Theme Parks

San Diego, CA---I have been on four roller coaster rides in my lifetime. Once as a teenager at White City Park in my hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts, another on the Matterhorn at Disneyland when I didn’t know any better, another at Magic Mountain ...  

About a month ago, I put out the call to our Disney Fans, asking them to share photos that they felt captured their experiences of romance in their favorite place, Walt Disney World.  With such a wide variety of  places that couples and ...  

Just weeks after her husband's policy speech on Main Street, U.S.A. in the Magic Kingdom, First Lady Michelle Obama appeared at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World on Saturday. Mrs. Obama's appearance was in conjunction with the ...  

ORLANDO, Fla. First things first: We go through Epcot security, where they paw through our bags to make sure we don't spoil anyone's day with bombs or pistols, then we juke around the enormous faceted sphere that symbolizes Progress, or something.  

Disneyland Paris is charging British families 60 per cent more than the French for theme park tickets. Special discount offers on the park’s French language website are not available to customers using the English version. And customers in Britain who ...  

Walt and Lilian Disney's daughter Diane talks to the Huffington Post about her parents' "secret apartment" over the firehouse on Disneyland's Main Street, USA. The apartment, decorated by a film production designer called Emile Kuri, was a private haven ...  

On The Disney Blog, John Frost describes the upcoming rule-tightening for FastPasses in Walt Disney World. FastPass is a ride reservation system: park visitors visit a ride, feed their entry ticket to a kiosk, and it spits out a coupon that can be redeemed ...  

Jafari and Cupid, two giraffes at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, just had a baby on January 27, measuring 6' 2" and weighing 176 pounds. According to a news release by the park, Cupid and her newborn are currently being held out of view of the public ...  

Lynyrd Skynyrd anyone? He is just one of the headliner's performing at the"Bands, Brew & BBQ" on February 12, 2012. This event runs until March 4, 2012 and happens every Sunday at Busch Gardens. If you have not yet been to Busch Gardens Tampa you are ...  

Busch Gardens’ Biggest Ice Show to Date Takes the Ice on 2-2-12 TAMPA (February 1, 2012) — For more than five decades, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay has set the industry’s standard for delivering unforgettable entertainment experiences, with Broadway-style stage spectaculars like KaTonga: Musical Tales From the Jungle and innovative ice shows like World Rhythms on [...]  

A 17-year-old born without hands is disappointed at being excluded from Universal Studios’ “Kraken,” but “Katie Champagne’s misery is the result of a litigious society, not heartless theme parks.” [Beth Kassab, Orlando Sentinel] Tags: amusement parks Related posts Welcome Above the Law readers (Sea World killer whale lawsuit?) (14) U.K.: hyperactive kids given queue-jump passes (0) U.K.: “Butlins bans bumping [...]  

Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong. The year after his December 15, 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank, California, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on ...  

By Robert Niles: The Disneyland Resort announced today that Earl of Sandwich is coming to the west coast as the popular Walt Disney World eatery will open a location in Disneyland's Downtown Disney later this year.From the press release:"The new restaurant, which continues to have historical ties to the inventor of the sandwich, the Sandwich family, will be adjacent to AMC Theatres. Signature hot sandwiches will be available including The...  

The new Iceploration show at Busch Gardens in Tampa features a huge cast of both humans and animals. You'll see acrobats, ice skaters, dancers, birds, sled dogs, and a Siberian lynx, but the storyline is centered around two main characters: a boy named ...  

You love theme parks. (Otherwise, what the heck are you doing here?) Chances are you also love movies. Do I have that right? So, how about combining two of the things you love by coming up with a theme park attraction based on one of your favorite films? My buddies over at CoasterRadio.com are seeking entries for their 2012 "Reel" Design Contest. Simply describe your movie-based attraction idea in a couple of paragraphs, submit it before the...