OK, one park isn't exactly new. The park formerly known as Wyandot Lake, which Six Flags ran for awhile, closed in 2006 and reopened recently as
Zoombezi Bay. The name probably has a double meaning (assuming its officials enjoy wordplay as much as I) in that guests
zoom down the slides and can also visit the adjacent Columbus
Zoo. The Ohio property also offers rides such as the Sea Dragon junior wooden coaster at
Jungle Jack's Landing amusement park. The Columbus Zoo (which also boasts an aquarium and a golf course) operates the whole shebang. New Hampshire has a new, if relatively small, water park that recently opened as well.
Liquid Planet offers a couple of body slides and a good-sized interactive water "sprayground."
Photo: Liquid Planet Water Park has a large interactive water play sprayground. Liquid Planet Water Park
With a virtual kiss from the Disney Imagineers, a slumbering princess and her classic story will come back to life later this year. Inside the iconic Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, Walt Disney developed a walk-through attraction in 1957 based on the namesake princess and her animated film. In the late 1970s, Imagineers redesigned the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough (not much of an inspired name, eh?) and replaced the storybook scenes with dioramas. The attraction has been closed for the past seven years. According to Disney, a
re-re-Imagineered Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough, which will hark back to its 1950s roots, is slated to open in the second half of 2008. In addition to Sleeping Beauty and Prince Phillip, some of the other characters to be featured in the attraction will be the evil Maleficent and the benevolent fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. The classic Disney film celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2009 and will get the platinum DVD treatment to mark the occasion.
Photo: A rendered scene from the upcoming Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough at Disneyland. Disney 2008. Used with permission.
