OTHER INTERNATIONAL PARKS & ATTRACTIONS
(Listed Alphabetically)
---- INTERNATIONAL SMALL PARK NEWS ----
(2/14/2025) See New Aquila Launched Coaster In Action at Mandoria
(2/11/2025) Fraispertuis City Adding A New Flat Ride This Season
(2/9/2025) UK's Southport Pleasureland To Be Renamed For 2025 Season
(2/5/2025) Nigloland To Open Niglo's Forest This Season
(2/3/2025) Furuvik (Sweden) To Host Concert Series During 2025 Season
(2/2/2025) New Wooden Coaster Coming to France's La Mer de Sable
ADLABS IMAGICA (India)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2014
ADVENTURE COAST SOUTHPORT (UK)
Formerly: Southport Pleasureland
 Park News - (2/9/2025) It has been reported that Southport Pleasureland will be rebranding itself as Adventure Coast Southport as they prepare to reopen for the 2025 season. Still no word on if they will finally add that delayed new roller coaster for the 2025 season or not.
???? - New Coaster - Delayed - (1/26/2025) The new coaster was delayed from a proposed 2024 opening, and is now said to be under construction for 2025. The exact make of the coaster is not known, but it is belived that it is likely going to be a Gerstlauer creation now.
(2/3/2024) A new roller coastrer is expected this year, but no solid information has come forth yet. Previously a Zamperla made Lighting style coaster, similar to Thunderbolt at Luna Park was expected, but this is said to no longer be the case.
ADVENTURE ISLAND (UK)
2025 - Nothing is knownat this time...
ADVENTURE WORLD (Australia)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024 either.
ALPEN PARK (Brazil)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024 either.
AUSSIE WORLD (Sunshine Coast, Australia)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024 either.
???? - New Waterpark Planned - (7/6/2024) Aussie World is making plans to build a new $60 million waterpark located just north of the current theme park in Queensland. According to the development plan submitted, this would be the largest waterpark on the Sunshine Coast, featuring up to 16 slides, water play spaces as well as several pools, as well as pool bars, lounge and cabana spaces and other food and beverage outlets.
BAGATELLE (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2015
BAKKEN (Denmark)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2014
BAYERN PARK (Germany)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2024 either.
BELANTIS (Germany)
Parque Reunidos
2025?? - New Attraction - In Planning - (10/9/22) In the latest video from Coaster Chall he shares details about a new attraction that is supposed to be in development for Belantis in Germany. Unfortunately the park has apparently only confirmed that they are working on plans for something, but aren’t ready to reveal anything just yet, which is unfortunate. Thus far Belantis hasn’t really followed the typical theme park business strategy of adding new attractions every year or two. In fact, I believe the last new attraction added to Belantis was the “Cobra des Amun Ra” family coaster back in 2015. So if any Screamscape sources have some insight into what Belantis may be up to, be sure to let us know.
Otherwise the video goes on to speculate a little bit, including looking at the best possible sites where the park could add a large future attraction, such as a new roller coaster.
BELLEWAERDE PARK (Belgium)
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
2026 - New Inverted Roller Coaster - (5/7/2024) According to the latest rumors Bellewaerde will be adding a new inverted thrill coaster for the 2026 season from Vekoma. That’s all new know for the moment, but if anyone knows more, please do let us know.
BETO CARRERO WORLD (Brazil)
2025 - Hot Wheels: Turbo Drive - (9/6/2024) Beto Carrero World in Brazil is now busy adding a brand new attraction to the park’s Hot Wheels themed area called Hot Wheels: Turbo Drive. The exact nature of this new attraction has yet to be announced by the park, but based on the current state of construction in the park, our source believes this will be a U-Drive attraction from Zamperla, which would make sense given the Hot Wheels theme.
A few pictures of the construction can be found on Instagram, posted by Playnadiversao.
???? - Future Rumors - (4/15/2023) I’m hearing that the park believes they will likely have to retire their Star Mountain (Vekoma Corkscrew) roller coaster sometime in the next 5 years or so, and may have started to look into modern replacement options. One rumor suggests they may have been talking with B&M about Wing Coaster or Dive Machine concepts.
BLACKGANG CHINE (Isle of Wight, UK)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time... nothing new in 2024 either.
BON BON LAND (Denmark)
The park was owned by the Bon Bon candy company but was purchased by Parques Reunidos.
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2012
CAVALLINO MATTO (Italy)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2019
CHANGSHA WINDOW OF THE WORLD (China)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
CHIMELONG PARADISE (Guangzhou, China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time... last known addition was a Rocket Roller Coaster in 2017.
