Parque Warner Madrid
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Parque Warner Madrid (previously known as Warner Bros. Movie World Madrid and Warner Bros. Park) is a theme park located 25 km southeast of Madrid
, Spain
, in the municipality of San Martín de la Vega
. The park opened on April 5, 2002, under the management of the Six Flags
chain, with a 5% ownership share held by Time Warner
.
In November 2004, the management arrangement with Six Flags was terminated, with the park now managed by Time Warner and numerous Spanish investment groups. The name change to Parque Warner Madrid occurred at the start of 2006.
The park is divided into five themed areas: DC Super Heroes World, Cartoon Village, Old West Territory, Hollywood Boulevard, and Warner Bros. Studios.
The latest attraction at the park is The Correcaminos Bip Bip, a Wile E. and Road Runner coaster which delivers high speeds and drops (though it has no inversions) and The Adventures of Scooby-Doo, an interactive attraction for families, manufactured by US firm Sally Corporations.
The 2006 season saw the premiere of two new shows, Police Academy 2 and Batman Begins, the latter based on the latest movie from Warner Brothers and DC Comics. Both have received good reviews from visitors to the park.
The 2008 season saw two further developments, a family water attraction called Yogi Bear and Bubu and a new show, The Music of Bugs Bunny, based around the glamor of Hollywood in a performance reminiscent of the great Broadway musicals.
until 2004, although the majority shareholder was the Community of Madrid hold 40% of the shares (Caja Madrid 20%, 15% Fadesa, El Corte Ingles 5%, 5% NH Hotels) and Six Flags only another 5% management the real conducted by the U.S. company in the person of Thomas Merhmann who sources close to the address stated who had three years working in Spain and not yet mastered the language, which gave idea of knowledge of Spanish society. Despite all, Six Flags operated the park at their discretion without regard to the board of directors, to produce all kinds of situations far less obtrusive.
In 2002, director Pilar Azcarraga said that visitors' satisfaction was around 90%, but union sources lowered it at 50%.
In addition to the park, the project from the beginning with the construction of a water park, hotels, golf courses, shopping and leisure areas and residential properties with the intention of creating a tourist resort that could become a holiday destination in itself same. Managing the expectations of the Six Flags included a disproportionate anticipation of visitors that was never fulfilled and therefore the next phases of the project never came to run. Since he left the Six Flags theme park management, the expansion project has been revised several times, and although today there is nothing definitive, the most recent information indicated that part of the land reserved for expansion of the resort could be dedicated to the construction of houses to be able to recoup part of the debt accumulated by the company.
The first season with the team manager Henry Sainz at the helm has yielded results quite hopeful to increase the number of visitors, spending done within the compound, the satisfaction of the visitors and especially from the operating profit has remained close to the 2 million euros, well below the 4 million loss the previous year.
The book sale of those shares has been published at the end of May and is awaiting offers from potential buyers interested among those who could find entertainment companies, real estate, hotel chains, and so on. The value of the shares of the Community of Madrid through the company publishes Arpeggios is expected to go from 50 to 200 million euros. It is expected that this plan allows liquidate the debt of the park, and visitors reach figures close to those initially planned. The new management team with Jesus Sainz at the helm as president contemplates 2008 as a possible date for the commencement of the works of the hotels and Water Park. These works will finish around 2015, and also a golf course and citywalk warner village will be built as well.
Dark-Ride interactive
Teacups
Family Roller coaster
River Rapids ride
Playground with pool balls
Water Games
Bumper Cars for kids
Children's flat ride
Spring Ride / Family Tower
Children's flat ride
Family flat ride of Elmer Fudd
Children's flat ride of Marvin the Martian
Children's Tram Tour
Carrousel
Bugs Bunny House
Daffy Duck House
Tweety and Sylvester the Cat House
Family Roller coaster
Driving sSchool of The Flintstones
Rocking tug of Foghorn Leghorn
Kite Flyer of Tweety
Fire Brigade of Daffy Duck
skill games of Marvin the Martian
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Spain
Spain
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, in the municipality of San Martín de la Vega
San Martín de la Vega
San Martín de la Vega is a town in Spain. It is located in the Comarca de Las Vegas, in the Community of Madrid. It had a population of 18,256 in 2009.It is home to the church of Natividad de Nuestra Señora .-External links:*...
