New Coasters, Death Eaters, And More

In This Newsletter

• Cedar Point Announces New Coaster (No One Expected It)

• Sea World Orlando Announces New Ride (Also out of the blue)

• Death Eater Interrupts proposal at HHN

• A couple trip reports of mine

Cedar Point Announces Brand New Coaster for 2025.

Usually before a park announces a new rollercoaster, we have some sort of rumors circling about it. Whether the blueprints get submitted to the local council for approval and those get found out, someone from park management makes a teaser post, or we see footers being installed. There usually is some kind of heads up that a park is getting a coaster.

However, when Cedar Point announced Siren’s Curse, there were no rumors of a new coaster happening. This caught most rollercoaster enthusiasts off guard.

This new Tilt coaster will be one of only a few around the world. It will have 2,966 feet of track and get to a top speed of 58 mph. The highlight of the ride will be the tilt portion, where rides will get to the top of the lift hill, have the vehicle lock on the tracks before they then tilt the coater vertically. The coaster is then dropped and goes through the rest of the ride.

The new coaster looks absolutely amazing and should ‘make up’ for the fact that Top Thrill 2 was down all of 2024. A lot of people were made it was down and im sure park attendance wasn’t what executives wanted it to be. A cool fact about this ride is that it is not taking the space of something else at the park but instead they are adding new land to the park and building it there.

Let’s jump back to the fact this ride came out of nowhere. Why did it come out of nowhere? Well, many believe that this coaster was the one going to be announced at Six Flags Mexico before it was put on pause due to permitting issues. It seems that it was unlikely to be approved in a timely manner and rather than the ride sit in a parking lot for a year or more, Six Flags(New corporate name) decided that Cedar Point needed something for the park to make up for Top Thrill 2 being down. I for one like this theory and I think it holds some weight

If you want to see the mockup of Siren’s Curse, check out the video below.

From the Editor

It’s been awhile since I wrote a newsletter. A ton of news has happened in the last 2ish months since the last newsletter but that took a back seat as I recently welcomed a new addition to my family, an amazingly handsome baby boy! I currently have two children under 2 years old so my life is kind of crazy busy at the moment.

I cant promise I’ll be delivering a newsletter every week for the forseeable future, but I’ll see what i can manage in between diaper changes and food time. I do have a Press pass for IAAPA so I will be covering that in two weeks time.

I’d also like to welcome the 1400 new subscribers to the newsletter! We have over 25,000 subscribers now! I think that makes us the largest, or one of the largest theme park newsletters in the world.

Theme Park Stock Watch

From the last month of stock changes as of Thursday night. Since it’s been awhile since i did this, i figured I would cover the changes over a month instead of a week.

I Visited Sir Henry’s Haunt and Had a Blast!

I know the season is over as of writing this newsletter, but I do have to mention this event so you can keep it in mind for next year. Sir Henry’s Haunted Trail is an independently owned haunted attraction. Because of that, they can do stuff other places cant. They’ve also invented elaborate back stories for some of the main characters at the event.

I had a blast there and actually got scared! More scared than I did at Universal during HHN this year.

This haunted attraction contains 3 scare houses and 1 haunted hayride. It’s located about an hour away from Disney World but I would argue its well worth the drive.

Please consider going to this event next year!

With the end of the theme park season basically over, we asked you how many parks you visited this year. 45% of you visited 4-6 theme parks, 20% visited 7-9 parks, 20% visited 10+ parks, and 15% visited 1-3 parks.

During the earnings call today that Six Flags had, they mentioned looking into the possibility of selling off some of the parks in their chain. That gave me the perfect idea for a poll question

Death Eater Accidentally Interrupts a Proposal

@its.chris.chan

She then proceeded to take my hand and judge the bats on my ring. . . 🤪🥲 #deatheaters #hhn #halloweenhorrornights #harrypotter

I saw this on Tiktok and just had to share. It’s pretty funny seeing the death eaters expression when she noticed what was happening.

Sea World Orlando Announces New Ride For Wild Arctic Area

A new ride is coming to Sea World in 2025 and it’s going to be a flying theater ride. Not too much is known about it at this point. We do know they are shooting some impressive footage for the ride.

It will be 4 minutes and 30 seconds long and has a minimum heigh requirement of 39 inches. There will be two theaters that will be playing the same footage, allowing for one to load while the other one is able to be running, helping increase guest capacity.

This marks like 4 years in a row where Sea World Orlando has received a new attraction. The previous ones were all rollercoasters so it is nice to see them add this addition in that isn’t a coaster.

It’s also indoors which means it can run when there is bad weather outside, which happens kind of often in Orlando. My only hope is that they continue to invest in additional dark rides for the park.

I Got The Rarest Coaster Credit?

I visited the Mass Moca museum way way earlier in the year. I just now got around to publishing the youtube video of my trip there. This is possible the rarest rollercoaster credit in existence, let me explain why.

This is a museum piece, and because of that the creator of the ride, EJ Hill, wanted each ride to be an event. So they only allowed 1 rider per hour to go on the coaster. With maybe 8 hours in a day, and the fact it was open a little more than a year, that means roughly 3,200 people got this coaster credit. My wife and I were one of those lucky few people.

If a coaster like this opens up again in the future, i suggest getting a reservation to ride it immediately and for whatever timeslot you can. It took me months to try to get a timeslot that worked with my busy work schedule, and I was pushing it. The ride closed roughly 1 or 2 weeks after I visited.

This Weeks Comic

If you know of the Epcot incident with the cucumber then this is funny, if you don’t, sorry.

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