CHIMELONG OCEAN KINGDOM (HengQin Island, Guangdong, China) - Official Website
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2020
CHIMELONG SPACESHIP (China)
Park News - (3/10/2024) An incredible story about the creation of the Chimelong Spaceship attraction has been posted to Blooloop this week, documenting some of the history of how the attraction came to be as told by the Bezark Company who was brought on-board to help flesh-out and create a lot of the custom theming you see as you journey from one section to another within the attraction. Even more impressive, this all started pre-COVID and still managed to find a way to finish it all on the other side, despite a two-year gap in being able to send their crew on site.
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
CINECITTA WORLD (Italy)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2020
COLUMBIA PICTURES’ AQUAVERSE (Thailand)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time... nothing added in 2023 - 2024
CONNY-LAND (Switzerland)
2025 - Nothing is known to be added at this time...
DENNLYS PARC (France)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
DIDILAND (France)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2021
DOHA QUEST Qatar)
2025- Nothing is known at this time
DRAGON VALLEY THEME PARK (Nanjing, China)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2021
DREAMLAND (Margate, UK)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
DREAM ISLAND (Moscow, Russia)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2021
???? - Outdoor Expansion - (10/13/2024) According to an update at ThemeparX, Dream Island, the indoor theme park in Moscow, Russia, has announced a large outdoor expansion that will add a Vertical Launch Coaster from Intamin with four inversions and a beyond vertical first drop, that will become the longest coaster in the country. Also planned is an Intamin Hot Racer single-rail coaster that is expected to be a clone of Mahuka at Walibi Rhone Alpes, an observation tower, a rapids ride with a vertical lift up the inside of a lighthouse tower, Zierer Star Shape flat ride, and more. According to the press release the expansion will feature more than 20 new attractions when finished.
Follow the link and have a look at all the amazing concept art and it all looks so fantastic… but… and you knew there was a “but” coming… there is a question about when all this will open, especially given how long it took for Dream Island itself to open, and then a couple of more years until all the attractions promoted were completed and open to the public. The press release itself translated and posted on ThemeparX doesn’t seem to offer a date, though a post by the park on the Russian social media service, VK, does mention it will open in Summer 2025.
Given that it’s now mid October 2024, and I don’t believe they’re really started anything as winter is quickly approaching, I’d be more likely to believe that construction may not even start until spring 2025, so don’t be surprised if this takes until 2026 or 2027 to open.
DRIEVLIET (The Netherlands)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2012
DUINRELL (The Netherlands)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2021
ESSELWORLD (India)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2015
ETNALAND (Italy)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2013
EURO PARK (Penglai, China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2018
FAMILYPARK (Burgenland, Austria)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2023.
FANTASILANDIA (Santiago, Chile)
Late 2024/2025 - Car City - (1/11/2025) One of our readers just visited Fantasilandia in Santiago, Chile and discovered that the park had opened a new family coaster during 2024 that has gone unnoticed thus far. According to our reader the new coaster is named Car City, and looks to be almost brand new. I’m not sure who made the coaster either. Our reader wondered if it might be SBF/Visa but I’m not so sure about that myself based on the train design, so if anyone else knows who might have made this, I’d love to add the information here as well.
FANTASIANA (Strasswalchen, Austria)
2025 - Mack Stryker Coaster - (9/30/2023) According to posts on social media, Fantasiana (Austria) has signed a deal with Mack Rides at IAAPA Expo Europe to built a new roller coaster for the 2025 season. According to RCDB, the new coaster will be a large “Stryker Coaster”, the first of which is actually the new Voltron going into Europa-Park next year.
FANTASY ISLAND (Skegness, United Kingdom)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2023 - 2024
FANTAWILD Parks (China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time,
Fééryland (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time,
FIABILANDIA (Italy)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2019
FORT FUN (Germany)
Looping Group
2024 - Nothing is known at this time...
FRAISPERTUIS CITY (France)
2025 - Sawmill - (2/11/2025) Fraispertuis City will open a new Zamperla NebulaZ flat ride attraction named Sawmill this season.
FREIZEITPARK PLOHN (Germany)
2025 - ART Engineering Wild Swing - (1/19/2025) Freizeitpark Plohn is adding a Wild Swing from ART Engineering for the 2025 season. The final name of the attraction has not been announced yet, but it will have a mermaid theme and see the ride placed over water.
