The VR attraction specialists of SPREE Interactive (formerly Holodeck VR), headquartered in Nuremberg/Germany, and the special effect experts from Los Angeles-based Pixomondo, joined forces to create the new VR gaming experience “Mission to Mars“. (...) read more
France-based SOFRECO consulting and engineering company has been contracted to develop Saudi Entertainment Academy in Riadh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) – a newly founded institute focused on the training of professionals for the local leisure and (...) read more
Right in time for Christmas season Tivoli Gardens, which is located in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen, opens its new roller coaster “The Milky Way Express“ today. The new coaster replaces the old “Odin Express“, which has retired after 30 million (...) read more
Following a construction period of over two years, Germany’s Europa-Park Rust celebrates its grand opening of the new indoor water world Rulantica today with more than 600 guests (also read our project report in EAP issue 6/2017). With a high (...) read more
The KidZania company, which is headquartered in Mexico City, just announced the opening of its first location in the USA. At the Stonebriar Centre, a shopping center in Frisco/Texas near Dallas, an around 7,800 square metre (85,000 square foot) (...) read more
The personal content provider Magic Memories and the slot machine-themed SlotZilla zipline in Las Vegas are joining forces to create special content for the attraction users during their zipline experience. To provide guests with images and videos (...) read more
Since 15 November and until 5 January 2020 visitors to the leisure park Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris are able to experience a very special evening event on certain days of the week: from 6pm to 10pm, guests can immerse themselves into the (...) read more
Just in time for the Olympic Summer Games 2020 in Tokyo, a new theme land is scheduled to be opened at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) with the “Super Nintendo World”, themed after the familiar characters from the Nintendo games franchise (cf. EAP (...) read more
Last Friday the annual IAAPA Expo 2019 came to an end. The International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions (IAAPA) recently released this year‘s results of the trade show. With a total of 42,600 attendees, which informed themselves (...) read more
October 28, 2020 will see the premiere of the first resident Cirque du Soleil show in Europe, named “Nysa” – debuting in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. This was announced by the Canadian entertainment group earlier this week. Presented (...) read more
Theo Pagel, director of Cologne Zoo since 2007, has recently been introduced as new President of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) at the association‘s annual conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With this appointment, Pagel is (...) read more
Following the announcement of German leisure park Tripdsdrill (Baden-Wuerttemberg) to add two new rollercoasters for the upcoming 2020 season to its attractions portfolio (cp. EAP news of 4 Nov 2019), today further details on both new additions from (...) read more
The design company Scruffy Dog Group, with offices in London, Barcelona and Shanghai, announced the appointment of Jim Bowen as new Global Business Development Director yesterday. In his 25 years of work experience in the entertainment and real (...) read more
After its debut in Osaka in 2018, “Godzilla VR“ has now been brought to the UK and celebrated ist premiere in London’s event arena The O2. In addition to “Mario Kart VR“, Godzilla VR will be an other immersive experience by Bandai Namco Amusement (...) read more
The recipients of the “TEA Thea Awards”, the “industry Oscar” of the international entertainment industry, issued by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), were officially announced yesterday during the IAAPA Expo 2019 in Orlando/Florida. (...) read more
Earlier this week, the British animation professionals at Aardmand and Dutch P&P Projects presented their brand-new concept of “A Fish Tale“ for the theme park market. The totally new storyline was created especially for the amusement park (...) read more
As announced yesterday on the first day of IAAPA Expo 2019 in Orlando, Triotech, the Canadian supplier of multi-media attractions, will create a new interactive 4D dark ride for California’s Knott’s Berry Farm theme park, celebrating the park’s (...) read more
Under the name of “Hyperdeck”, US firm of MajorMega is offering a VR attraction which combines the visual effects of the virtual experience with additional multi-sensory effects such as wind, heat and motion . The attraction is powered by a 3 DOF (...) read more
When LEGOLAND® New York Resort opens its doors on July 4th, 2020 as the largest Legoland theme park ever built, “LEGO® Factory Adventure Ride” will be the world’s first dark ride with on-ride tracking technology available for visitors – as was (...) read more
The Mexican tourism developer Grupo Vidanta yesterday announced the purchase of their first attractions for the new amusement park collection Vidanata World in Nuevo Vallarta (Nayarit, Mexico), which includes numerous theme parks and is currently (...) read more
