Archive for May, 2007

Dai Haruki is a fantastic photographer, and also a good cook. He whipped up this yummy dolphin pancake for us, took a picture and posted it on Flickr. We added his photo as one of our favorites.It matches our dolphin buddy icon on our Flickr photo site.We would love to share your stories here about your visit to SeaWorld San Antonio, and your first ride on Journey to Atlantis.For more details about how to share some of your pictures and video with us via Flickr and YouTube, go to our Share Your Stuff area, or you can just send them to me via our Contact Us area.

Lucas Mack, local reporter with Fox 29 in San Antonio who covered the opening of Journey to Atlantis, interviews General Manager Dan Decker about the main attraction of the ride – getting wet! Watch as some school kids from Louisiana enjoy the ride, and the onlookers who enjoyed it just as much!

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About 25 American Coaster Enthusiasts from the South Central Region showed up for SeaWorld San Antonio’s Media Day on Friday. At the end of the day, I think that someone said he had ridden it 48 times! Others weren’t too far behind. I was amazed by their energy and enthusiasm.Also, in this photo a few lucky guests were recruited from the plaza to take a first ride on Journey to Atlantis. Sometimes you are just in the right place at the right time. Other guests got their chance to ride when the park opened the ride around 4 p.m. for a soft opening. But the action is really today when Journey to Atlantis is open to the public. If you got to ride, let us know what you think.

SeaWorld San Antonio Team Members Join Him

Finally…today is the day that we debut SeaWorld San Antonio’s newest ride, Journey to Atlantis, to the media. However, last night we unveiled the ride for a more important audience. SeaWorld San Antonio held a preview party for our park team and their families. Around 2,000 people attended.Even though it threatened to rain, as you will see in the video, some brave souls rode Journey to Atlantis anyway and had a blast. In addition to our star team, SeaWorld SA also has a resident celebrity on staff that narrated as he rode Journey to Atlantis last night. In addition to his duties as a SeaWorld whale trainer, Chuck Cureau is also the host of Trading Spaces: Boys and Girls. Here’s hoping your hair doesn’t get too wet Chuck.

Online Videos by Veoh.com

We are getting closer and closer to the big debut of Journey to Atlantis and we are having a blast.Tomorrow, we will host the local and regional media at the park, but we also will have some influential bloggers and coaster enthusiasts too. A big group from the American Coaster Enthusiasts will be on hand to test the ride; as will Mike Willis, a representative from Theme Park Insider; and local blogger Rob LaGesse of Stuffleufagus. We hope you come soon too and then share your own photos and videos. Photo by Earthdog

Opening is in Three Days!

As part of the preparation for opening day, the Journey to Atlantis rides team got a little wet with SeaWorld San Antonio’s General Manager Dan Decker. Park guests also take a peek at the riders over the wall, which will come down this Saturday, May 12th. Things are getting exciting around the park. Hope that you plan a visit this summer.

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This Friday, May 11, 2007, is Media Day at SeaWorld San Antonio. That means that we will debut the ride to the local and regional media, as well as coaster enthusiast Websites.Several sites have started their coverage early and have some great insight and articles about the new ride:

• Thrill Network has a terrific article about the construction process
• Coaster World News, an online video-cast, shows our first riders having a blast
• Theme Park Insider makes a call to its readership to attend Media Day, at last count they are sending about 20 people.
• The Disney Blog wites about this website and our communication with bloggers and theme park fans
• And a number of public relations and marketing blogs also cover the campaign

You can keep up with the media and blog coverage about Journey to Atlantis on our Delicious page.Thanks to all of the great coaster fans that are making the launch of this ride fun!

Yesterday, we showed you the video, but today you can take a look at the faces of our team members as they ascended to the top of Journey to Atlantis this past weekend. The picture says it all.You can see more pictures of Journey to Atlantis at the SeaWorld San Antonio Flickr site, and we have set up a group where you can share your own photos as well.

The SeaWorld San Antonio team for the ride had a chance to ride Journey to Atlantis in anticipation of its opening on Saturday May 12, 2007. Take a look at what they had to say,

Online Videos by Veoh.com.
We can’t wait to hear what you have to say! It is getting very exciting.If you want to share this video on your own website or blog, we are happy to share. You can either hit the “options” button that shows up while the video is playing, or you can you go YouTube and grab it there.

Does that sound like an oxymoron to you? At SeaWorld San Antonio we take conservation of our natural resources very seriously. Even in the construction of Journey to Atlantis, we made sure that conservation of water and materials was a high priority.

Journey to Atlantis Conservation Features:

• The pools at Journey to Atlantis contain 400,000 gallons of water, which is completely cleaned and recycled every 4 hours.
• Landscapers planted ten palm trees, 2,500 perennials and shrubs, 3,200 annuals and 95 trees in the Journey to Atlantis ride area. They also used 300 yards of mulch to keep the plants moist and conserve water use in the hot summer months.
• The Park Operations team bought 26 trash cans, 20 benches and 9 tables for the Journey to Atlantis plaza area. They feature blue and green recycled glass in their pre-cast concrete forms.

More in a future post about how you can save energy and water at home. Do you have any suggestions of how to save money and energy at home? See more fun facts on our Ride Details page.