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Ferrari World Expansion Visible on Google maps, good progress......

DreamWorks will open its first theme park (indoor) in City of Dreams, Manila. The attraction is expected to open March 2015.

Source:
http://gist.ph/first-dreamworks-theme-park-world-will-open-city-dreams-manila-soon/

Universal Studios Hollywood debuted the new Fast and Furious - Supercharged hydraulic attraction in an ad during the Super Bowl's pre-game show. The theme park will launch the attraction this summer and will serve as the park's finale to the tram studio tour. You can watch the ad by clicking the source link below.

Source:
http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/universal-uses-super-bowl-to-promote-new-fast-and-furious-supercharged-theme-park-attraction-1201420970/

Warner Brothers FEC coming to Macau:

Melco Crown Entertainment is set to open its USD3.2-billion Studio City resort in “mid-year” 2015, adding 1,600 hotel rooms and an intended 400 gambling tables to the Cotai Strip, the company’s co-chairman and CEO Lawrence Ho announced yesterday.

Inspired by Hollywood, the cinematic-themed resort will comprise a 30,000-square-foot Family Entertainment Center in collaboration with Time Warner Inc. subsidiaries Warner Bros. and DC Comics.

Source:
http://macaudailytimes.com.mo/studio-city-melco-teams-time-warner-open-family-entertainment-center.html

Today a new Theme Park was confirmed in Lleida (Catalunya, Spain) with "The Smurfs" theming.

Some data:
-- Location: "Les Basses"
-- First phase: one hotel, one camping, one shopping zone
-- First in Europe about Smurfs
-- Target: Families with kids betwen 2-12 years
-- Estimated 330.000 visitors first year
-- 200 workers
-- Initial cost 47 million €
-- Agreement with International Merchandising, Promotion & Services (IMPS) the brand owner

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2328323/0/parque-tematico/lleida/pitufos/
http://www.thelocal.es/20141218/spain-to-get-worlds-only-smurf-theme-park

Hong Kong Disneyland Update

Lots of plusing happening around the resort as well as full ground upheaval for new resort building something new in Fantasyland upgrading Tarzan's tree house and of course Iron man.

Here's some remarkably unrealistic blah. Egypt Disneyland. I bet a million it won't happen:

“There are discussions going on between Disney International to build in Egypt its first Disney Park in the Middle East, similar to Disney France," said Ashraf Salman, Egypt's investment minister, who was speaking while attending a live Disney show at the Cairo International Convention Center.

"Having a Disney show in Egypt at the moment sends a message to the world and to foreign investors that Egypt is safe and stable," he added.

Source:
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/disney-in-talks-build-first-mideast-theme-park-in-egypt-572476.html

New Water Park area at Parque Warner Madrid (Spain):










More pics: [Parque Warner] Visita al parque temático madrileño y su nueva zona acuática – 19/08/14

SeaWorld Announces First-Of-Its-Kind Killer Whale Environment and More Than $10 Million In New Funding For Research and Conservation Projects

SAN DIEGO (Aug. 15, 2014) – SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. announced today that it plans to build new, first-of-its-kind killer whale environments and that it will fund new programs to protect ocean health and killer whales in the wild. The new projects will build on SeaWorld’s legacy of providing state-of-the- art, innovative homes for its animals, and will offer park guests unique and inspiring killer whale encounters for generations to come. As part of its vision for the future, the company also pledged $10 million in matching funds for killer whale research and is embarking on a multi-million dollar partnership focused on ocean health, the leading concern for all killer whales and marine mammals.

This is very exciting news and I assume they chose to begin with San Diego because of the large number of Killer Whales(10 soon to be 11).