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Laguna park eyes 2 million visitors

Echanted Kingdom, the leading amusement park in the country, is looking at two million visitors this year, up 25 percent.....
Source: Manila Standard Today 

Thorpe Park orders rollercoaster improvements after dummies lose limbs

Thorpe Park, the theme park, has ordered improvements to its new rollercoaster, The Swarm, after dummies lost limbs during test rides....
Source: The Telegraph

Wing-dipping Manta coaster coming to SeaWorld San Diego in May

SeaWorld San Diego will add a manta ray-themed family roller coaster on May 26.....
Source: LA Times 

Free-fall coaster to debut at Denmark's Legoland Billund in May

The Polar X-Plorer roller coaster at Legoland Billund....

Source: LA Times

Theme parks in 2011: Think Legos, light sabers and lots of zip lines

•Legoland Florida is a big deal. It's the area's first new full-blown theme park since Universal's Islands of Adventure....

Source: Baltimore Sun

Launch marks full circle in battle to find new site for giant wheel

A GIANT observation wheel began operating in York....
Source: Yorkshire Post 

‘Wheel meet again’ – Ferris firm tells Weston-super-Mare

HOPES have been raised that Weston-super-Mare’s seafront Ferris wheel will return after it was removed from the resort last week...

Source: Somerset

U.S. theme parks offer new coasters, immersive rides

A host of new roller-coasters, a 4.8-hectare town lifted straight.....

Source: The Chronicle Herald

Ferris wheel approved for Seattle waterfront

A 175-foot-high Ferris wheel can go on the downtown Seattle waterfront, planners decided Thursday....

Source: Seattlepi.com

Moscow may host world's tallest Ferris wheel

Moscow authorities are discussing a possible location for a giant 220-m (722-ft) Ferris wheel....

Source: RiaNovosti