. The park opened on April 5, 2002, under the management of the Six Flags
Six Flags
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world's largest amusement park corporation based on quantity of properties and the fifth most popular in terms of attendance. The company maintains 14 properties located throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family...
chain, with a 5% ownership share held by Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
.
In November 2004, the management arrangement with Six Flags was terminated, with the park now managed by Time Warner and numerous Spanish investment groups. The name change to Parque Warner Madrid occurred at the start of 2006.
The park is divided into five themed areas: DC Super Heroes World, Cartoon Village, Old West Territory, Hollywood Boulevard, and Warner Bros. Studios.
Shows and attractions
Among its roller coasters highlights include Superman: The Attraction of Steel, a first in Europe with its floorless trains, Batman: The Escape, an inverted roller coaster, Coaster Express, a wooden coaster and Stunt Fall, a Giant Inverted Boomerang offering guests a vertical drop of 54'4m reaching a top speed of 115 km/h. Another prominent attraction is The Revenge of the Enigma, a structure 100 meters high that drops visitors at 80km/h.The latest attraction at the park is The Correcaminos Bip Bip, a Wile E. and Road Runner coaster which delivers high speeds and drops (though it has no inversions) and The Adventures of Scooby-Doo, an interactive attraction for families, manufactured by US firm Sally Corporations.
The 2006 season saw the premiere of two new shows, Police Academy 2 and Batman Begins, the latter based on the latest movie from Warner Brothers and DC Comics. Both have received good reviews from visitors to the park.
The 2008 season saw two further developments, a family water attraction called Yogi Bear and Bubu and a new show, The Music of Bugs Bunny, based around the glamor of Hollywood in a performance reminiscent of the great Broadway musicals.
History
The park was opened on April 5, 2001, and managed by Six FlagsSix Flags
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world's largest amusement park corporation based on quantity of properties and the fifth most popular in terms of attendance. The company maintains 14 properties located throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family...
until 2004, although the majority shareholder was the Community of Madrid hold 40% of the shares (Caja Madrid 20%, 15% Fadesa, El Corte Ingles 5%, 5% NH Hotels) and Six Flags only another 5% management the real conducted by the U.S. company in the person of Thomas Merhmann who sources close to the address stated who had three years working in Spain and not yet mastered the language, which gave idea of knowledge of Spanish society. Despite all, Six Flags operated the park at their discretion without regard to the board of directors, to produce all kinds of situations far less obtrusive.
In 2002, director Pilar Azcarraga said that visitors' satisfaction was around 90%, but union sources lowered it at 50%.
In addition to the park, the project from the beginning with the construction of a water park, hotels, golf courses, shopping and leisure areas and residential properties with the intention of creating a tourist resort that could become a holiday destination in itself same. Managing the expectations of the Six Flags included a disproportionate anticipation of visitors that was never fulfilled and therefore the next phases of the project never came to run. Since he left the Six Flags theme park management, the expansion project has been revised several times, and although today there is nothing definitive, the most recent information indicated that part of the land reserved for expansion of the resort could be dedicated to the construction of houses to be able to recoup part of the debt accumulated by the company.
The first season with the team manager Henry Sainz at the helm has yielded results quite hopeful to increase the number of visitors, spending done within the compound, the satisfaction of the visitors and especially from the operating profit has remained close to the 2 million euros, well below the 4 million loss the previous year.
Future plans
The Community of Madrid, the principal shareholder of the park, has yet to leave the shareholding after reaching an agreement with the municipality of San Martin de la Vega at the end of 2005 to modify the park's soil and building permit a shopping mall, two hotels and an entertainment facility.The book sale of those shares has been published at the end of May and is awaiting offers from potential buyers interested among those who could find entertainment companies, real estate, hotel chains, and so on. The value of the shares of the Community of Madrid through the company publishes Arpeggios is expected to go from 50 to 200 million euros. It is expected that this plan allows liquidate the debt of the park, and visitors reach figures close to those initially planned. The new management team with Jesus Sainz at the helm as president contemplates 2008 as a possible date for the commencement of the works of the hotels and Water Park. These works will finish around 2015, and also a golf course and citywalk warner village will be built as well.
