Legacy Leisure’s award success of Shanghai park

Legacy Leisure, a leading theme park and resort design company, is celebrating a collection of award wins acquired for a challenge improvement virtually 5 years after it opened to the general public.

Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park has been dubbed “China’s Greatest Theme Park” by The Institute for Theme Park Research in China, the newest of a number of honours which have been conferred upon the 73-acre Marine Life Theme Park, which was developed by the leisure design firm Legacy Leisure, primarily based in California.

“We proceed to be thrilled for the success of our associates and companions at Haichang,” says Legacy’s managing director Eric Carnagey who can also be one of many agency’s homeowners. “Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park, which is positioned because the chief competitor to Shanghai Disneyland, was realized for lower than 15% of the previous’s funding. Given this, the park’s many achievements and successes are all of the extra exceptional.”

“The licensing and profitable roll-out of Tsuburaya Productions’ Ultraman mental property by Haichang is a large milestone for the Chinese language home theme park panorama,” provides Carnagey. “China, the world’s second-largest theme park market, has typically been sluggish to undertake international IP. Given the simple success of Haichang’s Ultraman activations, we anticipate a basic shift to the panorama to play out over the subsequent 5 years.”

Accumulating accolades

Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park has acquired quite a few honours over time, together with Greatest Theme Park from the Chinese language Affiliation of Amusement Parks and Points of interest (CAAPA); Excellent Themed Land Park, Excellent Household Leisure Middle, and Excellent Social Media Well-known Vacationer Attraction from 2020’s Golden Crown Awards; and 2021’s Most Standard Attraction from The China Cultural Tourism Innovation and Improvement Discussion board.

Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park, which made its debut in November 2018, is a standout challenge within the portfolio of Legacy Leisure, a global design agency that has not too long ago seen itself develop into one of many aquarium trade’s most sought-after design companies. At VinWonders Theme Park on Phu Quoc Island, the most important aquarium in Vietnam will open in April 2022. The Legacy-designed Chimelong Marine Science Park, an enormous advanced that can declare the title of “World’s Largest Indoor Theme Park” upon its opening, is anticipated to open this summer time.

Exceeding expectations

Over 3,000,000 folks visited Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park yearly earlier than the COVID-19 period. The park’s efficiency persistently exceeded expectations regardless of the various difficulties the epidemic introduced, with a current improve in guests being ascribed to the favored Ultraman-themed sights that opened in July 2022. Awards from The Institute for Theme Park Research in China additionally praised the experiences, which embody a large museum, a boutique, and a restaurant.

Legacy Leisure has additionally supplied an replace on ongoing Asian projects, with a spread of tasks at present beneath building and within the design section.