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
France-based SOFRECO consulting and engineering company has been contracted to develop Saudi Entertainment Academy in Riadh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) – a newly founded institute focused on the training of professionals for the local leisure and (...) read more
Right in time for Christmas season Tivoli Gardens, which is located in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen, opens its new roller coaster “The Milky Way Express“ today. The new coaster replaces the old “Odin Express“, which has retired after 30 million (...) read more
Following a construction period of over two years, Germany’s Europa-Park Rust celebrates its grand opening of the new indoor water world Rulantica today with more than 600 guests (also read our project report in EAP issue 6/2017). With a high (...) read more
The KidZania company, which is headquartered in Mexico City, just announced the opening of its first location in the USA. At the Stonebriar Centre, a shopping center in Frisco/Texas near Dallas, an around 7,800 square metre (85,000 square foot) (...) read more
The personal content provider Magic Memories and the slot machine-themed SlotZilla zipline in Las Vegas are joining forces to create special content for the attraction users during their zipline experience. To provide guests with images and videos (...) read more
Since 15 November and until 5 January 2020 visitors to the leisure park Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris are able to experience a very special evening event on certain days of the week: from 6pm to 10pm, guests can immerse themselves into the (...) read more
Just in time for the Olympic Summer Games 2020 in Tokyo, a new theme land is scheduled to be opened at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) with the “Super Nintendo World”, themed after the familiar characters from the Nintendo games franchise (cf. EAP (...) read more
Last Friday the annual IAAPA Expo 2019 came to an end. The International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions (IAAPA) recently released this year‘s results of the trade show. With a total of 42,600 attendees, which informed themselves (...) read more
October 28, 2020 will see the premiere of the first resident Cirque du Soleil show in Europe, named “Nysa” – debuting in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. This was announced by the Canadian entertainment group earlier this week. Presented (...) read more
Theo Pagel, director of Cologne Zoo since 2007, has recently been introduced as new President of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) at the association‘s annual conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With this appointment, Pagel is (...) read more
Following the announcement of German leisure park Tripdsdrill (Baden-Wuerttemberg) to add two new rollercoasters for the upcoming 2020 season to its attractions portfolio (cp. EAP news of 4 Nov 2019), today further details on both new additions from (...) read more
