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September 8, 2020 By Attractions Magazine Staff Leave a Comment

How roller coasters are designed and built

Roller coasters provide immense joy and wonderful thrills in our lives. Rides like Kingda Ka push the boundaries of design and physics with towering structures and intense speeds. It’s quite difficult to imagine the first roller coaster opened less than 150 years ago and traveled only six miles per hour. Nowadays, the world’s fastest roller coaster, Formula Rossa, reaches top speeds of 149 miles per hour. But what’s the process behind the design and construction of these thrill machines?

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Filed Under: Theme Parks Tagged With: construction, design, featured, how are roller coasters built, infographic, roller coaster, theme park

September 1, 2020 By Tharin White Leave a Comment

The Rumor Queue: Universal’s Velocicoaster possible ride vehicle design leaked

A post from Twitter user @HuckelCommaSean may have just revealed the ride vehicle design for the rumored Velocicoaster construction happening at Universal’s Islands of Adventure. Recently, this roller coaster project added raptor figures to the construction site. Now, it appears we may have our first look at the coaster vehicle itself.

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Filed Under: Slider, The Rumor Queue, Theme Parks, Universal Orlando, Universal's Islands of Adventure Tagged With: construction, design, dinosaur, images, Jurassic Park, jurassic world, leaked, raptor, ride vehicle, roller coaster, rumor, rumor queue, velocicoaster, velociraptor

November 16, 2018 By Banks Lee Leave a Comment

Blue Sky Beauty – Pikachu: Let’s Go! Glam – A Pokémon Tutorial

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Join us this month as we celebrate the new Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee games and Detective Pikachu movie trailer with a look inspired by the most iconic Pokémon of all! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blue Sky Beauty, Slider, Video Tagged With: Blue Sky Beauty, design, detective pikachu, glamour, makeup, pikachu, pokemon, tutorial

October 31, 2018 By Banks Lee Leave a Comment

Blue Sky Beauty – A Venom Halloween Special

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Join us for a special Halloween edition of Blue Sky Beauty, where we cover a Venom look that’s quick, easy, and perfect for the holiday! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blue Sky Beauty, Slider, Video Tagged With: Blue Sky Beauty, design, glamour, Halloween, makeup, tutorial, venom

October 15, 2018 By Banks Lee Leave a Comment

Blue Sky Beauty – The Bride: A Haunted Mansion Tutorial

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Join us this month as we get into the Halloween spirit with a killer look inspired by the Haunted Mansion’s own spirit, Constance Hatchaway. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blue Sky Beauty, Slider, Video Tagged With: Blue Sky Beauty, design, glamour, Halloween, makeup, The Haunted Mansion, tutorial

August 15, 2018 By Banks Lee Leave a Comment

Blue Sky Beauty – We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Brush: JAWS Inspired Makeup Tutorial

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Inspired by equal parts Shark Week and equal parts JAWS anniversary, we bring you a makeup look that seriously kills. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blue Sky Beauty, Slider, Video Tagged With: Blue Sky Beauty, design, glamour, jaws, makeup, sharks, tutorial

February 3, 2017 By Brittani Tuttle Leave a Comment

Cornell University hosting a theme park design competition

VR Coaster design
This VR coaster at Fun Spot Orlando is an example of the types of attractions that could be created for this design competition.

The future of theme park and attraction design begins with the dreams and ideas of young designers. HSI Immersive, a Haverford Systems company, hopes to inspire those future theme park creators by sponsoring Cornell University’s theme park design competition for college students. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Event, Theme Parks Tagged With: competition, cornell, cornell university, design, featured, haverford systems, theme park design

November 18, 2016 By Banks Lee 1 Comment

MagicBand 2 unveiled at D23 Destination D

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By Banks Lee

Disney unveiled the new MagicBand 2 today for the first time. It features an updated look designed to be more customizable for guests. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Disney, Video, Walt Disney World Tagged With: 2, accessories, design, featured, magicband, update, Walt Disney World

February 14, 2015 By Banks Lee 5 Comments

Tower Hotel Gifts receives an update with new Tower of Terror merchandise

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With the debut of the Hollywood Tower Hotel Authentic merchandise line on Friday the 13th, came some minor enhancements to the Tower Hotel Gifts shop at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Disney, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Shopping, Walt Disney World Tagged With: authentic, collection, design, Disney's Hollywood Studios, featured, gift shop, hollywood tower hotel, merch, Merchandise, new, props, shirts, store, The Twilight Zone, tower hotel gifts, Tower of Terror, update, Walt Disney World

February 5, 2015 By Banks Lee Leave a Comment

Attractions – The Show – Harry Potter Celebration; Tower of Terror; latest news – Feb. 5, 2015

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Hosts Banks Lee and Elisa Goldman bring you this week’s theme park and attraction news. On this week’s episode: [Read more…]

Filed Under: The Attractions Show Tagged With: attractions, authentic, bellhop, Celebration, design, Disney's Hollywood Studios (Amusement Park), Evanna Lynch (Film Actor), Event, Expo, featured, Florida, fun, Harry Potter Film Series (Film Series), Hollywood, hotel, interview, James Phelps, line, Merchandise, Michael Gambon (Film Actor), news, Oliver Phelps, Orlando, products, shop, show, stars, steven miller, The Twilight Zone Tower Of Terror (Disney Ride), theme park, tower, Travel, Universal Orlando (Amusement Park), Video

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