Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ theme parks ’

With input from Universal’s event team, this History Center exhibit divulges the yearlong backstage happenings at Universal: the ever-evolving creative and development process behind the planning and execution of these special events.
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This blog will be your fuselage for all the harebrained stories that rise out of Orlando. It will be full to the brim with kooks, freaks and crackpots. We’ll run the whole gamut of oddball stories here – stuff from from the house of the Mouse to rotten tropic tales to the bizarro news...
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We're less than a week into December, but Christmas is already in full effect at our area theme parks. I had a chance last week to check out this year's seasonal offerings at Universal Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa. Universal's mainstay Macy's Holiday Parade has returned to the Studios for a 12th annual outing,...
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The long-anticipated New Fantasyland expansion at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom officially opens to the public on December 6th, but select guests have been given the opportunity to experience the new attractions through “soft openings” held over the past few weeks. All the elements of New Fantasyland should be open for business next Thursday,...
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Last night, Universal Studios Florida let the least uncertain cat since Schroedeger's out of the bag, and finally admitted that the massive structure under construction in the middle of the park is indeed the future home of Transformers: The Ride. Theme park industry insiders have been predicting for months that the rapidly advancing (but...
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With author J.K. Rowling having moved on to adult novels, and the saga's final film finally slipping out of heavy rotation on HBO, you might expect the Harry Potter phenomenon to be petering out. But as the robed crowds filling Universal's Portofino Bay Resort for last weekend's Ascendio 2012 convention proved, this fandom still...
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When I was growing up in New Jersey during the prehistoric ante-Best Buy era, the popular local electronics chain Crazy Eddie (Slogan: “His prices are INSANE!”) advertised an annual “Christmas in August” sale. The owner Eddie Antar ended up in the slammer for securities fraud, but his spirit lived on in Tampa this past...
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Do you dream of the chance to shine six days a week, wearing an itchy green lamé costume while dancing in click-track shows filled with dignity and class? Then come audition for a role performing at America’s most-awarded theme park, GalaxyWorld USA — it’s awesome! Street sweeper Sal Shoestring sets up the story, which...
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This past weekend, Central Florida witnessed an event that hadn’t happened in over a decade. Legoland Florida, built in Winter Haven on the ashes of Cypress Gardens, threw open its doors to the public on October 15th, making it the first major new theme park to open in the region since 1998′s Animal Kingdom...
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