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(7/9/2026) UK - Appeal Coming To Add Attractions To Blackpool's South Pier
(7/9/2026) Dubai - New Zamania Park Attraction Now Open
(7/8/2026) Germany - SnowWorld Neuss Opens Three New Rides from Sunkid
(6/21/2026) Singapore - Therme Group Breaks Ground on New $1 Billion Wellness Resort
(6/6/2026) UK - Dinosaur Park in Wales Has Been Sold To a New Owner
(5/26/2026) UAE - Construction Contract Awarded To Build Sphere Abu Dhabi
(5/24/2026) UK - New Immersive David Bowie Experience Opens In London
Australia - (11/28/2025) A new Alpine Coaster (from Wiegand) will soon be ready to open in Australia. The track installation for the new Plantation Coaster at Big Banana Fun Park is now complete, making this installation only the second Alpine Coaster from Wiegand in all of Australia. Look for the grand opening of the new ride to take place on December 13th.
Belgium - (4/8/2026) According to this news report, 7 guests sustained minor injuries at the Boudewijn Seapark in Belgium on Tuesday while riding the park’s Spring Ride drop tower attraction. This is said to be a family friendly sized tower ride that rises only 20 feet into the air. However, for unknown reasons, the riders dropped unexpectedly fast from about the 13ft height mark, striking safety cylinders at the bottom that slowed them down.
During testing after the incident the ride cycled normally, so they have not yet determined what has gone wrong. For those curious, you can see a video below showing off the actual ride at the park in action, running a normal ride cycle. As per the label on the ride itself, this is a Moser Rides attraction.
Brazil - (4/30/2026) Scary times in Brazil, as riders on a spinning tower ride at a small park in Brazil had it collapse on them just as it was starting to rise into the sky. The whole thing was caught on video by a rider while it happened and you can watch the video here.
They refer to the ride simply as “Tower” and say that it is in the city of Guaiba, and while the article says it was at a theme park, Google searches indicate that this was a traveling style show of rides set up as a temporary “park” known as “Las Vegas Park”
While there were 11 reported injuries to both adults and children on the ride, fortunately there were no reported casualties.
(2/3/2026) Guests enjoying the Super Gyro Tower (an observation tower attraction) in Brazil on January 30th got a little more than they bargained for, when the attraction suddenly came to a stop about 200 feet in the air on Friday. After about two hours, and being unable to get the ride moving again, rescue crews climbed up the tower and began the slow process of lowering individual riders down to the ground with a safety harness.
I’m sorry, but this would be one of my worst nightmares come to life. While I know everyone made it down safe and sound, just the idea of being lowered to the ground by rope just leaves a giant pit in my stomach.
Canada - (2/5/2026) Blooloop has posted a look at the new Niagara Takes Flight flying theater attraction now open at Niagara Falls on the Canadian side, using Brogent’s o-Ride flight system. The attraction also features a pre-show narration delivered by James Cameron and serves as a replacement for the, now closed, Niagara’s Fury 4D theater attraction.
(12/17/2025) If you’ve visited the world famous Niagara Falls area, you may have noticed a major difference about the experience of the American side of the falls compared to the Canadian side. While the American side is more of a national park type of experience, the Canadian side is the complete opposite, featuring a wild and colorful barrage of tourist offerings featuring, attractions, and gift shops galore. This includes some rather wacky combinations as well, such as the famous Burger King on Clifton hill that features a giant Frankenstein style creature above the entrance holding a Whopper in his hand. If that wasn't’ enough there is actually a roller coaster on the roof of the building called the Frank’ N Coaster, because it also is home to the House of Frankenstein attraction.
It seems more good times are ahead because the local politicians in the area have now announced a multi-billion dollar strategy to attract even more developments and attractions to the area with the hopes of doubling the tourism impact here. The plan includes expansions to local roads as well as the local airport to handle bigger planes, new hotels, and of course, new attractions. One they have their sights set on is to bring in a giant observation wheel to the area, not unlike the ones in Orlando, Las Vegas and London.
China - (12/20/2025) Blooloop reports that the massive Harbin Ice and Snow World attraction has once again opened in China, offering a massive outdoor winter themed attraction unlike any other. Each season the attraction has set out to improve itself, expand the offerings, and to integrate technology and new storytelling experiences into the design.
