Amusement and Theme Parks

Top 10 roller coasters at Six Flags Magic Mountain

3 Sep 2010

In compiling my Top 10 list for Six Flags Magic Mountain, I tried to combine the can’t-miss roller coasters with the one-of-a-kind rides you can’t find anywhere else. The Valencia park is about mind-blending speeds, gut-wrenching drops and scream-inducing thrills of the wooden and steel coaster kind. Magic Mountain currently remains tied with Ohio’s Cedar Point in [...]

Universal Studios Hollywood unveils Halloween Horror Nights 2010 mazes and scare zones

2 Sep 2010

Halloween Horror Nights 2010 returns to Universal Studios Hollywood with a lineup of all-too-familiar freak show faces — Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Chucky and Jigsaw — that we’ve seen many times before. HHN 2010 will feature five haunted mazes and six scare zones over 17 nights: Sept. 24 and 25 and Oct. 1, 2, 8, 9, [...]

Children's Fairyland turns 60

2 Sep 2010

When adults return to Children's Fairyland in Oakland, there's a question many ask. "What I get asked all the time is, 'Why did you shrink Willie the Whale?'," said C.J. Hirschfield, the park's executive director.