Michi2010 Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 Top 13 of best Amusement Rides for 2013: 1) Hong Kong Disneyland - Mystic Manor Mystic Manor will serve as Hong Kong Disneyland's ghost-less Haunted Mansion, with tributes to the classic Disney attractions Indiana Jones Adventure, Enchanted Tiki Room and Adventurer's Club included throughout the ride. 2) Robot Land - New theme park The oft-delayed $600-million Robot Land theme park will include a robotic-arm ride, roller coasters, drop towers and water rides. A giant robot, twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty, will serve as the centerpiece of the South Korean park. The first phases of Robot Land are expected to open in 2013 and 2014. 3) Ocean Kingdom - New theme park The $1.6-billion Ocean Kingdom theme park in China will feature the world's longest wooden roller coaster and the world's tallest Ferris wheel as well as boat rides, a 4-D theater and a nighttime zoo. 4) Space Theme Park - New theme park China's Space Theme Park will take visitors on a tram tour of rocket launch pads and offer a variety of space-travel attractions, including an cosmos-themed roller coaster, a moon-themed train ride and a 3-D space exploration theater. Scheduled to open in 2013, the interplanetary park will be divided into four themed zones: Earth, Lunar, Solar and Martian. 5) MGM Studios Park Korea - New theme park MGM Studios Park Korea will feature movie-based attractions on a planned resort island near Seoul's international airport that will include hotels and casinos. 6) Alton Towers - Secret Weapon 7 Alton Towers has announced plans for a new "world's first" thrill coaster in 2013 dubbed Secret Weapon 7. The United Kingdom park has announced that one lucky contest winner will join the SW7 design team in dreaming up plans for the new coaster. The last Alton Towers secret weapon, the family-oriented Thirteen vertical drop coaster, debuted in 2010. 7) Dreamland Margate – Amusement park restoration A historic trust hopes to reopen Dreamland Margate in the United Kingdom as a repository of classic amusement park rides, including a whip, shoot the chutes, caterpillar and haunted swing. The centerpiece of the project would be the 1920 Scenic Railway, a brakeman-operated wooden coaster partially destroyed by fire in 2008. 8) Europa Park - Arthur and the Invisibles themed land Germany's Europa Park will add a new carousel, kiddie drop tower and indoor family roller coaster in 2013 based on the "Arthur and the Invisibles" animated movie by French director Luc Besson. 9) Universal Studios Singapore - New attractions Universal Studios Singapore has announced plans to add three new attractions in 2013, with two of them unique to the park and the third a copy from a sister park. The recently opened park plans to add the Transformers special-effects dark ride in 2012. 10) Tokyo Disneyland - Star Tours 2.0 Tokyo Disneyland will add high-definition 3-D imagery to the aging Star Tours attraction with multiple storylines. Updated versions of the 1980s-era simulator ride debuted in 2011 at Disneyland in California and Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida. 11) Happy Valley Tianjin - Wooden coaster The new wooden coaster will be the centerpiece of Happy Valley Tianjin, part of a chain of theme parks in China. Gravity Group previously teamed with Martin & Vleminckx Amusement to build a dueling wooden coaster at Happy Valley Wuhan. 12) Walt Disney Studios Park - Ratatouille dark ride Walt Disney Studios Park will add a $150-million Ratatouille dark ride as part of the 20th anniversary of the Disneyland Paris resort, according to Disney & More. The trackless attraction, employing a ride system similar to Pooh's Hunny Hunt at Tokyo Disneyland, will follow Remy through a series of kitchen scenes from a rat's point of view. 13) Disneyland Paris - Pirates of the Caribbean update Disneyland Paris is expected to update the Pirates of the Caribbean ride with the Jack Sparrow animatronics and other special effects previously added to the U.S. and Tokyo parks, according to Screamscape. Link: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/29/news/la-trb-2013-theme-parks-world-11201107
Anything Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 I believe SW7 will again steal much of the limelight, certainly in the UK.
gisco Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 The threads your starting add nothing to the forum. 2013 is to far out to speculate. Lets get through 2011 first.
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