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/ September 18, 2026
Foro Sol opened in November 1993 as a multipurpose stadium built inside the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez racetrack in eastern Mexico City, with Madonna headlining its inaugural concerts. Over the following three decades it grew into the second-largest concert venue in Mexico City, trailing only Estadio…
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/ September 18, 2026
Auditorio Nacional sits along Paseo de la Reforma in the Chapultepec district of Mexico City, and since opening in 1952 it has grown into one of the most storied entertainment venues in Latin America. What began as a general-purpose hall for cultural and civic events…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Big Dipper is a wooden out-and-back roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach on England’s Lancashire coast. It opened on 23 August 1923, making it one of the longest-running roller coasters still standing anywhere in the world, and it remains a defining silhouette on Blackpool’s…
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/ September 18, 2026
Theme park news today includes Kalahari Resorts’ Aquadome waterpark expansion opening in Wisconsin Dells, the former Fantasy Island property in Grand Island, New York hitting the market, and new dining and lounge enhancements at Atlantis Dubai. This theme park news roundup also covers construction progress…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney California Adventure opened on February 8, 2001, next door to the original Disneyland as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Operated by the Walt Disney Company, the 72-acre park was built as a tribute to California itself, organizing its lands around the…
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/ September 18, 2026
Nigloland is a family-owned theme park in Dolancourt, in France’s Aube department, that opened in 1987. Founded by brothers Patrice and Philippe Gélis, former carnival operators who drew inspiration from a trip to Walt Disney World, the park takes its name from its hedgehog mascot…
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/ September 18, 2026
Galaxyland is an indoor amusement park inside West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, operated by the Triple Five Group. It opened on August 17, 1983 as Fantasyland, but a 1994 court ruling over Disney’s trademark on the name forced a rebrand, and the park…
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/ September 18, 2026
Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park sits atop Iron Mountain above Glenwood Springs, Colorado, combining a historic cave system with a mountaintop amusement park. The caves were first opened to the public in 1895 after Charles W. Darrow discovered the entrance, then closed during World War I…
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/ September 18, 2026
Oakwood Theme Park was Wales’s largest theme park, set across about 80 acres of hilly woodland at Canaston Bridge near Narberth, Pembrokeshire. It opened on 14 April 1987 as a small family-run attraction under the McNamara family before growing into a major regional draw, later…
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/ September 18, 2026
Walibi Belgium sits on 64 hectares of parkland in Wavre, Walloon Brabant, just outside Brussels, and has been a fixture of Belgian family entertainment since entrepreneur Eddy Meeus opened it on July 26, 1975. Over five decades the park has changed hands and names several…
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/ September 18, 2026
Yomiuriland is a sprawling amusement park built into the hills straddling Inagi, Tokyo, and Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It opened on March 19, 1964, and is owned and operated by Yomiuriland Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings media group. Over six decades…
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/ September 18, 2026
Liseberg is a seasonal amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden, that opened its gates on 8 May 1923. Owned by the city of Gothenburg and run by Liseberg AB, the 17-hectare park has grown from a modest garden exhibition site into one of the largest and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Kentucky Kingdom is a 67-acre amusement and water park in Louisville, Kentucky, sitting at the intersection of Interstate 65 and Interstate 264 on the Kentucky Exposition Center grounds. The park first opened on May 23, 1987, and has had one of the most turbulent histories…
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/ September 18, 2026
Delano Las Vegas was an all-suite, non-gaming hotel tower on the Mandalay Bay resort campus at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. Opened in 2003 as THEhotel at Mandalay Bay and reimagined as Delano after an $80 million renovation in September 2014, the…
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/ September 18, 2026
Circus Circus Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the north Las Vegas Strip at 2880 South Las Vegas Boulevard, sitting just south of the Sahara and north of the Stratosphere. Opened October 18, 1968 by Jay Sarno, it’s one of the oldest resorts…
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/ September 18, 2026
Treasure Island, commonly called TI, is a 2,885-room resort at 3300 South Las Vegas Boulevard on the North Strip, opened by Mirage Resorts on October 26, 1993 and independently owned and operated by Phil Ruffin since 2009. The single 36-story tower sits beside Fashion Show…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney Sequoia Lodge is a 1,011-room moderate resort at Disneyland Paris, built around a main lodge and six smaller timber lodges spread across the shore of Lake Disney in Coupvray, France. Opened in April 1992 and designed by French architect Antoine Grumbach, the hotel deliberately…
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/ September 18, 2026
Universal Helios Grand Hotel, a Loews Hotel, sits at the edge of Celestial Park inside Universal Epic Universe itself, making it Universal Orlando Resort’s first-ever in-park hotel. It opened May 22, 2025 alongside Epic Universe, is co-owned and operated by Loews Hotels & Co, and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort opened on October 1, 1988, in the Epcot Resort Area of Walt Disney World near Bay Lake, Florida. Spread across five Caribbean-island-themed villages — Martinique, Barbados, Aruba, Jamaica, and Trinidad — the sprawling 1,536-room moderate resort wraps around Barefoot Bay, a…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Wilderness Lodge is a deluxe Walt Disney World resort on the shore of Bay Lake, built to evoke the great lodges of the American national parks. It opened on May 28, 1994, and its lobby centers on an 82-foot fireplace styled after the rock…
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