England’s Thorpe Park Resort will present a world premiere opening in May 2014: As the centerpiece of a totally new fully-themed land featuring the much loved Angry Birds characters, the world’s first “Angry Birds 4D Experience” will wow visitors of (...) read more
Salou, Spain’s PortAventura theme park resort will see the opening of the brand-new ride “Angkor: Adventure in the Lost Kingdom” for the upcoming season starting on April 11, 2014. The track of the new family attraction, a Splash Battle delivered (...) read more
On 21 January 2014, Tero Ylinenpää (born in 1966, pictured) has been appointed new managing director of the Finnish Lappset Group Ltd. by the company’s board of directors. He follows his predecessor, Juha Laakkonen, who had stepped down at the (...) read more
The park season at England’s Chessington World of Adventures Resort will already start on 19 March 2014 – with new attractions for visitors to discover. “Scorpion Express” is a brand new ride which will replace the former “Runaway Train” ride within (...) read more
Italian manufacturer I.E. Park, known for its classic family and kiddies rides, has recently added a new range of tower rides to its product portfolio. The new tower ride models offer seating capacities of eight, ten, twelve and sixteen passengers (...) read more
Moira Casey (pictured) has taken over her new position as director of marketing & sales at Movie Park Germany with effect from 1 January 2014. Together with a team of 15 people she is responsible for promotion, advertising, communication and sales. (...) read more
The amazing productions of Cirque du Soleil are not only available at permanent theaters worldwide (we reported in EAP issue 1/2013). Again and again different show programs have repeatedly been presented in big cities as well. Performed on stage (...) read more
At the end of last year, the largest ever Angry Birds Activity Park was opened on the Spanish island of Grand Canary. The more than 5,000 square meter large park is the fourth and largest park built within the framework of the cooperation between (...) read more
Today the 2014 Winter Olympic Games will be opened in Sochi/Russia. Next to the sports arenas and facilities Sochi Park, a theme park featuring five theme areas home to castles, dragons and other fantasy and fairy tale creatures as well as rides and (...) read more
Good prospects: With just nine months to go until the 2014 interbad – international trade show for swimming pools, sauna and spas – a total of 230 exhibitors have already registered for the event. Both exhibitor as well as visitor numbers are (...) read more
Finally, some details about the new theme area, which is going to be opened this summer at Universal Orlando Resort, have been revealed officially. “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley” is the name of the new theme area located within (...) read more
Plech, Germany’s Fränkisches Wunderland amusement park will see a complete overhaul during the current year in order to be able to keep up with competitors and to increase its visitor numbers in the long term. Therefore, the park will be closed (...) read more
As recently announced, the brand-new Madame Tussauds Singapore attraction is going to be opened at Singapore’s Sentosa Island this year. In the context of their new partnership, Sentosa Development Corporation, manager of the island resort, and (...) read more
“To plummet down the equivalent of a drop from a 17 story building” – is the description of the experience riders will make on the reportedly tallest, fastest and steepest waterslide in the world, which is coming to Kansas this summer. The new (...) read more
Only one month after the opening of Asia’s first Legoland Water Park (cp. EAP news from 8 Nov 2013), the first Legoland Hotel of Asia was officially opened at the end of November last year. With the theme park, the water park and the hotel in one (...) read more
According to the theme park’s information, Fons Jurgens (44, pictured) will be appointed as Efteling’s new Chairman and CEO during the General Shareholders’ Meeting on 17 April 2014. He succeeds Bart de Boer, who surprisingly left the Netherland’s (...) read more
In December of last year saw the launch of a new children’s attraction at Plettenberg, Germany’s AquaMagis bathing and swimming pool complex. After ten years of operation, the former pirates’ ship was replaced by a new, state-of-the-art one. The (...) read more
“The Little Prince” written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry is one of the most beautiful books of the world. This summer, a new theme park, the “Parc du Petit Prince”, which is dedicated to the story of the little blond boy, is to be opened in Alsace, (...) read more
During last year’s IAAPA Attractions Expo held in Orlando, three European theme park shows received a Brass Ring Award – two shows of Europa-Park in Rust, Germany and one new show of The Netherland’s Dolfinarium Harderwijk. The winners from Germany (...) read more
Also 2013 saw Osnabrück’s three swimming pool and bathing complexes Nettebad, Moskaubad and Schinkelbad reach a new visitor record of around 1.25 million guests, around 30,000 more than in the year before. This development is remarkable given the (...) read more
