Promotional feature: IDEATTACK
IDEATTACK’s new project in Hainan, China,
introduces the storytelling elements of a
theme park to the oceanarium concept
Science Museums: Shaping Tomorrow
Brazil’s Museum of Tomorrow uses
constantly updating, real-time digital
collection to communicate with visitors.
We met members of the team
Promotional feature: EAS
This year, the Euro Attractions Show is
coming to the Spanish city of Barcelona
Disney Special: Shanghai Disney: The Best Yet?
As Disney opens its first resort in mainland
China, our special feature examines its
business model, its potential impact and
the modernisation of the Disney castle park
New Openings: Space Inversion
A new contemporary museum district
in the Netherlands – Museumplein
Limburg – features a science centre,
a design museum and an inverted
planetarium. We take a closer look
Promotional feature: Polin
Polin’s patented technologies, extensive R&D and creative flair have made it one of the world’s leading waterpark design and manufacturing companies
Waterparks: Taking the Plunge
Waterpark suppliers constantly develop
their product offers. We dive into the
world of waterpark R&D to find out more
Zoos & Aquariums: The Long Game
UK safari park Longleat is undertaking a
decade-long upgrade that starts by going
back to its roots. As the attraction turns
50, CEO Bob Montgomery explains how
he’s bridging the past and the future
Vekoma Vekoma is presenting two new thrill coasters set to launch this year and next. Both custom-designed, Space Warp will open at Energylandia in Poland in 2016 and Fire Storm will open at Vinpearl Thu Thiem in Vietnam in 2017. Vekoma has also installed two family coasters at Paulton’s Park in the UK, a Boomerang and a Suspended Family Coaster.
Booth #1350
Vekoma’s latest UK rollercoaster
Sally Sally will present, in partnership with AMC and Striker Entertainment, the Walking Dead: Battle For Survival, a long-awaited immersive dark ride based on the award-winning television series. This dark ride features interactivity, multi-DOF ride vehicles, media-based scenes, highly immersive theming with ultra-realistic sets, scenery and animation and 4D special effects, including real fire, wind and fog. Sally is also presenting VOLCANIKUS! 4-D, an original IP. The all-new interactive dark ride journeys into the fiery depths of Inferno Island, where guests do battle with prehistoric beasts, evil statues, huge carnivorous plants, living lava warriors and other fantastic elements.
Booth #1550
The Walking Dead-inspired dark ride
Gateway Gateway is debuting its new product, Galaxy Connect, a cloud-based platform that connects attractions suppliers with third-party distributors to enable selling of live tickets to attractions anywhere in the world. It’s integrated with LvMama, TongCheng and CTrip, three of the leading travel service providers in China.
Booth #1536
Huss Several prestigious Huss projects will be highlighted at AAE Shanghai, including the opening of the world-first Hybrid Condor in Tivoli Gardens, Denmark and Huss Ride Classics at Romon U-Park in Ningbo, China. Huss is also unveiling a new project, the film-based ride attraction Movie Base XS with an extremely small footprint, leading to a minimised overall investment. The new Movie Base XS is an evolution of the existing Movie Base Classic attraction, a 4D dynamic motion simulator.
Booth #1641
Condor at Tivoli Gardens
Holovis Holovis Attractions invites attendees to step inside a mixed reality world of VR, AR and real-time media on Booth 3313. Using its Mixed Reality (MR) design capabilities, the company will be showcasing its ability to transform any passive experience, such as queue lines, pre-shows or even the attractions structures themselves into extended experiences, gamifying every element and connecting them through park-wide apps, introducing a whole new level to the guest experience.
Booth #3313
Augmented reality at the Holovis booth
IdeAttack IdeAttack is presenting its 13-hectare (32-acre) Seaworld Adventure Park project, part of the Ocean Flower Island project, a mega-tourism zone on an artificial archipelago located off the north coast of Hainan, China. It features four distinct zones: Boardwalk, Polar World, Deep Sea Fantasy and Tropical World. The park is designed as a highly immersive, entertaining and experiential destination combining themed environments with rides, lifestyle and leisure park elements and animal exhibits.
Booth #1144
Seaworld Adventure Park, China
ProSlide ProSlide is presenting Singha at Siam Park in Tenerife, Spain, a new slide that incorporates ProSlide’s FlyingSAUCER features into its RocketBLAST water coaster, with patented water jet and boat design. The four-person RocketBLAST water coaster marries technologies from ProSlide LIM coasters with turbine technology to take water propulsion to a new level. The water coasters allow 100 per cent steeper hills than traditional blast coasters, 50 per cent more capacity and 60 per cent more efficiency.
