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New dinosaur unveiled at Natural History Museum of Utah
SALT LAKE CITY — The Natural History Museum of Utah unveiled a newly discovered dinosaur on Thursday. Scientists said the discovery gave them a better look into prehistoric life. The new dinosaur is called Lokiceratops rangiformis, aka the giant horned dinosaur. The...
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Netflix House Will Let You Experience Your Favorite Shows, Movies in Real Life
Imagine waltzing with your partner to an orchestral cover of a Taylor Swift song on a replica of the Bridgerton set –– and then walking around the corner to compete in the Glass Bridge challenge from Squid Game. After pretending to fight for your life, you’ve worked...
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Philadelphia Zoo celebrates 150 years
The Philadelphia Zoo has been a staple in the city and a leader in animal conservation for well over a century. How long exactly? As of July 1, America’s first Zoo will turn 150 years old. And the Philadelphia Zoo has grand plans to celebrate the milestone. When the...
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Da Vinci Science Center opens to the public in downtown Allentown
The new Da Vinci Science Center in downtown Allentown is officially open to the public. Doors opened at 10 a.m. Wednesday after a ribbon-cutting with Mayor Matt Tuerk on Tuesday. The new Hamilton Street facility has four permanent exhibits, including the interactive...
![The world’s first Dragon Ball theme park is coming to Saudi](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Dragon-ball-theme-park-1-1080x675.png)
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The world’s first Dragon Ball theme park is coming to Saudi
It’s time to go Super Saiyan because a brand-new Dragon Ball theme park is coming to the Kingdom. Part of the massive Saudi mega-project and entertainment destination Qiddiya City, the anime theme park is the first of its kind and will feature more than 0.5 million...
![Sony Just Opened a VR Theme Park and Speakeasy Outside Chicago](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/thirllist-1080x675.webp)
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Sony Just Opened a VR Theme Park and Speakeasy Outside Chicago
It’s tough to get out of the city when a world of culture and entertainment is at your fingertips, but Sony is betting big on the suburbs of Chicago with its opening of Wonderverse, a 45,000-square-foot venue that brings the studio’s most popular movies, TV shows, and...
![Netflix To Open Brick And Mortar Location In 2025, Adding Retail To Its Roster](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/netflix-1080x675.webp)
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Netflix To Open Brick And Mortar Location In 2025, Adding Retail To Its Roster
Netflix plans to open physical locations named “Netflix Houses” where customers will be able to shop, play and interact, immersing themselves in some of their favorite Netflix shows. These permanent locations highlight the company’s long-term strategy to create a new...
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Planned $89 million renovation ‘a complete reimagination’ of IMS Museum experience
For the first time in four decades, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, the home of the Racing Capital of the World’s 114 years of history, will close its doors for nearly 18 months as it undergoes an $89 million transformational renovation. When it reopens in...
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Seattle Aquarium receives $1M Murdock trust grant for expansion project
The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust gave the Seattle Aquarium a $1 million grant toward the construction of the new Ocean Pavilion, the Trust announced Tuesday. The aquarium expansion, which will cost an estimated $160 million in total, plans to feature a...
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World Trade Center Arts Space to Open With Music, Theater and Dance
As the marble-clad, cube-like Perelman Performing Arts Center has taken shape at the World Trade Center site, questions have swirled about what will actually happen inside. Some answers came on Wednesday, when the center announced a first year of programming that will...
![LA’s Natural History Museum to open $75m transformation in 2024](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/natural-history-museum-los-angeles-county-1024x663-1.webp)
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LA’s Natural History Museum to open $75m transformation in 2024
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County‘s $75 million renovation and expansion project, NHM Commons, is to open in 2024. NHM Commons, designed by Frederick Fisher & Partners with landscape design by Studio-MLA, will add 60,000 square feet of space to the...
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Pilsner Urquell will open an interactive beer center near Prague’s Wenceslas Square
As of next year, people won’t have to go to Plzeň to take a tour to find out about Pilsner Urquell beer. An interactive exhibit will open next year in Prague in the City Palais building at the intersection of Wenceslas Square and 28. října Street. Pilsner Urquell: The...
