News | 25 Apr 2014

Sweden‘s Kolmården Zoo to Build Wooden Coaster

 „Wildfire“ is the name of the new wooden roller coaster which will rip through the woods of Sweden’s Kolmården Zoo as of spring 2016. The coaster’s 1.3 kilometer long track will feature three inversions and twelve airtime hills, and trains will (...) read more

News | 24 Apr 2014

Plettenberg/Germany: AquaMagis Opened New Kids‘ House

Plettenberg, Germany’s AquaMagis adventure and wellness bathing complex is on track to expand further. As reported in EAP issue 2/2014, the bathing facility is well underway to become a resort featuring a leisure and adventure pool facility, a sauna (...) read more

News | 23 Apr 2014

Germany: Zoo Osnabrück Features New Tiger Temple Garden

After a construction phase of eleven months, Germany’s Zoo Osnabrück officially opened its new tiger temple garden enclosure on 7 April 2014. The total investment for the new enclosure, which represents the second major construction phase at the zoo (...) read more

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News | 22 Apr 2014

Morbihan/France: A New Family Park Opened in Brittany

The new Kingoland in the French municipality of Plumelin, located in Brittany (Morbihan), was opened for the first time last Saturday, 19 April 2014. Kingoland is a new, eight hectare large family amusement park featuring the three theme areas (...) read more

News | 16 Apr 2014

Gondorf/Germany: Reopening of Eifelpark a Great Success

Thanks to the good weather in late March/early April, some amusement parks in Germany decided to bring forward their season opening spontaneously and receive their guests earlier than planned. For instance, Allgäu Skyline Park (Bad Wörishofen) (...) read more

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News | 14 Apr 2014

Six Flags-Branded Theme Park to be Built in Dubai

Six Flags Corporation and Meraas Leisure and Entertainment LLC, the leisure and entertainment arm of the Dubai-based real estate development company Meraas Holding, recently announced their new strategic partnership to build a Six Flags-branded (...) read more

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News | 09 Apr 2014

Legoland Discovery Centre Coming to Istanbul

Following Merlin Entertainments’ acquisition of Istanbul’s Turkuazoo Aquarium last September (we reported on this in the EAP news from Sept 27, 2013), the visitor attraction operator recently announced that it had reached an agreement with Multi (...) read more

News | 31 Mar 2014

Brühl/Germany: Chiapas Opened at Phantasialand

Following a planning and construction phase of virtually two and a half years, Phantasialand opened its brand-new attraction „Chiapas” on March 30. Named after the Mexican state of Chiapas the new log flume ride featuring a steep descent at an angle (...) read more

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News | 25 Mar 2014

Raving Rabbids to Get Their Own Movie

The “Raving Rabbids”, the crazy small rabbits created by French computer game producer and publisher Ubisoft, are currently on the rise. They recently have taken over France’s Futuroscope theme park (we reported on this in EAP, issue 2/2014) and are (...) read more

News | 21 Mar 2014

Malaysia: Twentieth Century Fox World is Taking Shape

At the end of last year Genting Malaysia Berhad presented its five billion MYR (around 1.1 billion EUR) Genting Integrated Tourism Plan, which will see a major 10-year master plan for development, expansion, enhancement and refurbishment of hotels, (...) read more

News | 18 Mar 2014

New Members Join Sally Corp. Board of Directors

US-based Sally Corporation, known for the development and manufacturing of dark ride attractions (cp. EAP, issue 2/2014), welcomed two new members to the company’s board of directors recently: Tom Wages, veteran of the parks and attractions industry (...) read more

News | 14 Mar 2014

France: Zoo d’Amnéville to Build New Tiger World

Located in the northeast of France, the privately operated zoo of Amnéville (Lorraine) plans to open a new “Tiger World” in April of 2015. The new show arena will feature around 1,800 seats and will be completely themed with lush greenery, rocks, (...) read more

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