G-Force Magazine - UK Theme Park News & Features
UK Theme Park Industry News & Features
A group of fanatical roller-coaster enthusiasts are travelling from Belgium to take part in a special event at Oakwood Theme Park this weekend. More than 50 members of Rollercoaster Friends are expected at the Pembrokeshire park as part of a whistle-stop visit to Wales. The decision to come to the park was taken after organisers launched a poll on Facebook to find out which European ride … [Read more...]
Thorpe Park, in Surrey, England, is laying down the challenge to rollercoaster junkies on June 15, which will see people take on its newest ride, Storm Surge, which features a spinning life raft enduring a 64ft descent as well as the 100ft vertical drop on SAW - The Ride. But rollercoaster expert Brendan Walker does not think anybody will be able to brave every rollercoaster in the park … [Read more...]
Visitors to Oakwood Theme Park enjoyed a week of fun events, fire-eating, live music and dance over the Whitsun holidays. There was a fiery theme to events at the Pembrokeshire attraction with a special guest appearance from everyone’s favourite Hero Next Door, Fireman Sam, a visit by crew from Narberth Fire Station and performance from local fire-eater Kieran Howells. In addition to the … [Read more...]
Construction has never looked as colourful as when children got creative at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Cars, flowers and even fair ground rides were created by dozens of budding engineers who got busy with special K’Nex kits as part of an expert building class. K’Nex is a construction based toy designed to inspire the engineers of the future. Kits include rods, connectors, bricks … [Read more...]
Large scale plans to expand Gulliver’s World Theme Park into public park space have been scrapped — starting a war of words between councillors. The masterplan for the redevelopment of the park, which could see the business take over part of Sankey Valley Park will now have to be reassessed. The new Labour administration say the plans, produced and agreed by the former Liberal … [Read more...]
The council agreed in May last year that it would start compulsory purchase proceedings on the Dreamland site, if terms were not agreed for the transfer of the freehold of the cinema building and land. At the time, this had been agreed in principle by the landowners. The land would then be transfered by the council to the Dreamland Trust on a long lease for a peppercorn rent. Since then, … [Read more...]
“The Best New Attraction for 2011 is… Intimidator 305” In the light of the various modifications to Kings Dominion’s gigacoaster over the past year, Alex Harris explains why the revamped Intimidator 305 is the ride we should be most looking forward to in 2011… despite opening in 2010. Impressive statistics do not an impressive coaster make… but they certainly generate hype, … [Read More...]