Booth #1402
Singha at Siam Park, Tenerife
Forrec EVPs Anthony Van Dam and Cale Heit will be on hand to talk about Forrec’s latest built project, Wanda Xishuangbanna in China. Another hot topic for Forrec is their branded attraction work for popular TV show Top Gear and three other BBC Worldwide properties. Collaborations with IP-holders like Sanrio (Hello Kitty) is a Forrec specialty.
Booth #1250
Forrec is working with Top Gear
Sanderson Group Sanderson Group is an international thematic design and construction corporation with proven experience delivering world-renowned attractions and destinations since 1989. Sanderson Group offers its clients full turn-key solutions covering every stage of project development including conceptual design, masterplanning, feasibility and market analysis, construction documents, construction and operations.
Booth #1301
nWave For over 20 years, nWave has been a market leader in the production and distribution of high quality and innovative content, including 4D/3D attraction films, 3D/2D ride simulation films, and 3D/2D educational documentaries for giant screen IMAX theatres and digital 3D cinemas.
Booth #1530
See nWave’s latest 4D film
International Play Company FEC Builders is a new division at International Play Company. The FEC Builders team changes the way a design is approached, inspiring new branded attractions and bringing new levels of creativity to each project. International Play Company has developed numerous edutainment facilities and independent environments for entertainment facilities. The company’s educational turn-key attractions are suited to science centres, zoos and museums among other environments.
Booth #1705
COMPANY PROFILES
Sally Corporation
Our services include: Dark ride design & build; Redevelopment of existing attractions; High-quality [more...]
Promotional feature: IDEATTACK
IDEATTACK’s new project in Hainan, China,
introduces the storytelling elements of a
theme park to the oceanarium concept
Science Museums: Shaping Tomorrow
Brazil’s Museum of Tomorrow uses
constantly updating, real-time digital
collection to communicate with visitors.
We met members of the team
Promotional feature: EAS
This year, the Euro Attractions Show is
coming to the Spanish city of Barcelona
Disney Special: Shanghai Disney: The Best Yet?
As Disney opens its first resort in mainland
China, our special feature examines its
business model, its potential impact and
the modernisation of the Disney castle park
New Openings: Space Inversion
A new contemporary museum district
in the Netherlands – Museumplein
Limburg – features a science centre,
a design museum and an inverted
planetarium. We take a closer look
Promotional feature: Polin
Polin’s patented technologies, extensive R&D and creative flair have made it one of the world’s leading waterpark design and manufacturing companies
Waterparks: Taking the Plunge
Waterpark suppliers constantly develop
their product offers. We dive into the
world of waterpark R&D to find out more
Zoos & Aquariums: The Long Game
UK safari park Longleat is undertaking a
decade-long upgrade that starts by going
back to its roots. As the attraction turns
50, CEO Bob Montgomery explains how
he’s bridging the past and the future
Vekoma Vekoma is presenting two new thrill coasters set to launch this year and next. Both custom-designed, Space Warp will open at Energylandia in Poland in 2016 and Fire Storm will open at Vinpearl Thu Thiem in Vietnam in 2017. Vekoma has also installed two family coasters at Paulton’s Park in the UK, a Boomerang and a Suspended Family Coaster.
Booth #1350
Vekoma’s latest UK rollercoaster
Sally Sally will present, in partnership with AMC and Striker Entertainment, the Walking Dead: Battle For Survival, a long-awaited immersive dark ride based on the award-winning television series. This dark ride features interactivity, multi-DOF ride vehicles, media-based scenes, highly immersive theming with ultra-realistic sets, scenery and animation and 4D special effects, including real fire, wind and fog. Sally is also presenting VOLCANIKUS! 4-D, an original IP. The all-new interactive dark ride journeys into the fiery depths of Inferno Island, where guests do battle with prehistoric beasts, evil statues, huge carnivorous plants, living lava warriors and other fantastic elements.
Booth #1550
The Walking Dead-inspired dark ride
Gateway Gateway is debuting its new product, Galaxy Connect, a cloud-based platform that connects attractions suppliers with third-party distributors to enable selling of live tickets to attractions anywhere in the world. It’s integrated with LvMama, TongCheng and CTrip, three of the leading travel service providers in China.
Booth #1536
Huss Several prestigious Huss projects will be highlighted at AAE Shanghai, including the opening of the world-first Hybrid Condor in Tivoli Gardens, Denmark and Huss Ride Classics at Romon U-Park in Ningbo, China. Huss is also unveiling a new project, the film-based ride attraction Movie Base XS with an extremely small footprint, leading to a minimised overall investment. The new Movie Base XS is an evolution of the existing Movie Base Classic attraction, a 4D dynamic motion simulator.