2026 - Multi Launch Water Coaster - (1/19/2025) Amusement Today has posted a few more details about the new Mack Rides launched water coaster coming to Freizeitpark Plohn in 2026. According to the brief article, Mack Rides claims that the new attraction will use the same style boats that they already use on their existing Water Coaster designs. They only had to attach a “metal piece on the bottom of the boats”. “We push the boats a little out of the water, but not by much - and launch it with the force of a Blue Fire coaster.”
This may be a small dig at Intamin’s launched flume system, the first opened as Catapult Falls at SeaWorld San Antonio last year. On Intamin’s system the boats are mostly pulled up out of the flume to run across a slightly submerged track to engage the magnetic launch system. We’ll have to wait and see how the Mack Rides version looks before casting any kind of final judgement.
(9/25/2024) Mack Rides has announced the world’s first Multi Launch Water attraction as a spin-off of Mack Rides popular water coaster attraction. The first one will be added to Freizeitpark Plohn in 2026, where it will feature two launch moments, several airtime hills, twisted track elements, along with two splash downs and a pair of “High Five” banked air-time hills just as the vehicles pass by each other leaving and returning to the station area.
FREIZEIT-LAND GEISELWIND (Germany)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024.
FREIZEITPARK RUHPOLDING (Germany)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2012
FUNFIELDS (Australia)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024.
FURUVIK (Sweden)
Parks and Resorts Scandinavia
Park News - (2/3/2025) Sweden’s Furuvik theme park will apparently host a series of concerts this summer featuring a number of Sweden’s most beloved artists. In addition to the the Electric Banana Band that we previously mentioned was performing on June 14, the park will also feature Marcus & Martinus on May 24, Alphaville on July 26, Vicktor Leksell on August 2 and Soppgirobygget on Sept. 6.
(1/20/2025) The Electric Banana Band will be dropping into yet another European theme park this summer, with a concert stop now set for Furuvik on June 14, 2025. “Electric Banana Band is permeated with humor and themes that have managed, while maintaining their twist, to touch on everything from environmental issues, friendship and, not least, caring for our animals. Electric Banana Band will perform a unique summer concert at Furuvik this summer where the whole family can go bananas with jungle hits in the band's energetic concert/art installation.”
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
GOLD REEF CITY (South Africa)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2012
GREAT YARMOUTH PLEASURE BEACH (UK)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024
GUANGZHOU SUNAC LAND (CHINA)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, but park just opened in mid 2019.
GULLIVER’S VALLEY RESORT (South Yorkshire, UK)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024
GULLIVER’S WORLD (UK)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time
GUMBUYA WORLD (Australia)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time
GYEONGJU WORLD (South Korea)
Fall 2024 - Skoll & Hati / RMC Raptor - Now Open - (6/22/2024) Gyeongju World has now posted a POV animation for their new RMC Raptor coaster opening later this year, along with the name, “Skoll & Hati”. Skoll & Hati are part of Norse mythology as the names of two cosmic wolves who chase the sun and moon across the sky. If the wolves are able to catch them, it would bring about Ragnarok, the end of everything.
Pretty dark stuff for a roller coaster in South Korea… but we’ve still got some time left, as I believe the ride isn’t expected to open until sometime between late October or November of this year.
2025 - Time Rider - (8/31/2024) Gyeongju World has announced a new attraction is on the way for the 2025 season called Time Rider. The exciting thing is that Time Rider will be a rare installation of an Intamin Coasterwheel style attraction, where most of the cabins (but not all) are actually mounted to tracks and can roll back and forth while the wheel spins in motion. From what I’m told, Time Rider will be the larger 45m version of Intamin’s CoasterWheel, and stand at a total height of 50.5 meters (165 feet) in height at the peak.
They’ve also give us a look at a second new roller coaster the park is adding later this year called Wizard Race. This is supposed to be a Powered Coaster from Zamperla and you can look for it to appear in the park’s Wizard Garden area as a replacement for the removed Dragon coaster. It is expected to open as early as October, about a month ahead of the park’s new RMC Raptor coaster, Skoll & Hati.
HAINAN OCEAN PARADISE / FULL OCEAN HAPPY WORLD (Lingshui, China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2023- 2024
HELLENDOORN (The Netherlands)
Looping Group
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2023- 2024
HOSSOLAND (Poland)
2025 - New Park - (9/2/2024) Construction on Hossoland in Poland is still ongoing, though the latest updates from the park now state that the park plans to be ready to open in Summer 2025, though we still know very little about what the park’s attraction lineup will be. A few articles mention that one of the big attractions will be a steel roller coaster called Ghost Rider that will hit a top speed of 72 mph. Construction appears to have began in 2022 with the hopes of having it ready for 2024, but has since been pushed back to June 2025.
