ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — If there’s ever been a summer to revisit a thesis park — or two, or 3 — this is it.

High speed wooden roller coasters? Thrilling, sense-assaulting rides? Penguins?

Yes, approbation and many definitely.

In Orlando alone, 4 of a area’s large parks — Disney, Universal, Legoland and SeaWorld — have opened, or are about to open, new attractions. Cedar Point in Ohio denounced a new roller coaster a few weeks ago and in Las Vegas, a $50 million H2O park debuted on Memorial Day weekend. In California, visitors to Disneyland can accommodate all of a Disney Princesses in one place. Elsewhere in a Golden State, 4 opposite parks exaggerate new drum coasters.

“Wherever we live, that park is expected to have something new,” pronounced Jeremy Schoolfield, a comparison editor of Funworld Magazine, a trade announcement for a International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA). “There’s lots of innovations, what we call immersive experiences.”

There’s been an assault of new attractions in Orlando in new months.

Back in December, Disney World non-stop a newly stretched Fantasyland, a largest plan in a park’s 41-year history. There are dual sections: Enchanted Forest, where visitors will find Belle from “Beauty and a Beast” and Ariel from “The Little Mermaid,” and Storybook Circus, that is desirous by a Disney film “Dumbo.”

A new float called Under a Sea-Journey of a Little Mermaid and Enchanted Tales With Belle, a walk-through knowledge that facilities a enchanting counterpart and costumed characters, will stir film lovers. And a renouned Dumbo captivate is now a small reduction crowded, since Disney built a second, matching ride.

The new spaces are built on what was once a site of a 20,000 Leagues Under a Sea experience, and a enlargement doubles a distance of a strange Fantasyland.

George Kalogridis, boss of a Walt Disney World Resort, pronounced that if he were bringing his family to a park on a summer day, he would start with a Enchanted Tales with Belle experience, afterwards check out a new Doc McStuffins shred during Disney Junior-Live on Stage during Hollywood Studios.

Hollywood Studios is also a place to find costumed characters from a Disney-Pixar film Monsters University.

“Something new in any park creates it easy to prove everybody in a family,” he said.

Over during Universal Orlando, a 3-D thesis park float formed on a Transformers fondle and film code will open Jun 20; a identical float is already open during Universal’s parks in California and Singapore.

The park describes a float as an interactive, “larger than life battle” between a Autobots and Decepticons. It uses moody simulator technology, along with wind, feverishness and fume to make a riders feel enthralled in a experience.

At SeaWorld Orlando, a Antarctica — Empire of a Penguin captivate non-stop on May 24.

With a ride, restaurants and a penguin habitat, it’s a largest enlargement in a park’s history.

The float takes visitors by a queue, themed around a illusory penguin named Puck. As visitors make their approach by a reserve and ride, a heat keeps dropping — until visitors are in 30-degree temperatures.

The float ends during a penguin habitat, where some-more than 250 birds live. Visitors can watch a birds merriment on seaside or underwater.

Park executive pronounced that in doing investigate for a new attraction, penguins are a large pull during parks.

“As we grown this attraction, we found that adults like penguins only as many as kids, and we’ve seen adults act only like kids when they’re around them,” pronounced Terry Prather, a clamp boss of park operations during SeaWorld Orlando.

Busch Gardens in Tampa has dual new offerings: a Madagascar Live uncover and 3 just-born singular Malayan tiger cubs.

Over during Legoland Florida, a park is expanding to embody a new float and interactive play area formed on a company’s renouned Legends of Chima product line.

The section, that is scheduled to open Jul 3, will embody an interactive H2O float called The Quest for Chi, a Lego-building challenge, a 4-D film and a meet-and-greet with costumed characters.

Legoland also has a Carlsbad, Calif., outpost and in April, non-stop a 250-room Legoland hotel there. Visitors are greeted by a fire-breathing dragon done of 400,000 Lego bricks. Guest bedrooms are flashy in pirate, journey or dominion themes, and many equipment in a bedrooms seem as if they are built of Legos.

Not to be outdone by Florida, California’s thesis parks also have new offerings — mostly in a form of disturb rides.

At Disneyland, a new Fantasy Faire offers all of a Disney Princesses in one place — a intricately minute Royal Hall. Also during Disneyland, “Mickey and a Magical Map” is a new uncover during a Fantasyland Theater this summer.

Great America in Santa Clara will have a Gold Striker, a wooden coaster that soars to 108 feet during 54 mph, opening this summer. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s new Undertow drum coaster will reinstate a Hurricane coaster in June; it’s described a spinning roller coaster. At Six Flags Magic Mountain, a Full Throttle is billed as “the world’s tallest straight loop” during 160 feet; that coaster will open after in a summer. Knotts Berry Farm debuts a Coast Rider this summer — with 1,339 feet of track, a association says it “gives guest a feeling of roving a California coast.”

Non-coastal residents also have new offerings during informal parks.

Dollywood in Tennessee has non-stop RiverRush in a Splash Country partial of a park.

In a Nevada desert, a H2O park called Wet ‘n’ Wild has non-stop in Las Vegas. A Wet ‘n’ Wild had been on a Strip for 20 years though close down in 2004. The new, $50 million H2O park non-stop to passholders on Memorial Day weekend and is open to everybody on Jun 3. There are 25 H2O slides.

And in Ohio during Cedar Point, thrill-seekers will be treated to a new, $30 million drum coaster. Called The GateKeeper, a 4,164-foot lane soars over a park’s opening and winds by a park. It’s a longest swift coaster in a world, attention analysts contend — that means that riders lay on possibly side of a track, with zero above their heads or next their feet.

The two-minute, 40-second float facilities rolling flyover maneuvers, 360-degree flips, drops, spirals and a gut-churning 170-foot drop.

Each car has 4 riders and any one can pierce exclusively and lizard by elements,” pronounced Schoolfield. “What’s sparkling about this coaster is that it’s really maneuverable.”

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