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By Arthur Levine, About.com Guide to Theme Parks since 2002

Busch Gardens to Open Sesame

Friday August 15, 2008
Everything's going to be A-OK next season at Busch Gardens Europe when the Williamsburg, Virginia park opens a new Sesame Street land. Among the attractions will be a 4-D movie, "Sesame Street presents Lights, Camera, Imagination!" featuring Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and other stars of the popular PBS program. The land will also include a junior roller coaster, a mini log flume, and an interactive play area with wet and dry elements. Life-size Sesame Street characters will roam the area, perform in a stage show, and greet families at a themed restaurant. It's a safe bet cookies will be on the menu. I've always been fascinated that a company best known for making beer is also in the family-friendly theme park business. The Budweiser Clydesdales and Elmo make for strange bedfellows, don't they? Now that Belgium-based InBev will be brewing The Great American Larger, and reportedly casting off the theme park division, the incongruity of mixing beer with Fozzie Bear will likely disappear. Cookie Monster will be visiting Busch Gardens Europe next season. Busch Entertainment. Used with permission.

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