The Kennedy Space Center, located about an hour east of the Orlando theme parks in Cape Canaveral, is building a new attraction for its visitors center. Heroes and Legends will open this November and tell the stories of America's astronauts. (Falcon's Treehouse is leading the design of the project.) The attraction also will be the home of the new U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. The KSC recently announced that the attraction will be getting the center's first corporate sponsor, The Boeing Company. Corporate attraction sponsors are nothing new in the theme park industry, but it's something different for government-affiliated facilities. While the space center itself is under government control, the KSC Visitor Center is operated by Delaware North, a global hospitality management company. In addition to the hall of fame, the new attraction will include a 3D theater, augmented reality, and simulated holograms.
Finally, Walt Disney World's confirmed another restaurant signing on to open in Disney Springs. The Polite Pig will be a sister restaurant to Winter Park's The Ravenous Pig, serving smoked and grilled meats. The restaurant is scheduled to open next spring.
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Also, Rob, SFOT has two dark rides: Justice League and Yosemite Sam's Gold River Adventure. SFGAdv could be argued as having two dark rides depending on whether you count Houdini's Great Escape or not (for the record, I don't, but I have friends that do).
As great as the JL/BFM ride is, I simply cannot see SFOG getting a third generation off the shelf family ride as their 50th anniversary addition, considering the past 3 years have been family additions and no extreme thrills.
Nonetheless, SF parks are wise to maximize its use of the "Justice League" IP, given that a JL movie is coming to theaters late in 2017. With all the DC comics movies in the works, its no wonder Six Flags is using that theme heavily lately.
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