(11/25/2025) According to an article at Interpark, a Ferrari themed land and attractions are in development to open somewhere in China. They are calling it the Ferrari World Entertainment Complex right now and at an investment of nearly 10 billion yuan the attraction is expected to “feature the world’s fastest roller coaster Formula Rossa” as well as an Esports Arena, Ferrari museum and a variety of other attractions.
Of course, as most of our readers are already aware, the current “world’s fastest roller coaster”, also named Formula Rossa, has been running at the original Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi since 2010 hitting a top speed of 149.1mph. The OG Formula Rossa will soon drop that title to Falcons Flight at Six Flags Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia when that park opens on December 31st, 2025, with Falcons Flight said to reach a top speed of 155.3mph.
Both are the creations of Intamin, so I can only guess that Intamin may be working on an idea to build in China for something able to go even faster than Falcons Flight.
(11/8/2025) Popland, a new theme park that is all about those little Labubu dolls, has now opened in Beijing, China. Based on a quick video tour of Popland I found on YouTube, it looks more like a large grouping of displays mixed with shopping areas, but I didn’t really notice any rides or true attractions. So in short, this looks more like the kind of attraction people come to take Instagram / TikTok style photos and videos, and do a little shopping, but that’s about it. But if Labubus are your thing right now, then this is where you’ll want to visit.
(7/3/2025) Hasbro is working on building a new Peppa Pig themed outdoor theme park in China. Unlike the US mini-parks we’ve seen so far, at a cost of approximately $331 million, this new park will be 48 acres and located on China’s Changzing Island in Chongming, Shanghai. The project is still in the design phase right now, and is planned to feature five different themed areas and environments. The project will also include the world’s first Peppa Pig themed hotel, offering over 400 rooms.
Unlike the other Peppa Pig themed attraction seen to date, this one is not from Merlin Entertainment, but instead is part of a separate deal Hasbro signed with Max-Matching Entertainments who seems to have the exclusive license in China to create attractions themed to a number of different brands including from deals with Mattel (Barbie, Thomas, Hot Wheels), Hasbro (Transformers, Peppa Pig, Nerf, My Little Pony), Wildbrain (Peanuts, Teletubbies), Aardman (Shaun the Sheep), Crayola and more.
 Dubai - (7/9/2026) Zamania Park is now open in Dubai at the IBN Battuta Mall. According to the press release this is 2,5000 square meter “sportainment park” that is anchored with an anime style theme and over 30 attractions, including a ninja course, slides, climbing walls, car track and interactive games.
(10/9/2025) According to this article the aquarium at the Atlantis Resort at The Palms (Dubai) has been transformed and will reopen as the “Lost World Aquarium” on October 27th. The rethemed exhibit says that guests will “Explore 14 interactive chambers, encounter over 65,000 marine creatures, and discovery cutting-edge technology and brings muth and ocean life together.” The attractions claims to use underwater projection mapping and other new technology to create “more than six hours of cinematic storytelling.”
(2/23/2025) Something new is in the works for Dubai… or perhaps I should say… it is coming BENEATH Dubai. According to Blooloop The Boring Company has signed the initial deal with the nation to build the Dubai Loop. The project sounds very similar to what The Bording Company is currently in the process of building below Las Vegas by creating a series of connected tunnelways connecting 11 stations across 17km of tunnel that electric vehicles will transport passengers through.
With the approval of Dubai’s first flying taxi system as well not long ago, it seems like Dubai is seeking the tackle their growing traffic problem head-on by offering alternative transportation methods.
(2/9/2025) Another unusual project is in development for Dubai called Therme Dubai. To be located in Zabeel Park, Therme Dubai will be a 500,000 sqft nature themed attraction built as a floating garden in the sky, featuring cascading thermal pools, saunas, steam rooms and mineral pools. If all goes as planned, it may open as early as 2028 if they start construction next year.
(1/10/2025) The dream of taking a taxi ride across the sky will soon be a reality in Dubai. According to this report the first “Vertiport” has been approved in Dubai next to the Dubai International Airport, and is now slated to begin offering commercial air taxi operations by early 2026. The Dubai International Vertiport “will serve as the first of four strategically positioned vertiports in Dubai”, developed by Skyports Infrastructure.