![A massive new performing arts center is opening at the World Trade Center](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/perelman.webp)
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A massive new performing arts center is opening at the World Trade Center
New York's cultural revival is in full swing, with several impressive projects in the works giving locals much to look forward to in the coming years. One such project, of pretty epic proportions, is the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC),...
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Beachfront Waterpark Opens in The Bahamas’ Baha Mar Complex
The Bahamian resort destination of Baha Mar opened a $200 million luxury beachfront water park today, July 6, called Baha Bay, with exclusive access for guests staying in the destination. Baha Bay is located on 15 oceanfront acres in the popular Bahamian resort...
![Quest: Qatar’s first-ever indoor theme park opens in Doha](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/doha-quest-time-travel-1080x675.jpg)
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Quest: Qatar’s first-ever indoor theme park opens in Doha
Qatar’s first-ever indoor theme park, Quest, has opened with more than 30 rides and attractions at Doha Oasis, a mixed-use development. Quest, operated by ProFun, is an indoor theme park covering 32,000 square metres within Doha Oasis, a mixed-use development in...
![Merlin teams with Hasbro on world’s first Peppa Pig Theme Park](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/peppa-pig-theme-park-legoland-florida.webp)
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Merlin teams with Hasbro on world’s first Peppa Pig Theme Park
Merlin has partnered with Hasbro to open the world’s first stand-alone Peppa Pig Theme Park at Legoland Florida Resort in 2022. Peppa Pig Theme Park has been designed to be the ultimate attraction for children. It will house various rides, interactive attractions,...
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Hasbro reveals growth drivers, including Wizards of the Coast
Hasbro‘s new financial reporting segments and growth drivers are ‘Consumer Products’, ‘Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming’, and ‘Entertainment’. Hasbro will start reporting its new segments with the first quarter earnings release in April 2021. ‘Consumer...
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Longwood Gardens unveils $250m expansion, transformation
Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania will add new plantings and buildings across 17 acres, also expanding and connecting the public spaces of the central grounds. The master plan for the project, Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience, was created in...
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Meow Wolf continues to create under new leadership
Meow Wolf, the art collective that transformed into a multimillion-dollar, award-winning Arts Production Company, is under new leadership. As Vince Kadlubek steps back as CEO, the role has been taken on by three people already involved in the leadership structure: Ali...
![In Midtown, 1,401-foot One Vanderbilt is officially open](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/One-Vanderbilt-1080x675.webp)
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In Midtown, 1,401-foot One Vanderbilt is officially open
It’s been nearly four years since One Vanderbilt broke ground next to Grand Central, and after topping out one year ago at 1,401 feet, NYC’s fourth-tallest tower is officially open to office tenants. Developer SL Green, Manhattan’s largest office landlord, held an...
![Disneyland Shanghai Reopens to New World of Masks, Distance](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Bloomberg_Disneyland_Shanghai_Reopens.png)
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Disneyland Shanghai Reopens to New World of Masks, Distance
As Shanghai Disneyland opened Monday for the first time since late January, Walt Disney Co.’s hit song “A Whole New World” played in the background. And it was a very different world for guests required to stay 6 feet (2 meters) apart in lines, wear masks and climb...
![One Vanderbilt tops out at 1,401 feet, becomes tallest office building in Midtown](https://profun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/One-Vanderbilt-Sept-17-1080x675.webp)
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One Vanderbilt tops out at 1,401 feet, becomes tallest office building in Midtown
The Grand Central Terminal-adjacent supertall One Vanderbilt officially topped out this week, reaching its full 1,401-foot height. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the tower is now Midtown’s tallest office building and the fourth-tallest skyscraper in New York City. One...
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Wavehouse: Atlantis The Palm to host new entertainment venue
A visit to Wavehouse to Dubai's Atlantis The Palm is like taking a trip down memory lane. From chomping down on comfort foods like fish-finger sandwiches and deep-fried Babybels, playing classic arcade games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders, and enjoying the beach-bar...
