After a successful winter season at its FORT FUN L.A.B.S. indoor playground (see also our report in EAP, 3/16) with an increase in attendance of 16 percent, Germany’s FORT FUN Abenteuerland, which was taken over by Looping Group in 2017 (c.f. EAP (...) read more
Visitors to California’s Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park can enjoy a new Virtual Reality (VR) experience with the park’s existing freefall tower attraction. Dubbed “DC Super Heroes Drop of Doom VR”, the new experience, which was launched (...) read more
England’s LEGOLAND Windsor Resort, located around an hour’s drive away from London, enthuses its little guests with a range of new attractions this year: “LEGO Reef” is a digital aquarium (from Figment Productions), which allows kids to digitally (...) read more
South Korea’s new Jeju Shinhwa World – an integrated leisure and entertainment resort on Jeju island, developed and operated by Landing International Development Limited (cf. EAP news from March 2nd, 2015) – was officially inaugurated last week, (...) read more
Until April 29th this year, visitors to Universal Studios Singapore can discover “TrollsTopia”, a range of experiences based on the “Trolls” animated musical film from directors Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn and produced by DreamWorks Animation. The (...) read more
Finland’s Linnanmäki amusement park, which is located close to the city centre of Helsinki, has recently unveiled its plans to open a new rollercoaster in 2019. “Taiga” will be the name of the new ride, a launch coaster model from Intamin. The 52 (...) read more
Germany’s first upcycling hotel, named “Alles Paletti“ (Engl.: “Everything’s Alright”), has opened today at Karls Erlebnis-Dorf in Rövershagen (located close to the Baltic Sea), welcoming its first overnight guests (cf. our report in EAP, 6/17). The (...) read more
Tomorrow will see the official opening of Blackpool Zoo’s brand-new elephant house dubbed “Elephant Base Camp“, a project which had been in the planning pipeline for several years and was recently completed after several months of construction. (...) read more
Ever since, knight shows with horses have been part of the entertainment program at Bavaria’s Erlebnispark Schloss Thurn. This year, visitors can look forward to a new show program staged by the Arturius horse stunt team. With its western and knight (...) read more
“Dracula” is the nickname of the largest and heaviest Pterosaurian species in the world known until to date. Parts of the skeleton of such a giant animal were excavated in the Romanian region of Transylvania. The reconstructed skeleton, which (...) read more
Today, Dutch Wildlands Adventure Zoo has announced that its new “Tweestryd” family coaster (a Family Duel Racer model from Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, c.f. EAP news from February 6th, 2018) will be officially inaugurated next week on March 29th, in (...) read more
Germany’s LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Oberhausen has unveiled its new “LEGO City Builder” interactive play zone this week, in which young guests and their parents can put themselves in the shoes of an architect to create fancy buildings out of (...) read more
As announced earlier this week, Global City Holdings group and Hotel Professionals Management Group have signed a contract for the development of a four-star hotel that will be built as part of the Park of Poland leisure complex, currently under (...) read more
The world’s first LEGOLAND celebrates its 50th anniversary – on this occasion, the park, which is located in the Danish town of Billund, will kick off the upcoming season with a special event this coming Saturday, including the official opening of (...) read more
Zoo Berlin has started the reconstruction of its existing predator house in order to fulfill the requirements of modern animal zoo keeping and to create a modern edutainment offer for visitors. Today, the enclosures of the wildcats are still shaped (...) read more
This coming March 24th, Germany’s Tripsdrill family park, which is located north of Stuttgart, will welcome visitors to the new season of its belonging leisure park, in which guests will be able to discover the completed new theme area of “The (...) read more
During an official opening ceremony and in presence of Lower Saxony’s Economics Minister Dr. Bernd Althusmann, Ferienzentrum Schloss Dankern has just opened its new “Burg Arkan” (Engl. “Arcan Castle”) theme area today featuring a tube coaster as its (...) read more
In the past fiscal year 2017, Dutch Efteling amusement park has welcomed a total of 5.18 million visitors (2016: 4.76 million guests), registering a new attendance record. This is also the result of the success of the new “Symbolica” dark ride (...) read more
Yesterday, The Walt Disney Company officially announced the restructuring of its related business units into four newly-created segments: (1) “Direct-to-Consumer & International”, (2) “Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products”, (3) “Media Networks” (...) read more
Tema Design by MK Illumination was created to cater to the needs of the attractions industry as a joint venture founded by Danish MK Illumination ApS and The Philippines’ TEMA Design Inc. companies. In the wake of its current company growth, Tema (...) read more
