I dont know how closely anyone has followed this, but for the past several years, a future amusement park resort in Vinita, Oklahoma, has been hyped as the Disneyland of the Midwest, but the project is now deep in debt and ground hasnt even been broken yet
What do you think? Did they promise more than they could deliver, or is this just an elaborate grift?
In a similar story, the Mattel Adventure Park in Glendale, Arizona, has had its opening delayed yet again, now scheduled for 2025 after being pushed back from ālate 2024ā (and before that, 2023, and originally 2022)
I thought this looked interesting.
This one looked to be on the lame side.
I also havenāt heard much lately about the new Universal park being constructed in Frisco, Texas. I was excited about that one.
There was supposed to be an amusement park north of Houston a couple of hours. They managed to put in the water park and the RV park, but the amusement park section seems to be dead.
I saw a couple of videos of this and it look pretty much like construction is halted, almost no advancement between videos shot recently and 10 months ago.
But the Hot Wheels coaster looks interesting, it looks big, pretty long track outside and a huge inside space too. Also, the track will seemingly have a design that mimics the plastic Hot Wheels tracks which is a pretty cool idea
Well, even though every article on the project emphasized that āformer Disney Imagineersā were designing the park, there wasnt much to go on based off the concept art. The theme of āAmericanaā is so broad it could be applied to almoat anything
It definitely looks like a single day experience for families with little kids. Still, Iām just surprised that no other toy company has tried it before.
As for the Universal Kids Resort (which i at one point thought would simply be Universal Studios Dallas), all the necessary paving has apparently been completed, and vertical construction has begun within the past week or two (Iāll get back to you with a link). The target for opening is May 2026, evidently to coincide with the FIFA World Cup that will be spread across the US Southwest and Mexico
Grand Texas, i remember reading about that a while back. Surprised nothing ever came of it.
Mattel was also planning a second park in Kansas, but i can only imagine how far behind schedule that will be.
Has anyone ever heard of Evermore? It was a LARP park in Utah, 2018-Spring 2024 (though it really died in 2021). One of those things that seemed like a great idea at the time, but didnt know how to follow through. I just found out that the property has new owners, who plan to revitalize the land and build upon the original concept.
Does that mean the track doubles as a whip to use in battles with your siblings as a child
I thought Legoland was aimed at children?
We were looking forward to that one