SEASON PREVIEW: NORTH AMERICA
Soaring Timbers, Canada’s Wonderland
• Knoebels Amusement Resort, Pennsylania: Over The Top (SBF/Visa Wave RIder)
• The Island at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee: SBF/Visa Wave RIder
WATERPARKS •Walt Disney World's Typhoon Lagoon: Miss Adventure Falls (family raft ride).
• Six Flags Fiesta Texas, San Antonio: Thunder Rapids by ProSlide. North America’s first rocket blast water coaster, featuring a custom-designed inline rafts propelled through fast uphill speeds and thrilling drops as well as four high-banked flying saucer turns.
• Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio: Relaunch of Soak City as Cedar Point Shores Water Park with three attractions from WhiteWater including four-person Aqua Drop body slide.
FLAT RIDES • La Ronde, Montreal, Canada: Titan (Zamperla Discovery pendulum ride)
• Six Flags Discovery Kingdom near San Francisco: Wonder Woman Lasso of Truth (Zamperla Discovery)
• Six Flags St Louis: Spinsanity (Zamperla Mega Disk'O’) • Kentucky Kingdom, Louisville: Eye of the Storm (Larson International Giant Loop) + two children’s rides
• Knott's Berry Farm: Sol Spin (Mondial Top Scan) • Canada’s Wonderland, Ontario: Soaring Timbers (Mondial Inferno, ex-Germany)
• Carowinds, North Carolina: Refurbished rides Electro-Spin (Huss Troika), Zephyr (Mondial Top Scan), Rock N’ Roller (Mack Musik Express) and Do-Si-Do (Zierer Wave Swinger)
•Worlds of Fun, Kansas City: refurbished Huss Troika and Huss Condor
• Dorney Park, Pennsylvania: Huss Troika and bumper cars • OWA amusement park, Alabama: Zamperla Disk ’O', Air Race, Discovery, Endeavour, Samba Balloon, Wave Swing carousel, Rockin’ Tug, kiddie drop tower, teacups, BigRig truck ride, Aerozoom, Magic Bikes, Flying Tigers, Jump Around and mini jet
• Playland's Castaway Cove, New Jersey: Zamperla Samba Balloon, Sartori Techno Jump, Gosetto Fun House, Battech dry slide, diesel-powered CP Huntington train from Chance
• Quassy Amusement Park, Connecticut: Zamperla Samba Balloon and Skipper’s Clippers (SBF/Visa pirate jet)
• Seabreeze, Rochester, New York: Time Machine (Technical Park Super Miami)
New Fun House for Playland’s Castaway Cove
• Canada’s Wonderland, Ontario: Muskoka Plunge. ProSlide complex featuring four speed slides inc. SkyBox launch chamber.
• Dollywood's Splash Country, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee: TailSpin Racer (six-lane WhiteWater mat racer).
• Splash Island at Wild Adventures, Valdosta, Georgia: $2 million Ohana Bay featuring seven slides.
•Waldameer Park and Water World, Erie, Pennsylvania: Battle of Lake Erie (RideHouse 500 play structure from ProSlide).
• The Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom, Lake George, New York: Bonzai Pipelines (duelling water slides from ProSlide).
Information compiled from press reports, press releases and direct contact with parks and and suppliers. While we have tried to be as comprehensive as possible, this list does not include many smaller attractions opening this
season.
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