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08 Jun 2016
Merlin putting forward plans for long-rumoured Legoland NY
Merlin Entertainments will put forward plans for its largest Legoland theme park ever, with a special presentation outlining the project in Goshen, New York, to take place on 14 June. First rumoured in 2014, the US$800m (€718m, £555m) project would start development in Q2 2017, with a projected opening date of
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08 Jun 2016
Bjarke Ingels creates 'unzipped wall' for London's Serpentine Pavilion
This year's Serpentine Pavilion, designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), has opened in Hyde Park, London. At the press launch yesterday (7 June), BIG founder Bjarke Ingels said that designing the pavilion had allowed the practice to demonstrate their values in a way that their more traditional building work
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08 Jun 2016
Six Flags announces US$500m share repurchase plan
Six Flags has approved plans allowing the theme park operator to repurchase US$500m (€440.9m, £343m) of its common stock. To date, Six Flags has repurchased around US$1.3bn (€1.1bn, £892m) of its common stock since introducing its share repurchase programme in February 2011. Six Flags has been riding high
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07 Jun 2016
Ronaldo museum triples in size to accomodate future accolades
Cristiano Ronaldo’s self-dedicated museum has tripled the amount of exhibition space to accommodate the world-famous footballer’s ever-expanding trophy cabinet. Ronaldo, who takes to the pitch next week for Portugal in Euro 2016, opened the museum in his hometown of Funchal, Madeira, back in 2013. The
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07 Jun 2016
Microsoft announces Windows Holographic operating system for VR devices
Microsoft has announced it’s releasing a virtual reality operating system to be available to all VR and AR systems. The company’s own under-development Hololens already uses the special version of Windows 10, which will be known as Windows Holographic on its commercial release. Building on the existing
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07 Jun 2016
Architects envision €30m Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art
Designs by a number of architects competing to design a €30m (US$34m, £23.6m) contemporary art museum in Latvia have been unveiled. The seven teams – shortlisted from an invited list of 25 global architecture firms and each paired with a local design team – include Adjaye Associates and AB3D; Caruso St John
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06 Jun 2016
Alton Towers submits plans for wooden coaster
Alton Towers has made an application to local government authorities for a new rollercoaster currently known as SW8 or Secret Weapon 8. The plans, which have been kept a secret for some time, were submitted to Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and show a wooden rollercoaster built on the former site of
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06 Jun 2016
Registration opens for IAAPA 2016
Registration for this year’s IAAPA Attractions Expo in Orlando, Florida, is now open, with the event to highlight key trends and experiences set to take the sector by storm in the not-too-distant future. With more than 30,000 industry professionals expected to attend, including 20,000 buyers coming from more
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06 Jun 2016
Life-sized Catbus to form centrepiece of reimagined Ghibli Museum
Japan’s Ghibli Museum in Tokyo is planning to create a life-sized replica of the famous Catbus from anime classic My Neighbour Totoro. The Ghibli Museum – which opened in 2001 as a showcase for the work of animation studio Studio Ghibli – has an existing replica of the Catbus, though it is only large
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06 Jun 2016
Disneyland Shanghai draws one million visitors before even opening
Disneyland Shanghai, set to launch on 16 June, has already welcomed nearly one million visitors to the park even before officially opening its doors. Since the park opened its subway stop on 26 April, more than 960,000 people have travelled to the non-ticketed areas of the park, such as its lake and selection
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03 Jun 2016
London Paramount making 'good progress' despite setbacks, says developers
London Resort Company Holdings (LRCH) – the company behind the £2bn (US$3bn, €2.8bn) Paramount London theme park and resort development in Kent – has announced the project is on-track despite a year-long delay in planning submission. LRCH announced today (3 June) that it had completed a further full year of
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03 Jun 2016
French floods cause emergency closure of Paris museums
Two major museums in the heart of Paris have been temporarily closed so that their priceless works can be moved to higher ground amid the threat of flooding from the River Seine. The river, which has already burst its banks in several places, is 6m (19ft) above its normal level, after six months worth of rain
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