The most recient construction photos I’ve been able to find have been collected over at ThemeparX, where they do appear to have made some great progress on the themed buildings and structures around the park, though what is very strange is the fact that there are no signs of rides at all going up. Typically the rides will be installed first and the buildings and themed pathways go up around them as construction goes on. With many buildings on-site appearing to be finished, from an exterior thematic point of view, I’m really wondering just what exactly this park will have to offer in terms of actual attractions when it does open next year.
(9/10/22) A brand new theme park is apparently coming to Poland that will be called Hossoland. The new park will be built over a 40 hectares site and divided into 4 different themed zones, featuring about 50 attractions, including expected roller coasters from Mack Rides and Vekoma. Lookfor Hossoland to open as early as Spring 2024.
HOT GO PARK - Happy Jungle World &
HOT GO PARK - Dreamworld
(Fushun, China)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024.
HUIS TEN BOSCH (Japan)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024.
HUNDERFOSSEN FAMILIEPARK (Norway)
2025- Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024.
ISLA MAGICA (Spain)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2015
2026 - New Wooden Rollercoaster - (10/27/2024) It has been years since we’ve heard about Isla Magica in Spain adding anything new to their theme park, but according to news posted by The Olive Press, a new wooden roller coaster is planned to be added to the park for the 2026 season. The neat thing is that almost the entire 25 meter tall and 596 meter long coaster will be built over the water. The maker of the coaster is not mentioned, though the article does say that the trains will only hold 16 passengers. According to an update on RCDB, they believe this will be a GCI coaster made with their new steel Titan Track system.
Also planned is an expansion to the Aqua Magica water park section of the park that will add in two large new swimming / attraction areas.
JANFUSUN FANCYWORLD (Taiwan)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2012
JARDIN d’ACCLIMATATION (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024
JEJU SHINWHA WORLD (South Korea)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024
JINAN SUNAC LAND (China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024
JUNGLIA OKINAWA (Japan)
2025 - NEW PARK - (2/1/2025) An all new nature-inspired theme park called Junglia Okinawa is preparing to open in Japan this July. The 60-hectare park was built on the site of a former golf course at a cost of ¥70 billion ($453 million) and will feature 22 attractions, including a dinosaur safari adventure and a hot air observation balloon ride. The focus here will be on the environment however, which has been themed as a subtropical rainforest and is a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site.
KARLS ERLEBNISDORF (Germany)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024
KINGOLAND (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024
KNIGHT VALLEY
Shezhen, China
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2012
KOLMARDEN (Sweden)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added in 2022 - 2024
LA MER DE SABLE (France)
2025 - Wild Buffalo - (2/2/2025) A new wooden roller coaster is coming to France’s La Mer de Sable park in 2025. The new ride will be named Wild Buffalo and is being built by GGI (Great Coasters International). This will be a family friendly wooden coaster, standing just under 42 feet tall, and with a track length of just 1,640 ft. According to ThemeParks-EU, it will be themed to fit into the park’s La Desert du Nouveau-Mexique zone, and is supposed to include a 131 foot long tunnel along the way which I believe will be part of a below grade helix turn forwards the later half of the layout.
Some great pictures of the progress on the coaster’s construction have been posted by the park’s Facebook page yesterday.
LA RECRE DES 3 CURES (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time,,,
THE LAND OF LEGENDS (Turkey)
2025 - SpongeBob SquarePants Dark Ride and other Future Expansion Projects - (10/8/2024) Land of Legends (Turkey) has confirmed that the theme park will open the nation’s first Nickelodeon themed land and hotel in January 2025. As we saw in previous posters up at the park, the land will feature a Bikini Bottom / SpongeBob themed land, Star Trek: Wild Galaxy (from the Star Trek: Prodigy animated series) and Adventure Bay from Paw Patrol.
There will be a number of themed attractions within each area. Star Trek: Wild Galalxy is said to be a 5D Cinema while the Paw Patrol area will feature three kiddie rides: Rubble & Crew, Zuma’s Zoomers and Marshall’s Fire Patrol. The Bikini Bottom area will feature Plankton’s Plunge, the Flying Dutchman’s Ghost Ship, Jellyfish Jam, and an interactive dark ride, SpongeBob’s Crazy Carnival Ride.
