In the Disney Magic Kingdom park in Orlando/FL, construction works are underway at full capacity for the new “TRON Lightcycle / Run” ride attraction, which will be a similar installation as guests can experience at Disney Resort Shanghai. There, the (...) read more
From 21 March 2020, the new EXPOHALLE in Oberhausen/Germany, which is part of the Centro shopping mall complex, will host the “The Smurf Experience“ immersive exhibition dedicated to the life and the adventures of the small blue comic figures. (...) read more
The new LEGOLAND Water Park Gardaland, which was announced earlier this year as an expansion of the Merlin-operated Gardaland Resort in Italy with a scheduled opening in 2020 (cf. EAP News of 9th July 2019), will feature a “Miniland” area as it is (...) read more
Big cinema deal: British Cineworld Group, operator of currently 786 movie theaters in Great Britain, the US, Eastern Europe and Israel, will take over Canada’s Cineplex Inc. movie and entertainment company, with a network of 165 cinemas across (...) read more
Steve Burke (photo), CEO of Comcast Corporation’s related media company NBCUniversal, will retire on August 14th, 2020, following the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Effective January 1st, 2020, Jeff Shell, who currently oversees the company’s film and (...) read more
Sea World’s Aquatica waterpark in Orlando will provide guests with an all-new water slide experience in 2020. The “Riptide Race“ will be a duelling race water slide (from ProSlide), which will provide guests with the opportunity to race each other. (...) read more
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (*1799 in Moscow; †1837 in St. Petersburg) is one of Russia’s greatest poets and is considered the founder of modern Russian literature. An all-new theme park is now being planned to celebrate his literary legacy, (...) read more
The Canadian movie and television production company Entertainment One (eOne) and British Merlin Entertainments (Merlin) operating group renewed their cooperation to bring eOne‘s “PJ Masks“ IP to twelve Sea Life venues, operated by Merlin, around (...) read more
The new “Drawn to Life” show production, created by Canada’s Cirque du Soleil in partnership with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering, will premiere on April 17th, 2020 at the Cirque du Soleil theater in Disney Springs (Lake (...) read more
Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island leisure and entertainment destination is steadily further developed and expanded by the addition of new offerings. Recently, Miral Asset Management, which manages all developments on the island, provided an update on the (...) read more
Just in time for the turn of the year, SeaWorld San Diego, which is operated by SeaWorld Entertainment, is revealing more details on its new coaster highlight for the 2020 season. “Emperor“ will be the name of the new floorless dive coaster, (...) read more
In due time for the start of Dutch Christmas holidays, Efteling is prepared to surprise its visitors with some smaller innovations in its “Symbolica” dark ride, which since its opening in the summer of 2017 (cf. EAP 5/2017) has been enthusing (...) read more
A disastrous fire burned up the slide tower (consisting of five slides from Switzerland‘s Klarer Freizeitanlagen) at the new LAGO Kortrijk Weide indoor waterpark in February 2019, just a few days before the scheduled opening of the new waterworld (...) read more
The planned billion pound leisure and entertainment complex The London Resort (cf. EAP news of 2 July 2019) will feature two theme parks, about one of which further details were released recently. Six theme areas will be part of the park’s future (...) read more
Today marks the opening date of the fifth iceworld in Germay‘s Karls Erlebnis-Dorf Elstal near Berlin. The exhibition with this year’s theme “Asia – the Far East very close“ is located in the “DAS EISWERK“ ice hall on a exhibition ground of 2,000 (...) read more
After the grand opening of the highly anticipated “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge“ theme area, including the first of its two main attractions “Millenium Falcon: Smugglers Run“, on August, 29th at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (Orlando/Florida) (cf. EAP (...) read more
The Loro Parque Foundation and the University La Laguna (San Cristóbal de La Laguna), joined forces to draw attention on the increasing pollution of the seas and nature by plastic waste. To showcase these drastic developments and to give an impulse (...) read more
Annually during the IAAPA Expo in Orlando/Florida, the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) confers the “IAAPA Brass Ring Awards“ to park operators and attraction manufacturers. Among the European award winners, (...) read more
Besides the leisure, entertainment and water parks, also the attraction manufacturers of the industry were awarded with the “IAAPA Brass Ring Awards“ for outstanding new products and concept ideas. Intamin Ltd. from Liechtenstein received a Brass (...) read more
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
