roller coasters
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Crash Test Dummy Failures Send Them Flying Off Roller Coaster Into Nearby Hotel
Stories about amusement parks are typically dominated by two topics: either the opening of a new attraction or the catastrophic failure of an old one. This time it was neither, as two crash test dummies designed to ensure a roller coaster was operating safely failed, causing them to be launched through the roof of a…
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Fully Armed And Operational Cat Battle Stations, And More Of The Best Toys Of The Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, our weekly roundup of all things wonderful and plastic. This week, even more Avengers: Infinity War madness, Lego’s latest Creator Expert set, and we all bow down to our feline overlords, because the feline overlords are now packing insane amounts of heat. Praise them, and the rest of this week’s…
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I Want To Visit This 145,000-Piece LEGO Jurassic Park Roller Coaster
Video: Modern genetics still hasn’t brought us the dinosaur-filled theme park that Michael Crichton first envisioned back in 1990. So LEGO master James Burrows built his own using 125,000 bricks to create an entire Jurassic Park theme park you’ll wish you could actually line up for.
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Wearing VR Goggles On Six Flags Roller Coasters Is A Next-Level Vomit Factory
We get it, OK? Virtual reality — it’s all very exciting and cool. Who wouldn’t want to be transported to another world that’s way more awesome than this one? But Samsung, who’s known for overdoing it, is now turning popular roller coasters across North America into insane torture machines using Gear VR headsets.