Andreas Veilstrup Andersen, president and CEO of Liseberg, launches a new roller coaster for 2014 - longer and faster than any other coaster in the park. Projekt Helix – that’s the name of the new one – will be the park's biggest investment ever. (...) read more
This year’s Euro Attractions Show (EAS), Europe’s largest trade show for the attractions industry, welcomed more than 8,100 visitors in Berlin (official figures have not been communicated yet) – a new visitor record! More than 350 exhibitors from (...) read more
In mid-September, Tenerife’s Siam Park celebrated its 2nd anniversary. Siam Park, by many referred to as Europe’s most beautiful themed waterpark, was opened in the South of the Canary Island in September 2008 and inaugurated by the Thai Princess (...) read more
Halloween is close! In Germany and other European countries theme and amusement parks are organizing special Halloween events and attractions, whereas in the US there is a professional haunted attraction industry with attractions only operating (...) read more
At the beginning of this month, Lo-Q, provider of virtual queuing systems for theme and water parks, announced to have signed a partnership agreement with the Australian Sanderson Group. The aim of this partnership is to spearhead Lo-Q’s expansion (...) read more
„Yukon Bay“, the seventh themed area at Hanover’s Adventure Zoo, was opened in 2010 and has invited visitors to a Canada-inspired landscape since then (cf. EAP 4/2010). In “McKenzies Robbenshow” (McKenzie’s seal show) visitors get to know everything (...) read more
EurothermenResort Bad Schallerbach has developed itself over the years to one of the most popular thermal spas and waterparks in Austria. This summer the bathing complex facility celebrated its 90th anniversary. Since 1922 many millions of guests (...) read more
More than 45,000 spectators on ten consecutive evenings came to Berlin’s “Zentraler Festplatz” (central fairground) to see a mobile multi-media show event. “Aquanario”, a show consisting of water, fire, laser, lighting and firework effects, was (...) read more
In Denmark’s city of Randers, located within a three hour drive north of Kiel, a new leisure swimming pool facility with a 50-meter swimming pool, leisure offers as well as fitness studio, sauna and gastronomy is planned to be built until May 2014. (...) read more
Fårup Sommerland, which recorded 600,000 visitors this season, has already announced a new attraction for the coming year. “Orkanen”, meaning hurricane resp. tornado, is the name of the new Suspended Coaster from Vekoma which is scheduled to open at (...) read more
At the beginning of August, the listed Cedar Fair Entertainment Company had reported record results for its second quarter already – the net revenues for the fiscal second quarter increased to 357.6 million US Dollars (about 280.5 million Euros) (...) read more
At a height of 135 meters the London Eye has been the highest public viewing point in London so far from which visitors can also see Lord Norman Foster’s skyscraper “The Gherkin” (180 meters high). But since July a new bizarre building reaches into (...) read more
At the end of June Center Parcs Les Hauts de Bruyères in central France opened a new waterslide attraction at its Aqua Mundo waterpark. The 100 meter long “Tospy-Turvy” slide, supplied by ProSlide, starts in a height of nine meters. In single or (...) read more
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
