Topple Tower ride at Marineland won’t be open this year?

A regular visitor to the blog alerted me to a couple of notes on the Marineland section of the Screamscape website. Apparently there is a possibility that the Topple Tower ride at Marineland will be dismantled. At the very least, it won’t be running again this year. I took a video of the ride almost…

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    Disney magic returns to Falls

    From the Niagara Falls Review: Another romance. Another Disney classic. But hardly just another show. When a $2-million production of “Beauty and the Beast” opens next Friday, it will be the most telling sign yet whether Niagara Falls is ready for big-time theatre. The kind you see in Toronto and New York. The kind that…

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    Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls moves forward on $71M expansion

    From the Niagara Gazette: It was a year of success for Macerich Real Estate Trust and its Town of Niagara-based Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls, even if the dog days of summer seemed to drag on and on. The year started and ended in victory for the mall, receiving approval on its request for tax…

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    Question of the week: How many people have tightrope walked across Niagara Falls?

    From the National Post: A) Eleven — 10 men and one woman since 1859. Daredevil Nik Wallenda will become the 11th…

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    Wallenda hopes to follow in footsteps of tightrope walkers

    From the Niagara Falls Review: By Wednesday afternoon, Nik Wallenda will find out if he will be come the first person in more than a century to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope. The Niagara Parks Commission says it will announce its decision on Wallenda’s proposal for a cross-gorge skywalk at some point…

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    Niagara’s Fallsview – The Casino For All Reasons

    From the Toronto Star: You could be there for hours and never guess. In fact, you could check in and spend a weekend – or a week – and have no idea. The Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls is the least…uh… casino-like place you’ll ever encounter.

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    Falls should ‘definitely’ look at hotel tax

    From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls should consider levying a new tax on hotel rooms to fund tourism initiatives and take the burden of local ratepayers, says Mayor Jim Diodati. “Niagara Falls, N.Y. charges a bed tax in their hotels, and that’s how they fund their tourism,” said Diodati. “Niagara Falls (Ont.) should definitely…

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    Maid vessels are an icon of Niagara Falls

    From the Niagara Falls Review: The narrow road takes a hairpin turn down the gorge — and your heart stops. It’s one of the natural wonders of the world and even on a damp January day, with the Falls a thousand shades of white and grey, the sight of all that water churning over the…

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    Scare camera earns Niagara Falls haunted house worldwide recognition

    From 680 News: Laughing at others scared out of their wits is translating into big business and worldwide recognition for a Niagara Falls haunted house. Millions have clicked on the photos posted by Nightmares Fear Factory and their infamous scare camera — soldiers gripping each other in panic, a husband pushing his terrified wife in…

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