Even uncaffeinated thrill ride fans may be drawn to SeaWorld Orlando’s new coffee shop. Its décor includes two operational models of the theme park’s Kraken and Mako roller coasters. The miniatures ...

3D printing allows someone to, as the name suggests, print something 3D. This extraordinary type of printing has been used in several fields to create toys, puzzles and even things with practical uses ...

Two vintage pieces of amusement-park history have spent decades in a private collection in Orlando, and now they’re among items on their way to museums dedicated to roller coasters and to carousels.

While they don’t give the physical thrill of a real one, model roller coasters are always fun to watch. However, they actually make a poor analog of a full-sized ride, as gravitational force and ...

Ever wanted to build a roller coaster in your home, but lacked the millions of dollars, hundreds of acres of land and supportive partner you would invariably need to achieve your dream? If so, you may ...

[Jared Holladay] is a computer engineering student at the University of Cincinnati and a life-long roller coaster fanatic. A lot of people look at roller coasters as an exciting example of physics, ...

When the weekly hang is in the William Pennington Engineering Building and the conversation is about gravitational force and laws of motion, then the friend group is the Roller Coaster Club. “I wanted ...

A new class of extremely compact and vertically oriented roller coasters popping up at theme parks around the world are packing lots of thrills into tight spaces. The vertical rides do away with the ...

Who would have thought a ride in a Mini could be so scary? As we stood in a long line to ride a Mini roller coaster in Cincinnati, ominous thunderstorm clouds and lightning rolled in overhead to help ...

Roller coaster lover John Ivers says he never had much opportunity to visit amusement parks. So he found a novel means of enjoying the rides, building two of them in his backyard near Vincennes, Ind., ...