Wielsbeke KCC Entertainment Design from Wielsbeke, a company that indoorpretparken designs, scores yet again abroad. It may be the very first Smurfenpark build in Shanghai (China). The park is next autumn.
For the park is the manager, Shimao Property Holdings Limited, together with the Belgian company IMPS, the rights to The Smurfs property. KCC Enterntainment Design was commissioned to a park to design around the Smurfs. The will of an outdoor and indoor area exist, which together accounted for 10,000 square meters, and in different themes, such as the forest of the Smurfs, the castle of Gargamel, and the smurfendorp. “We want that the visitor is fully immersed in the lives of the Smurfs, and get the feeling that he is a part of the smurfenfamilie”, says CEO Yannick Maes. “With special effects, various weather conditions and times of the day are simulated. There are also various seasonal events and activities, from a ‘Smurfig Halloween’ to a ‘Chinese Smurfennieuwjaar’.” KCC Entertainment Design, created in 2000, counts more than 50 permanent employees worldwide. It already has 185 projects in 35 different countries.