Thrillify Theme Park News

Cedar Fair announced that Valleyfair is for sale! I guess Cedar Fair wants to pay down it’s debts and that means putting Valleyfair up for the highest bidder. Granted, I’d love to own it, but I don’t think $100 would cover it. However, even more disturbing news is that Cedar Fair is thinking of selling [...]

New for 2009 is the Soak City water park! Valleyfair is adding a 350,000-gallon wave pool, aka Breakers Bay, with 200 feet of beach!  Imagine that, a nice beach in the Twin Cities!  No diving allowed though as it only goes down 6ft at the deepest. Soak City is about double the size of the previous Valleyfair water park and spans [...]

A lightning strike over the weekend may have caused a slow burn in underground power lines. This then took out the power to a large chunk, half, of Valleyfair last night. Riders stuck on rollercoasters had to walk down the lift hill and other riders were helped out of rides also. No injuries were reported [...]

-G has recently taken a trip to Valleyfair and shot some nice Renegade photos along with quite a few other rides in the park. Myself, I haven’t made it out to Valleyfair yet, but hopefully at the end of this month. Check out -G’s Photos.

Tomorrow, May 12th, Valleyfair opens for the season.  More exciting yet is that Renegade also opens for the first time ever! Renegade boasts a never-before-experienced twisting first drop, a low-to-the-ground high speed S-turn and a high speed station fly-by. Renegade will stand 104 feet tall and will drop 91 feet. It will reach a top [...]

The opening of Valleyfair for 2007 is just around the corner. On May 12 the park will be open from 10am – 6pm and starting May 17th, the park will be open daily. For the full daily schedule, see the Valleyfair hours page. Ohh and Whitewater Country Waterpark opens May 26!

As more and more boards get nailed on, Valleyfair’s new coaster, Renegade, is taking shape.  See the view from the top of the coaster at the ThemeParkReview forums.

I took a trip past Valleyfair this weekend and you could see Renegade peeping over the trees. Unfortunately, you can’t see much more. It’s stuck in an area that isn’t viewable from the road so I don’t have any good pictures to share.

I snapped this shot as we zoomed past Valleyfair today. Disregard my wife’s hand. You can see parts of Renegade rising above the trees in the background. In the foreground you see Excalibur. We did plan on getting a better shot but didn’t drive back by on the way home.

We drove past Valleyfair to see if we could see any piles of wood or anything happening with Renagade from the road and couldn’t see anything. We took a picture of Excalibur though though to show everyone what we saw. From what I understand the new coaster should be around here somewhere.