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So what's happening with VR attractions? Hologate, one of the industries leaders, has put out safety guidelines. What's important to note is that it's recommended that all of the headsets are retrofitted with PU leather facial inserts, which are more hygienic than the foam inserts that come with...

Mt. Olympus is opening in 3 days, but (as I mentioned earlier in this thread) you must stay onsite in order to visit the theme and water parks. This is the second major U.S. park to announce an opening date since the pandemic closure.

Silverwood is opening on May 30th and 31st, and both Silverwood and Boulder Beach will open for daily operation starting June 6th. I believe this is the first U.S. park to announce definite opening days. Mt. Olympus, on the other hand, announced that their water and amusement parks will only...

Tripsdrill is reopening on May 29th! Won't be long before Europe Park makes their announcement.

Haven't seen this mentioned, but Six Flags CEO Michael Spanos announced earlier this week that the six locations expected to open first are Six Flags Mexico, Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags St. Louis, Frontier City, Six Flags Over Texas, and Six Flags Fiesta Texas. He also said that Six Flags...

According to this news article (in German), Heide Park will be reopening later this month as other attractions in Lower Saxony start to open.

The proposed new Dorney Park ride has won the approval of the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission, although final approval will be up to South Whitehall Township. The Lehigh Valley Planning Commission review found that the ride will be in a flood plain and should be built to withstand high waters...

While talk and planning continues on re-opening of parks, Funtown Splashtown USA in Maine announced they will not open this season due to the pandemic and all 2020 season passes will be honored in 2021. Although this is a rather small park, I would not be surprised to see this decision made by...

We're planning on updating our Inversions page and need help creating inversion animations to post. Anyone interested in helping to create them please reply. Thanks

Depends on which U.S. parks getting new coasters open first, although I doubt any will be hosting media days.

:( Way too many to even try to keep count of I'm afraid. Can't imagine @gavin or @davidm ever being able to do this either.

Bummer. I was planning on making the trip up there myself this year, even just to say that I've ridden every wooden coaster in North America. I guess I can go ahead and say that now, but would have been great to get the cred before making the claim. :(

In June 2009 Six Flags filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with over $1 billion in debt. With a listed debt of $2.4 billion compared to assets of $3 billion, the company said it could not support more than $890 million of debt. They were able go solvent the following year by turning the company’s...

Started the 2020 season with this and hoping for more sooner rather than later... 2020-Texas Stingray-SeaWorld San Antonio

Nice to see that someone has been reading the updates on our homepage. ;)