(eap) Tomorrow, May 6, Adventureland Park, located in Altoona in the U.S. state of Iowa, kicks off this year’s season. The new rides “Flying Wiking” and “Draken Falls” announced for this year are still under construction and scheduled to open during (...) read more
(eap) For over 90 years, the Hamburg Planetarium in Hamburg’s municipal park has been offering unique audiovisually staged explanations of the fascinating connections between our Earth and the cosmos. In its Star Theater, visitors of a wide age (...) read more
(eap) For roller coaster enthusiasts and DC Universe fans, the wait will soon be over: as the Madrid-based Parque Warner just announced, the new launch coaster “Batman Gotham City Escape” will officially open to riders next week on 13 May. Supplied (...) read more
(eap) After four years of elaborate detail work on two continents with more than 50,000 working hours and almost two million Euro construction costs, the new Patagonia section in Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg was opened today. The 65-square-metre (...) read more
(eap) U.S. leisure park operator group Palace Entertainment (a subsidiary of Parques Reunidos) has announced that Bonnie Sherman Weber joins the company as chief operating officer, effective immediately. Weber has more than 30 years of experience in (...) read more
(eap) Germany’s Europa-Park invited the AWO Tanzgruppe (a welfare organization dance ballet) from Mannheim to perform on the Europa-Park stage “Teatro Popular” yesterday, 1 May. Thus, on Labour Day, the 14 elderly ladies of the ballet group (aged 60 (...) read more
(eap) Ravensburger Spieleland at Lake Constance, Germany, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. As already reported in our Park Report 2023, the amusement park has some novelties in store for this occasion. One of them is the opening of a new (...) read more
Today is the day: after successful test days, the Yakari adventure world opens at Fort Fun Abenteuerland, which is based in the Sauerland region (Germany). For the first time, the family theme park is integrating an IP into its theme portfolio. Fans (...) read more
After almost five years at the helm of the WILDLANDS Adventure Zoo in Emmen, the Netherlands, which opened in 2016 (see also EAP 4/2016), interim director Erik van Engelen is leaving the company in June. The supervisory board has now appointed (...) read more
Tomorrow, April 29, the U.S. amusement park Lake Compounce (Connecticut), operated by Palace Entertainment, will start into this year’s season. With the beginning of the season, the ride that has been voted the world’s best wooden roller coaster (...) read more
As announced earlier today, Xavier Verellen will take over as the new Commercial Director leading the sales and marketing team of the Plopsa Group as of 2 May. Koen Clement, interim CEO of the Plopsa Group, says: “We are very excited about the (...) read more
Drayton Manor theme park, located in the English Midlands, will open a new flume ride attraction for visitors next Saturday. “Thomas & Percy’s Submarine Splash” is the name of the new water attraction, which is set in the “Thomas Land” themed area, (...) read more
Last year at the Aquatica Orlando water park, the tube slide attraction “Dolphin Plunge”, which opened in 2008, received an update and was transformed into “Reef Plunge” (cf. EAP 2/2022). For this year’s season, the park, which is part of the (...) read more
Germany’s Holiday Park located in Haßloch (Rhineland-Palatinate), which is operated by the Belgian Plopsa theme park group, has announced a new event to go with the “Wickieland” theme area, which opened in 2021. The so-called “Vic the Viking (...) read more
Since this week, a new indoor playworld has been attracting families with children of all ages to the RiverlandTM shopping and gastronomy mile on the premises of Dubai ParksTM and Resorts. “Neon Galaxy” is the name of the multi-level, space-themed (...) read more
Opened in 2017 and supplied by Gravitykraft Corporation (a sister company of The Gravity Group), the “Mine Blower” wooden roller coaster at the Fun Spot America amusement park (location: Kissimmee, FL) is to partially receive new track elements. The (...) read more
Yesterday, during a festive evening gala with around 1,000 invited guests at Europa-Park in Rust (Baden-Wuerttemberg), entrepreneur Korbinian Kohler was honored with the “Hotelier of the Year” award for his outstanding achievements in building a (...) read more
UK-based Scruffy Dog Creative Group, with design studios in London, Barcelona and Dubai, recently announced the launch of a new division. The new architectural model making division is called “M.A.D. Models” („Make A Difference“) and is part of the (...) read more
The Världskulturmuseet (Museum of World Culture) in Gothenburg, Sweden, which is located right next to Liseberg theme park, has been presenting the new special exhibition “A World of Games” since earlier this month, which is dedicated to numerous (...) read more
On April 28, the new roller coaster “Knolli’s Mini-K2” will make its debut in all five Karls Adventure Villages. What’s special about this new attraction is that it doesn’t need any electricity – it’s powered quite sustainably solely by muscle (...) read more