Roller Coasters
- BatmanBatmanBatman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
la Fuga (Batman: The Escape) - A steel inverted roller coasterInverted roller coasterAn inverted roller coaster is a roller coaster in which the train runs under the track with the seats directly attached to the wheel carriage. This latter attribute is what sets it apart from the older suspended coaster, which runs under the track, but "swings" via a pivoting bar attached to the...
, identical to the Batman: The RideBatman: The RideBatman: The Ride is a steel inverted roller coaster found in many Six Flags theme parks, as well as other parks around the world, including Six Flags Great America, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Fiesta Texas , Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags St. Louis, Six Flags...
series of roller coasters. - Coaster Express - Formerly known as Wild Wild West, Coaster Express is a wooden roller coasterWooden roller coasterA wooden roller coaster is most often classified as a roller coaster with laminated steel running rails overlaid upon a wooden track. Occasionally, the structure may be made out of a steel lattice or truss, but the ride remains classified as a wooden roller coaster due to the track design...
- Stunt FallGiant Inverted BoomerangA Giant Inverted Boomerang is a type of steel shuttle roller coaster manufactured by Vekoma. The ride is a larger, inverted version of Vekoma's popular Boomerang sit down roller coasters...
- A VekomaVekomaVekoma Rides Manufacturing B.V. is a roller coaster and thrill ride designer with its facilities based in the Netherlands. The company was founded in 1926 by Hendrik op het Veld under the name "Veld Koning Machinefabriek" and had first manufactured agricultural machinery and mining equipment...
Giant inverted boomerang - SupermanSupermanSuperman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
la Atracción de Acero (Superman: Ride of Steel) - a floorless roller coasterFloorless roller coasterA floorless roller coaster is a roller coaster with trains that ride above the track and allow the passenger's legs to dangle. It is a fairly new concept in roller coaster design brought forth by manufacturers Bolliger & Mabillard. The first ever floorless coaster debuted in 1999 at Six Flags Great...
designed by Bolliger & MabillardBolliger & MabillardBolliger & Mabillard Consulting Engineers is a roller coaster design consultancy based in Monthey, Switzerland. The company was founded in 1988 by Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard, with Bolliger acting as president and Mabillard as vice-president...
. - Tom y Jerry
- Correcaminos Bip Bip
DC Superhéroes World
- Batman, La fuga
- Superman, La atracción de acero
- Lex Luthor
- Batman, La Sombra del Murciélago
- Mr Freeze
- Los Coches de Choque de "El Joker"
- La Venganza del Enigma (Riddler's Revenge)
- Juegos de habilidad
Cartoon Village
- La Aventura de Scooby Doo
Dark-Ride interactive
- Tazas de té de Scooby Doo
Teacups
- Tom & Jerry
Family Roller coaster
- Rápidos ACME
River Rapids ride
- ACME Park
Playground with pool balls
- ACME, juegos de agua
Water Games
- Los Coches Locos
Bumper Cars for kids
- Paseo en autobús
Children's flat ride
- Zona de Explosíon
Spring Ride / Family Tower
- Helicópteros
Children's flat ride
- Correo Aéreo
Family flat ride of Elmer Fudd
- Cohetes Espaciales
Children's flat ride of Marvin the Martian
- Convoy de camiones
Children's Tram Tour
- Carrousel
Carrousel
- La madriguera de Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny House
- El camerino del Pato Lucas
Daffy Duck House
- La casa de la abuelita
Tweety and Sylvester the Cat House
- Correcaminos Bip Bip
Family Roller coaster
- Escuela de conducción Yaba-daba-doo
Driving sSchool of The Flintstones
- ¡A toda máquina!
Rocking tug of Foghorn Leghorn
- He visto un lindo gatito
Kite Flyer of Tweety
- Emergencias Pato Lucas
Fire Brigade of Daffy Duck
- Los juegos de Marvin el marciano
skill games of Marvin the Martian
Old West Territory
- Los Carros de la Mina
- Juegos de habilidad
- Rio Bravo
- Cataratas Salvajes
- Coaster Express
- Tunel del Terror (Walk-Tour)
External links
- Official website
- Parque Warner Madrid on Google Maps
- Parque Warner Madrid at Roller Coaster Database
See also
- Warner Bros. Movie WorldWarner Bros. Movie WorldWarner Bros. Movie World is a popular movie related theme park on the Gold Coast in Australia. It is owned and operated by Village Roadshow since the take over from Time Warner and is the only movie related park in Australia...