Commercially
operated parks offer various forms of entertainment,
such as arcade games, carousels, roller coasters,
and performers, as well as food, drink, and souvenirs.
Amusement parks differ from circuses , carnivals ,
and world's fairs (see exposition ) in that parks
are permanently located entertainment complexes, open
either all year or seasonally every year. Some amusement
parks, known as theme parks, are designed to evoke
distant or imaginary locales and/or eras, such as
the Wild West, an African safari, or medieval Europe.
Theme parks usually charge a substantial admission
fee, whereas traditional amusement parks, such as
those at Coney Island , do not charge entrance to
the midway; theme-park admission, however, typically
includes the cost of the rides, which are paid for
individually in a traditional amusement park.
Beginning in the 1990s a trend at some theme parks
was to create rides based on popular action films,
such as Batman, Jurassic Park, and Back to the Future.
Some resort hotels in Las Vegas also began adding
theme-park rides in the late 1990s. Meanwhile, thrill
rides, especially roller coasters built of old-fashioned
wood or high-tech tubular steel, were becoming faster
and more complex, with water elements, loops, steep
upside-down drops, and other scream-inducing features. |
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