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- The DisneylandForward proposal has cleared it's first major hurdle this week, with The Anaheim Planning Commission voting 5-1 to recommend the proposal to the Anaheim City Council. The Council is expected to vote on this later this spring. - Universal confirmed this week that Florean Fortescue soft-serve ice cream shop, originally found in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley at Universal Studios Florida, will be opening another location at Universal Hollywood later this month. Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream counter will open March 29 in former Zonko's joke shop space within Honeydukes. The counter will serve 10 flavors of ice cream in cups or waffle cones: Banana, Chocolate, Mint, Orange, Vanilla, Toffee Nut, Granny Smith Apple, Pistachio, Toffee Apple, as well as Butterbeer ice cream. To celebrate that iconic flavor, Universal is declaring March 15 through April 30 as "Butterbeer season" at its U.S. theme parks. The parks will feature new Butterbeer-flavored items during the event, including a Butterbeer popsicle as well as Butterbeer caramels, which will be available in Orlando only. - Shanghai Disneyland this week states that it had "began initial preparation work for construction of a separately themed attraction to be located within Shanghai Disneyland, adjacent to Zootopia." They also announced that they had completed piling work on its as-yet unamed third hotel. - The Disneyland Resort is previewing new entry gates that will be installed at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, starting later this year. They have opened a test gate this week, which will bel used for a limited time and will assist with traning staff. The project is going to be finished in 2025. - Disneyland resort dropped a whole bunch of details on Pixar fest, which returns to the resort April 26 and continues through August 4. This year it will feature a food festival, a part called Pixar Pals Playtime Party, and new parade at DCA called Better Together: A Pixar Pals Celebration! - In the U.S. SC Holdings has acquired Santa Monica Amusements LLC, the operator of Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier. - Fuji-Q Highland has announced that its iconic roller coaster, Do-Dodonpa, has closed permanently. The S&S Thrust Air Coaster has been closed since August 2021, after a number of injuries. - Aquatica Orlando officially opens its newest water slide, Tassie's Underwater Twist. This 129-foot long enclosed Super Bowl water slide from WhiteWater West features an orchestral score and synchronized video display that recreates the underwater world of Australia's Shark Bay for guests to explore as they slide through on two-person innertubes. - Kennywood has announced the winner in its contest to name the park's bumper cars ride. In a fan vote, Potato Smash beat candidates Deep Fried Derby and Speedy Spuds to become the name for the ride, which has been getting a rebuild as Kennywood themes the cars to its Potato Patch fries.

Ander Wynne-Edwards is the Director of Operations at Endless Surf. He's worked for Whitewater West for the past two decades building and commissioning large-scale wave pools – pneumatic wave pools in particular. In this episode, he walks us through everything that goes on in the time between a project breaking ground and rolling out the first set of waves. Ander also divulges what kind of things make a job go smoothly and conversely, some of those challenges posed in this unique project niche.

In this episode, Will speaks to Eric Sinclair, the Senior Project Manager at WhiteWater West, ‘the world's largest provider of everything a water park needs'.    Sinclair is now based in Munich at the European Headquarters, where he is involved in Europe's first Endless Surf Park installation as well as waterpark projects in Sweden, Belgium, Italy, France and the UK.  Previous roles have included project managing Epic Waterpark, Grande Prairie Texas, and numerous other projects in Canada and the US.    For the Geographers amongst us, Sinclair has also been part of a bioengineering river rehabilitation project in Malaysia and a sustainable urban development project for the ageing population of Singapore.  As if that isn't enough, he also owned and managed the Cougar Mountain Adventure Resort in Whistler, Canada.  Listen to this episode to find out Eric Sinclair's interesting journey to where he is today!

