The Beautiful Water Cube In Beijing Is Now A Water Theme Park

Olympic stadiums have a short shelf life. They’re oohed and aahed at during the games, but after the festivities they’re forgotten and left to rust. China is trying to prevent that by re-inventing the beautiful Water Cube as a theme park.


May 17, 2010
Geek Out

Disney To Close Original Star Wars Rides By September 8

There was a great disturbance in the amusement park force this weekend, as Disney revealed that the closing dates for its 20-year-old Star Tours ride would be July 27 (Disneyland) and September 8 (Walt Disney World).


March 18, 2010
Entertainment

Dubai’s Ferrari World Roller Coasters: Please, Please Don’t Break

OK, Dubai. Your largest building gets shut down for “electrical problems”. Your 7.5 million litre shark tank sprang a leak. So what do you do to bounce back? Build the fastest roller coaster ever. This is terrifying.


February 12, 2010

A First Look At Robot Land (Disneyland For Terminators)

$US230 million of Robot Land’s $US600 million budget has been secured. And in case the project never breaks ground (or the robots don’t let us in), we have a load of renders showing us what it would have looked like.


November 10, 2009

How Mickey Mouse And Mr. Q Manufactured Emotion

Former Disney audio-experience engineer, Mr. Q, reveals how he assisted in developing a complex algorithm to arrange over 15,000 speakers around the Disney World theme park. All to achieve the ideal ambient music for “manufacturing emotion”.


September 8, 2009

Massive 364-Foot Taekwon V Statue Will Crush Puny Humans

Holy crap! So Japan builds giant Gundam and Testsujin statues (18 and 18.3 metres, respectively), now South Korea is building this freakin’ huge Taekwon V (Voltar the Invincible) replica that will be more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.


February 19, 2009
Entertainment

Micropolix Theme Park Gives Kids a Taste of the Real World through Kiddie Capitalism

newVideoPlayer("/kiddiecapitalism_gizmodo.flv", 475, 286,""); Move over, Disneyland—life isn’t always magical. CNN investigates Micropolix, a new theme park in Madrid, Spain, that teaches kids about the economy and the importance of money by making them work for their fun—literally.


February 14, 2009

Korea Opening First Robot Theme Park (For Humans)

Next year, developers will break ground on Robot Land, a $US562 million robot theme park in Incheon.