Park News Pacific Rim 5-D
A new movie ride experience is available to guests at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom near San Francisco. From filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim 5-D is presented in the park’s Iwerks 5D Theater in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products and SimEx-Iwerks Entertainment. Inspired by Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ sci-fi adventure Pacific Rim, the storyline follows monstrous creatures rising from the sea, attacking cities and threatening mankind. In a unified show of force, the world’s most powerful nations have joined together and built massive robot fighting machines. Sneak previews were provided in January.
Americana comes
to I-Drive Fun Spot expansion
planned It developed from a family entertainment centre into an amusement park, and now Orlando's Fun Spot America has ambitions to become a theme park. The International Drive (I-Drive) attraction has chosen locally-based Falcon’s Creative Group to help design its long range plan. As it continues to grow, the park will have one ultimate theme: Americana. Six sub themes will transport guests to classic periods in American history. One of Falcon’s renderings – pictured above – shows a carnival-like boardwalk atmosphere themed around a central water fountain. A new area and attractions such as a skyway ride are planed together with waterpark features and more rides occupying space on the north side of Fun Spot Way. The expansion also includes a parking garage and new food & beverage partners. Located close to Universal Orlando resort, Fun Spot America is one of two Orlando area parks bearing the Fun Spot name, the other being in Kissimmee, closer to Walt Disney World.
Polercoaster approved for Atlantic City
New Jersey's Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has approved a 52,000 square feet (4,831 sq m) Polercoaster for Atlantic City. The vertical rollercoaster from US Thrill Rides will be located just a short walk from the beach in an area bounded by the Boardwalk, Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and Mount Vernon and Kentucky avenues. Also featured as part of the development will be a retail space, lockers, video games and office space. Wallack Holdings, which is behind the planned
Polercoaster on Orlando's International Drive, is also a partner in the Atlantic City project.
coaster Last autumn, Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson, New Jersey, announced it would introduce a 13th coaster to its attraction line-up in the shape of an S&S 4D Free-Fly called Total Mayhem. Continuing Six Flags’ partnership with DC Comics, we can reveal that it has been renamed The Joker in honour of Batman’s nemesis. “The Joker is undeniably one of the greatest DC s Super-Villains ever created,” believes park president John Fitzgerald. "Only someone with his warped sense of humour could provide this level of insanity – or spinsanity – with a new, vertical coaster that delivers gravity-defying somersaults with utter unpredictability.” The 2016 season commences at Six Flags Great Adventure on March 23.
New name for New Jersey
ABOVE: An artist’s impression of the expanded Fun Spot park, including the proposed new areas below and to the left of the Ferris Wheel
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