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Junior Roller Coaster
The Vekoma Junior Coaster is a model of steel roller coaster built by Vekoma. It was originally introduced by Vekoma as the "Roller Skater" due to the roller skate shaped cars found on some of the installations, and is credited with greatly influencing the concept of the junior roller coaster, which is found at many theme parks today. Design and operation Most Vekoma Junior Coasters consist of a single train made up of several cars, each with a single row of riders. Some, such as Flight of the Hippogriff at Islands of Adventure in Orlando, operate with two trains. There are three basic models (85 meters, 207 meters, and 335 meters), although Vekoma also provides custom models. Instead of the chain lift found on most roller coasters, Vekoma Junior Coasters usually use friction wheels to carry the train up the lift hill. Installations See also * Vekoma Family Boomerang * Vekoma Suspended Family Coaster References External links Official websiteof all Vekoma Junior Coaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Adventures
Wild Adventures (formerly known as Liberty Farms) is a zoological theme park located in Clyattville, Georgia, south of Valdosta, Georgia. The park is owned by Herschend Family Entertainment and has been managed by Jon Vigue since October 2020. Wild Adventures has rides, exotic animals, the Splash Island water park, and live shows. History Kent Buescher and his wife Dawn Buescher founded the park on a plot of farmland outside of Valdosta, Georgia. It was established in 1996 for around $10 million. Wild Adventures started as a small petting zoo known as Liberty Farms D&L (Distribution & Logistics ). The park now hosts six roller coasters and numerous flat rides. Rides were initially added to the park in 1998. Splash Island, the park's water park, opened in 2003 as the park's largest expansion which features a 100-meter drop double slide. In 2004, the Adventure Park Group purchased Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, Florida, a company that Buescher privately held. The expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energylandia
Energylandia is an amusement park located in Zator, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Zator, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Lesser Poland, in southern Poland. It is approximately away from Kraków and away from Warsaw, Poland's capital city. Energylandia is the largest amusement park in the country, at . The park has nineteen roller coasters, the joint most of any theme park around the world. History Energylandia opened on 14 July 2014. For its first year, there were three roller coasters: the ''Frutti Loop Coaster'', ''Mars'' and the ''Viking Roller Coaster''. In 2015, three more roller coasters opened, the ''Energuś'' Roller Coaster (a Vekoma Junior Coaster), Roller Coaster ''Mayan'' (a Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster/SLC), and ''Dragon'' Roller Coaster (a Vekoma Suspended Family Coaster). In 2016, the park opened ''Formuła (Energylandia), Formuła'', a launched roller coaster manufactured by Vekoma. In October 2016, the park announced another three new coasters to open for the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leofoo Village Theme Park
The Leofoo Village Theme Park () is a theme park and a safari located in Guanxi Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It features three roller coasters, including an inverted shuttle coaster, Screaming Condor, an Intamin twist-and-turn coaster dubbed Sahara Twist, as well as a Vekoma Roller Skater (335m) in the Wild West section of the park, Little Rattler, themed to an old mining railway. There is also the Nairobi Express, a narrow gauge railway built by Severn Lamb. The park features many other attractions of different styles and proper themed areas. History The Leofoo Village Theme Park was originally established in 1979 as Leofoo Wildlife Park. In 1989, the wildlife park was reestablished to Leofoo Village Theme Park. In 2023, a baboon escaped from Leofoo Village, and was eventually killed. After initially refusing to admit the baboon had escaped from Leofoo, the Park later admitted the baboon had come from the Park and apologized. Themed areas Arabian Kingdom is an adven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Window On China Theme Park
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air. Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material, a sash set in a frame in the opening; the sash and frame are also referred to as a window. Many glazed windows may be opened, to allow ventilation, or closed to exclude inclement weather. Windows may have a latch or similar mechanism to lock the window shut or to hold it open by various amounts. Types include the eyebrow window, fixed windows, hexagonal windows, single-hung, and double-hung sash windows, horizontal sliding sash windows, casement windows, awning windows, hopper windows, tilt, and slide windows (often door-sized), tilt and turn windows, transom windows, sidelight windows, jalousie or louvered windows, clerestory windows, lancet windows, skylights, roof windows, roof lanterns, bay windows, oriel windows, thermal, or Dio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plopsaland
Plopsaland De Panne is a theme park located in Adinkerke, Adinkerke, Belgium, in the municipality of De Panne, and owned and operated by Plopsa. The park was originally known as Meli Park from 1935 to 1999, before reopening as Plopsaland on 20 April 2000. History Meli Park In 1935, Alberic-Joseph Florizoone opened Meli Park as a place where he could sell his home-produced honey and also teach visitors about the process and the honey bee itself. To keep up with competition, over the years the park opened several attractions, turning it into a theme park. Plopsaland The Florizoone family sold the park in 1999 to Studio 100 and DPG Media, ''VMMa''. The park received a makeover during the following winter season, to reopen as Plopsaland on 20 April 2000. During the renovation several characters from Studio 100, such as Samson en Gert (TV series), ''Samson en Gert'' and ''Kabouter Plop'', were used to theme new and old attractions. The new park had some issues at reopening with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everland
Everland () is South Korea's largest theme park. It is located at the Everland Resort in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. In 2018, it received 5.85 million visitors and was ranked 19th in the world for amusement park attendance. As of 2010, Everland is measured to be approximately 1,200,000 square yards. Along with its main attractions, Everland includes a zoo and water park known as Caribbean Bay. Everland is operated by Samsung C&T Corporation (formerly known as Samsung Everland, Cheil Industries), a subsidiary of the Samsung Group. It first opened under the name Yongin Farmland (), and received its current name in 1996. The park is accessible by public transportation (buses and the EverLine railway), as well as by dedicated shuttle buses that stop by various places in Seoul. History Construction on the park first began in 1968. Initially, plans existed to build the park in Anseong, but that city ultimately declined to host it. It eventually opened to the public on Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herky & Timmy's Racing Coaster
