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City of Dreams
Integrated entertainment resort for Macau
City of Dreams is an integrated entertainment the first half of 2009”, adjoins The Boulevard, a
resort and “must experience” destination being “lifestyle precinct” offering a combination of
developed in Macau by Melco Crown regional and international dining and high level
Entertainment Limited (MPEL). Featured as part of shopping.
the offering will be unique multimedia
entertainment by Falcon’s Treehouse called
Dragon’s Treasure.
Showcased inside The Bubble, a dome-shaped
theatre (pictured) that will become a City of
Dreams landmark, this 10-minute attraction
combines high-definition video content, a
sweeping musical score, over 29,000 LED lights
and a variety of sensory effects to create a stirring
experience based on eastern philosophy and
Chinese mythology.
City of Dreams, which is scheduled to open “in
Former IAAPA chairman returns
to Cypress Gardens
Cypress Gardens, Winter executive vice-president. He said it was there that
Haven, Florida, reopened he learned his skills in the theme park industry,
last month with a new and that enabled him to take over Silver Springs
operations director, former in 1985 and later Weeki Wachee Springs.
IAAPA chairman Bill Sims. Sims was asked to help revamp the park by
The former CEO of Silver Brian Philpot, one of the two partners in the
Springs Nature Park in group that bought the troubled theme park in
Ocala, Florida, previously 2007. Philpot and Rob Harper, partners in
Bill Sims
worked at Cypress Gardens Mulberry-based Land South Holdings, paid
with founder Dick Pope Snr. $16.8 million for it in October 2007. The park
Sims, 67, is a Winter Haven native. He worked reopens with the botanical gardens, waterski
with the Pope family from 1970 to 1985 and show and waterpark intact, but the rides and
Chime Long Waterpark, China
finished his career there as Cypress Gardens’ animals are gone.
Wyatt Design becomes MSI
The Wyatt Design Group, led by principal Larry Wyatt, has completed its merger with MSI and will
now trade simply as MSI. Since 2006 the two companies have shared a West Coast office in the US
(in Pasadena, California) and traded as Wyatt Design Group|MSI. For more than 10 years, the
Pasadena studio has specialised in the design, masterplanning and landscape architecture of leisure
and cultural destinations worldwide. A newly designed website showcases the company’s services:
www.msidesign.com
Making a Splash
Kings Island’s new $22 million Diamondback
rollercoaster opens April 18 and here is a shot of the
ride being tested with dummies during its spectacular
splashdown ending. By B&M, Diamondback
becomes the tallest and fastest coaster at the Mason,
Ohio, amusement park, standing 230ft at its highest
Six Person Raft
point and including around 5,282ft of track. The ride
has 10 vertical drops, two helixes and a
hammerhead turn. Riders will snake their through it at
whhiitewateter@whhiitewatteerrwweesstt..ccomom
up to 80 miles per hour.
TeTel:el: +1 604.273.1068 s wwwwww.whitew.whitewawaterwest.comterwest.com
APRIL 2009
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