Shows & Events

Review of The Swamp Tour at Wild Adventures: This Up, Close and Personal Show Will Have You Touch, Feed and Even Hold Some Amazing Creatures!

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Family at Wild Adventures Swamp Tour with skink

On Father’s Day 2025 we had the chance to experience the Discovery Tours – Swamp Tour at Wild Adventures Theme Park. This is not a “tour” in the traditional sense where you’ll be walking around, but instead a small and intimate show limited to just 20 people where you’ll have the chance to see, touch, feed and hold some of the park’s amazing animal ambassadors. It really feels more like an animal encounter than a show. However, instead of just one animal, you’ll get to meet several. From feeding an African bullfrog to holding a snake, you’ll certainly leave this experience with great memories and probably some great pictures too!

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Scout Overnight Adventure Coming to Fun Spot Atlanta in Fall 2025

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Scouts by ArieForce One at Fun Spot America Atlanta

Have you ever wanted to camp next to a roller coaster? Fun Spot Atlanta will give Cub scouts, BSA Scouting America scouts and Girl scouts just that opportunity this fall by camping in the ArieForce One Courtyard at their Scout Overnight Adventure. For those not familiar, Fun Spot America Atlanta is a theme park located in Fayetteville, GA, just south of Atlanta that is home to great rides and go-karts including the world famous Arie Force One roller coaster. The event will consist of a night of camping fun followed by a day at the park with some fun bonus events like a Behind-the-Scenes Tour. The park will offer this event on three different nights catering to each of the different groups. The event is priced at $90 and includes camping, meals and unlimited rides.

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Universal Studios Hollywood Will Be the Squash Venue for the 2028 Olympics in LA

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squash at the 2028 Olympics at Universal

The Universal Studios Hollywood lot will serve as the venue for the racket sport of squash for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Specifically, the court complex is expected to be setup on the Universal Studios Lower Lot which is also the home to the new Super Nintendo World, Jurassic World – The Ride and Transformers: The Ride. Squash will make its Olympic debut at the Los Angeles Games along with flag football. The sports of baseball/softball, cricket, and lacrosse will be returning the games after being absent for some time.

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Celebrate Friday the 13th at Busch Gardens with Lights-On Tours of the Stanglewood Estate Howl-O-Scream House!

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Stranglewood Estate Howl-O-Scream House at Busch Gardens Tampa

Howl-O-Scream doesn’t start until September, but Busch Gardens is using Friday the 13th to help promote this year’s event a few months in advance. In this case they’re having a faux realtor style “open house” for Stranglewood Estate which essentially amounts to a lights-on tour opportunity. The event is actually two days, running Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th. Halloween is big business at theme parks with year round planning for what are essentially several large extra attractions for those months. Tickets are already on sale for Howl-O-Scream 2025 at Busch Gardens Tampa and no doubt the goal of the June 13-14, 2025 event is to build excitement for this year’s event.

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Run a 5k at the SeaWorld Orlando Rescue Run on June 21, 2025

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SeaWorld Rescue Run Logo
SeaWorld Rescue Run (Courtesy of SeaWorld)

You can run, skip, jog, or stroll through SeaWorld on Saturday, June 21, 2025 on the park’s picturesque pathways as part of the SeaWorld Rescue Run 5k.  There will also be kid’s runs varying from a 50 yard dash to a 200 yard dash for those 7 and under. The 5k race starts at 7am with free parking open at 5:45am. Participants get all these great perks.

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Wild Adventures Offers New $69.99 Summer Wild Card Good for Unlimited Summer Visits Sunday Through Friday

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Summer Wild Card Promotion at Wild Adventures
Summer Wild Card Promotion (courtesy of Wild Adventures)

Wild Adventures is offering a new Summer Wild Card pass for just $69.99 that will get you into the park everyday but Saturday until September 1st. The Summer Wild Card is slightly more than the $123.99 silver season pass good until the end of the year. If you predominantly visit theme parks in summer this could be a great bargain, especially with a single day advance ticket being $45.99 and $59.99 for gate purchase you may as well get the Summer Wild Card if there’s any chance you come back before September 1st.

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A Review of a Delightful Day at Kentucky Kingdom and Their New Christmas Event

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Sledding hill and Ferris wheel at Kentucky Kingdom

We visited Kentucky Kingdom December 28, 2024 for their Christmas at Kentucky Kingdom event. For this event the park operates select rides, has special shows, great decorations and a massive sledding hill. The weather in Northern Kentucky in December can be hit or miss, but we had a perfect weather day. This was our first visit to the park and we found Kentucky Kingdom to be full of charm, but with a few quirks that didn’t necessarily detract from the experience, but instead were quite unique.

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Celebrating Dollywood’s 40th Anniversary with Eyes Toward Massive $50 Million Investment for 2026

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The 2025 season and Dollywood’s 40th anniversary are underway. For 2025 there’s no big new ride or attraction, but instead we’re getting a new restaurant, a bunch of refreshes/refurbishments and improvements to the guest experience. The park is already looking forward to 2026 with a reported $50 million expansion, the largest in the park’s history, and a major new attraction. An announcement this year teased a “Take Flight” theme with rumors of an indoor suspended roller coaster or flying theater coming to the back of Wildwood Grove. However, the additions for 2025 still represent millions of dollars in significant improvements that will make the park more enjoyable for years to come and help put the “theme” in theme park.

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Happy Easter! Maybe Someday there will be an Easter Roller Coaster at a Place Like Holiday World?

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Easter Roller Coaster
Easter Coaster made with Gemini Imagen 3 AI

Happy Easter! I did a search for an Easter roller coaster and came up empty, so I used Google’s Gemini Imagen 3 AI to make one. Like many things AI it’s not perfect, especially with the use of candy canes throughout? Perhaps the closest you come to an Easter roller coaster is Jack Rabbit at Kennywood. Probably the most likely place to see an Easter theme would be Holiday World in Indiana. Right now we have Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween and 4th of July, but maybe an Easter expansion could come some day…

Tickets on Sale for New Universal Horror Unleashed in Las Vegas Ahead of August 14, 2025 Opening!

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Halloween is one of the best times to visit a theme park. The weather is cooler and in the evening many of the parks put on amazing haunted houses, scare zones and other spooky entertainment. For many people Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights is considered the best of breed. Now they’re building a location at Area 15 in Las Vegas where you can experience Halloween Horror Nights year-round. Universal Horror Unleashed opens August 14, 2025 and tickets are on sale now!

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