New Attractions for Belmont Park

Belmont Park, in Sandiego, CA, recently opened two new attractions for guests visiting the classic seaside attraction.

The “Magical Mystery Mirror Maze” is a unique and exciting attraction the entire family can enjoy. Themed music and décor circa late 1960s and early 1970s give a psychedelic twist to a classic funhouse favorite."

How trippy are the colors in the photo of the maze above? Looks like a very unique attraction.

The park also oped the Vault Laser Maze, which "is a timed event course, where the object is to expertly navigate through a web of lasers going over and under them as quickly as possible to reach the end of the maze challenge without being hit. "

Both sound pretty fun!

iSpeed @ Mirabilandia

Mirabilandia's new Intamin accelerator coaster - iSpeed - recently had it's Top Hat element completed, and the park has already worked on a pull through for that element, even though the rest of the ride isn't built yet. Interesting.

Be One of the First

Carowinds now has a live auction going for riders on the first train ever of the Carolina Cobra, which will open with the park on March 28th.

The auction information can be accessed here, and all befits go to the Make A Wish Foundation. Kings Island is having quite a success with their Diamondback first ride auction, so hopefully Carowinds can drum up similar support.

It's Hitting The Fan!!

Looks like Cedar Fair is finally starting to acknowledge that their financial state is pretty precarious at best - they just put out a press release saying that they are indeed cutting the distribution by 92 cents a unit, to an annual payout of $1 instead of $1.92.

That would have been the big news of the day but they also threw in this little nugget: the company is open to selling Worlds of Fun and Valleyfair to someone if the timing and price is right.

This is all because of the debt the company took on the purchase the Paramount Parks - none of which are suddenly listed for sale... well aside from Great America but they already said they'd ditch that park in a second if the 49ers wanted it.

It's sad that Mr. Kinzel and his board let things get to this. With firms like Merlin Entertainment, and Parques Reunidos lurking around snatching up properties you have to wonder if Cedar Fair is saying they will sell Worlds of Fun and Valleyfair because they know someone wants them... like now. That's sort of how Cedar Fair does things... just look at the ramp up to this distribution cut - they leak their plans out in little bits and pieces in conference calls and news releases. We'll see.

Kings Dominion '09 Update

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Kings Dominion looks almost ready to install their two new rides for the 2009 season, Americana and El Dorado.

KDFansite has posted some recent photos taken inside the park showing off the construction progress so far. It actually looks like the first parts of the base for Americana are in place so that should be going up quickly.

Both of the new flat rides were moved from the now closed Geauga Lake amusement park in Ohio.

Here's a link to the gallery.

DelGrosso's Amusement Park 2009

DelGrosso's Amusement Park, located in Tipton, PA, has announced that they have purchased three of Cypress Gardens' amusement rides for their park.

The park has purchased the YoYo swing ride, Pharaoh's Fury swinging ship ride, and for the kids the Dizzy Dragon.

The article mentions that the YoYo will replace the park's Balloon Race ride, and the Pharaoh's Fury will replace the Sea Dragon. Though both rides are similar to those they are replacing, they are both from 2004 which should help with reliability and maintenance costs.

It's just superb to hear of a small family park expanding as always!