Spirit Airlines is now part of history and for many people it offered cheap transportation to their favorite theme parks. However, did you know there once was a Spirit Airlines attraction at a theme park? Spirit Airlines was part of Wannado City, a career-focused theme park that opened in 2004 inside the Sawgrass Mills mall in Sunrise, Florida. Guests could explore a plane fuselage painted in Spirit colors/logo (the older gray/black scheme as opposed to the later iconic yellow planes). The attraction was called Spirit Airlines Flight Academy and was interactive allowing guest to operate a flight simulator!

For the 2026 season Dollywood is making a change to one of its oldest and most popular rides, the Dollywood Express steam trains. Both of Dollywood’s engines are being converted to run on oil instead of coal. This is for the comfort and safety of patrons, but also eliminates the risk of an errant cinder causing a fire in dry seasons. Dollywood has two engines, No. 192, named Klondike Katie, and No. 70, known as Cinderella (which ironically will no longer have cinders). Both these World War II engines actually previously ran on oil, but were converted to coal before being acquired by Dollywood. So the renovation will return the locomotives to closer to how they were historically without impacting the experience for riders.