Theme Park News - February 2021

Nuts about Theme Parks

• The Walt Disney World Resort's 50th anniversary will kick off October 1 as "The World’s Most Magical Celebration." The celebration will feature a physical overlay on the castle, and new projection shows on each of the park icons, and will run for 18 months.

• The rivers of America are back at magic kingdom after being drained last October. The Liberty Belle riverboat has also returned. And there was a great article by Dewayne Bevil in the Orlando sentinel about the liberty belle was removed in the first place. Quite amazing!

• Epcot opened its exhibit The Soul of Jazz in the American pavilion and also its new home for the Leave a Legacy photos.

• Universal Orlando has had two permanent closures this month with the closure of the Blue Man Group and A Day in the Park with Barney.

• But they did reopen their water theme park volcano bay on February 27. They also kicked off their Taste of Mardi Gras food festival. And Islands of adventure’s Velocicoaster is getting closer to opening with construction walls coming down in the last week.

• In California, Disney California Adventure is opening for a hard ticket event next month. A Touch of Disney will run Thursdays through Mondays from noon to 8 pm, starting March 18. Tickets will be $75 per person and go on sale March 4th.

• Legoland Florida will add another gate in 2022 with the opening of the world's first standalone Peppa Pig theme park, which will take over 5acres of what is currently the resorts car park.

• Hong Kong Disneyland has reopened for the third time during this pandemic, having been shut since November last year.

• Motiongate Dubai opened a new live theatre show based on original ip in its Hollywood theatre called Into the Deadlands: Ice Storm

• Theme parks in England may be able to open as soon as April 12, under orders issued by the British government earlier in the month.

• The former Fox World theme park planned for Resorts World Genting in Malaysia is now called "Genting SkyWorlds," and is likely to open at some point this year.