Theme Park Pulse: News and Notes for Nov. 20
Entertainment Donald Wood November 20, 2015

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It will be months before visitors can actually ride on Dollywood's new Lightning Rod roller coaster, but the company’s official YouTube page is offering a virtual 360-degree, point-of-view ride.
A reportedly drunk man scaled the steps of a Mesoamerican pyramid at the Mexico Pavilion of Disney World’s Epcot World Showcase in Orlando recently, and it was thankfully caught on tape.
In a case of the strange, an animal rights group is suing to get a chimpanzee named Candy out of the Dixie Landin' amusement park in Baton Rouge where the animal smokes cigarettes and is given soft drinks instead of water.
A team of engineers at Force Dynamics retrofitted an amusement park-style, hydraulic motion platform to play Grand Theft Auto V, including riding a roller coaster. The results are amazing.
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