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Park News - (5/5/08) After being one of the first parks (if not the first) to have their own Blog, Holiday World is taking the next step and has also added Twitter, a kind of micro blog style where each “tweet” is limited to a maximum of 140 characters, making it perfect for cell phones. “During the season, we will post about the least-busy days to visit, information about special event and the weather, plus we’ll answer the question ‘what’s going on today’ on an ongoing basis,” says Koch. “Our ‘tweets’ will be helpful to amilies who are visiting our park and, we hope, entertaining to those Who just want to stay in touch.”
  (4/24/08) Holiday World is looking for Just One Question from you readers. “If you had the opportunity to ask Will Koch just one question about our coasters, what would it be?” Follow the link to the HoliBlog and post your question in the Comments section.
  (4/18/08) Earlier this morning (4:30am) an Earthquake rocked the southern Illinois area, registering at a magnitude of 5.2. The quake was apparently felt as far away as Milwaukee and Cincinnati and cause a few skyscrapers in Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago to rock for a bit. This was followed apparently by a smaller 4.6 aftershock around 10:15am. For everyone wondering, Holiday World reports that everyone and every coaster is fine. No word yet from any other parks.
  (4/14/08) According to some of the latest posts on the HoliBlog, the park has begun the pre-season test runs on The Voyage and Raven as well as some construction shots of the new waterpark addition. There is even a shot of Mrs. Koch getting the first ride on the new Star Spangled Carousel. Now if you’re wondering why all the test riders on Voyage and Raver are wearing safety glasses, they say it’s to protect from “the occasional grit from the graphite that is used to prep the track.”
  (3/13/08) As a sign of the huge growth Holiday World has undergone over the past several years the park has now added two new General Managers to the staff.
  (1/8/08) The In The Loop video podcast this week shows off the HoliWood Nights coaster event from 2007.
  (12/21/07) Holiday World has announced the dates and plans for the 2008 HoliWood Nights enthusiast event that will take place May 23rd – 24th and include two nights of ERT. To attend this event you either have to be an official coaster club member of one of the groups listed on the site or come as a guest of one.
  (8/6/07) Holdiay World has had to add some trim brakes to The Voyage (or turn them up) due to some maintenance concerns. You can see a video of the train running through the new brake area posted to Theme Park Review, though they report the impact to the ride experience is minimal which is good news.

2008 - Star Spangled Carousel & Reindeer Games - (2/27/08) The HoliBlog has posted new pictures showing off the pieces of the Star Spangled Carousel arriving at the park.
  (12/3/07) Screamscape has confirmed with Holiday World that the Star Spangled Carousel is a “gently used” Chance carousel (36 foot diameter) with 30 Allen Herschell-type horses that will be added to the former Thunder Bumpers area in the 4th of July section of the park. Reindeer Games will be a Moser Spring Ride purchased from Wild West World which only ran for a month or so, so it’s pretty much a brand new ride. It will go in place of Kid’s Castle in Rudolph’s Reindeer Ranch. Screamscape has also been informed that all of the park’s coasters and the Raging Rapids will each add a Test Seat out front for people who are worried about the seat-belt lengths.
  (11/30/07) Holiday World has announced a pair of new attractions for the 2008 season on their HoliBlog yesterday: A new 4th of July themed Carousel called the Star Spangled Carousel and a 30 foot tall kiddie tower ride going into the Christmas area of the park called Reindeer Games. Other new improvements to the park will include tram service for the parking lot and the addition of various clocks around the park to help guests deal with the confusing time-zone issues as the park is very close to where Eastern Time turns into Central.

2008 - Kima Bay - (9/20/07) Holiday World will add Kima Bay, a monkey themed waterplay attraction at a cost of $1.7 million to Splashin’ Safari in 2008. Kima Bay will feature 7 slides, over 100 play elements and 125 water jets packed into a four story interactive structure topped off with a 1,200 gallon tipping bucket of water. Kima is the Swahili word for monkey. In addition to Kima Bay the waterpark will also add a new Pepsi Oasis station and restroom building, increasing the size of the waterpark by 2 acres bringing it to a total of 25 acres. The play structure will be provided by WhiteWater West.
  The park has budgeted to spend $6 million in 2008 however so future announcements will be forthcoming for additional attractions and improvements throughout the fall. You can also watch the construction on Kima Bay online through the park’s Kima Bay Construction Cam.