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On August 8th, 2013 Germany’s Therme Erding thermal spa and waterpark complex welcomed its 15 millionth visitor, Julia Peklak from Wiener-Neustadt (Austria). In recognition of this, the guest and her family have now free admission to Therme Erding (...) read more

Lower-Saxony, Germany’s Snow Dome Bispingen had to stop operations and close due to urgently required renovation works at the end of March (we reported on this in EAP issue 3/2013). First discussions about the creation of a cost evaluation for the (...) read more

The construction of the new “Grimm-Welt” (Grimm World) in Kassel, Germany has been launched with a groundbreaking ceremony at the end of August. The new facility will be devoted to the versatility and creativity of the German Brothers Grimm, Jacob (...) read more

The Dutch rollercoaster manufacturer Vekoma Rides Manufacturing recently announced that Nathan Jones has joined the company as their new Vice President Sales USA and Canada. Effective September 1, 2013, Nathan Jones now handles the U.S. and Canadian (...) read more

Germany’s Wild- und Wanderpark Weiskirchen (wildlife and hiking park) in the nature park of Saar-Hunsrück complemented its offer this summer with the opening of a newly constructed adventure park. The new attraction is a high ropes course with five (...) read more

The weather forecast of the German TV broadcaster ARD has been broadcasted from the studios at Bavaria Filmstadt near Munich since 2012. Now visitors can even test their own weather moderation skills during the guided tour around the Bavaria (...) read more

From the 5th of October and on every weekend of the month until the 3rd of November, 2013, Italy’s Gardaland brings back its “Gardaland Magic Halloween” event to the park. Visitors will be greeted in the park by horrifying and odd characters like (...) read more

As the park recently announced, Germany’s Heide Park Resort will open a wing coaster for its 2014 season. Besides “Raptor”, opened in 2011 at Gardaland, and “The Swarm”, opened one year later at Thorpe Park, the new rollercoaster will be the third (...) read more

While visitors to Blackpool Pleasure Beach have been wowed by a newly created dark ride dedicated to the famous claymation characters of “Wallace & Gromit” for several months now (we reported in EAP issue 4/2013), the city of Bristol in South West (...) read more

While Wet’n’Wild Las Vegas, opened in May (cp. EAP 2/2013), has been equipped with attractions provided by Canadian manufacturer WhiteWater West, Village Roadshow’s Wet’n’Wild Sydney, currently under construction in Prospect, New South Wales, (...) read more

Hugo Lahme GmbH, based in Ennepetal, Germany, announced in early July that it had taken over one-third of the holdings in Bozen, Italy’s AngelEye Srl effective as of May 28th, 2013. AngelEye enjoys international acclaim for its expertise in the (...) read more

According to the media, the ‘largest freestanding building in the world’ was opened in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province in southwestern China, at the end of June. The New Century Global Center measures ‘only’ 100 meters in height but is 500 (...) read more

According to the information of Walt Disney World Resort, Downtown Disney in Orlando/FL will be transformed within a period of several years into Disney Springs, a unique destination with even more shopping, dining and entertainment offers. The (...) read more

Germany’s Zoo Osnabrück already opened the first section of its new “Angkor Wat” theme adventure area back in May of 2012, when it presented the new ape temple built to replace the former ape boulder which had passed its prime. A 40 meter long (...) read more

Despite the uncooperative weather late this past June, staff and visitors at Hamburg, Germany’s Hagenbeck Tierpark put a brave face on the rain and cold weather at the end of this past June to open the new “Persische Salzwüste” (‘Persian Salt (...) read more

The name says it all, because „Full Throttle“ is the name of the newest rollercoaster of SixFlags Magic Mountain in California. Opened at the end of June, the new coaster built by Premier Rides (cp. EAP 6/2012) features, at a height of 48 meters (...) read more

Rust, Germany’s Europa-Park recently received an overall score of 9 in the “Leisure Check” article featured in the latest issue of Germany’s stern magazine to take the top prize among 50 German amusement parks that were tested. The scale for the (...) read more

The second construction phase on the conference hall at Zoo Leipzig was kicked off late this past June with a special cornerstone laying ceremony. Together with Leipzig’s Mayor Burkhard Jung and architect Gerd Heise, the zoo’s director Dr. Jörg (...) read more

The Legoland park in Winter Haven, FL, opened its newest theme area on July 3. “The Lego World of Chima” (cp. EAP news from 8 April 2013), presented in cooperation with Cartoon Network, adds two million Lego bricks to the park which nearly features (...) read more