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ProFun Acquires Icon Global Partners, Ltd.
Acquisition substantially enhances waterpark consulting and management capabilities LOS ANGELES, CA – June 7, 2019 - ProFun, Inc announced today that on June 6, 2019 they entered into an agreement to acquire Icon Global Partners Limited. The acquisition represents a...
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New York to open tallest outdoor observation deck in Western Hemisphere
(CNN) — New York will soon have "the edge" when it comes to magnificent outdoor observation decks. Already home to some of the most famous viewing spots in the world, the Big Apple is about to add another to its impressive collection. Named Edge, the upcoming Hudson...
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Legends In Concert To Open Year-Round Show And Theater At OWA
Legends in Concert, the longest-running show in Las Vegas, has announced an all-new residency at OWA, in Foley Alabama's Gulf Coast region. OWA is a world-class, award-winning entertainment destination owned and operated by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. OWA's...
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Emerging Trends Shaping Themed Destination Development and Operations
Today’s consumers expect fantastic, immersive, quality experiences when they come to theme parks – whether it’s a destination operated by a top international owner such as Disney, Universal, Chimelong Group, or Merlin Entertainments, or a smaller regional park. In...
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Terrifying glass floor opens atop Thailand’s tallest completed building
Bangkok is famous for many things. Street food, temples and over-the-top shopping malls come to mind. Terrifying experiences that make your palms sweat and your knees shake? No so much, unless you count the city's notorious traffic jams.The new Mahanakhon SkyWalk,...
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Management Resources and ProFun Management Group Finalize Merger to Create MR-ProFun
Today marks the formal introduction of MR-ProFun following the successful merger of Management Resources and ProFun Management Group, two highly respected operations consulting and management firms with long-standing reputations in the themed-entertainment and...
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Management Resources and ProFun Management Group rebrand as MR-ProFun
For over 38 years, Management Resources and ProFun Management Group have operated independently while serving 350+ clients in 45 countries. Both entities provided an assortment of planning, advisory, training, implementation and management services to the...
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Dubai’s Global Village to open for 23rd season on Tuesday
Global Village, Dubai's multicultural festival park, opens in Dubai on Tuesday, for its latest season which runs under the theme “Explore, Experience, Enjoy. This Way!”. Global Village pledged to offer "world-class shopping, unlimited entertainment and tantalizing...
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Dubai Safari Park to reopen with new animals, adventures
Spanning 12.8 million square feet of landscaped land, Dubai Safari was home to more than 2,500 animals when it welcomed visitors on December 12, 2017. The wildlife park that closed on May 15 to undergo an upgrade has welcomed several new animals over the summer...
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Theme park plans formerly backed by Paramount given £25 million investment
A new investor has promised to put £25 million into long-running plans for an entertainment resort set to cost £5 billion. Engineering and construction group Keltbray is poised to inject the cash to the theme park plans, originally set to be based around the films of...
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Six Flags’ Future in Dubai Is Now Uncertain
In a drawback to its international expansion plans, a Six Flags theme park that was supposed to open late next year in Dubai is now under review by its struggling owner, executives from Six Flags Entertainment said Wednesday. DXB Entertainments, which owns the Dubai...
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Dubai Parks records 1.96 million visits in first nine months
Dubai Parks and Resorts pulled in more than 1.96 million visits in the first nine months, which is a 33 per cent gain on the same period last year. In the third quarter of 2018, the development in Jebel Ali recorded over 501,000 visits compared to 479,000 last year....
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Dubai’s JBR opens three new entertainment attractions
Dubai’s Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR) has announced the opening of three new entertainment attractions. TEPfactor, 3D Blacklight Minigolf and Countdown Challenge are located on the plaza level of Bahra 1. TEPfactor is an adventure experience featuring 21 challenges...
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For museums, AR is the next frontier
MAE JEMISON, THE first woman of color to go into space, stood in the center of the room and prepared to become digital. Around her, 106 cameras captured her image in 3-D, which would later render her as a life-sized hologram when viewed through a HoloLens headset....
