While we are a roller coaster website, sometimes you need a good boat ride at a theme park to take a break. In fact, the slow moving boat ride is one of our favorite attraction types. There’s just something about...
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Sally Dark Rides and Daniels Wood Land Team Up for Treasure Hunt: The Ride
Mere minutes after the announcement of Volkanu for Lost Island Theme Park in Iowa, Sally Dark Rides, a leading creator of family ride experiences, along with the themed fabrication experts at Daniels Wood Land, announced a partnership after unveiling first...
Continue reading...Model Coasters and Homemade Haunts with Eric Roberts – Part 2
Earlier we talked with Eric Roberts about his awesome working model roller coaster. In that interview, he mentioned he creates his own Halloween dark ride with automated vehicles. We just had to learn more and Eric went into so much...
Continue reading...A New Take on the Old Mill
In a very odd year for amusement parks and openings, the hype for new attractions has sort of dwindled with the times. We have seen new-for-2020 attractions put on hold or even become new-for-2021 attractions. Some rides we have seen...
Continue reading...4 Reasons Why Reese’s Cupfusion is Our New Favorite Dark Ride Shooter
In 2019, Hersheypark debuted an all new Sally dark ride shooter, Reese’s Cupfusion, which replaced their Reese’s Xtreme Cup Challenge. While competitive scoring is still the basis of the ride, Cupfusion provided a much needed update to the 13 year...
Continue reading...Disneyland is Refurbishing Snow White’s Scary Adventures, and Just Shared Details
Disneyland officially announced that they are refurbishing one of their classic dark rides next year, Snow White’s Scary Adventures. The Disney Parks blog announced that Disneyland plans to update the ride “with new magic inside and out in 2020.” Snow White’s...
Continue reading...Bear-y Tales is Returning to Knott’s Berry Farm!
Knott’s Bear-y Tales Returns! Knott’s Berry Farm released a bunch of exciting news and dates today. The most exciting of those is that Knott’s revealed what was hinted at last month. The Knott’s Bear-y Tales story is returning in a...
Continue reading...Creating The Old Mill, Carnegie Mellon’s Student Built Dark Ride
While attending SITE OSU last month, we connected with students in themed entertainment from all over the country and learned about the incredible projects they’re working on. Maybe the most ambitious project we heard about was The Old Mill. Led...
Continue reading...Is Google Getting into the Theme Park Business?
Is Google getting into the theme park business? No, not really (at least not yet), but the company DID build a dark ride for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (CES) this year. The ride is a real life...
Continue reading...Sally Corporation Announces Sesame Street Dark Ride for Port Aventura
Sally Corporation, the dark ride specialists of Jacksonville, FL, along with PortAventura World, the largest Mediterranean family destination resort, and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, announced a new dark ride for 2019. The new attraction will...
Continue reading...Is Sub Sea Systems’ Aquaticar the Next Great Dark Ride Concept?
For more than 30 years, the family-owned Sub Sea Systems has been a world leader in innovative products and underwater experiences for the marine tourism industry. Last month, at the IAAPA Expo in Orlando, Florida, Sub Sea unveiled their newest...
Continue reading...How Sally Corp is Bringing Top End Dark Rides to Regional Parks – Interview with John Wood and Rich Hill
On July 12 (ie. tomorrow), Six Flags Magic Mountain is opening the latest of their “Justice League: Battle For Metropolis” 4-D interactive dark rides (EDIT: The ride is now open, tell us what you think!), the seventh in the park...
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