As confirmed by the final judgment of the court of Metz last week, the French amusement park Walygator in Lorraine has been taken over by the entrepreneur Jacqueline Lejeune as CEO and her partners (cp. EAP news from 27 March 2013). According to a (...) read more
This summer two European waterparks will open a new freefall waterslide. Besides PortAventura’s Costa Caribe Aqua Park in Spain (cp. EAP news from 12 Feb 2013), also Sweden’s Skara Sommarland announced to open a freefall slide. In contrast to the (...) read more
Osnabrück, Germany’s Nettebad is currently expanding its sauna offer by building a new sauna experience (cp. EAP newsletter 1/2013). The official groundbreaking ceremony for the new attraction was held in mid-March. However, Stadtwerke Osnabrück, (...) read more
3D film expert nWave Studios, headquartered in Brusselles with a satellite office in Burbank / California, announced at the end of February their acquisition of worldwide distribution for the film “Penguins 3D” (working title) from the British (...) read more
Berlin’s Labyrinth Kindermuseum has set a new visitor record with their current special exhibition about world cultures which has been opened in August of last year. The museum welcomed 10,054 visitors in February this year – the most frequently (...) read more
Bispingen, Germany’s Snow Dome (Lower Saxony), opened in 2006, will be shut down by the end of the month. The reasons given for the shutdown are urgently required renovation works. While the staff of the indoor ski slope had been informed about the (...) read more
There’s nothing new about the fact that the French Walygator Parc, based in Maizières-Lès-Metz (about 10 kilometers north of Metz, Lorraine), has to struggle with financial problems. In November of last year, a petition for bankruptcy was followed (...) read more
In mid-March Julien Bollee has been appointed as nWave Pictures Distribution’s new Senior Vice-President, Strategy & Sales. In his new role Julien Bollee will be responsible for expanding the company’s distribution business at major US and (...) read more
The official groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the new enclosure for the Amur leopards at Zoo Leipzig will herald the third and last phase of the so-called “Zoo of the Future”. As we reported in EAP 6/2012 Zoo Leipzig, celebrating its (...) read more
The Dutch theme park Efteling will offer its guests even more fun and action at their outdoor arena as of April 30. The park show “Raveleijn”, started in 2011 (cp. EAP 3/2011), will be restaged in collaboration with the French theme park Puy du Fou. (...) read more
A statue of the brothers Grimm was unveiled at Efteling, Europe’s third largest amusement park, last Thursday on the occasion of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Grimm fairy tales. The statue, a donation of the deutsche Brüder (...) read more
The newest of the Dungeon attractions operated by Merlin Entertainments was opened last Friday, on the 15th of March 2013, at Spandauer Straße in Berlin. More than 700 years of the city’s darkest history are shown at the new Berlin Dungeon, the (...) read more
According to a recent press statement of Adventure World Warsaw (AWW) and Royal Imtech N.V., previous general contractor of AWW, both companies have reached an out of court settlement that is final and binding. According to the statement, the (...) read more
Legoland Carlifornia Resort in Carlsbad will open the nation’s first Legoland Theme Hotel on April 5, 2013. The three-storey building will feature 250 rooms immersing guests in the creative Lego worlds of pirates, adventurers or kingdoms. Guests can (...) read more
As of this summer, the newly opened Schlitterbahn Beach Resort and Indoor Waterpark will be connected with Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark, both located in South Padre Island (TX), through an underground Transportainment® system. A new themed water (...) read more
Right at the start of the 2013 season on March 23, Heide Park Resort in Soltau will surprise its guests with a new live show. The new show “Madagascar LIVE – It’s Circus Time” of Germany’s amusement park will feature some of the popular characters (...) read more
An around 60 meter high giant wheel started operations in a historic place in Bangkok (Thailand) by the end of last year. The giant wheel named “Asiatique Sky” was supplied by Dutch Wheels and installed at Bangkok’s latest leisure venue, “Asiatique (...) read more
Since the end of January the German slides manufacturer Wiegand Maelzer has been holding the distribution rights for the 5D theatres for waterparks brought to the market by Kraftwerk. A prototype of this new attraction had been installed by (...) read more
With an average of 360,000 overnight guests per year, Ostsee Resort Damp is one of the largest leisure operators in Schleswig-Holstein. This year the healthcare and tourism location Damp celebrates its 40th anniversary. The Helios Kliniken Group now (...) read more
Museum Ravensburger, which had been reopened in 2010 after a renovation (cp. EAP 4/2010), welcomed around 33,500 children and adults in 2012. This means a 25 percent increase in the number of visitors compared to 2011. What is really interesting (...) read more
