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Brady Macdonald

Brady MacDonald is a theme park reporter for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. He’s covered the theme park industry for more than 25 years. He writes about Disney, Universal, Six Flags, SeaWorld, Cedar Fair and Legoland parks in Southern California, across the United States and around the world. As a member of the SCNG Features team, he also writes about entertainment, travel, pop culture, music, restaurants and craft beer.

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The Firebird floorless roller coaster at Six Flags America in Maryland. (Courtesy of Six Flags)

Six Flags begins selling off amusement parks

The San Francisco Bay Area rivalry will soon sort itself out with California’s Great America set to close in the next few years — leaving only Six Flags Discovery Kingdom...
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Everything you need to know about Shanghai Disneyland

2:00 A.M. Brady MacDonald Everything you need to know about Shanghai Disneyland (Disney) The $5.5-billion Shanghai Disneyland will blend a traditional Magic Kingdom-style theme park with attractions based on recent...
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Hawaii debut

Even as Disney celebrates the 40th anniversary of its Central Florida kingdom, it rolls out something new in the company portfolio: a resort in Hawaii that actually goes light on...
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Aulani restaurants

The restaurants at Aulani are expensive and limited, unless you like fine-dining food and prices at every meal. Here's an example of the meals we had at the resort. On...