If you’ve made a visit to Las Vegas this year, you may have already seen the new SpongeBob’s Crazy Carnival Ride, as the first one opened at the Circus Circus casino there. I had the chance to give it a whirl back in June and it’s a pretty fun attraction where the guests compete against each other in different games when your car stops briefly in front of various interactive screens.
(11/18/2023) According to a follow-up article posted by Blooloop about Sally Dark Rides new SpongeBob’s Crazy Carnival Ride opening in Las Vegas in early 2024, they also mention that official’s from Turkey’s “The Land of Legends” theme park were on hand at IAAPA to sign a contract to build their very own SpongeBob SquarePants dark ride. This would actually be the first SpongeBob branded dark ride to be built outside of the US.
According to the article the new dark ride planned for The Land of Legends theme park will follow a similar storyline to the dark ride opening soon in Las Vegas, featuring vibrant sets, special effects, interactive multimedia components and animatronics, including their very own Mr. Krabs figure.
(9/25/2023) While I haven’t seen anything posted on the Land of Legends website or their social media, a post on instagram and a YouTube video from a park fan reports that big expansion plans are on the way for Land of Legends. According to a translation of the post, this expansion will include a new hotel, a family entertainment center and apparently a deal was struck with Paramount because new lands and attractions are coming themed to Spongebob Squarepants, Paw Patrol and Star Trek. A large structure is already vertical, which I can only assume may be the new hotel, but that is just a guess.
LAND OF LEGENDS (QATAR)
2028 - New Park - (11/25/2024) Blooloop reports that a $3 billion project to build a second Land of Legends theme park in Qatar has broken ground. The 650,000 square-meter project is a partnership between FTG Development (the developer behind the first Land of Legends park in Turkey) and Qatari Diar. The goal is to open the new theme park by 2028 and attract around 2 million guests a year.
LE PAL (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
LEOLANDIA (Italy)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time... nothing added in 2024 either.
LEWA ADVENTURES (Xi'an, China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2018
LIGHTWATER VALLEY (UK)
Brighton Pier Group
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2018
LIONSGATE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD (China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this point in time... but attraction just opened in mid 2019.
LUNA PARK (Sydney, Australia)
Park News - (12/2/2024) Sydney’s historic Luna Park has been purchased by Oscar Group for an undisclosed sum. The Sydney based Oscar Group is said to have an extensive portfolio of hotels, resorts, event centers, pubs and more across the nation’s eastern coastline. According to MSN, Oscar Group’s winning bid beat out rival bids from several other domestic and international attraction owners, including the owners of the Warner Bros. MovieWorld and Dreamworld theme parks.
The goal is to establish Luna Park as a ‘top five’ tourist destination for visitors to the region as well as making sure it is also an attractive place to visit for the local residents of Sydney.
M&D’s (near Glasgow, Scotland)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
MAGICLAND (Rome, Italy)
2025 - The park was rumored to be adding a new coaster for 2025, but no details are known at this time...
MAJALAND KOWNATY (Poland)
Plopsa Group
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
MANDORIA (Poland)
2025 - Aquila - (2/14/2025) A POV video of the new Aquila launched coaster at Mandoria can be found below. From the loo of things, riders are launched through the layout twice before the train comes to a stop.
(1/12/2025) Mandoria (Poland) has confirmed that the park will open their newest attraction on January 19th, 2025… Aquila, a new launched family coaster from Vekoma. The park is fairly unique looking, as it features a highly themed environment that is entirely indoors. Aquila will serve an an anchor attraction for an entirely new park zone within Mandoria, that will also feature other attractions tied into the surrounding theme. The launched coaster will achieve a speed of 70 km/h in just 3 seconds, and features a 25 meter tall tower structure that serves “as a spectacular focal point. The rollercoaster’s route features sudden turns, steep inclines, and surprising twists, delivering intense excitement at every stage.”
(9/21/2024) Keep an eye out for Vekoma to announce all the details of a new indoor family launch coaster project during IAAPA Expo Europe this week, with the press event set to take place on Tuesday (Sept 24) at 11am local time. The new coaster in question will be Aquila, a unique new creation coming to the Mandoria theme park in Poland.
(11/26/2023) Mandoria, a small indoor theme park that opened in 2021 in Poland has announced that they will add a new unique indoor roller coaster for the park’s 2025 season. The roller coaster will be named Aquila and will be a family launched coaster from Vekoma built inside a 25 meter tall tower shaped structure. Aquilia will be the forth roller coaster at the indoor attraction, with the others including Carrara (Mack Powered Coaster), Merkant (Gerstlauer Bob Coaster) and Mroczny Dwor (SBF Visa Spinning Coaster).
