Category: News
Thrill Daily News 6-13-11
You know what’s worse than Friday the 13th? Monday the 13th. Think about it…Monday’s are traditionally bad anyway. Black Monday was one of the most...
Busch Gardens Williamsburg begins work on 2012 coaster
We’ve known that Busch Gardens Williamsburg is going to be building a new coaster for their 2012 operating season since late 2010 when the park announced several...
Summer Nights gets (Christopher) Cool at Busch Gardens Tampa
Summer Nights at Busch Gardens Tampa kicked off Friday night with a huge line up, including a revamped Kinetics, and magician Christopher Cool. The event runs now until...
The Grand Reef makes it’s grand debut at Discovery Cove
In October of last year, Discovery Cove made a huge announcement for the park’s very first expansion in the park’s history. The Grand Reef officially opened...
Offsite-Erik writes a love note to Super 8
Here at Behind the Thrills, we love us some Theme Parks. No doubt about it. However, there is a great big world out there, and sometimes we need to take a step out of...
Thrill Daily 6-9-11
Working out at the gym is kind of a double edged sword. It’s not something that a lot of theme park nerds, and theme park writers I know do very much. On one side,...
Fantasyland, Star Wars Weekends, Phineas and Ferb, & more
Memorial Day weekend just passed and summer is right around the corner. I mean that literally – my kids get out of school tomorrow at 1pm. Summer got here so...
Star sighting: Weasly twins visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Oliver and James Phelps (L to R) –who portray the mischievous Weasley brothers, George and Fred respectively, in the Harry Potter films –stopped to greet fans and...
Six Flags America prepares for final voyage of Skull Mountain to make way for 2012 attraction
Six Flags America announced today that Skull Mountain, a unique hybrid roller coaster and flume ride will be retired on Sunday, July 10th, in order to make way for a new...
Cheetah Hunt open-Watch all the fun
Summer. Most of the big new attractions at theme parks have made their debut and are churning through the summer crowds. Probably the biggest of the summer so far is...