The three-story Vertiport structure is designed to handle up to 170,000 passengers per year with two-landing areas and fast-charge technology for an eVTOL fleet of Joby S4 aircraft. They expect to support up to 10 aircraft landings per hour, and will eventually be networked with four other Vertiports. They say that air-transportation between the airport to locations like Palm Jumeirah can be done in 10-12 minutes, compared to a land journey by car that can take up to 45 minutes.
Egypt - (4/5/2026) ProSlide is celebrating the opening of several major new attractions at the new Jungle Park at Rixos Radamis Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt. The new waterpark is home to a pair of HIVE 20 slides, the region’s first SwitchBACK slides, a four-lane RallyRACER, a RocketBLAST water coaster and more.
France - (11/28/2025) For tourists looking to visit some of Paris’ most famous attractions know that the Louvre museum has now confirmed that ticket prices will increase by 45% for anyone visiting who is a ‘non-European Union” visitor. So starting next week, guests visiting from the US, UK or even China will now have to pay €32 to enter the Louvre. (That’s about $37 at the current exchange rate).
Germany - (7/8/2026) Blooloop reports that Sunkid has supplied three new rides to SnowWorld Neuss, Germany’s first indoor ski hall that opened back in 2001. The three new rides have been set up in the attraction’s outdoor fun zone, a 10m themed Eagle Tower family drop tower experience and two “skydiving attractions”.
India - (5/8/2026) Over the past couple of decades, we have watched dozens of new theme parks launch all across China as it became a new hot-bed of attraction development after previously being mostly devoid for so long. As new developments in China begin to slow, we are now seeing the development of new parks and attractions within the United Arab Emirates (Dubai & Abu Dhabi), Qatar and Saudi Arabia beginning to open.
So the question on many minds right now is… who is next? According to an interesting post at Blooloop this week, they say the industry is now keeping an eye on India as the potential next hotbed of development. They cite facts such as a “vast young population and fast-rising middle class” as prime reasons that the nation could become the next big market for entertainment and recreation projects. And while we are seeing the early stages of declining population statistics across most of Europe and North America, the middle-class in India is estimated to be represented by around 500 million people, and expected to increase by another 300+ million over the next 10 years.
This is also reflected in numbers that show India with a very young population, with 66% of the citizens said to be 35 and under. By contrast we are seeing signs of an increased aging population across Europe, North America and Japan in addition to declining birth rates. For comparison, it is said that only 38% of the population in the European Union is under 35.
Follow the link to read more about what’s going on and who is already working on potential new projects for this unserved market.
(1/26/2026) It has been confirmed that Wonderla has opened their latest park in India, Wonderla Chennai, just before the end of December. This marks the opening of the fifth Wonderla park following the opening of Kochi in 2000, Bangalore in 2005, Hyderabad in 2016 and Bhubaneswar in 2024.
The new park features India’s first B&M Inverted coaster, Tanjora, which is actually a Batman: The Ride clone that was first built and installed in Kuwait Entertainment City under the name Lightning where it operated from 2004 to 2016.
Italy - (11/28/2025) The world will gather in Milano Cortina (Italy) to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics games from Feb. 6 through to Feb 22, 2026. Of course, the one event that always appeals to roller coaster and thrill ride fans is the Bobsled event, and they’ve just released a POV video showing a run down the new high-speed Bobsled course at Cortina that you can watch below. The track will be used for this year’s Bobsled, Luge and Skeleton events.
Japan - (4/24/2026) Sad news from the Tokyo Dome attraction park in Japan this week. According to news headlines a 24-year old employee was killed this week while performing maintenance on one of the park rides. The story reports that while working on the park’s “Flying Balloon” ride, they became trapped between the ride vehicle’s seats and the central tower structure for more than five hours and possibly went into cardiac arrest before she was pulled free from the ride. Emergency crews took her to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.
(3/16/2026) Capcom, one of Japan’s largest video game developers, will open a new attraction in Osaka, Japan in the near future. They are calling it CapComix and describe the new concept as “an experience-based” attraction that will feature a variety of attractions themed to Capcom’s popular properties and characters.
(2/23/2026) According to Unilad a strange new themed experience park will be opening next month in Japan called Uzumasa Kyoto Village. The attraction is described as an “adults only” experience inside a recreated “Edo-era” version of Kyota that will feature live drama actors, gambling halls, flower arranging lessons, tea ceremonies, escape rooms and even a “Torture House”.
