Romanian government puts final nail in the coffin of Dracula theme park. Dracula's eternal sleep can remain undisturbed after Romanian authorities decided to scrap a project for an amusement park dedicated to everybody's favourite vampire. Following a plague of difficulties, the Romanian government spelt the death of the theme park project in Snagov, a resort town some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Bucharest once favoured by late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu. The Dracula Park company had under the former Social Democrat government in 2003 acquired the right to build the park on a 460-hectare (1,150-acre) piece of land near Snagov, where Dracula himself or rather Vlad Tepes, the inspiration for the fictional character of the vampire, is buried.

"In a world of fast and furious, he wants to build the thinking man's roller coaster."

The great quote from the article is from legendary roller coaster designer John Allen:

" 'On a curve, we very carefully determine how much thrust your body, and the car, can take,' he said. 'Then we determine what the proper angle would be to bank the curve so that the girl will get thrown into the fella's arms. I devote a great deal of time to this.' "