Two vintage pieces of amusement-park history have spent decades in a private collection in Orlando, and now they’re among items on their way to museums dedicated to roller coasters and to carousels.

While they don’t give the physical thrill of a real one, model roller coasters are always fun to watch. However, they actually make a poor analog of a full-sized ride, as gravitational force and ...

3D printing allows someone to, as the name suggests, print something 3D. This extraordinary type of printing has been used in several fields to create toys, puzzles and even things with practical uses ...

The College of Engineering at Cal State Long Beach has its own model roller coaster, designed by a former student, that can provide real-life demonstrations of the laws of physics while its toy trains ...

Last month, LEGO unveiled the their Creator Expert 10261 Roller Coaster, and it is poised to be a very hot set indeed. First off, this thing is massive at 4124 pieces, measuring over 20″ high, 34″ ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) — When Jared Holladay was in middle school and stood in line for his favorite roller coasters, he didn’t just watch the ride. He watched how the ride worked, from the chains that ...

Busch Gardens will host the “Pretzel Coaster Build-Off Contest” with Snyders of Hanover again this summer. Anyone in the U.S. may enter the contest by building a roller-coaster model out of Snyder’s ...

[Jared Holladay] is a computer engineering student at the University of Cincinnati and a life-long roller coaster fanatic. A lot of people look at roller coasters as an exciting example of physics, ...

Regional students will have the opportunity to explore the ups and downs of some basic principles of physics in a new educational program being sponsored by Quassy Amusement Park. The American ...