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Lock up your cookies! Cookie Monster is coming to Pennsylvania
America’s only theme park based entirely on Sesame Street is to get an exciting new addition for 2014. Launching in May at Sesame Place, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, Cookie’s Monster Land will serve as host to all of the gluttonous blue monster’s friends and feature five rides, a net climb and a soft play area. The area’s feature ride will be a custom-themed
Regatta ship ride from Zamperla, Captain Cookie’s High “C’s” Adventures, taking mini voyagers around an undulating track mimicking the rolling waves of the ocean. On the new Oscar’s Rotten Rusty Rockets, another Zamperla ride, guests can join Oscar the Grouch and his best pal Slimey on a space mission in trash-can rocket ships. Children 42 inches (1m) and taller can take a ride on Honker Dinger Derby, an Orbiter ride from Tivoli Engineering where colourful cars spin in
small circles in a near-vertical position on the of six arms, which themselves turn around the centre. Premier Rides helped with the repatriation of the ride from Busch Gardens Tampa, where it previously appeared as Sandstorm. Families will move and groove across the dance floor in spinning disco balls on Monster Mix-Up, a specially-themed tea cup ride. Finally, Flying Cookie Jars, a Samba Balloon ride will spin guests around in a giant cookie jar 40ft above the ground for a monster’s eye view of the park. Both are from Zamperla.
Everyone will be welcome at the Monster Clubhouse, where kids and parents alike can explore together on a three-storey net climb. The soft play area, meanwhile, will be called Mini Monster Clubhouse. These two attractions have been designed in conjunction with the architecture firm VOA.
Glow With the Show this Christmas at Walt Disney World
Guests Glow With the Show during Worlds of Colour at Disneyland
During the Christmas holiday season at Walt Disney World, which starts this month, guests will be able to “Glow With the Show” as they watch the nightly Spectacle of Dancing Lights parade at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Spirit of the Season fireworks spectacular at the Magic Kingdom.
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Heather M Eichenbaum is a Member with Spector Gadon & Rosen, practising in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida and New York. In addition to defending parks and other leisure facilities, she is often called to prepare waivers and releases for amusement venues, handle crises and provide training on crisis management, safety and witness testimony. Legal counsel to, and a board member of, NAARSO, she is also a member of the NJAA, IAAPA, OABA and IISF. Should you need legal assistance, reach Heather at: +1 215-241- 8856, or
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Available for purchase at each park will be special glowing hats (as pictured below) that illuminate, change colour and pattern to synchronize with every dancing light, musical note and vibrant explosion in the sky during these two festive shows at the Florida resort. Retailing at $25, the Glow With the Show hats were first introduced at Walt Disney World this fall during the 15th anniversary of Fantasmic! at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, following their debut in 2012 as part of the Worlds of Color show at Disneyland Resort in California. WDW is also selling them during the Wishes and Celebrate the Magic castle projection show at the Magic Kingdom.
Those looking to refuel will find an expanded menu of grab and go meals like sandwiches, fruit & vegetable trays and juice boxes (what no cookies?) at Cookie’s Sometimes Anytime Food Market, while the updated “1,2,3 Smile with Me!” photo location also gives kids the chance to share a furry hug and a smile with Cookie Monster himself. Just make sure he doesn’t steal your cookies!
ITPS offers Garfield IP to
parks Dennis Speigel's International Theme Park Services (ITPS) has entered into an agreement with PAWS Inc to introduce the famous cat character
Dennis Speigel (right) with Garfield
Garfield into the amusement industry. The inclusion of Garfield and his doggy pal Odie will, we are told, allow theme parks to have a competitive edge in marketing and merchandising. “Few things are more fun than amusement parks, and ‘fun’ is Garfield’s middle name,” notes creator Jim Davis. “We’re confident that Garfield will be perfectly groomed to suit any venue’s entertainment needs.”
The comic strip of Garfield’s daily life has been in publication since 1978 and holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip. Garfield also has sold over 135 million books, stars in a top-rated kids show on Cartoon Network, and has 11 million fans on Facebook. ITPS will be available to discuss some of the theme park possibilities for the loveable orange cat at this month’s IAAPA Attractions Expo in Orlando, and Speigel says he has already seen interest from several major industry players.
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