All of you adrenaline junkies had best start booking your flights now. 3,625 feet long. 223 feet high. Reaching speeds of 130km per hour. A 90-degree drop into an underwater tunnel. Yep, we want to go to there. The Yukon Striker is set to open in Canada’s Wonderland theme park, and in the process will […]

8 years ago

The incident took place late on Thursday night. A roller coaster derailed at a Florida amusement park, which resulted in a number of people being hospitalised. Following the derailment, the front car of the roller coaster was left dangling from the track. Two people fell from that front car, approximately 34 feet from the car […]

8 years ago

Amusement park, theme parks and carnival operators around the world have been asked to shut down a specific theme park ride following a death in the U.S. Known as the “Fire-Ball”, it is a pendulum-type ride which swings riders 40 feet in the air and spins them at 13 revolutions per minute. Last week, according […]

9 years ago

Let me tell you a story… Years ago, I went to Florida with my family and we went around and visited pretty much all of the theme parks going. In one of them, myself and my sister sat up the very front of the roller coaster, and when we reached the precipice, our bit of […]

9 years ago

A carnival employee has been rushed to hospital in Cork after an incident involving a rollercoaster carriage on Friday morning.  According to local reports, the man in his thirties was assembling the ride at a Funderland location near Pearse Road when he was struck by a part of the roller coaster, suffering serious injuries. A […]

9 years ago

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11 years ago