News from UK Theme Parks
With spooky happenings and supernatural goings-on taking place across the theme park, Frightwater Valley is the place to be seen this Halloween.
Between 31st October and 2nd November 2014 from 10am until 6.30pm each day, if you dare, watch light turn to dark as the valley becomes shrouded in a menacing cloak of supernatural delight.
Work has started to restore Britain's oldest surviving rollercoaster at the Dreamland amusement park in Margate.
Built in 1920, the Scenic Railway fell into disrepair when the attraction closed in 2005 and was then badly damaged by an arson attack in 2008. The refurbishment of the Grade II* listed ride is part of an £18m project to reopen the amusement park in 2015. The rollercoaster will be dismantled and gradually re-built over 10 months with all the wooden parts being replaced.
Oakwood in Wales will open a new area at the theme park based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in 2015.
The new £2m multi-attraction will replace the former Wild West themed area, which was previously home to popular dark ride Brer Rabbit's Burrow, alongside the current Spooky 3D haunted house ride and Panning for Gold. The new attractions will be themed as The Headless Horseman and The Tree of the Dead but further details are still a secret.
After Dark takes place every Wednesday and Saturday in August at Oakwood Theme Park in Wales. The park is open from 10am-10pm, and from 7pm features a mix of live shows, family entertainment and amazing fireworks.
ThemeParks-UK went to After Dark at Oakwood on Saturday 9th August, here is our review and photos.
Pleasurewood Hills has now opened Marble Madness, it's new and exciting family roller coaster for 2014.
Marble Madness is the new and exciting family roller coaster that will keep you on the very edge of your seat. The crazy Marble Madness critters propel you around the track like a marble on a board game – on a journey with sudden drops and sharp turns left and right, up and down. Once you have experienced Marble Madness you will want to ride again and again! The ride has a top speed of 28mph, riders experience a g-force of up to 2.5, an there is a mimimum heigh requirement of 2.5m.
Pleasurewood Hiils offers adrenalin fuelled thrills & spills for the bravest adventurers including Wipeout and Enigma, fun rides for all the family from classic coaster The Rattlesnake to swashbuckling old favourite The Pirate Ship, and shows.