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/ September 18, 2026
Toverland is a themed amusement park in Sevenum, in the Dutch province of Limburg, operated by the Gelissen Group. It opened on May 19, 2001, as an indoor family entertainment venue before expanding over the following two decades into a full-scale park spread across six…
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/ September 18, 2026
Walibi Holland sits on the Flevoland polder in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, where it has drawn thrill-seekers since opening in 1971 as part of the broader Flevohof recreation area. Now owned by French leisure group Compagnie des Alpes, the park has grown into one of the Benelux…
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/ September 18, 2026
Shima Spain Village opened on April 22, 1994, on the Shima Peninsula in Mie Prefecture, Japan, as a resort dedicated entirely to Spanish culture. Built through a partnership between Mie Prefecture and Spain that began in 1992, the park recreates Spanish plazas, architecture, and festivals…
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/ September 18, 2026
Warner Bros. Movie World opened on 3 June 1991 in Oxenford, Queensland, about 20 kilometres from Surfers Paradise on Australia’s Gold Coast. Operated by Village Roadshow Theme Parks under license from Warner Bros., it holds the distinction of being Australia’s only film-related theme park and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Dreamworld opened on 15 December 1981 in Coomera on Queensland’s Gold Coast, built on land founder John Longhurst began assembling in 1974. Now owned and operated by Coast Entertainment, the park spans about 55 hectares (137 acres) and bills itself as Australia’s largest theme park…
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/ September 18, 2026
Silverwood Theme Park sits on roughly 400 acres of pine forest near Athol, Idaho, about 47 miles north of Spokane, Washington, making it the largest theme park in the Pacific Northwest. Founded by Gary Norton and opened in June 1988 on the site of a…
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/ September 18, 2026
Hansa-Park is a family-owned amusement park in Sierksdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, perched directly on the Baltic Sea coast in northern Germany. Opened on May 15, 1977, as Hansaland before being renamed Hansa-Park in 1987, the park has grown into one of Germany’s most-visited attractions, drawing over a…
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/ September 18, 2026
Heide Park Resort opened on August 19, 1978, near the town of Soltau in Lower Saxony, Germany, on land once occupied by the Heidenhof wildlife park. Over the decades it grew into the largest amusement park in Northern Germany and one of the largest in…
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/ September 18, 2026
PortAventura Park opened on May 1, 1995, on the Costa Daurada near Salou and Vila-seca in Catalonia, Spain, about 53 miles southwest of Barcelona. Spread across roughly 128 acres, the park organizes its rides and shows into six themed areas — Mediterrània, Polynesia, China, México…
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/ September 18, 2026
Efteling is a fairytale-themed amusement park in Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands, that grew out of a small nature park into one of Europe’s most-visited theme parks. It opened its storybook heart, the Fairytale Forest, in 1952, built on illustrations by Dutch artist Anton Pieck and brought to…
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/ September 18, 2026
Thorpe Park is a theme park in Thorpe village, between Chertsey and Staines-upon-Thames in Surrey, England, about 20 miles southwest of central London. It opened to the public on 24 May 1979, built on a site of former flooded gravel pits whose lakes still weave…
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/ September 18, 2026
Serial Thriller was a Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster that opened on May 9, 1998, at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio. Built as the manufacturer’s Standard 689m model, it was an inverted coaster with fixed, rigid trains that hung below the track, sending riders’ feet dangling…
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/ September 18, 2026
Alton Towers is a theme park and resort built around a ruined stately home in Alton, Staffordshire, England. Once the seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury, the estate’s gardens opened to day-trippers in the early 1900s, but it wasn’t until 1980 that the grounds were…
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/ September 18, 2026
Adventure Express is a steel mine train roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, built by Arrow Dynamics and opened to the public on April 13, 1991. Designed by Ron Toomer, the ride was conceived as a heavily themed jungle expedition, with park officials…
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/ September 18, 2026
Indiana Beach is a lakeside amusement park in Monticello, Indiana, sitting on the shores of Lake Shafer about two hours south of Chicago. It traces its roots to 1926, when Earl W. Spackman opened a small lakeside bathing beach called Ideal Beach, which grew over…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Las Vegas Strip is a roughly 4-mile corridor of mega-resorts, each one a self-contained world of casino floor, pools, restaurants, and entertainment, anchored by a handful of theme-park-style attractions and some of the biggest live-entertainment venues in the country. There’s no single ticket or…
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/ September 18, 2026
Geauga Lake was an amusement park in Aurora, Ohio, that traced its roots to 1887, when a lakeside picnic ground beside the town’s namesake lake evolved into one of the Midwest’s oldest amusement destinations. Over more than a century it grew from a modest trolley-stop…
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/ September 18, 2026
El Loco is a compact but ferocious steel roller coaster inside Adventuredome, the indoor amusement park at Circus Circus Las Vegas. Opened on February 18, 2014, it replaced the aging Rim Runner log flume, reusing some of that ride’s old infrastructure, including its station, as…
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/ September 18, 2026
Adventuredome is a five-acre indoor amusement park enclosed beneath a distinctive pink-tinted glass dome at Circus Circus Las Vegas on the Strip. It opened on August 23, 1993 as Grand Slam Canyon, a fully air-conditioned park built around a canyon-themed landscape, before being renamed Adventuredome…
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/ September 18, 2026
Canyon Blaster is an indoor steel roller coaster at the Adventuredome, the glass-domed amusement park attached to Circus Circus on the Las Vegas Strip. Built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on August 23, 1993, as the anchor attraction of what was then called Grand Slam…
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