(12/28/2025) After just opening in March 2024, what was described as being Japan’s first fully immersive theme park experience, ”Immersive Fort Toyko”, has announced that the attraction will close down at the end of February 2026. Build to take over a space created formerly as the “Venus Fort” mall, guests would enter an indoor living world where they could interact with live actors playing characters in an immersive storyline as it unfolds. Unfortunately, it seems those plans ended up not being financially viable. Immersive Fort Tokyo was also home to a number of individual attractions guests could purchase tickets to experience there as well, including escape rooms, “The Sherlock” murder mystery experience, and something called “Alive inm Borderland: The Ultimate” where they would be outfitted with faux “collar bombs” that seem to cause small electric shocks during the experience.
According to this article a “similar concept” immersive attraction that was built mostly outdoors in Okinawa that opened in 2025 called Junglila has been said to be more successful as it requires far less staffing. Other comments I’ve seen also gave a thumbs down due to the high cost of the experience, claiming that for the price you pay to spend the afternoon in Fort Tokyo, you could easily go to Tokyo Disney and get a far superior experience for the day.
So has anyone had the chance to experience one or both of these attractions? Based on photos and some videos of Fort Tokyo, it looks similar in nature to Caesar’s Forum shops in Las Vegas, but if someone turned it all into an interactive world instead of being packed full of restaurants and shops.
Mexico - (1/2/2026) Over the years Dave & Busters has become a well known leisure stop all across North America, starting out from a very humble beginning in Texas in the mid ‘80s. The chain has grown bigger over the years, and has even expanded to include some international locations in India, Philippines, Australia and the Dominican Republic. Just before Christmas Intergame reported that the company had broke ground on their first location in Mexico, coming to Plaza Carso in Mexico City with plans to hopefully have it ready to open in March 2026.
Philippines - (11/30/2025) A new steel coaster is coming to the Philippines it seems. Spotted in a post on Reddit, the coaster is already well under construction at the “J Castles” fun park. The unknown coaster was also just added to RCDB who lists it as a Jinma Rides “Vertical Roller Coaster” / “GSC-20A” model, featuring 6 inversions within a very short track length of 1542 feet, at a top height of 91.9 ft.
Jinma opened one in late 2024 and three others in 2025, with the only one with photos available on RCDB is called Tachycardia at Squirrels Town in Wuhu, China.
Romania - (12/8/2025) According to Blooloop a new theme park and resort project is being planned for Romania that will be themed around the legend of Dracula. The plan is to build a park, water park, hotels, a stadium and outlet mall on a 160 hectare site located just north of Bucharest, in the general area of Bran Castle. They say that the project which has been quietly in development for a number of years is expected to cost around a billion Euro once complete with the hopes of attracting about 3 million guests a year to start with.
Will it get built? I really can’t say but we’ll be watching out for more news about this for sure.
Russia - (9/14/2025) I had not heard about this accident until now, but it seems an old aerial cable car system in Nalchi, Russia suffered a full collapse on August 8, 2025. The unique cable-car system uses small single-seat ski-lift style cars and carries riders out over a small lake before climbing up the hillside.
Based on video footage, the cable broke free, dropping riders down onto the ground as well as several into the lake, causing several injuries. You can see security footage from one station looking out towards the lake here, and if you really want to see something crazy, check out this second video posted to Google Maps showing off the complete hardware failure of the lower station tension unit being yanked completely out of the station structure and flipping over.
I’ve never seen one of these on wheels and tracks before, the tension unit on most of the theme parks units I’ve seen were actually attached to a very heavy counter-weight sunk into a pit inside the station’s turnaround, rather than allowing the whole unit to slide on tracks. You can see a photo of the aftermath here as well.
Saudi Arabia - (4/11/2026) While Saudi Arabia is focused on adding a number of tourist and entertainment based attractions to the nation, they have also just opened the “Black Gold Museum” in Riyadh. This is kind of an interesting look at the impact and history that “oil” has played in the country’s development over the years as a national resource. The Black Gold Museum explores the history and influence of oil through modern and contemporary art. They say that this is the first permanent museum dedicated to “oil and art” which has played such a big role in the shaping of the region over the years.
