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The IAAPA Brass Ring Awards are a symbol of excellence, recognizing outstanding achievement, innovation, and quality from IAAPA members. Showcase your world-class work by submitting your nominations for IAAPA’s highest awards for stunning live entertainment, innovative food service, unique merchandise, creative marketing, stellar training programs, and more! Honoring excellence and achievement in a variety of […]
Baynum Painting has been hard at work during the off-season getting Six Flags New England’s new Goliath roller coaster ready for it’s upcoming Spring 2012 launch. The Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang roller coaster reaches nearly 200 feet high on both of it’s towers, and has several inversions and loops along it’s 1,204 feet of track. […]
Sherrie Beth Brammall, age 63, of Canyon Lake, Texas, died on Thursday, April 19, 2012. Sherrie was the loving and devoted wife of 42 years to Shawn, mother of Shane (Jennie) and Ian (Evin), and loving grandmother to Mason, Finnegan and Marilyn Brammall. A graduate of Ohio University, Sherrie was a successful journalist who served […]
IAAPA Attractions Expo had a record 724 companies assigned to the trade show floor during the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Space Allocation Committee meeting, held April 12-13. The committee assigned a record 371,000 net square feet of exhibit space at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, which will host IAAPA […]
Portions of Speed the Ride roller coaster at the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas which operated for 11 years are getting relocated to a new location at the Akita Retail Center on Las Vegas Boulevard South, across from Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. Breslin Builders is working with Premier Rides, to move the […]
Terri Adams of Schlitterbahn Waterparks has conveyed to Amusement Today that longtime PR director Sherrie Brammall has died. “It is with sadness that I share the news that we lost one of our own Schlitterbahn family members, Sherrie Brammall. Our prayers and deepest sympathy are shared with her family as they go through this difficult […]
KINGS ISLAND, Ohio — The Racer — really it’s twin racers — has been the focal point of the Coney Mall sector of Kings Island for the past four decades, and with good reason. More than 96 million guests have taken a ride on the Racer since it opened April 29, 1972 — the most […]
The 2012 World’s Largest Swimming Lesson (WLSL) is set for Thursday, June 14th. This newsworthy event takes place at 11 a.m. EST/3 p.m. GMT at waterparks, community pools and aquatic facilities around the globe to build awareness about the vital importance of teaching kids to swim to prevent drowning. Last year’s WLSL event set a […]
Responding to increasing requests from suppliers and their customers, ASTM International has developed a new program — Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity. Launched in April 2012, this latest offering is an outgrowth of ASTM’s certification programs. Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity provides manufacturers, purchasers and consumers with a useful and needed tool. A major benefit to suppliers […]
Just three days after an EF3 tornado touched down in Wichita, Kansas on April 15, Danny Ottaway of Ottaway Amusements, had already trucked the pieces of his twisted Chance Century Wheel across town to the Chance Manufacturing Co. The storm system that passed through Wichita that day brought with it dozens of tornados as it […]
