Mike Graham and Chad Miller are on their way to California for Amusement Today’s annual Golden Ticket Awards.  Anticipation is mounting.  For the past two years, The Voyage at Holiday World has been ranked as the #1 Wooden Roller Coaster in the World.  Will it be the top rated wooden coaster again this year?
Our designs [...]

The Voyage will be featured this evening (Wednesday, September 2) on The Travel Channel.  They are airing a series called “Extreme Terror Rides.”  Tonight’s show is part two of three.  Hades will be featured in part three.  The show airs tonight at 8PM EST.
We’re not sure about the “terror” part of the title.  We think [...]

Thanks for listening to the Gravitycast Podcast.  We’ve published three episodes so far and are getting ready to record our next show soon.  Our next couple of shows are going to look back on specific rides and give some background behind their design – sort of like a FUN FLASHBACK show.
We’re going to start off [...]

Often a ride ends up different than the rendering.  Why would they be different?  The answer is somewhat simple: the renderings are typically produced at the end of the conceptual design stage.  However, the reasons are more nebulous.  The rendering is often created after a couple of design iterations when we feel the design portrays [...]

Recently, Larry and I were able to attend the 2008 Amusement Today Golden Ticket Awards in Florida. The award ceremony was generously hosted by Give Kids the World Village which is an amazingly heartwarming place in Kissimmee, Florida. They gave us all a very warm welcome…