G-Force Magazine - UK Theme Park News & Features
UK Theme Park Industry News & Features
Heritage GB, owners of Lightwater Valley, today announced the launch of a new Recycle Zone scheme at Lightwater Valley Theme Park, supported by Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE). This will see 10 recycling collection points, distributed throughout the theme park to encourage visitors to recycle their used food and drinks packaging. Research suggests that the scheme will be particularly well … [Read more...]
Keepers at Flamingo Land zoo are proudly showing off their latest arrival - a baby Rothschild's giraffe. The six-foot tall male calf, who is yet to be named, was born at 1am last Friday at Flamingo Land near Malton. Rothschild's giraffes are part of an EEP (European Endangered species Programme), in which zoos around Europe work together to breed and protect the animals. Read the full … [Read more...]
Folly Farm Adventure Park and Zoo, near Tenby, today officially opened its new ride The Pembrokeshire Wheel, the largest permanent ride of its kind in Wales. The Pembrokeshire Wheel, a half a million pound investment, stands at 25 metres/82 feet and to date has already carried over 50,000 passengers. The proceeds from today's launch day will go to former Wales flanker Richard Parks' 737 … [Read more...]
Some might expect Karen Wolfendale to be sick as a dog. For the adrenaline junkie will wear a dog suit while riding Europe’s longest rollercoaster for five hours continuously. The 30-year-old decided to do the crazy challenge to raise money for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. It takes place on Sunday at Lightwater Valley theme park in Ripon, North Yorkshire. Read the full … [Read more...]
Oakwood Theme Park is staging a mini-music and dance festival over the Whitsun half-term holidays (May 28th – June 5th). The popular Pembrokeshire visitor attraction is playing host to a number of the region’s top local bands who will be performing on the park’s outdoor stage. The festival starts on Saturday when Nothing New, the three-piece ‘punkish’ band from the Rhondda Valleys … [Read more...]
It already holds the world record for the most naked people on a roller coaster (102 people, August 2010), and now Southend’s Adventure Island has entered the Guinness Book of World Records again. On 25/26 May the popular seafront Fun Park broke the World Record for the Longest Dodgem Car Marathon. The previous record was held by Austrian Sebastian Bösch who went for a spin in Vienna in … [Read more...]
Flamingo Land, Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire is perhaps going through one of the most exciting and dramatic changes the UK theme park industry has ever seen. In less than a decade the park has almost completely changed its coaster line up with the introduction of three world class coasters in the space of just four years. The park is barely recognisable from the Flamingo Land of the 1990s, … [Read More...]
