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Monday, July 1, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) The Dolly Parton Experience Opens at Dollywood » All Photos: Dave Jackson. View full-sized image . For the 2024 season, Dollywood (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee) has...
Monday, July 1, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) ACE Northern California: Beach Boardwalk Bonanza 2024 » All Photos: Robert Ingle. View full-sized image . On April 21, 63 ACE members and their families and friends gat...
Monday, July 1, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Construction Zone » Flash: Vertical Velocity , Six Flags Great Adventure Photos: Courtesy Six Fl...
Monday, July 1, 2024 (2 Comments - view/add) From the President » What do you choose from the buffet? Hearing the stories from those attending Coaster Con 46 last week, I kept refle...
Monday, July 1, 2024 (4 Comments - view/add) Thoughts From Seat 1.3 » For two recent issues of ACE News , I had the pleasure of speaking with Steve and Brian Gorman of Waldameer Park & W...
Monday, July 1, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Snoopy’s Soap Box Racers Crosses the Finish Line at Kings Island » Photo: John Keeter. View full-sized image . This summer, Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts are welcoming campers of...
Monday, July 1, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) ACE News Switchback » View full-sized image . View full-sized image ....
Monday, July 1, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) SchlitterCon XX Delivers a Splashing Good Time » Photo: Alexxis Ferguson/Schlitterbahn. View full-sized image . In a May when Texas endured long strings of storm...
Monday, July 1, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Nuts & Bolts » Photos: Tim Baldwin. View full-sized image . View full-sized image ....
Monday, May 27, 2024 (2 Comments - view/add) Loch Ness Monster Reopens Following Extensive Refurbishment » Photo: Chris Viola. View full-sized image . When Busch Gardens: The Old Country (Williamsburg, Virginia) opened...
Monday, May 27, 2024 (2 Comments - view/add) Nemesis Reborn: A Masterpiece Made Over » Photo: Courtesy of Alton Towers. View full-sized image . Enthusiasts who are old enough will be astonished to co...
Monday, May 27, 2024 Minifigure Speedway Races Into Legoland Windsor » Photo: Courtesy of Legoland Windsor. View full-sized image . The Legoland parks are commonly known as being for...
Monday, May 27, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) ACE Mid-Atlantic: Mountainfest 2024 » Photo: Ted Ansley Collection. View full-sized image . On a beautiful late winter day (March 3), a small group o...
Monday, May 27, 2024 (2 Comments - view/add) ACE Celebrates the Reopening of Loch Ness Monster » Photo: Elizabeth Ringas Collection. View full-sized image . On Friday, May 10, ACE participated as a special gue...
Monday, May 27, 2024 (4 Comments - view/add) ACE Honorary Member Robert Ulrich » Photo: Jon Roost. View full-sized image . Robert Ulrich has served ACE in many capacities, which motivated the...
Monday, May 13, 2024 (4 Comments - view/add) Cedar Point Debuts Top Thrill 2 » Photo: HaeKyung Thompson. View full-sized image . In 2003, a world record coaster opened at Cedar Point in Sand...
Monday, May 13, 2024 (1 Comment - view/add) ACE New England: Wooden Warrior Day 2024 » Photo: Steve Springer. View full-sized image . On Saturday, May 4, Quassy Amusement Park and Waterpark in Middl...
Monday, May 13, 2024 (2 Comments - view/add) ACE Pacific Southwest: Gills and Thrills at SeaWorld San Diego 2024 » Photo: Jackie Edwards Collection. View full-sized image . On Saturday, April 27, 60 ACEers came from across the...
Monday, May 6, 2024 (2 Comments - view/add) Valleyfair: Spring Thaw 2024 » All Photos: HaeKyung Thompson. View full-sized image . ACEers were grateful that Valleyfair (Shakopee, Minnesot...
Monday, May 6, 2024 (4 Comments - view/add) Voltron Nevera: Europa-Park’s Masterpiece » Photo: Tim Baldwin. View full-sized image . Europa-Park (Rust, Germany) is an award-winning theme park known fo...
Monday, April 29, 2024 (1 Comment - view/add) Fire In The Hole: A Classic Is Reborn » Photo: Ian Briscoe. View full-sized image . Enjoying a final ride on the original Fire In The Hole on its second...
Monday, April 29, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Construction Zone » Bobcat , Six Flags Great Escape Photo: Courtesy of Six Flags Great Escape. View full-sized image ....
Monday, April 29, 2024 (2 Comments - view/add) ACE News Switchback: Leap The Dips, Lakemont Park » View full-sized image . It is sobering (but also inspiring) to read that in January 1994, ACE President Ray Ueb...
Monday, April 29, 2024 (3 Comments - view/add) ACE News Switchback: Construction Updates » View full-sized image . View full-sized image . Raptor , C...
Monday, April 29, 2024 (2 Comments - view/add) ACE News Switchback: January 1994 » View full-sized image . View full-sized image ....
Monday, April 29, 2024 (1 Comment - view/add) Adventureland Coaster Countdown 2024 » All Photos: HaeKyung Thompson. View full-sized image . Adventureland (Altoona, Iowa) extended an invitation to...
Monday, April 29, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Vekoma Goes Over the Rainbow » All Renderings: Courtesy of Vekoma. View full-sized image . ACE members have experienced plenty of themed coast...
Monday, April 29, 2024 (0 Comments - view/add) Nuts & Bolts » Photo: Tim Baldwin. View full-sized image . Photo: Scott Rutherfo...
Monday, April 8, 2024 (1 Comment - view/add) From the President » Watching Universal Parks and Resorts in recent years has intrigued me. They are dreaming big, and the people are making...
Monday, April 8, 2024 (1 Comment - view/add) ACE Mid-Atlantic: Play Like a Kid 2024 » Photo: Elizabeth Ringas Collection. View full-sized image . Who would think an adult could have so much fun at...
Monday, April 8, 2024 (3 Comments - view/add) ACE Western Pennsylvania: CoasterBash! XXXV » Photo: Bill Linkenheimer III. View full-sized image . Thirty-five years of CoasterBash! That’s a long history f...
Monday, March 25, 2024 (6 Comments - view/add) Thoughts from Seat 1.3 » A few months ago, ACE News highlighted the exceptional efforts of Waldameer (Erie, Pennsylvania), whose ownership and m...
Monday, March 25, 2024 (5 Comments - view/add) ACE Names Honorary Member Dave Hahner » Photo: David Hahner III. View full-sized image . Dave Hahner, who currently serves as ACE’s historian, was reco...
Monday, March 25, 2024 (6 Comments - view/add) Logo Revealed for ACE Spring 2024 Conference at Kings Island » View full-sized image . The logo for ACE's Spring Conference has been revealed! The event will take place at Ki...
Monday, March 25, 2024 (1 Comment - view/add) ACE New England: The Great Nor’Easter 2024 » Photo: Courtesy of Six Flags New England. View full-sized image . Forty degrees, overcast and followed by rain...
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