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Chinese Roller Coaster club Roller Coaster Dream are reporting that Happy Valley Shanghai will be recieving the 2nd B&M Surf Coaster for their new expansion. No more information just yet but it will add yet another solid coaster to a park with an already pretty great top 3.

Construction has begun on the new Jinma Swing Launch Coaster at Happy Valley Shenzhen. This replaces the original Vekoma Shenlin layout SLC which hit it's 20 year limit recently. Concept art Site plans Supports are now vertical. The plans don't show much about the elevation changes on...

The new inverted coaster from Jinma (ex Golden Horse) is officially the most insane thing I've seen this year. The new ride at Fantawild Ziyang uses the same box track used in their recent launched coaster and flyer models but also features a Finnish Loop with a tunnel This image of the...

It appears Chimelong Paradise one of the world's busiest amusement parks is about to expand. Adding a multitude of new flat rides and two new coasters. The first of the coasters is the most interesting, a Jinma built swing launch coaster which looks to be one of Jinmas more interesting recent...

Legoland Japan has announced an expansion for 2027 which looks like it will be very similar to the Legoland Korea expansion. The area will include a new Mack spinning coaster (Clone of Turbulance in Adventure Land New York), A ninjago dark ride, a Gerst Sky Fly, a couple of flat rides and...

Something a bit out of left field today It seems Mitsui Greenland in Japan will be adding a major new attraction for its 60th Anniversary in 2026 https://rcdb.com/4967.htm And the lesser known Hokkaido Greenland will also be adding something for its 40th Anniversary. https://rcdb.com/5176.htm...

Something a bit leftfield. But seems Noble Rides which is Jinmas's (i.e golden horse) European operation has sold a travelling inverted coaster to a showman in Germany. It appears it will be operated by Vorlop. https://www.vorlop.info/en/ Due to start operation in 2026 the ride features an...

I love finding something weird and this ticks all my boxes, This is the recently opened Roller Coaster at Gohar Park near Sirjan in Iran and it's like nothing I've seen before. Featuring B&M style box track, a vertical loop and a watersplash, the ride was built by Iranian company Shadi Sazan...

A new park for Brazil has been announced for 2027, The park called Cacau Park will be situated near Sao Paulo. The park is being built by Cacau Show which already owns at least one small indoor park in Brazil. And recently bought up the famous Brazilian Playcenter brand...

This one seems to have swept under the radar. Some detective work at park fans has dug up the plans for SFNEs new 2025 coaster and it seems like a decent addition for them. An Intamin family launch straddle coaster not unlike Juvelen, Jet Rescue and their ilk The ride will sit on the site...

Seems GCI has released a ton of new concept to a in the current issue of Amusement Today. And there's some doozys in there. As usual these are just concepts used to advertise to parks so I wouldn't necessarily expect to see these exact rides anywhere (with perhaps the exception of the compact...

Qiddiya the guys behind Six Flags Saudi and the ridiculous Falcons Flight have announced a new theme park themed to the Dragon Ball franchise. Not much else Is know at the moment but there's certainly a coaster in there https://www.arabnews.com/node/2481016/amp For reference this is...

Not theme park news as such as its an individual Ferris Wheel like the London Eye but its such an eye catching design that thought it was worth sharing. Standing at a rather tall 180m (590ft) and situated on top of a 40m (130ft) building the twin tracked "Seoul Twin Eye" has been unveiled as...

In one of the weirder bits of news recently, while starting construction of a new park in the Chinese city of Luoyang the ever busy Fantawild has uncovered hundreds of ancient tombs. Which as you might imagine has delayed the project somewhat. Local authorities are currently carrying out...

Looks like one of the Chinese firms is stepping up their game again. Take a look at the new Vertical Coaster model from Zhipao. Currently undergoing testing at Dinosaur Town in Qingzhen, China. The ride is 35m tall and 750m long, featuring 5 inversions (Loop, Zero-G-Roll, Cobra Roll and Inline...

Note: Before we dive in I dont have a conclusive answer for this but its been an interesting bit of research for me so thought I'd put some notes down on here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This has been an...

Bit of a left field post here but i always feel this is somethings that relatively unknown (and should be more known about) and it's also something that is so high on my theme park bucket list I should shout about it more. Yomiuriland in Tokyo has started their annual Illumination event, Called...

This can probably be filed under the never gonna happen section of new parks but worth a thread anyway Legend Land is a new park announced for Zagreb in Croatia. The list of rides in the website is genuinely insane including and Intamin LSM, a hyper coaster and yes an actual Aquatrax...

Seems this has gone a bit under the radar. But Futuroscope have announced their 2024 ride as the first installation of Macks interesting looking rocking boat ride system. The ride called Mission Bermuda will have a number of show scenes and I guess by the long straight section a proper drop...

The original Happy Valley park located in Shenzhen has announced a large expansion of the park. This continues the recent renovation of the wild west area and replacement of their mine train coaster (and closure of their aging SLC) The area themed to an IP I have no idea about which appears to...