{"id":402816,"date":"2026-09-17T20:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402816\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:06:32","slug":"fun-spot-to-bring-rides-from-closed-atlanta-park-to-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402816\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Spot to bring rides from closed Atlanta park to Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wofl-fun-spot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Fun Spot plans to add several rides from its former Atlanta-area park to its parks in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zBEiob0-EmE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">video shared by Fun Spot America<\/a>, CEO John Arie Jr. said some rides from the now-closed park in Fayettville, Georgia, will be moved to Orlando and Kissimmee.<\/p>\n<p> Which rides are moving to Florida?  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Arie said the Kissimmee park will get the Tilt-A-Whirl attraction.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Meanwhile, the Orlando park will get Screaming Eagles and Frog Hopper.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In addition to the two Atlanta rides, Orlando will also get a new attraction called Mach Fun. Slated to open around Thanksgiving, the ride from SBF Visa Group is described as a first-of-its-kind interactive 360-degree flying jet ride. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got new things going on,&#8221; Arie said. &#8220;You&#8217;ll start seeing Fun Spot grow again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> New coaster coming Fun Spot? <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In the video, Arie also teased a new roller coaster for one of the Florida parks.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He even mentioned a few coaster manufacturers, including Premiere Rides and Rocky Mountain Construction.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fun Spot has worked with RMC before. It&#8217;s the same company behind Fun Spot&#8217;s Mine Blower and ArieForce One.<\/p>\n<p> Fun Spot Atlanta closes <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fun Spot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/after-nearly-three-decades-fun-spot-america-shuts-down-georgia-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">closed its Atlanta park on Aug. 2<\/a>, leaving the Orlando and Kissimmee locations as the company&#8217;s only remaining parks.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Shortly after the closure of its Atlanta park, Fun Spot sold ArieForce One to Six Flags, which plans to relocated it to one of its parks in 2028 or 2029.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Arie said he wanted the coaster to keep the ArieForce One wherever it ended up.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;The most important thing to me is that it stayed ArieForce One,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I wanted that because of the legacy of our family and my dad and everything else that went into that ride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information gathered from a video Fun Spot posted on its YouTube channel and from previous FOX reporting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/theme-parks\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando theme park news<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\/orlando\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/osceola-county\/kissimmee\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kissimmee<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Fun Spot plans to add several rides from its former Atlanta-area park to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,1975,115,1335,139,141,140,1976,2411,628],"class_list":["post-402816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-kissimmee","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-osceola-county","tag-theme-parks","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}