Planet Coaster: Console Edition Gets Two New Expansions This Week

Written by Brandon Hofer on April 27, 2021

News: Later on this week you’ll be able to revisit an iconic 80s franchise as well as create your own blockbuster experience.

Frontier Developments has announced two brand new packs for Planet Coaster: Console Edition. Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters and the Studios Pack. These will be coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on April 29, giving players everywhere the chance to expand their parks like never before.

Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters is the ultimate love letter to the hit movie. It features the vocal talents of Dan Aykroyd and William Atherton in a brand new story-driven scenario. There are also authentic scenery pieces aplenty and sound effects straight from the 1984 original, including the ECTO-1, Slimer, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the Ghostbusters HQ, and Spook Central, offering everything players need to create a hauntingly good park.

Players can enthrall guests with an assortment of new blueprints, a multitude of building materials, and a brand new flat ride and coaster. These are RollerGhoster, a twisting, turning, Slimer-themed kiddie coaster; and The Ghostbusters Experience, an interactive tracked ride where guests bust ghosts and score points as they ride around in the ECTO-1. Players can even take a ride themselves and fire Proton Packs to take down the colorful spirits and specters in first-person.

Bringing the blockbuster experience to Planet Coaster: Console Edition, the Studios Pack lets players choreograph heart-pounding stunt shows, design exciting backlot tours, and create cinematic thrill rides that put guests right in the heart of the action.

The Studios Pack contains over 90 new blueprints, hundreds of new scenery items and construction pieces, and three new rides. These are Big Screen Tour, a bus-based ride bringing park guests face-to-face with silver screen spectacles; Re-Motion, a simulator-style tracked ride in which an adjustable robotic arm tilts riders in all directions; and Horror Heights, a chilling drop tower dark ride.

Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters is available for a suggested retail price of £12.99/$14.99/€14.99. The Studios Pack is available for a suggested retail price of £7.99/$9.99/€9.99. They both release for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5, on April 29th. Will you be picking them up?