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All of us at Amusement Today wish you and yours a Happy New Year and an exciting 2025! EXTRA! EXTRA! Your Desktop Edition will not publish on Dec. 30 & 31, 2024, and Jan. 1, 2025. The daily email newsletter will return to normal publication on Thursday, January 2, 2025.
America’s First Amusement Park is gearing up for its end of season celebrations. Lake Compounce will close out the 2024 season with a fireworks spectacular on Sunday, December 29 at 8 p.m. so Guests can marvel at the spectacular show above the lake after a heart-warming visit to the park’s 12th annual Holiday Lights, Southern New England’s Only […]
Quassy Amusement and Waterpark, Middlebury, Conn., will soon take delivery of its new Wave Swinger from Wooddesign Amusement Rides BV, The Netherlands, Quassy President Eric Anderson told Amusement Today. “The first two of the four containers have been shipped and we should have them in a few weeks,” Anderson said. The Wave Swinger is one […]
RIVERVIEW, Fla. — David “Doc” Cooksey Rivera — a talented artist, historian, showman, and Mason — passed away at his home on December 14, 2024, at the age of 77. Born on September 28, 1947, in San Diego, California, Rivera lived a life as full and colorful as the carnival murals he painted. His early […]
All of us at Amusement Today wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and the Happiest of Holidays! EXTRA! EXTRA! Your Desktop Edition will not publish on Dec. 23, 24 & 25, 2024. The daily email newsletter will return to normal publication on Thursday, December 26, 2019.
This holiday season, LEGOLAND Resorts in California, Florida and New York are joining the other seven LEGOLAND Resorts worldwide to invite guests to take part in the LEGO Group’s annual Build To Give campaign. This heart-building initiative brings joy to children in need while offering playful experiences that help develop essential life skills like creativity, […]
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Just in time for the holidays, PB Amusement, LLC and Spirello BV has teamed up to donate nearly 9,750 pounds of Spirello (the only Pre-Cut, Pre-Fried, Pre-Frozen, Spiral Potato-on-a-Stick) to Table to Table, a 25-year-old New Jersey’s food rescue organization. Pete Barto, President of PB Amusement, LLC said, “Robert Luttjehuizen (Owner, Spirello […]
PLAINVIEW, Texas — The iconic Mindbender at West Edmonton Mall will live on — in spirit — at the National Roller Coaster Museum, thanks to a donation of a scale model of the retired Schwarzkopf coaster from Galaxyland. The all-metal, static display is the first artifact to be donated from Canada and was used by the […]
