Derek Potter

About

Recent Activity

Recent 'Blog Flume' posts from Derek:

• Master the Midway: The Theme Park Insider Guide to Winning Carnival Games (2014-11-21)
• Theme Park History: The Dark Story of Thomas Edison and Topsy the Elephant (2014-11-05)
• Hard Rock Park... What's Left, Six Years Later (2014-09-23)
• Kings Island debuts Banshee, the world's longest inverted coaster (2014-04-18)
• Theme Park History: Walt Disney and the beginning of his 'World' (2013-12-15)
• Theme Park History: July 17, 1955 and the original '...And something goes terribly wrong' (2013-12-03)
• Theme Park History: 10 top movies or TV shows filmed in theme parks (2013-11-16)
• Theme Park History: L.A. Thompson, the father of the themed roller coaster (2013-11-10)
• Theme Park History: Cedar Point's near-death experience (2013-10-27)
• Theme Park History: Dr. Martin Couney and the Coney Island 'Child Hatchery' (2013-10-20)
• The worst people you meet in a theme park (2013-06-08)
• Theme Park History: George Tilyou and New York's Steeplechase Park (2013-03-24)