Herky and Timmy's Racing Coaster () is a Vekoma Junior Coaster in Everland, Yongin, South Korea which opened on October 1, 2005. It is located in the Aesop's Village section of the park, which was created to celebrate Everland's 30th anniversary. The ride itself is themed after The Tortoise and the Hare, an Aesop's Fables, Aesop fable. The roller coaster initially went forwards, but after a New Year's Day event during December 2019 to February 2020, it started to go backwards. Herky and Timmy's Racing Coaster is South Korea's first roller coaster to go backwards. History In February 2005, Everland started developing its Aesop's Village section, which is a children's zone with themes referencing Aesop's Fables. The section was created to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Everland, which would be the following year. Aesop Village was set to be finished around October 1 the same year. In September the same year, Herky and Timmy's Racing Coaster, which was set to be themed after The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyle Music Park
Freestyle Music Park, formerly called Hard Rock Park, was a music-themed amusement park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Built on , the park was located at the intersection of US 501 and the Intracoastal Waterway. It included part of the former Waccamaw Factory Shoppes in Fantasy Harbour, and its headquarters was located in Mall 3. The park opened to the public on April 15, 2008, but following financial issues, it closed later that year on September 24. It reopened under the Freestyle brand on May 23, 2009, but it closed permanently at the end of the season due to mounting financial problems and lawsuits. History Development of Hard Rock Park Jon Binkowski, a businessman from Florida who had worked in the amusement-park industry, bought a small theater in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 1999 or 2000. The theater, known as the Ice Castle, did not attract as many guests as Binkowski had expected. Binkowski and Rank Group executive Steven Goodwin began developing plans for an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiba Zoological Park
The Chiba Zoological Park is located in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, Japan, and near the shore of Tokyo Bay. The park can be accessed by the Chiba Monorail and is open between 9:30am and 4:30pm. Animals Overview The Chiba Zoological Park opened its doors for the first time in April 1985, and now includes seven different areas. Zoological Hall Easy to access from the main gate and usually the first one visited by tourists. This area hosts the pavilion houses where the information desk is located. The Zoological Hall focuses on various species from the tropical rainforest such as nocturnal animals, marmosets, tropical birds and two-toed sloths. The small animals zone This area is the home of the zoo mascot, Futa the red panda, who became a TV celebrity in 2005. The area also houses other red pandas called Chichi, Meimei, Meita, Kuta, Mai, Mii, and Genta. Steppe Zone This area has big herbivores on display, such as elephants, giraffes, and zebras, but also has So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Disneyland
is a theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, near Tokyo. Its main gate is directly adjacent to both Maihama Station and Tokyo Disneyland Station. It was the first Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney park to be built outside the United States and it opened on April 15, 1983. The park was constructed by Walt Disney Imagineering, WED Enterprises in the same style as Disneyland in California and Magic Kingdom in Florida. It is owned by The Oriental Land Company, which licenses intellectual property from The Walt Disney Company. Tokyo Disneyland and its companion park, Tokyo DisneySea, are the only Disney parks in the world not owned or operated by The Walt Disney Company in any capacity. The park has seven themed areas: the World Bazaar, Adventureland (Disney)#Tokyo Disneyland, Adventureland, Frontierland#Tokyo Disneyland, Westernland, Fantasyland#Tokyo Disneyland, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland (Disney Parks), Tomorrowland, Critter Country and Mick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disneyland
Disneyland is a amusement park, theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It was the first theme park opened by the Walt Disney Company and the only one designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney, and opened on July 17, 1955. Disney initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), studios in Burbank, California, Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit; however, he soon realized that the proposed site was too small for the ideas that he had. After hiring the Stanford Research Institute to perform a feasibility study determining an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a site near Anaheim in 1953. The park was designed by a creative team hand-picked by Walt from internal and outside talent. They founded WED Enterprises, the precursor to today's Walt Disney Imagineering. Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a special televised press event on the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chip 'n' Dale's Gadgetcoaster
Chip 'n' Dale's Gadgetcoaster (stylized as Chip 'n' Dale's GADGETcoaster, and known as Gadget's Go Coaster in Tokyo Disneyland) is a junior roller coaster at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba. It is based on the work of the character Gadget Hackwrench from the Disney animated series '' Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'' (1989–1990). Gadget is depicted on top of a small weathervane on the roof of the loading station, as well as on a postage stamp in the attraction's loading area. The Disneyland version also includes a static figure of Gadget before the coaster's lift hill. Both versions of the attraction are located in Mickey's Toontown, and the Disneyland version opened as Gadget's Go Coaster on January 24, 1993, along with the rest of Mickey's Toontown. The Tokyo Disneyland version opened on April 15, 1996. At 44 and 56 seconds respectively, it is the shortest attraction in Disneyland. The Disneyland version closed in March 2022 for a refur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
