In May, Abu Dhabi’s famous theme park Ferrari World Abu Dhabi announced that it is planning to extend its opening hours later on this year. Up until now the park has remained closed on Mondays, reducing visitation days to only six days a week. Now, (...) read more
Toronto, Canada’s design company Forrec recently announced a strategic partnership with the Chinese company Tongji Architectural Design Group Ltd. (TJAD). Originally founded in 1958 by the Tongji University in Shanghai, the TJAD design institute is (...) read more
The Xocomil Water Park in southwestern Guatemala recently opened a brand new water coaster in celebration of its 50th anniversary. The new Master Blaster attraction was supplied by WhiteWater West and transports passengers in their boats over a (...) read more
Florida, SeaWorld Orlando’s new theme area “Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin” is open now. The new area is the largest expansion in the park’s history (we reported in EAP issue 1/2013). The little hero penguin Puck takes visitors on a trip into his (...) read more
The new River Safari animal park in Singapore celebrated its soft opening last month. River Safari is the fourth facility operated by Wildlife Reserves Singapore, along with Jurong Bird Park, Night Safari and the Singapore Zoo. The new park occupies (...) read more
Following a construction period of a mere 18 months, the “Norwegian Breakaway”, the twelfth ship in the fleet of US-based Norwegian Cruise Line (cp. EAP 4/2012), was officially handed over by Papenburg, Germany’s shipbuilder Meyer Werft to NCL at (...) read more
Turkey’s slide manufacturing company Polin is proud to announce a new addition to its management team. Effective immediately, Volkan Sofuoglu takes over the newly created Technical Operations and After-Sales Department at Polin. Mr. Sofuoglu was (...) read more
US operator group Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is already shining in the first quarter of this year with record-breaking numbers, despite the enormous extra burden created by Hurricane Irene. With total revenue of 88 million US dollars, the (...) read more
Quality and safety are two of the most important criteria for the development, manufacture and operation of rollercoasters. Having all of the required processes executed by a single source is a huge advantage in ensuring the safety of the (...) read more
In the last few weeks, visitors to France’s Futuroscope theme park have been able to enjoy their food and beverages at truly lofty heights! The park’s new “Aérobar” has been constructed between the “Kinémax” and “Cité du Numérique” attractions, and (...) read more
As was recently announced by France’s Looping Group, the sale of the Isla Magica amusement park in Seville, Spain by Spanish bank La Caixa to the new French operators has now finally been concluded (we reported on this in EAP 2/2013). Laurent (...) read more
Mid-May saw the opening of a preview tent at Europa-Park featuring its highly anticipated new attraction, “Arthur – in the Kingdom of the Invisibles”, scheduled to open at the beginning of the 2014 season (cp. EAP 2/2013). The Kingdom of the (...) read more
The answer to the question of whether it is particularly cool or rather simply stupid to lie down on a specially designed skateboard and ride down a paved road at high speeds may vary according to the age and intellect of the interviewee … “Street (...) read more
Odysseum and WDR Cologne (a German public-broadcasting institution) recently confirmed their cooperation starting this upcoming summer at Cologne’s science center Odysseum: the “Museum mit der Maus“, (Eng.: museum with the mouse) will be the new (...) read more
‚Condor‘, the well-loved ride from the Huss company, was very popular within the 80s and 90s. Thirty rides were sold during that time. Now the manufacturer revives its classic ride and adds it again to its active portfolio of attractions. The ride (...) read more
The Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group (IMG Group) has just announced more details about the next section of their IMG Theme Park in Dubai. ‘The Lost Valley’ will let visitors discover creatures of a bygone era. The newly reinvigorated ‘land of (...) read more
Thanks to the new attractions in the pirate’s world Aquapulco and the new Cabrio Therme in the Tropicana at EurothermenResort Bad Schallerbach, Austria, the EurothermenResorts in Bad Schallerbach, Bad Ischl and Bad Hall were able to set a new (...) read more
Canada-based manufacturer of advanced interactive and immersive attractions, Triotech, has recently announced the appointment of Bob Harris as their new European Business Development Manager. Bob Harris will work for Triotech out of England, near (...) read more
On last year’s IAAPA show in Orlando, Water Wars launched their new product ‚Downpour Derby‘ originally conceived as a portable version. Now the company has revamped the game entirely changing all designs and made it a stationary game. Under the (...) read more
The secret about the new sauna attraction at Osnabrück’s Nettebad has finally been revealed. Visitors can look forward to the new ‘Meri-Sauna’ (Finnish for lake), a sauna that will be built on stilts featuring panorama windows. In a height of six (...) read more