How do water slides work and how are they built? Why do you have to be a certain age or height to go down a water slide? Where does the water in water parks come from? And which is easier to design and build: a water slide or a roller coaster? First we did a little research of our own at Jay Peak Pump House Water Park. (And by “research” we mean “going down the water slides.”) And to teach us more about what's actually happening when you take your thrill ride, we talked with water slide engineers Songyi Moon and Kelly Sall at WhiteWater West. Download our learning guides: PDF | Google Slide | Transcript

What do Great Wolf Lodge, Six Flags, Hawaiian Falls, Atlantis, and Cedar Fair all have in common? They've all had White Water West part of making their water parks exceptional. Maintaining their place as the world's leading water park manufacturer, White Water West had its start in Penticton BC in 1980 and they haven't slowed down. Tune in as we explore what it takes to make a company, in a unique market, beyond exceptional as well as the challenges that go into building outside of North America. Finally, you won't want to miss what they have planned for the future of water parks.   Follow Coastal Front —

Franceen Gonzales is the Chief Experience Officer at Whitewater West Industries, as well as the Board Chair for the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance. With over 30 years in amusement park, water park, hotel and family entertainment management. She's held positions on the board of directors for various groups, including IAAPA - International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, WWA - World Waterpark Association, and ASTM International to name a few. Franceen joins Step into Swim to chat about how she became emersed in the aquatic life at an early age, but it wasn't the original plan.

This weeks news segment solely (and accidentally) focuses on non U.S. theme park news... Hopefully that won't turn any off, as the discussions and commentary ensue that we think most will enjoy. The second half of the show holds great content as well as the guys discuss the near future of the industry, as well as B&M's best. SHOW NOTES: Proslide sueing WhiteWater West over "stolen" patents for a slide Netherlands Parks Closing as they enter a tough 5-week lockdown  Krampus Expedition New Mack Rides Power Splash Kondaa at Walibi Belgium testing    

Paul Chutter is the Chief Commercial Officers at Whitewater West, and serves on the executive team. He oversees WhiteWater’s global business development efforts and functions, including Sales, Marketing, and Pre-Contract groups, as well as Corporate Development. As co-founder and President of Endless Surf, Paul has been a key player in the development, launch, and rapid growth of the surf park brand within the past year. Launched in May 2020, Endless Surf brings the next generation of inland surf experiences to the world. With its proven and reliable pneumatic wave technology, paired with the brightest, most innovative minds in the industry, Endless Surf offers the most efficiently designed surf pool on the market that provides surf parks with unrivaled return on investment opportunities. www.endlesssurf.com.

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Our guest this episode is Jesse Crawford from WhiteWater West in beautiful Vancouver BC, the award-winning slide and water ride design firm responsible for many of the most incredible “immersive” (pun intended) attractions on the planet. Jesse is a sales […] The post TA Podcast E25: Jesse Crawford appeared first on Themed Attraction.

On this Episode Ed and Ken are live from IAAPA and they talking with B-Back about their holographic displays. Before that Ed and Ken talk to Pom Vom about their AI pix system. After that Whitewater West comes on to talk about the Slide Wheel and Solar Vortex. Later the Producers Group talks about their […] The post Ep. 209- Live From IAAPA appeared first on Orlando Tourism Report .

Episode 81: Summer is for Waterparks.. Take 2!By Erik and Racheal YatesTags: amusement parks, behind the thrills, theme parksDownload : MP3 AudioFor anyone who tried to listen last night, we were cut short on our live segment of the show due to a scheduling error. Therefore, we have made the decision to re-run last night's show for those who attempted to listen live. We chat with Jeff Epstein and Geoff from WhiteWater West about waterslides and much, much more! Jeff even tells a funny story that's worth listening to (really if you're the ones who laugh at people that get wedgies on waterslides). We also talk Potter and the unattended bag at Disneyland in Anaheim California yesterday. More information on WhiteWater West can be found at www.whitewaterwest.com.

Episode 80: Summer is for WaterparksBy Erik and Racheal YatesTags: amusement parks, behind the thrills, theme parksDownload : MP3 AudioJoin Racheal and Erik Behind the Thrills as they chat with Jeff Epstein from WhiteWater West, who creates attractions for waterparks. WhiteWater West recently revealed two new attractions, the MEGAtube and the Dueling Aqualoop.

Dan Morris, Senior Systems Engineer at WhiteWater West, shares his experience with NetApp and Microsoft Hyper-V. Topics include virtualizing Exchange to dramatically improve email reliability, using deduplication to reclaim space, and simplifying backup and recovery with NetApp.