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Cartoon Network entertainment park opening in Bali
Your favorite Cartoon Network characters are going to Bali, Indonesia, and they’re bringing to the island its largest waterpark. The 4.3ha entertainment park – a joint collaboration between Turner Asia Pacific and MAJ Group – is scheduled to open in 2020. In addition...
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Genting Looks To Opening of Twentieth Century Fox World Theme Park
With the highly anticipated Twentieth Century Fox World Theme Park set to open this year, Malaysian-based casions and integrated resorts operator Genting Bhd has posted a 9.8% drop in net profit to in the first quarter of the year on the back of 10% growth in revenue...
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Louvre Abu Dhabi, a Cultural Cornerstone Where East Meets West
A decade ago the French architect Jean Nouvel sketched the bare outlines of a fretted dome on flimsy paper. Today this enormous metallic-silver canopy rises over desert sands and the Persian Gulf — marking the new Louvre Abu Dhabi museum and the global ambitions of...
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Thailand’s new tallest building: A sneak peek from atop Bangkok’s mighty MahaNakhon
The Skytrain, over 300 meters directly below, snakes across its elevated track like a miniature toy train. Nearby, cars limp down Bangkok's Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Road in the evening traffic, tiny specks with glowing pinpoints for headlights. But it's the views of...
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OWA Announces Haunted House Called “Town Of Terror”
The new theme park in Foley announced Thursday that it will be opening one of the area’s biggest haunted houses next week. The “Town of Terror” opens October 6th. According to a press release, OWA will be teaming up with Fairhope’s Nightmare Chambers to bring the...
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Bangkok’s abandoned ‘ghost’ towers still stand 20 years after crash
Upon its completion in 2016, the 314-meter MahaNakhon was named Thailand's tallest building. Offering luxury shopping and some of the most expensive properties in Bangkok, the glitzy skyscraper symbolizes a city on the rise. But amid a construction boom in the Thai...
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20th Annual Thea Awards
On Saturday, April 5th our industry celebrated what has come to be known as the “Oscars” of the Themed Entertainment Industry… the 20th Annual Thea Awards Gala. The objective of the Thea Awards is to find excellence and celebrate it. We would like to congratulate all...
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15 Top Theme Park Additions for 2017 (The Park at OWA is #10)
OWA is a brand-new amusement park currently under construction on Alabama's Gulf Coast, and the Rollin' Thunder roller will be the headline attraction. Designed by Italian amusement ride company Zamperla, Rollin' Thunder will be similar to Thunderbolt, which returned...
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New General Manager of NY Wheel
The new general manager for the 60-story observation wheel being built on the St George waterfront wants to make the New York Wheel into an attraction similar in caliber to that of Universal Studios in Hollywood. Tasked with leading the charge to transform Staten...
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The New York Wheel Gets Its First Shipment of Crane Parts
As DNAinfo reports, on June 28th a cargo ship from Denmark carrying large crane parts for construction of Staten Island’s New York Wheel arrived at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT), where it was docked for five days with around 30 union longshoreman moving...
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‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Aliens’ and all the best new theme parks of 2015
Where do you go for theme park rides inspired by maritime tragedies, acid-blooded aliens and children fighting to the death in a dystopian future? Dubai, of course. The emirate has been revealed as the latest destination for a Twentieth Century Fox World theme park...
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New York Wheel Moves Forward With City Council Approval
Although the New York Wheel, the massive ferris wheel coming to the Staten Island waterfront, is all but a given at this point, the project still needed City Council approval before moving forward with construction. And as of yesterday, those changes—which focused...
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Service Excellence Around the World
He is everywhere! Ho Chi Minh City, Moscow, Orlando, and Sydney... Shaun McKeogh is busier than ever! He has recently completed employee training for Wet'n'Wild in Sydney where he received rave reviews; hosted a highly attended Service Excellence webinar for EAAPA...
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Theme Park Projects Can Provide a Thrilling Ride
Claus Frimand, senior vice president of MR ProFun Management Group, agreed that technology is crucial to today’s theme parks, and one of the hardest elements of the projects to manage. “The main difference is really the ride integration. Many developers look at [a...