(11/8/2025) Would you believe a new theme park will open on Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from YouTube personality, Mr. Beast? It’s simply called Beast Land and according to the social media post, it will open on November 13th with a small collection of rides, plus some custom game based attractions based on some of Mr Beast’s video challenges.
I don’t know much for sure about this attraction, but if I had to take a guess, this is likely a temporary attraction as part of the seasonal Riyadh celebration event that will take place from Oct. 10 through to March 2026 which plays host of a number of limited time attractions, shows and performances.
Singapore - (6/21/2026) Blooloop reports that Therme Group has officially broken ground on a new $1 billion cutting-edge wellness resort located in Singapore. The large 4-hectares resort positioned along the shoreline will actually be Asia’s first large-scale thermal wellness destination when it opens in 2030.
South Korea - (11/4/2025) It’s been some time since we’ve heard anything about the proposed Paramount branded theme park that would be built as part of the Star Bay City project in Hwaseong. According to an update on the project posted to Attractions Magazine, the project team is now looking to have Phase One open by 2030, with a ground-breaking planned to take place during the second half of 2026. The entire project likely won't be finished until 2035 however.
(7/11/2025) Blooloop reports that a new “integrated resort” is now being planned for Korea’s Yeongjong Island called KIT World. According to the plans released so far the plan also includes a new “5D Theme Park” project that will serve as the anchor to the new resort. Currently investors have committed $12.6 billion towards the project, with $2.8 billion confirmed in “early-stage funding”.
Little is known about the KIT World theme park just yet, other than that they plan to integrate immersive digital technology, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality with various physical attractions. As an integrated resort, the project itself is also expected to feature a casino, a shopping mall, restaurants as well as luxury resorts amenities including an artificial beach and possibly
Spain - (4/26/2026) This isn’t the first time this has happened, and I’m pretty sure it won't be the last, but guests at a fair in Spain got a bit of a scare when the bungee cable on a portable Sling Shot style ride snapped free from one of the towers in mid-ride. This is exactly why those ride units surround the riders with a big steel sphere shaped structure, as the pod with the riders proceeded to slam into the support on the opposite side before being lowered carefully to the ground.
Switzerland - (4/11/2026) Get ready, because a new Chocolate themed theme-park is in development, to be located within the oldest operating chocolate factory in Gruyere, Switzerland. The planned attraction will rise up inside the Cailler chocolate factory location, and take the place of the current “Maison Cailler Museum”. According to the article the new attraction will allow “chocolate lovers from all over the world to immerse themselves in the magic of Swiss chocolate and discover the Gruyère region, whose milk has been giving Cailler its unique taste for 125 years”.
The plan is to expand the current site, which is only 2,000 square-meters to something closers to 30,000 square-meters and attract between 700,000 to 800,000 guests a year when it opens the first phase in 2030.
UAE - (5/26/2026) According to the latest update Alec Engineering has been awarded the $1.7 billion construction contract to create the Sphere Abu Dhabi. Right now they estimate that it should be complete by the end of 2029.
(5/14/2026) It has been confirmed that the next Sphere venue will be built in Abu Dhabi. The Abu Dhabi Sphere is currently expected to open by the end of 2029. According to the post, the new Sphere will be located between SeaWorld Abu Dhabi and the Yas Mall and is described as a 20,000-capacity venue. If you were wondering, the original Sphere in Las Vegas is also described as having a 20,000 guest capacity, so it sounds like the Abu Dhabi Sphere will be identical in scale to the original.
(4/19/2026) Forbes has posted a long in depth look back at the past year since the announcement that a Disney theme park was coming to Abu Dhabi. This includes a look at how the current war in Iran is impacting the region.
(11/15/2025) A new and very cool looking “Stranger Things: The Experience” attraction has just opened on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. Check out the preview clip of the experience below.
UK - (7/9/2026) According to the BBC there is an appeal taking place against the Blackpool Council regarding a proposal to add two amusement attractions to the resort’s South Pier, a Log Flume and a Star Flyer. Previous proposals were said to be rejected by planners last year.
(6/6/2026) According to news updates the Dinosaur Park in Tenby, Wales, has now been sold to Magic Entertainment Partners. The jurassic themed dinosaur park first opened in 1994 and features about 36 rides and attractions and over 90 animatronic dinosaur figures. As one of the leading family attractions in Wales, the new owners say that they want to introduce new attractions over time and continue to invest in expanding the guest experience at the park.
