Created by the success of Ripley's Believe it or Not!, Ripley Entertainment Inc. is a large entertainment and edutainment holding company owned by the Jim Pattison Group of Vancouver, Canada. The company has its headquarters in an unincorporated part of southern Orange County, Florida, near Orlando, at an office complex near the intersection of Sand Lake Road and John Young Parkway.
Built on the foundation of a small daily newspaper cartoon drawn by Robert Ripley, which debuted in 1918, the company today operates over 90 attractions under a dozen brands worldwide.
For over 95 years, Ripley Entertainment has been a provider of family entertainment. The daily Believe It or Not! cartoon that catapulted Ripley to fame in the 1920s still runs in hundreds of newspapers in over forty countries and dozens of languages.
The 32 Ripley's Believe It or Not! museums that house his collection of oddities span the globe and have entertained over 100 million guests since 1933.
Video Ripley Entertainment
Publishing interests
Ripley Entertainment Inc. established Ripley Publishing Ltd to produce the Ripley's Believe It or Not Annual and other books.
Maps Ripley Entertainment
Holdings
- Guinness World Records Attractions
- Louis Tussaud's Wax Museums: In the summer of 2004, Ripley's bought out the Palace of Wax museum in Grand Prairie, Texas, rebranding it as the United States' first Tussauds'.
- Ripley's Aquarium of Canada - Toronto, Canada
- Ripley's Aquarium of Myrtle Beach
- Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies
- Ripley's Believe it or Not! Odditoriums
- Ripley's Haunted Adventure - three locations in US and one in Thailand
- Ripley's Mini-Golf and Arcade - Gatlinburg, TN
- Ripley's Moving Theater
- Ripley's Sightseeing Trains - St. Augustine, Florida
- Ripley's Mirror Maze - Gatlinburg, Tennessee, San Antonio, Texas, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Ocean City, Maryland
- Ripley's Davy Crockett Mini-Golf - Gatlinburg, Tennessee,
- Ripley's Old McDonald Mini-Golf - Sevierville, Tennessee
References
- About Ripley Entertainment
External links
- Ripley Entertainment website
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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