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Worlds of Fun, is a 235-acre (95 ha) theme park located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation , it was founded by American businessmen Lamar Hunt and Jack Steadman under the ownership of Hunt's company, MId-America Enterprises in 1973.
Zambezi Zinger is a wooden roller coaster located at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.Manufactured by Great Coasters International (GCI) and designed by Skyline Design, the hybrid coaster features a wooden track with a steel support structure, and it opened to the public on June 19, 2023.
Prowler is a wooden roller coaster located at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri. Manufactured by Great Coasters International , the $8-million ride opened to the public on May 2, 2009. [ 1 ] The ride is located in the Africa section of the park behind Zulu.
Cyclone Sam's Cloudpoofer 2000 is an indoor Wipeout attraction at Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Cyclone Sam's officially opened to the public on April 1, 1995. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Both the park and SEIU Local 1, which represents 58 unionized Worlds of Fun maintenance workers, described a Thursday and Friday set of negotiations as productive. Workers voted to authorize a ...
On October 29, 2003, Worlds of Fun announced that Orient Express would be removed. That same day, the park announced that a new spinning roller coaster named Spinning Dragons would be added to the park. [3] The ride was set to open on April 3, 2004, but the opening was delayed. Spinning Dragons officially opened two weeks later on April 17, 2004.
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The park's owners at the time, Hunt Midwest Entertainment Inc., and the makers of the ride eventually settled with the girl's family for $200,000. [14] This made Timber Wolf the only ride so far at Worlds of Fun with a fatality. On August 2, 2014, an 11-year-old boy was taken to a hospital after suffering a concussion and a bloody nose on the ride.