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Six Flags offloads AstroWorld
15 Sep 2005
US-based theme park operator, Six Flags, has announced it is to sell its 109-acre AstroWorld in Houston, Texas, USA, but denied that the announcement was a sign for further offloads.
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Disney plans second Hong Kong site
15 Sep 2005
Disney’s chair, George Mitchell, has said the company is planning to build another theme park adjacent to its newly-opened Hong Kong Disneyland Resort.
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£8m cinema development for Vue
15 Sep 2005
Pleasure & Leisure, owner of the Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, is to enter into a joint venture partnership with Henry Boot Developments to build a new, £8m leisure complex with a 10-screen cinema as its centrepiece.
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Splashdown at Kalahari
13 Sep 2005
US waterpark Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells has opened a Splashdown Safari interactive feature within its outdoor Kalahari Zambezi park.
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Hong Kong Disney opens
12 Sep 2005
Hong Kong Disneyland opened to the public this morning, two weeks earlier than originally projected.
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Bournemouth £8m arts centre gets go-ahead
08 Sep 2005
Bournemouth Borough Council has agreed plans for a new £8m arts and education centre to replace the Winter Gardens, a former concert hall which has been in decline since the 1970s.
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Dinopolis expands with educational ride
08 Sep 2005
Spanish entertainment complex Dinopolis – which combines dinosaur-inspired rides, exhibitions and a play area with a centre for paleontological studies – is set to launch a new educational ride on 1 June 2006.
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Cedar Point voted Best Park In The World
05 Sep 2005
US amusement park Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, has been voted the Best Amusement Park in the World for the eighth year running in the annual Golden Ticket poll conducted by US-based Amusement Today newspaper.
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London Eye in court bid to reduce rent
01 Sep 2005
The London Eye Company (LEC) is to go to court in an attempt to prevent a rise in rent on its South Bank site, which is owned by the South Bank Centre (SBC).
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Geauga expands amusement park
24 Aug 2005
Geauga Lake family Amusement Park in Aurora, Ohio, has completed the first phase of a US$26m (21.3m euros, £14.5m) expansion programme.
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London set for Walk of Fame
18 Aug 2005
London, UK, is set to get its own Hollywood-style walk of fame next month with the launch of the Avenue Of The Stars in Covent Garden on 18 September.
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H2O thrill zone for Wet’n’Wild
17 Aug 2005
Warner Village Theme Parks (WVTP) has unveiled further details of its continuing AUS$20m (e12.5m, £8.5m, US$16m) investment in Wet’n’Wild Water World on Australia’s Gold Coast.
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Titanic visitor planned for Belfast
17 Aug 2005
Detailed proposals for a £100m visitor attraction commemorating the story of the cruise liner Titanic have been submitted to the Belfast City Council in Northern Ireland.
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