to give up” on his plans to make his properties into gigantic casinos, malls, condos, and whatever else he had […]

Mr. Freeze to Stay Blue

Aw, poor Mr. Freeze, he’s so blue and will continue to be that way. No wait, that’s good! Screamscape is reporting that Six Flags St’ Louis’ Mr Freeze will be repainted blue/blue instead of the red track/blue support color scheme that the Six Flags over Texas now sports. It makes sense I guess, I mean […]

DoD3 Host Switch

For quite some time now the Domain of Death 3 was hosted on a free account at Byethost.com. I’ll admit, for a free host they were pretty good with generous space/bandwidth allotment on their free accounts. However today my account over at Byethost was suspended, probably due to some scripting taking a dump and eating […]

Dorney Wasting No Time with Laser

News Plus Notes is reporting that the deconstruction of Dorney Park’s Schwarzkopf manufactured Laser coaster is well underway. Dorney Park sold the Laser to showmen Thomas Meyer and Theo Rosenzweig who will continue to operate the coaster on the German funfair circuit. Considering that the ride was designed as a portable coaster, it really shouldn’t […]