Wow! We’re in the movies!
PARKLIFE Parklife
Movie Park Germany puts visitors at the heart of movie making and TV shows. Andrew Mellor finds out more
THE park which is today known as Movie Park Germany first opened its gates to visitors in June 1996 on a 40 hectare site at Bottrop-Kirchhellen under its original guise of Warner Bros. Movie World. Offering a wide range of rides, attractions and shows
all themed on the movies, the park was divided into five different areas, each based on famous Warner Bros. movies and successful German productions. A total of almost DEM400m was initially invested in the new park and the adjoining film studio. Warner Bros. Movie World was subsequently sold to Six
Flags, Inc., in 2000, and a few years later changed hands once more when Six Flags sold its European parks (with the exception of Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid, Spain) to the UK private equity partnership Palamon Capital Partners,
in April 2004. The park became part of the Star Parks Group as a result and the licence agreements with Warner Bros. expired at the end of the 2004 season. The following year, the venue opened under the new
name of Movie Park Germany and today continues under the same ownership and the guidance of Bill Muirhead as CEO and Wouter Dekkers as general manager. And it maintains the same number of different areas which currently include The Old West, a big old western city; Streets of New York, with an urban style theme; the Hollywood Street Set, a colourful Hollywood film set; Santa Monica Pier, a copy of one of the most popular film settings in California, US; and Nickland, the only Nick-themed area in Europe, with everything within it being related to characters or the TV series of Nickelodeon.
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