Booth #1641
Condor at Tivoli Gardens
Holovis Holovis Attractions invites attendees to step inside a mixed reality world of VR, AR and real-time media on Booth 3313. Using its Mixed Reality (MR) design capabilities, the company will be showcasing its ability to transform any passive experience, such as queue lines, pre-shows or even the attractions structures themselves into extended experiences, gamifying every element and connecting them through park-wide apps, introducing a whole new level to the guest experience.
Booth #3313
Augmented reality at the Holovis booth
IdeAttack IdeAttack is presenting its 13-hectare (32-acre) Seaworld Adventure Park project, part of the Ocean Flower Island project, a mega-tourism zone on an artificial archipelago located off the north coast of Hainan, China. It features four distinct zones: Boardwalk, Polar World, Deep Sea Fantasy and Tropical World. The park is designed as a highly immersive, entertaining and experiential destination combining themed environments with rides, lifestyle and leisure park elements and animal exhibits.
Booth #1144
Seaworld Adventure Park, China
ProSlide ProSlide is presenting Singha at Siam Park in Tenerife, Spain, a new slide that incorporates ProSlide’s FlyingSAUCER features into its RocketBLAST water coaster, with patented water jet and boat design. The four-person RocketBLAST water coaster marries technologies from ProSlide LIM coasters with turbine technology to take water propulsion to a new level. The water coasters allow 100 per cent steeper hills than traditional blast coasters, 50 per cent more capacity and 60 per cent more efficiency.
Booth #1402
Singha at Siam Park, Tenerife
Forrec EVPs Anthony Van Dam and Cale Heit will be on hand to talk about Forrec’s latest built project, Wanda Xishuangbanna in China. Another hot topic for Forrec is their branded attraction work for popular TV show Top Gear and three other BBC Worldwide properties. Collaborations with IP-holders like Sanrio (Hello Kitty) is a Forrec specialty.
Booth #1250
Forrec is working with Top Gear
Sanderson Group Sanderson Group is an international thematic design and construction corporation with proven experience delivering world-renowned attractions and destinations since 1989. Sanderson Group offers its clients full turn-key solutions covering every stage of project development including conceptual design, masterplanning, feasibility and market analysis, construction documents, construction and operations.
Booth #1301
nWave For over 20 years, nWave has been a market leader in the production and distribution of high quality and innovative content, including 4D/3D attraction films, 3D/2D ride simulation films, and 3D/2D educational documentaries for giant screen IMAX theatres and digital 3D cinemas.
Booth #1530
See nWave’s latest 4D film
International Play Company FEC Builders is a new division at International Play Company. The FEC Builders team changes the way a design is approached, inspiring new branded attractions and bringing new levels of creativity to each project. International Play Company has developed numerous edutainment facilities and independent environments for entertainment facilities. The company’s educational turn-key attractions are suited to science centres, zoos and museums among other environments.
Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Mubadala Capital has made a binding, fully financed
€1 billion
offer to acquire Pierre and Vacances SA, the European holiday resort operator behind the
continental European Center Parcs business.
Expo 2030 Riyadh is being planned as a permanent visitor destination, with organisers
confirming the six-million-square-metre site will become a Global Village after the event closes.
The owner of one of Australia's best-known waterparks has acquired a major competitor,
creating a new attractions business spanning two of the country's largest visitor destinations.
The Toverland theme park in the Netherlands has announced a €98m expansion programme
that will add a resort, new attractions and staff facilities as it pursues plans to become a multi-
day destination.
Hotel de France, located on the British Isle of Jersey, has created a wellness retreat package
that includes a hot yoga session that will take place in Jersey Zoo’s butterfly sanctuary.
A new immersive attraction designed to transport visitors into the final hours of ancient Pompeii
is preparing to open near the world-famous archaeological site in southern Italy.
Experience design company, BRC Imagination Arts, has completed a transition that sees founder
Bob Rogers pass ownership of the business to four long-serving senior executives, while
remaining actively involved with the company.
Movie Park Germany has opened a new Paramount Pictures-themed attraction as part of its 30th
anniversary celebrations, using immersive storytelling and adaptive reuse to reinforce the park’s
longstanding “Hollywood in Germany” positioning.
Therme Manchester’s 28-acre development, which will include interconnected glass pavilions
that measure 65,000sq m, will be the largest bathing and wellbeing attraction in the world once
complete, according to prof David Russell, CEO of Therme UK.
Efteling has opened Hooghmoed, a new family drop tower designed to broaden the appeal of its
recently launched Sirene Island themed area and introduce younger visitors to thrill attractions.
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