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The rumor a while back was that Paris’s Galaxy’s Edge was only going to include Smuggler’s Run, but they pivoted to the Lion King pitch after how SM was received over at California/Florida. Then a more recent rumor is that they’re shifting the whole thing over to the sister park, taking up the...

I mean, they’ve always made announcements on April 12th. I think Universal suddenly dropping their announcement earlier this week was just inconvenient timing for Disney. Given the rumors of Pandora taking up the third expansion slot I could see them use that as a response to Universal GB, but...

As part of the resort’s 33rd anniversary today, Disney dropped new information this morning on the ongoing transformation of Walt Disney Studios into Disney Adventure World: The Studio 1 building, to be renamed World Premiere, is set to reopen on May 15th. The park confirmed that Adventure...

The park is open for the season and a large construction site now exists next to Nessie and Royal Scotsman: Including what appears to be an early start on footers: Source...

Almost as weird is this proto-4D coaster featured in the same video: Nothing about ”Sledge Hammer” comes up on RCDB so I assume this was some prototype that never went anywhere?

That area between the Waterworld arena and the Minions corner seems like a placeholder to me. It’s oddly simplistic visually compared to everything else.

A clearer image of the front car has appeared on the park’s website:

And like that, the Pirates 4D show has permanently closed and is set to be replaced by a ”world’s first” 4D theater experience at a later date. https://www.phantafriends.de/topic/6502-neu-202x-weltneuheit-im-ehemaligen-schauspielhaus/?&_rid=19364#findComment-203793 Meanwhile, a rather large...

Dock World will open with the park in less than 48 hours.

Holiday World is lowering Thunderbird’s height requirement to 48” in response to updated safety recommendations from B&M, brought on by Kings Dominion’s Rapterra. It is not an April Fools.

Hansa Park has launched another puzzle contest, this time a crossword puzzle for participants to figure out the name of the 2026 Gerstlauer Family Coaster. The answer will be revealed on April 15th. https://www.hansapark.de/best-kept-secret?language=de

Phantasialand’s legal partners Linkens & Rambau filed a trademark on March 26th for Die Drei Mausketiere (”The Three Mouseketeers”). Could potentially be a new 4D film or an extension of the Maus au Chocolat theme. https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/019162508...

The Intamin straddle coasters are very different to the Vekoma motorbikes in terms of vehicle design, though. On Juvelen you’re still sitting upright and held in by a lapbar, with the handlebars mostly for show (you can grip onto the lapbar like any other coaster and ride just fine): Whereas...

The upside to this is now they can market that weird 2026 thing as their 20th coaster. 👀

I’m still confident it will materialize, especially since Plopsa’s new management has indicated that they really want to make Holiday their second flagship resort. They seem to be juggling a million balls in the air at the moment between the two coasters, dark ride refurb, new themed areas...