Local news in Alabama reports that the new owner of the Alabama Adventures amusement park (formerly known as Visionland) has announced that the theme park side of the park will cease to exist, and that the waterpark side will be rebranded as Alabama’s “Splash Adventure” waterpark.
However, a small portion of the original theme park will be preserved:
“The park will keep its Main Street row of shops, eats and amusements, and the water park will expand with additions that extend its reach toward the Main Street area.”
The new owners are investing $1.5 million dollars in new attractions for the waterpark:
“The new attractions will be:
• Aqua Course, a first-of-its-kind water-filled obstacle course — think a less painful version of the television show “Wipeout” — with a range of adventurous thrills to safe-but-fun activities. It will have foot-activated water features, water cannons, splash buckets and other interactive features, and it also can be used as a dry attraction when the weather turns cooler.
• A water maze similar to labyrinths at other amusement parks but with the added element of water walls, sprinklers and dumping buckets of water.
• The Friday night “Dive-In Movies” program will show movies on a big screen while viewers recline on inner tubes in the wave pool (turned off during movie time) or on a towel or beach chair on the wave pool’s “beach.”
• A zip line is being installed on the back side of the water park between the water slide and the Upsurge attraction.”
The “dry” rides are currently being sold off, including the Rampage wooden coaster. None of the theme park rides are expected to be incorporated into Splash Adventure.
What a shame to lose Alabama’s only wooden coaster. It was a fun ride. I’d much rather go to an amusement park with coasters, than a Waterpark myself.
You idiot! Do you not know how much money you are losing? It was an awesome theme park that I went to every year since I was a kid. You will not make as much as you spent on the expansion. Ugh!!!!!!!
The dry ride amusement park must not have been very profitable if they’re closing it and selling all the rides (but who will buy a used wooden coaster – it didn’t sit on flat ground did it?)
Why would you do that it’s stupid I never liked the water park the amusment was awesome they should have expanded it whith more rollar coaster and atuff
Are you serious? This is the only theme /waterpark close to Ms and Alabama. I had planned on bring my Girl Scout troop up for 4 days we were suppose to spend 2 of them at the park. I guess we’ll have to find somewhere else to go. Bad move you are going to lose a lot of money.
I hope the new owners dumb move bites them in the butt. Getting rid of a good coaster? Yeah, they deserve to go into financial ruin. I hope everyone doesn’t go, instead travel to Six Flags for fun. Maybe they’ll be force to sell and then a real amusement park will once again prevail.
I wanted to bring the kids this summer but my oldest doesn’t like the water part now I have to find somewhere new to vacation
When the idea first was introduced about visionland and it being built, of all places, bessemer, i guess i was the only one who thought it was a stupid idea. I knew it would go under. The dummies in charge in birmingham and surrounding areas of making decisions to build anything lack any form of intelligence. You dont build something in an area with high crime-which you are unwilling to do anything about- and expect people who have money willing to spend to come there. No matter what is built or where, if it is in a high crime or dilapidated part of town, no one is going to come there. What part of that do you brilliant morons not understand? Same as the crossplex. No business wants to build thete because no one will shop there..except the typical shoplifter and robber. You dont build something in a poor area and expect wealthy outsiders to come and financially keep it afloat. Common sense here is completely thrown out the window.
Stupid idiots getting rid of all the rides!!! I never liked the water park! I always went for the more carnival rides I guess you could say! And now kiddie rides?!!!!? What the crap, I hope they dont make a dime!!! Pathetic!