The well-known characters "Wallace & Gromit" from the British animated short film series of the same name by Nick Park will enter Pleasure Beach Blackpool in 2013. The Wallace & Gromit-themed dark ride "Thrill-O-Matic", a family ride, which required (...) read more
Legoland Malaysia, the world’s sixth Lego Park, has been opened just in time last Saturday. Local as well as international visitors can spend a day full of family fun in Asia’s first Lego Park, which caters to families with children between the ages (...) read more
The “Flow Booster” is a new accessory from Canada-based provider of aquatic recreation equipment Waterplay Solutions from Kelowna. This new element is an underground system that boosts the flow of water of the company’s many water play features. The (...) read more
At the beginning of August Severn Lamb, the UK specialist for transport engineering systems, announced two new appointments. Greg Squires (pictured right), former Project Enginneering Manager at Severn Lamb, joined the company’s board of directors (...) read more
This summer saw the introduction of a new multi-media guide at Germany’s Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum(HNF) in Paderborn. The multi-media guide takes visitors on a tour of one or two hours through the museum presenting them 22 highlights of the history (...) read more
Canada-based waterslide and water attractions manufacturer WhiteWater West from Richmond (British Columbia) announced in August that Hopkins Rides has joined the WhiteWater family of companies. Since 1980, Hopkins Rides from Florida has manufactured (...) read more
Is it a rollercoaster? This was the question many visitors of the Olympic Games resp. the Olympic Park in the London district of Stratford asked themselves this summer. The 115 meter high observation tower, developed as a result of a design (...) read more
About twelve years ago, in 2000, when Leipzig Zoo saw itself confronted with declining visitor figures and enclosures that were no longer up to date, a strategic concept named „Zoo of the Future“ was initiated to renovate some of the zoo’s areas. (...) read more
The “StarFlyer” from Funtime known from Austria’s Vienna Prater has been spinning at the river banks of the Thames in South Bank’s “Priceless London Wonderground” since the end of July. The 60 meter high StarFlyer has been acquired by Mellor Group (...) read more
Attractions that are built for clients from all over the world at the production halls of ride manufacturer and supplier Mack Rides from Waldkirch are becoming higher and larger. Rollercoasters, water rides and carousels for amusement parks are (...) read more
Wet’n Wild Orlando, directly located on International Drive in Orlando, opened its newest attraction – a huge sandcastle-themed water playground named “Blastaway Beach™” – at the beginning of June. It’s the waterpark’s first new attraction in over (...) read more
Schloss Dankern, a vacation center in Germany, has many different recreational activities to offer for its day guests and overnight visitors. Only this past June, a new and wholly themed adventure golf course featuring a medieval castle theme has (...) read more
Silver Dollar City, located in Branson, Missouri and operated by Herschend Family Entertainment, announced this summer to open a new major attraction in the spring of 2013. The new 10 million US dollar (roughly 8.1 million Euros) attraction will be (...) read more
Germany’s Europa-Park in Rust, which welcomes more than four million visitors per year, has recently been elected best theme park in terms of service quality. The German ranking, done by ServiceValue GmbH, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and (...) read more
Leipzig Zoo’s new tropical hall “Gondwanaland”, opened in the middle of 2011 (cf. EAP 5/2011), celebrates its first anniversary this year. After nearly one year of operation, Burkhard Jung, mayor of the city of Leipzig, Volker Bremer, CEO of Leipzig (...) read more
The first “wing coaster” worldwide that opened at Gardaland, Italy in April 2011 (we reported on this in EAP 3/2011) obviously delighted the comic artist Fabrizio de Fabritiis so much that he created the first online comic inspired by this amusement (...) read more
Seven Peaks, operator of six recreational venues in Utah and Missouri, added more fun to three waterslides at its Provo Waterpark in Utah by enhancing the slide experience. The three slides “Free Fall”, “Jagged Edge” and “Sky Breaker” have been (...) read more
The Odysseum in Cologne, which was opened three years ago (cf. EAP 4/2009), welcomes about 200,000 visitors per year. For their fourth operating year the SMG Science Center Services Köln GmbH, operator of the German science center, has many (...) read more
The new 5-star-luxury-hotel “Hotel Boca”, designed by renowned architect Carlos Ott, was opened this spring in Argentina’s capital city of Buenos Aires. It is the first football themed hotel of the world and is dedicated to Argentina’s most famous (...) read more
Interactive water cannons and other water play equipment always provide much fun for kids, especially during the summer time. The Canadian manufacturer Water Park Toys, founded by Craig White (formerly with Waterplay Solutions Corp.) in Kelowna in (...) read more
