Canada’s Wonderland
Ontario, Canada
Cedar Fair Entertainment
Park News - (1/20/12) The first 96 seats for the first ride on Leviathan are now up for auction, with the proceeds going to benefit “SickKids” You can find out how to bid here.
(11/14/11) Theme Park Tourist has posted an interesting review of the 2011 season at Canada’s Wonderland and the various changes that took place over the season.
(9/27/11) A new rumor has begun floating around over at Theme Park Review claiming that Canada’s Wonderland could also possibly be adding a Dinosaurs Alive upcharge attraction in 2012. They’ve also posted a few new construction shots of Leviathan.
(7/11/11) A great video showing off the unique Starlight Spectacular show taking place at the park this season can be found embedded below. While it shares the same basic name as other Starlight attractions installed over the past couple of years, this one is very different and features a lot of mapped projection effects on Wonder Mountain. It’s quite good... you’ve really just got to watch it all. Amazing work from Cedar Fair who apparently saw the opportunity to put the park’s unique mountain structure to work for them.
(5/11/11) According to the Ital page for the park’s former Jet Scream ride, the ride is now listed as having been sold. Anyone know what park bought it?
(9/1/10) Amusement Insider has posted a nice look at Canada’s Wonderland showing off Behemoth and almost every other ride in the park.
2012 - Dinosaurs Alive - (11/16/11) Canada’s Wonderland has finally confirmed their worst kept secret of the year… and relaunched the Dinosaurs Alive preview website. Check out all the details about the park’s new upcharge attraction coming in 2012.
(10/31/11) The latest report at CWMania claims that the first robotic dinosaurs (appearing to look like Raptors) have appeared on site at the park in the maintenance area.
(10/18/11) Sorry to say that it looks like Google updated their archive once again, putting the Dinosaurs Alive promo behind behind the walled garden. But enough of you saw it during the two windows to know it was legit… now how long do we have to wait for the park to announce it already?
(10/17/11) As predicted, Canada’s Wonderland quickly pulled the Dinosaurs Alive promotional website behind a password curtain, blocking access. That said… the site was semi archived by Google’s cache however, which can be found here.
(10/14/11) It seems Dinosaurs Alive will be coming to Canada’s Wonderland after all. A new highly animated website promoting the attraction has been found at: www.dinosaursalive.canadaswonderland.com. No word on if they will announce this any day now, or if this site will suddenly go dark.
 2012 - Leviathan - (2/3/12) New pictures of Leviathan have been posted to the official CW Facebook page. More progress has been made on the ride itself than what they are showing in these pictures however, and I’m told that we could see the entire layout completed within a week or so.
(1/25/12) The new Leviathan trains are now on site at Canada’s Wonderland and the park has sent out a sneak peek photo on their Facebook page this week.
(1/24/12) New pictures of Leviathan taken during an on-site construction tour have been posted to CWMania. Very nice close-ups.
(1/17/12) An incredible new view of Leviathan, as seen from the air, has been posted to PureCoaster this week in the form of a photo and a fly-over video of the park.
(1/10/12) CraveCoasters has posted a new Leviathan construction update from Canada’s Wonderland taken during a visit on yesterday. As expected… Leviathan is living up to its name.
(12/19/11) CWMania has posted a new construction update showing off the massive Leviathan coaster.
(12/13/11) New progress pictures of Leviathan have been posted to Theme Park Review this week.
(11/28/11) New Leviathan pictures taken during a backstage construction tour have been posted to Theme Park Review this week.
(11/22/11) New construction pictures of Leviathan have been posted to Theme Park Review this week, where we get our first look at that massive first drop, now fully built.
(11/14/11) A nice construction update for Leviathan has been posted to Theme Park Review this week. The massive lift hill and first drop are mostly in place, with only the top of the arch left to go. I’d expect to see this put into place later this week.
(11/2/11) A new construction update from the Leviathan site has been posted to CWMania this week where it has now grown taller than Behemoth.
(10/31/11) New construction pictures of Leviathan can be found over at Theme Park Review this week. According to the official Leviathan Blog, they have 17 piers left to drill and have poured 2045 cubic meters of concrete so far. They also mention that as they climb towards installing the top of the lift hill, some sections of that will require four cranes to install.
(10/24/11) Thanks to one of our readers for sending in a small batch
of new pictures of Leviathan going up.
(10/19/11) A new Leviathan construction update can be found at the park’s Facebook page this week.
(10/10/11) The latest Leviathan construction update can be found over at CWMania.
(10/5/11) A new construction update for Leviathan can be found at CWMania.
(9/20/11) A new construction report on Leviathan can be found over at CWMania as track has gone vertical for the brake run.
(9/19/11) New construction pictures of Leviathan can be found over at the official website this week, meanwhile the blog report mentions that 40% of the footers are now complete and that the first track sections will begin to go up later this week for the brake run and station.
(8/31/11) According to local source, Canada’s Wonderland has been receiving almost daily deliveries of track, supports and pieces for Levithan lately, which have begun filling up inside the employee parking lot.
(8/18/11 - Update) The official wesbite and details for Leviathan are now live, showing off B&M’s first ever coaster to break the 300ft mark. Leviathan will stand 306 feet tall and drop you to the ground below at an 80 degree angle, hitting 92 mph in the process. The overall track length is 5486 feet, and much like how Millennium Force tried to be different from Magnum at Cedar Point, Leviathan shows off more high speed over-banked turns and twists and is less about having a long row of back to back camelbacks. Check out the videos below.
(8/18/11) We will find out more in a few hours, but I’ve been led to believe that the new coaster will be called Leviathan, which is fitting, as it should be bigger than Behemoth. Meanwhile what looks like a very possible logo for the new ride has also been leaked out over at Theme Park Review. Scroll down a bit and check it out.
(8/17/11) A new teaser animation is playing on the Canada’s Wonderland website main page now, where the dark skyline goes by and the shape of a dragon looking creature comes into focus (and later on with green skin and red angry eyes) along with the quote, “This is my park now”.
Meanwhile a reader sent in a great photo showing off the overall construction site cleared so far for the project. Some other new pictures of B&M track with magnetic braking units on the back of trucks headed to the park have been posted to Theme Park Review.
(8/16/11) More pictures of the CW2012 project parts and pieces arriving on site can be found at Theme Park Review.
(8/15/11) The first sections of aqua B&M track have now arrived at Canada’s Wonderland. You can find pictures of them postd to CWMania.
(8/10/11) A nice surprise was discovered at Canada’s Wonderland the other day as the first aqua blue support pieces were discovered on site for the park’s 2012 coaster project. Making things even better, the manufacturing stickers found on the pieces indicate are a match for those used by B&M. What is odd however is that the code used on the part numbers is “MC”, the same style code used previously on the park’s Behemoth. You can find pictures of the pieces and the stickers posted to CWMania this week.
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