MOOMIN VALLEY PARK (Japan)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
NAGASHIMA SPALAND (Japan)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
NICKELODEON UNIVERSE @ Mall of China (China)
???? - New Park - DELAYED - (1/26/2025) While we don’t know the status of the park project itself, or if it will still have a Nickelodeon theme, apparently the entire project was put on a lengthy delayed due to COVID, and then financial issues in China also played a large part in delaying the restart of construction. However, there was a video posted in late 2023 showing work crews installing glass panels along the gigantic roof of the structure, shot from a dronecam. Looking down, you can see the inside was still mostly unfinished, but there were what looked like coaster footers already poured inside at that time, which was about 14 months ago. Hopefully things have continued to progress since then, but I’ve been unable to really find any kind of solid update on the project since then.
(10/20/20) Another Nickelodeon Universe theme park is now under construction, this time in China, where it will be built inside the Mall of China in Chongqing. I think I missed the first announcement about this project, where BlooLoop in 2018 said it was aiming for a Dec. 2020 but that clearly isn’t happening.
While I don’t know what the official opening date is now, according to a post on Twitter, brand new and very colorful roller coaster track has now arrived on site for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle themed roller coaster is that supposed to feature 8 inversions, be 1052m in length, 43.5m in height and hit 100 km/h.
I’m not sure of the manufacturer, but the track does look similar in nature of some of Intamin’s trackwork. Anyone know more about this creation?
NIGLOLAND (France)
2025 - La Foret de Nigo - (2/5/2025) Nigloland will open “La Foret de Nigo” this season, or in English… Niglo’s Forest. This new land will take families on an “immersive journey” where you will encounter the park’s mascot characters within their forest homes, showcasing them like you’ve never seen them before.
PARAMOUNT PARK CHINA (Kunming)
New Park Plans - (1/26/2025) While I don’t believe work has really begun on this proposed Paramount branded park in China, apparently the concept art and plans for the park continue to change and evolve. Some new images showing off the lastest concept were found in August 2024 and posted to ThemeparX. Amonst the noted changed was that a Nickelodeon themed kids land was spotted in the artwork, along with changed to the Star Trek themed “Final Frontier” land that increased the size and style of what was previously a drop tower ride into something more SciFi looking that instead may be more of an observation tower style ride that does remind me of the SkySpire concept from Bill Kitchen being offered by Martin & Vleminckx (MV Rides). It was also noted that the previous ‘Warp Drive” outdoor coaster had been replaced with a large indoor attraction building instead, but no way to know if they are opting for a more indoor dark coaster experience (ala: Space Mountain) or some kind of walk-through, simulator or dark ride concept.
(5/30/20) Would you believe that yet another Paramount Studios themed park project has been announced? So far, none of them have ever been built after being announced at various locations over the globe, and now ThemeparX has posted some concept art for a new fifth Paramount Park themed concept, this one planned for Kunming, China. According to the post, the plan is to begin construction in 2021 and open by June 2024.
The concept art sure is pretty though, with six themed lands:
Paramount Boulevard - This serves as the entrance zone for the new park with stores and restaurants.
Adventure City - A Hollywood themed looking zone with a Tower Records looking building at the center and home to thrill rides themed to MIssion: Impossible and The Italian Job.
Peanuts Township - A kids land themed around the Peanuts gang characters.
Lost Kingdom - A beautiful looking landscape of jungle ruins, home to a “Montagua River” ride a coaster called ‘Escape from Emerald Mountain”.
Dinosaur Empire - Themed around the Dinotopia book series where humans live with intelligent dinosaurs. The concept art shows off a large flume ride that gives off some Mack Rides inspired vibes, not unlike SeaWorld’s Journey To Atlantis.
Final Frontier - A land themed around the world of Star Trek that is sure to thrill.
PARC DU BOCASSE (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
PARC DU PETIT PRINCE (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2018
PARC SAINT PAUL (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
PARC SPIROU (France)
2025 - Nothing is known to be coming at this time.
2026 - Naurto Land & Family Launched Coaster - (11/20/2024) Parc Spirou in France is adding a unique Naruto themed Family Thrill Coaster to the park in 2026 from Zamperla. The design will feature tire propelled launch and booster zones as well as switch-tracks to allow for a fun 103 foot vertical rollback spike, along with a low to the ground twisted layout designed to enhance the sensation of speed. The coaster will be part of a whole new Naruto themed section of the park when it opens.
