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ParkWord
November 2009
If you picked this magazine up for the first time at
IAAPA Attractions Expo in Las Vegas, welcome to one of the
amusement industry’s longest running trade publications. Make sure you
receive Park World throughout the year, and be first to see special reports
such as TEA/ERA Attraction Attendance, by signing up at www.parkworld-
online.com.
The magazine is available in both printed and electronic format, so you can
enjoy it wherever you are in the world doing business. We never forget that
this business is fun, and so are many of the people in it, and we hope some
of that colour comes across in our pages.
In this bumper IAAPA special we feature an honest assessment of last
month’s Euro Attractions Show in Amsterdam, an exclusive interview with
incoming IAAPA chairman Chip Cleary (we even reveal his “real” name), plus
profiles of several notable new attractions from around the globe.
As many parks and attractions recover from their Halloween “celebrations”
we also take a peak inside Castle of Chaos, the new multimedia haunted
house open year round in Branson, Missouri. Among the many effects inside
this spine-tingling attraction, visitors can prepare themselves for a sequence in
which, “foul smells circulate the room.” I had a housemate like that once.
Owen Ralph - Editor
Editor Owen Ralph (+44 161 438 2934)
parkworld@btopenworld.com
North American Editor Paul Ruben (+1 585 381 1012)
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Contributors this issue Dennis Speigel, Ashley Irvine, Ferdi van
den Bergh, Karl-Heinz Ochs, Heather
Eichenbaum, Timothy Szuhaj
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Stories you may have missed...
Read them now at www.parkworld-online.com
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NOVEMBER 2009
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