PortAventura
Spain
 Park News - (3/18/2026) A new video update from PortAventura confirmed that the track replacement project on Dragon Khan has progressed to the point that the only thing left to finish is the replacement of track for the cobra roll element. So with that in mind, it shouldn’t be much longer until all the new track is in place and the park is ready to begin testing the remodeled roller coaster.
(1/18/2026) Track replacement work is now officially under way on Dragon Khan at PortAventura. As previously mentioned this €3 million project will replace the vertical loop and cobra roll elements with new steel.
2026 - Two New Attractions & Dragon Khan Retracking - (3/28/2026) Dragon Khan at PortAventura is now running once again with the retrack job now complete. Check it out below!
(1/26/2026) Coaster Chall posts that PortAventura will open a couple of new attractions this season. Inside the main park will be Makamanu Jungle: The Adventure Trek, which sounds like an outdoor themed “adventure trail” featuring suspended rope bridges to cross, enclosed slides to go down, secret passageways and more.
Meanwhile the Caribe waterpark will add Coral Bay: The Lost Legend, a large new play area expansion that is supposed to also feature a new family water coaster attraction.
This is in addition to the previously announced refurbishment of the park’s Dragon Khan looping roller coaster.
(10/18/2025) I mentioned this earlier this week on our social media, but PortAventura has confirmed that their popular Dragon Khan roller coaster (1995 B&M Sit-Down Looper) will be undergoing a major renovation later, starting on January 7th, 2026. This will involve a “partial retrack” of Dragon Khan that will see a complete track replacement of the “vertical loop and cobra roll” elements. The pieces for this replacement are expected to arrive over the next few weeks. The goal is to ensure that this classic early era B&M roller coaster can continue to thrill guests for many more years to come.
PortAventura May Be For Sale - (9/17/2023) According to a few news articles from Spain, the two investment companies behind the PortAventura theme park resort (KKR and Investindustrial) are now looking to sell off the popular attraction. According to the article the sale of the PortAventura resort could generate a price around 1 billion Euros. PortAventura has had a long history of shared ownership, starting off as a shared attraction between the Tussauds Group (40.01%), La Caixa (33.19%) and Anheuser-Busch (19.9%) and FECSA (6.7%) when it first opened in 1995. In 1998 the Tussauds group sold their shares to Universal, and the attraction was rebranded for a time as Universal’s Port Aventura, and adopted Woody Woodpecker as the official mascot.
Over the years the park’s group ownership has essentially be a non-stop revolving door of owners, with Anheuser-Busch and Universal having dropped out long ago. Through a series of mergers and buy-outs it sounds like the park has narrowed the ownership down to just two investment companies: Investindustrial (50.1%) and KKR (49.9%), both of which appear to be in agreement that the time is right to sell the attraction now that it is turning a profit and expected to end the 2023 season with higher attendance than it had in 2019 (5.2 million). To these efforts the groups are already working with JP Morgan to work out the details of a possible sale.
So the real question is who might be interested in the opportunity to buy the entire property once and for all? The site itself is home to several hotels, a waterpark, the PortAventura theme park as well as a second gate micro-park experience, Ferrari Land. Disney had their chance once with this property, as the site was actually in the running in the 90’s to become home to “EuroDisney” before the Paris location won out.
Universal comes to mind as a possible bidder, as they once had parietal ownership and managed the park for many years under the eyes of a previous owner of Universal. Comcast is calling the shots these days, and they’ve been very gung-ho with investing in the Universal parks brand, having finalized buyout to completely own the Universal park in Japan, build a brand new park in China, and are currently building a 3rd major theme park in Florida. Being able to take advantage of the option for a 100% buyout of PortAventura for complete control of the resort, and the bragging rights for being able to plant the Universal flag firmly in Europe once and for all may be a temptation Comcast just won't be able to resist.
Keep in mind that cash may not be an issue for Comcast either, as Comcast still owns 33% of HULU and under the 2019 agreement where Disney absorbed FOX’s 33% to mix with their own 33% ownership, Comcast was said to be able to trigger a buyout offer from Disney as early as January 2024 for a minimum of $27.5 billion. However a press release from Comcast on Sept. 6th mentions that Comcast and Disney have agreed to moved up the date for the HULU deal to Sept. 30th, and that they expect to settle for more than the minimum price as the value of HULU has “increased dramatically” since that 2019 agreement was drafted. So with Comcast soon to be flush with cash, the chance to add PortAventura to their attractions portfolio is something of a no-brainer in my opinion.
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