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SkyScreamer Star Flyer arrives at Six Flags


SkyScreamer, by Funtime, is the latest thrill ride at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom near San Francisco. The attraction is one of two Star Flyers debuting this season at Six Flags parks in North America, the other being an even taller version in St Louis, Missouri.


Standing 150ft (45-metres) high, Discovery Kingdom’s SkyScreamer is equivalent in height to the park’s tallest rollercoaster, Medusa, and gives passengers a bird’s eye view of the entire venue. Topped with a globe surrounded by the Six Flags name on two sides, the attraction boasts a 32-rider capacity, suspended by chains in 16 twin seats. At full swing, guests revolve in a 98ft circle at speeds of 43mph for two and one-half minutes. Once the sun sets, SkyScreamer will be lit from top to bottom, creating a stunning focal point for the park.


The new ride in action at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom


“There is nothing like it in Northern California,” notes Six Flags Discovery Kingdom president Dale Kaetzel. “The sense of soaring so high is both exhilarating and nail- biting, and it’s that anticipation before the ride starts that gets the heart pumping.”


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Merlin enters Japan


A Madame Tussauds exhibition and a Legoland Discovery Centre in Tokyo will mark Merlin Entertainments’ debut into the Japanese market, starting this October. The world’s second biggest attraction operator is keen to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and already operates full Tussauds attractions in Beijing, Shanghai and Bangkok, recently took over the operation of various attractions in Australia and New Zealand and next year will open Legoland Malaysia. In Japan is has chosen the Decks Tokyo Beach Mall in Odaiba, Tokyo Bay, as its launch pad into the country. To test the water, Madame Tussauds Tokyo will open in October as a temporary exhibition featuring a collection of wax figures on the third floor of the mall. If Tokyo residents and tourists enjoy it as much as the other 12 Madame Tussauds attractions internationally (pictured is a scene from Madame Tussauds London), then Merlin plans to make it a permanent feature with many additional figures.


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This will be followed in June 2012 by the ¥1.2 billion ($15m/€10.5m) Legoland Discovery Centre (LDC) a two to three-hour indoor experience including a 4D cinema, play areas, party rooms and a Miniland exhibit featuring Lego models. The 4,000 square- metre facility will occupy the sixth and seventh floors of the Decks Tokyo Beach Mall, and construction is expected to begin in September 2011. “Japan is a very exciting marketplace and we have been looking for suitable sites in Tokyo, and other parts of the country,” reveals Glenn Earlam,


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managing director of Merlin’s “Midway” attractions division, which includes Madame Tussauds and LDC. “Madame Tussauds is a wonderful global brand, which can be adapted to reflect the people and the marketplaces in which we open. Given the popularity of Lego toys in Asia Pacific I know people here will love the Legoland Discovery Centre concept.” Merlin’s introduction to the Sumitomo Corporation, owners of the Decks Tokyo Beach Mall, was brokered by the Blackstone Group, one of the attraction operator’s major shareholders. The company is continuing to look for new sites across Japan for its brands – primarily LDC and Sea Life, its world-leading aquarium brand.


JULY 2011


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