This year, Parque Warner Madrid, founded in 2002, surprised its visitors with a new evening show, which has been entertaining park guests for several weeks now and will continue to be featured on the show program until the end of September. Under (...) read more
Today saw the opening of the new “Sky Voyager” flying theater attraction at Australia’s Dreamworld park, in which visitors can experience a nearly six-minute, virtual flight above twelve different regions of the “red continent”. The i-ride from (...) read more
The polish amusement park Energylandia has expanded its coaster portfolio by one more highlight. “Zadra“ – the world‘s tallest wooden coaster – according to the park, will open today. The new coaster, which is constructed and designed by Rocky (...) read more
During a redesign period of about six months the aquascape team (Aquascaping: technique of designing aquarium landscapes) of Hamburg’s Tierpark Hagenbeck has recently finished works on the new “Sumatra Stream Course“ in the old basin of “Amazonas (...) read more
Dream Bund is an all-new movie & theme park, which opened this past Saturday in the Chinese city of Hengdian (in Zhejiang province, about 300 kilometers south of Shanghai), offering both rides and attractions as well as movie sets for professional (...) read more
After the launch of the new “The LEGO Movie World” theme area with three major attractions at Legoland Florida Resort in March this year (cp. EAP 3/2019), Legoland Billund and Legoland California Resort have recently announced the expansion of (...) read more
Alterface recently announced the appointment of Gillian Basso as new Chief Information Officer. In his new role, Basso will be responsible for driving innovation across interactive attractions in the themed entertainment market. He obtained a Ph. (...) read more
A great entertainment project by media group ITV and Lifestyle Outlets, who is part of real estate company Peel L&P, is ready to go. Lowry’s outlet mall in Manchester will receive a multi-million-makeover. A unique mix of retail, leisure and (...) read more
Located close to the city of Cincinnati (Ohio), Cedar Fair’s Kings Island amusement park has recently announced to build a new giga coaster, set to open in spring 2020 under the name of “Orion®”. The attraction will take riders on a thrilling (...) read more
This month, Austria’s Swarovski Kristallwelten (Engl.: Swarovski Crystal Worlds) welcomed its 15 millionth visitors. The “magical number” was cracked by a couple from Bangalore (India) who, when entering the experience world, was surprised by the (...) read more
The historic amusement park Tibidabo located on the eponymous 512-meter high mountain in the city of Barcelona can be reached by visitors via a funicular railway (amongst other means of transport), which has been connecting the Plaça del Doctor (...) read more
Copenhagen´s Tivoli amusement park recently redesigned their bumper cars. In the course of this renovation, the cars got a new design inspired by the 1920s Charleston-style. Furthermore, the cars are now more spacious and can reach a higher speed. (...) read more
As part of a new partnership with The London Resort, the large-scale leisure and entertainment complex planned to be constructed not far from the English capital, the Radisson Hotel Group plans to open a “Radisson Blu” hotel as part of the (...) read more
Giving itself a “birthday present” for its 60th anniversary next year, Branson/Missouri-based Silver Dollar City theme park just announced to build a new major attraction, set to provide splashing ride fun as of summer 2019. The novelty will be a (...) read more
The travel booking platform British Airways Holidays has stopped selling tickets for visitor attractions keeping and presenting “wild animals” as part of their guest entertainment offer. This decision was announced by the company last week, (...) read more
In collaboration with the NBA (National Basketball Association), Walt Disney Imagineering developed “NBA Experience” – a new immersive, interactive visitor attraction that opened earlier this week in Disney Springs at the location of the former (...) read more
Matthias Li (photo), CEO of Hong Kong’s Ocean Park, recently announced his plans to retire on 1st July 2020. After joining the park’s management team in 1994 as Finance Director and Corporate Secretary and being promoted to Deputy Chief Executive (...) read more
As the latest addition to the attractions line-up of Surfside Pier park, which is located on the boardwalk of the US coastal town Wildwood (New Jersey), a new Force 280 family coaster from German manufacturer Zierer was recently opened under the (...) read more
The Holiday World theme park, located in the US state of Indiana, recently announced a launched water coaster for its related waterpark Splashin´ Safari for 2020. “Cheetah Chase”, a slide of the type “RocketBLAST” by Canadian supplier ProSlide, (...) read more
Operated by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the leisure and entertainment complex OWA in Foley, Alabama will open its new eSports Center “Clash“ on 17 August this year. The modern gaming complex is a high-end video gaming facility located within (...) read more
