Details Emerge on Legoland Florida

Eric — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:30:37 +0000

Merlin Entertainment has recently purchased Cypress Gardens, the defunct park in Winter Haven, FL, and is going to be transformed into Legoland with a park opening slated for late 2011. The park is still in the planning phase and not much is known of what will happen to the leftover rides at the park. The recent In The Loop podcast (Jan, 25, 2010) had Julie Estrada from Legoland CA on to discuss future developments at the Legoland California Park along with the upcoming plans for Legoland Florida. Some of the key things that she mentioned where:

Topiary will stay and will be incorporated into a mini-land section
Most leftover rides will be re-themed to fit the Legoland brand.
A 4-D theater along with the driving school attraction found at Legoland CA will be added.
One of the two coasters that are left will stay.
Ski show will most likely stay as well.

This park will be geared to a younger crowd, but should prove to be a nice change of pace for people looking to do something fun outside of Orlando. What’s your take on the Legoland redevelopment plans?

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Joel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:02:18 +0000

>TPS Reports will resume in Spring 2010.

Every Monday, look for the Weekly TPS Report; a recap of the biggest news stories of last week. Let’s take a look what happened in the amusement industry last week:

#5 – Thorpe Park to Add “SAW Alive” Horror Maze in 2010
Building on the success of this year’s SAW – The Ride, UK theme park, Thorpe Park will add another SAW attraction in 2010. It’s described as a “year round live action horror maze.” Read more about SAW Alive: Haunted Attractions UK

#4 – Roller Coaster Supports Appear at Lagoon
Supports for a new roller coaster have appeared at Lagoon (Utah). All that is currently known is that the supports were not designed by Premier Rides as previously reported. Read the more and see pictures of the supports at: ScreamScape

#3 – Disney Dream Cruise Ship Will Boast a Water Coaster
Details of Disney’s new Dream cruise ship were recently announced. The cruise ship set to sail in 2011 will boast AquaDuck, a water coaster. Read the full story at:Disney Cruise, and watch the video below for a first look.

#2 – Ferrari’s Experience’s F1 Coaster Capable of 150 mph!
2010′s Ferrari Experience theme park in Abu Dhabi will be home to the new Intamin F1 Coaster reported to be capable of 150 mph which would make it the fastest roller coaster in the World. Read the full story: Wheels Blog at NYTimes

#1 – Legoland Looking at Illinois as Site for New Theme Park
A European company is in talks with Illinois officials to build a $200 million Legoland amusement park in the Glen Carbon area. Read the full story: STLtoday

What do you think of this week’s news stories? Leave a comment below.

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Details Emerge on Legoland Florida

Top 5 Stories of the Week: Disney’s AquaDuck, Legoland Illinois, & More