Kings Island to Expand Award-Winning Kids’ Area with New Family Boomerang Coaster and Immersive Camp Snoopy Area in 2024

Press Release from Kings Island

MASON, OH – There will be more ways to play in 2024 as Kings Island expands its award-winning kids’ area with the addition of a new adventure play space, Camp Snoopy, featuring the park’s newest roller coaster, Snoopy’s Soap Box Racers. It will be the amusement park’s first family boomerang coaster, that races riders both forward and backward on the same track. With the addition of Snoopy’s Soap Box Racers, Kings Island will become the Kids Coaster Capital of the World, offering five different coaster experiences for future thrill seekers.

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$10M Gravy-Themed Coaster in Holiday World Announced

Press Release from Holiday World

Santa Claus, Ind. —–Good Gravy! Family roller coaster will open to the public May 2024 at Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari, located in its Thanksgiving section. The coaster, manufactured by Dutch company Vekoma Rides, is a family boomerang, the first of its kind to open in North America.

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Cedar Point announces Top Thrill 2, the world’s tallest and fastest triple-launch coaster

Press Release from Cedar Point

SANDUSKY, Ohio (Aug. 1, 2023) – Cedar Point, The Roller Coaster Capital of the World®, will once again redefine roller coaster innovation in 2024 with the debut of Top Thrill 2, the world’s tallest and fastest triple-launch strata roller coaster. The strata coaster, known as any roller coaster eclipsing a height of 400 feet, was first pioneered by Cedar Point in 2003. The park will build on that legacy with not one, but two, 420-foot-tall track towers, putting riders in the driver’s seat for one of the greatest races of all time.

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