INSIDE: Amusement Today celebrates ANNIVERSARY 20th anniversary ISSUE TM & ©2017 Amusement Today, Inc. PAGES 30 & 31 April 2017 | Vol. 21 • Issue 1 www.amusementtoday.com Old Town enhances its Lamberink's portable Sky Eye Wheel skyline with Fabbri wheel AT: Pam Sherborne becomes a new star at Florida State Fair AT: Pam Sherborne
[email protected] [email protected] KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A TAMPA, Fla. — Indepen- new 82-foot-tall Fabbri wheel, which opened Jan. 26, is the dent ride operator Michael icing on the cake for the im- Wood of Wood Entertainment proved, updated and expand- had high hopes for the readiness ed Old Town USA complex. of the Lamberink RL45 portable Old Town, a retail complex wheel at the Florida State fair, and amusement attraction lo- which ran Feb. 9-20. "We would cated along Kissimmee's tour- have liked to open on time," he ism corridor that originally said. opened in 1986, was purchased Unfortunately, that didn't in 2014 by Los Angeles-based happen. But was during the Travel Corp. Since then, the four days the fair was open and new owners have been work- the wheel wasn't, the process of ing on improving the area to assembling the Sky Eye Wheel the tune of about $10 million. became its own attraction. The new wheel is valued at $1 "We would look around and million. The Fabbri-built wheel for have people just watching as we "The wheel has been very Old Town in Kissimmee is 82 put it up," Wood said. "The peo- well received," said Joe Cad- feet tall, features balloon- ple working on it said they felt mus of Ridewerks, the com- shaped gondolas and a like stars.