News
What happened, and — more usefully — what it actually means.
Every news story here carries analysis: the technology behind the announcement, why the park chose it, and whether the manufacturer’s record justifies the hype. Forty sites will rewrite the press release. This is the other kind of coverage.
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Angry Octo Opens at Boudewijn Seapark: A 1995 Coaster on Its Fourth Park and Seventh Name
Boudewijn Seapark in Belgium has opened Angry Octo, a 1995 Pinfari coaster now on its fourth home and seventh name after Camelot, M&D's and Oakwood.
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Big Dipper Is Still Closed, Nine Weeks After a Timber Track Failure
Blackpool Pleasure Beach's 1923 Big Dipper remains shut nine weeks after a track failure — the engineering reason fixing a Grade II-listed wooden coaster properly takes months, not days.
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Intamin Acquires Simworx, the British Firm Behind Thorpe Park's Ghost Train, Out of Administration
Intamin's owner has bought Simworx, the UK motion-simulator specialist behind Thorpe Park's Derren Brown's Ghost Train, in a pre-pack deal after administration — its second British dark-ride buy in two years.
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The Patent Suit Over SeaWorld Orlando's Surf Coaster Is Over — and B&M Is Free to Build More
Vekoma's patent suit against B&M over Pipeline: The Surf Coaster's restraint has been dismissed with prejudice, clearing the legal cloud over any second surf coaster.
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Efteling's New SafeStrap Lets Riders Keep a Leg Prosthesis On for the Coaster
Efteling has launched SafeStrap, a TU Delft-developed strap that lets people with leg prostheses keep them secured through Baron 1898, Hooghmoed and its swing rides.
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Efteling Clears the Ground for Missie Luminar, Its €50 Million Suspended Launch Coaster
Efteling has begun clearing land for Missie Luminar, a €50m Vekoma suspended launch coaster due in 2029 — though it may not be the first of its kind to open.
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Energylandia Is Building a B&M Wing Coaster It Hasn't Announced
Construction photos show a Bolliger & Mabillard wing coaster taking shape at Poland's Energylandia, spotted by enthusiast trackers weeks before the park has said a word about it.
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Legoland Billund's Minifigure Speedway Stalls Mid-Circuit, Stranding 20 Riders for Nearly Three Hours
Minifigure Speedway at Legoland Billund stalled 10 metres up on 5 August, stranding 20 riders for nearly three hours until fire crews reached them.
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Djurs Sommerland Confirms Denmark's First Single-Rail Coaster, an Intamin Hot Racer for 2027
Djurs Sommerland has confirmed Midgårdsormen, an Intamin Hot Racer single-rail coaster for 2027 — Denmark's first, and only the second in Europe.
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Legoland Windsor Files Plans for a Mack Rides Spinning Coaster on the Viking River Splash Site
Planning documents show Legoland Windsor pursuing a Mack Rides Spinning Coaster, codenamed Project Dojo, on the old Viking River Splash plot — a third build of the ride that debuted in Korea.
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Wiegand Opens Falcon Fly, a Self-Powered Suspended Coaster, Above Montenegro's Bay of Kotor
Wiegand's Falcon Fly has opened at Lovćen National Park, Montenegro — a joystick-controlled Wie-Flyer coaster with no lift hill, no chain and no track below the rider.
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Tivoli Gardens Built Hikari, Its Largest Ever Themed Area, Around a 22-Year-Old B&M Coaster
Tivoli's 2,000 m² Hikari district opens in August 2026 built around a rethemed Dæmonen. The engineering, the economics, and why the 2004 B&M stayed put.
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Dønnervind Opens at Freizeitpark Plohn: the First Multi-Launch Water Coaster
Mack Rides' Dønnervind has opened at Germany's Freizeitpark Plohn — a €11.5m LSM multi-launch water coaster, and a genuinely new category with one asterisk.
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Toverland Replaces Its Bobsled Ride With a Coaster-Track 'Swinging Bobsled' This Winter
Toverland is replacing its bobsled ride with a coaster-track 'swinging bobsled' from ETF Ride Systems — a genuine new hybrid, opening winter 2026.
