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Which of your attractions do you expect to be your biggest visitor draw for 2018?
Hogne Høstmælingen, Hunderfossen Familiepark: One of our main attractions, the Fairy Tale Castle building is spectacular, and is a landmark along the E-6, the main road through Norway. Inside this 37 metre tall and 1000 sq m building, we have two major attractions, as well as the best selling store in our park. An ETF-ride takes our visitors through a journey of the Norwegian Fairy Tales, created by well known artists in Norway. On the top of the castle, you find another main ride the Troll drop (ABC/Farmer), which is a scary-funny attraction with a very nice preshow and a picture- friendly surprising end!
Yan Girla, Diggerland USA: We are adding a total of five new rides with our expansion, the largest of which includes a 700 foot (213 m) Soaring Eagle Zip Line, spanning nearly the entire foot print of the park. Construction is going well with the majority of the site work being done at the moment. The use of recycled containers really works with the theme of the park. We will begin the containment systems and ride course infrastructure for an additional four other rides we are introducing for the 2018 season.
Don McCoy, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom will be opening the world’s first dual looping coaster themed after iconic female super villains, Harley Quinn, in Spring 2018. This thrilling new coaster will deliver multiple head-to-head flybys as two trains seating 32-riders combine for speeds up to 70 mph (113 kph). At Waterworld Concord, the park will open its biggest attraction in over a decade with Splashwater Island, a cutting-edge new interactive water play area with over 100 play features. Construction has not started yet.
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million trips and 29 years of entertainment after its 1988 installation, Tivoli Garden’s iconic spinner the Snurretoppen (Spinning Top), ran its last ever trip on the final day of 2017. The historic Danish amusement park marks its 175th anniversary this year.
hectares of 23.5-megawatt solar panels will be constructed at Six Flags Great Adventure in a bid to become in the world’s first solar-powered theme park. Developed by partner KDC Solar, the project will include solar carports over select parking lots and 40 acres of ground-mounted solar panels. Six Flags expects the solar facility to be fully operational by the end of 2019.
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is the number of individual axes of motion possible for what has been dubbed ‘the most sophisticated animatronic expressive figure ever’. Created by Garner Holt Productions, the character can reportedly replicate any expression a human face can make – it even has a moving tongue.
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centimetres high, the looming, sentient, Mandarin-speaking robot figure of Megatron, from Universal Studios Hollywood’s thrill ride, Transformers: The Ride- 3D, will interact with guests both in Mandarin and in real-time conversation at the Lunar New Year event taking place this month in LA on Universal Plaza.
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Grupo Diniz, operator of the Recórcholis family entertainment centres, will invest 550 million pesos in the development of new park Kataplum, which will be located in the Parque Las Antenas shopping centre in east Mexico City.
Picsolve is providing its green screen technology at The MARVEL Experience Busan in Korea, Asia’s first Marvel VR and AR experience hall. Visitors can be captured with eight popular MARVEL characters, including Iron Man, Spider Man and Captain America.
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