PARKO PALIATSO (Cypress)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2018
PARQUE DE ATRACCIONES (Madrid)
Parques Reunidos
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2018
PARQUE de DIVERSIONES (Costa Rica)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2015
PARQUE de la COSTA (Argentina)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2016
PARQUE DEL CAFE (Colmbia)
2025 - Avix / Inverted Roller Coaster - (12/16/2024) Parque del Cafe in Columbia Is preparing to open Avix, a new Infinity Inverted Coaster from Gerstlauer. The new roller coaster is set to open in 2025 and you can see some great construction photos posted at the official website.
(1/6/2024) Parque del Cafe will be adding a second Gerstlauer roller coaster for the 2024 season. Little is known about the design, but it is said to be a custom layout “Infinity Inverted Coaster”, standing about 85 feet tall and with two inversions.
This would be the second such coaster from Gerstlauer, after opening the bigger “Storm - The Dragon Legend” coaster at TusenFryd (Norway) in 2023.
PARQUE ESPANA (Japan)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time... nothing known to be added since 2018
PLEASUREWOOD HILLS (UK)
Looping / H.I.G. Capital France
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
POWERPARK (Finland)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
PUY DU FOU (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
PUY DU FOU Espana (Spain)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2021
RAINBOW’S END (New Zealand)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2012
SALITRE MAGICO (Columbia)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
SANRIO PUROLAND (Japan)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
SCHWABEN PARK (Germany)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2021
SERENGETI PARK (Germany)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2022
SHANGHAI HAICHANG OCEAN PARK (China)
2025?? - Phase 2 Park Expansion - (7/4/2024) I haven’t heard much about what will be included, but the Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park was mentioned to be opening a “second phase” for the theme park sometime in 2025. At the time, it was said that the expansion would consist of two new themed pavilions and a “commercial street” that would tie into an IP of some kind.
Anyone know more about what guests can expect to find next year?
SIAM PARK (Tenerife)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
SKARA SOMMARLAND (Sweden)
Parks and Resorts Scandinavia
2025 - Three New Rides - (11/27/2024) Skara Sommarland has revealed details about three new rides coming to the park for 2025: Fritt Fall (Free Fall), Houdini and Lilla Pariserhjulet (Little Ferris Wheel).
Most of these sound like family friendly additions, with the Fritt Fall tower (SBF/Visa) standing only 20 meters tall. The little Ferris Wheel is actually a small wheel from Grona Lund that was built way back in 1931 and has been freshly renovated for the move to Skara Sommarland. Houdini appears to be a 12-seater “Midi Top Dancer” ride, also from SBF/Visa.
SKYLINE PARK (Germany)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time... nothing added since beefore 2018
SLAGHAREN (Netherlands)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time... nothing added since 2017
???? - Family Inverted Coaster - Planning - (3/21/22) According to a post from Loopings.NL, Slagharen is looking into adding a new family style Inverted coaster, which means no inversions. The interesting thing is that apparently the park has received three very different proposals from Vekoma, Premier Rides and Gerstlauer for the project and they’ve posted some video footage of each to see which concept the public likes the best.
Each company has brought a little something new to the table with their designs. The Vekoma design, for the most part, is a typical example of Vekoma’s design work for this style ride, which makes sense as Vekoma would be the dominate supplier in the world who has built over two dozen similar style rides around the world over the past two decades.Really the only unique item I noticed here is that it would use some kind of launch technology to dispatch the train out of the station into the first half of the ride, and then use a traditional lift hill for the second half.
The Premier Rides version is a bit of a surprise because the company has really never made an inverted coaster before. The closest to my knowledge that they have come was when Six Flags hired them to design new inverted trains for the Goliath coaster at Six Flags New England a few years ago, which ironically was just demolished a few weeks ago. The Premier design does seem to share some elements in common with Vekoma’s Family Boomerang coasters with the use of two small lift and drop tracks at each end of the ride. The semi-compact L-shaped design opts weave the tracks around each other to provide some fun visuals.
Lastly the Gerstlauer design actually features a vertical lift hill design and a much more extreme layout, with several near-inverting elements as well as underground tunnels. The vertical lift on an inverted car would be an interesting experience, as the only similar element I can think of was on Vekoma’s infamous “Deja Vu” coasters. The layout does look fun, but may provide more thrills than Slagharen was looking to offer, which is probably a big reason as to why they are offering views of the design options to the public.