(5/24/2026) A new and intimate immersive experience themed to famed artist, David Bowie, as now opened in London for a limited time at the Lightroom. The official title of the attraction is “David Bowie: You’re Not Alone” and it features a 60-mimnute 360º view experience narrated entirely by the late David Bowie through the use of archival interviews and his own personal recordings. It features some rare and unseen footage of Bowie released by the David Bowie Archive that digs into his creative philosophy, spirituality, and his view of the world.
As many may recall, Bowie hid the fact that he was critically ill with liver cancer for two years from the world before he passed away. During this time he made plans for the future, including recording a final album (Blackstar) and other materials that were designed not to be revealed or released until after his passing, including his swan song, “Lazarus” that hauntingly begins with the lyrics, “Look up here, I’m in Heaven…”
(5/23/2026) Good news this summer for fans of UK theme parks, zoos and museums! From June 25th through to Sept. 1st, 2026 there will be a cut in the VAT tax rate, dropping it from 20% down to just 5% of eligible activities as part of the chancellor’s “Great British Summer Savings” event. So it’s great to see a promotion that will make attraction’s visits a little more affordable this summer for families!
(5/21/2026) UK coaster fans… check out the latest article from Blooloop this week as they run down the Top 10 Roller Coasters in the UK. The list is pretty good in my opinion, but I think the lineup is going to change quite a bit by the time the new Universal Studios park opens in Bedfordshire in about 5 years time.
(5/14/2026) Variety reports that an immersive cinema experience themed to Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean film will be coming to London in February 2027. The Secret Cinema group will be producing the special attraction which is officially licensed by Disney and will be called “Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Immersive Adventure” when it launches for an initial 10-week run.
The experience will focus on bringing the “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” film to live in front of a live audience. The experience will feature live actors, interactive sets, music and stunts all set in sync with the film experience.
I’ve seen videos of how Secret Cinema brought Back To The Future to life back in 2014, so I can’t wait to see what they have in store for Pirates.
(3/8/2026) Warner Bros. Global Experiences has announced plans to open a new flagship “Harry Potter” store in London in Fall 2026. Similar to the giant store that opened in New York City, you can look for the new Harry Potter Oxford Street store to open at The Ribbon 134-140 Oxford Street, which will be spread out across 21,000 sqft of space across two floors.
(2/22/2026) Great Wolf Lodge has submitted plans to build an new indoor waterpark resort in the UK, to be located in Basingstoke, England. The plans showcase a 512-room resort hotel along with the expected indoor waterpark and other resort amenities, to be located on the site of the current Basingstoke Golf Centre. Great Wolf Lodge is well known across all of North America, and currently has announced plans to hopefully create at least three locations in the UK.
(2/5/2026) ThemeParks-UK tells us that the Brean Theme Park in Somerset has officially “entered liquidation, raising uncertainty over its future ahead of the 2026 season.” At this point the park is currently being reviewed for assets and liabilities and no formal announcement has been made about if it will be able to open for 2026 or if they will have to shut it down immediately and permanently.
Unfortunately this marks yet another small regional park that has been struggling to stay afloat in the current world conditions following the COVID Pandemic that may now be forced for close forever.
(1/31/2026) The UK theme park market has an impressive and interesting list of attractions… but for those looking for some of the best examples of theming, then check out this list of the UK’s best 10 dark rides to see what you are missing. Just wait until the new Universal Studios park opens in a few years too… then this list will really change.
(1/15/2026) A massive indoor ski resort and and indoor waterpark resort hotel has now been approved to be built in Wales. Just approved earlier this month, the project is being called the Rhydycar West Project right now and it will feature the longest indoor ski slope and indoor snow center in the UK when it opens. Construction isn’t expected to begun until sometime next yer, with a planned 2030 opening timeline.
(6/30/2025) A new article posted by The Telegraph says that “Britain’s charming, old-fashioned theme parks are at risk of extinction” was posted on Saturday that strike a lot of similar notes to my post at Blooloop about how smaller parks and attractions are starting to really struggle. This new article with a focus on UK parks and attractions mentions the closure of parks like Flambards and Oakwood, and the current struggles of attractions like Wicksteed Park, The Blackpool Pier Company, Dreamland in Margate and Fantasy Island in Skegness.
It’s worth giving it a read when you have time.
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