SOCHI-PARK (Sochi, Russia)
Olympic Village and Park for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games (official website)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2016
Sommerland Sjælland (Denmarjk)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time... nothing added since before 2018
STUDIO GHIBLI PARK (Japan)
Park News - (10/12/2024) According to Crunchyroll, Ghibli Park is now teasing a special 2nd anniversary event that will take place November 2-4 and Nov. 15-17th.
The Future - The Park is now technically complete, as it was designed to open in several phases over the past couple of years. It is not known if any futher expansions or additions are to be planned, as this is not your typical theme park style experience with rides and such, but more of a reflection of the Studio Ghibli’s works over the years.
SUN WORLD HON THOM NATURE PARK (Vietnam)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, but the park just opened for the first time in 2022.
SUNAC LAND GUANGZHOU (China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2021
SUNWAY LAGOON (Malaysia)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2017
SUZHOU AMUSEMENT LAND FOREST WORLD (China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2022
TERRA MITICA (Spain)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing added since at least 2017 or earlier
TIBIDABO (Barcelona, Spain)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
TIVOLI FRIHEDEN (Arhus, Denmark)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
TOBU ZOOLOGICAL PARK (Japan)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
2026 - Zierer Drifter - (12/13/2024) Zierer reports that the company has sold a new Drifter flat ride that will open at Japan’s Tobu Zoo in 2026. The concept is sort of an update of Zierer old Jet Ski concept, but made to work in a dry environment and with larger vehicles that guests ride in while seated.
VIALAND (Istanbul, Turkey)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2015
VINWONDERS PHU QUOC - (Vietnam)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2022
VULCANIA (France)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2021
WALYGATOR PARC (France)
Formerly known as Walibi Lorraine and Walibi Schtroumpf (Walibi Smurf)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2015
WALYGATOR SUD-OUEST (France)
(Formerly Walibi Aquitaine and Walibi Sud-Ouest)
Aspro Parks
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2021
WANDA CULTURAL TOURISM CITY - NANCHANG (Opened 2016)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2017
WEST MIDLAND SAFARI PARK (UK)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2018
WILD-UND FREIZEITPARK KLOTTEN (Germany)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since at least 2021
WILDLANDS EMMEN (Netherlands)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing known to be added since 2018
WORLD JOYLAND (Changzhou, Jiangsu, China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing reported to have been added since 2013.
XISHUANGBANNA THEME PARK (China)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time, nothing reported to have been added since 2016.
YOMIURILAND (Japan)
2025 - Nothing is known at this time...
YAS WATERWORLD (Abu Dhabi, UAE) http://www.yaswaterworld.com/
2025 - Park Expansion - (11/22/2024) A few more details about the expansion of the Yas Waterworld park has been revealed by WhiteWater, who is behind much of the project. According to WhiteWater the expansion will introduce 18 new rides featuring 2 miles of new slide path, all from WhiteWater, which is very impressive all by itself.
New attractions will include the UAE’s Highest Water Slide, a FlatLine Loop standing 40 meters (131 feet) in height, a Shoot the Chutes water ride integrated into a water slide tower that will be incorporated into the park’s Legend of the Lost Pearl storyline, as well as dropping guests down a 49 foot plunge at the end. Other new additions will include “first-of-its-kind Master Blasters, the biggest and longest Parallel Pursuit competition slides in the world, a new kids’ area featuring the world’s first Mini Blaster Fusion slide.”
(10/12/2024) I haven’t heard much about the progress of this project so far but according to this report construction on the expansion to the Yas Waterworld waterpark is now 55% complete. The expansion is on track to open in 2025 and will result in a 16,900 square-meter expansion to the waterpark that will add 18 thrilling new attractions, increasing the park’s overall number of offerings to 70 rides and experiences. Highlight additions will include the creation of “the UAE’s highest slide and the first water-based amusement ride integrated into a waterslide complex, featuring a 15-meter drop”. Another addition will be “The Legend of the Lost Village”, an interactive journey guests can take the discover hidden treasures and secret passages interwoven with the park’s attractions.
(11/27/2023) According to a post at Blooloop, Miral has announced that they are going ahead with a major expansion to their Yas Waterworld waterpark in Abu Dhabi. The 16,900 square-meter expansion will see an additional 18 new rides and attractions added to the park, increasing capacity by 20%. Part of this expansion will see a new themed area addec alled the Lost City which will feature a quest for hidden treasure and a number of “secret passages”. Also coming in the expansion will be a new swim-up bar, a “thrilling boat ride”, new racing, tube and family raft slides, as well as a dueling master blaster. For the smaller guests, they will also create a number of junior sized slides that will resemble some of the park’s more popular larger slides.
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