Baby boom at Drayton Manor Theme Park

May 19, 2011 - PRLog -- See baby animals at Drayton Manor during Love Your Zoo Week

There’s no better time to see cute baby animals than during Love Your Zoo Week (30th May to 5th June), and Drayton Manor Zoo has had a baby boom.

The new additions to the 15-acre zoo, which is part of Drayton Manor Theme Park, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, include a capybara, twin ring-tailed lemurs and twin cotton topped tamarins.

The zoo is popular with all ages and allows families the chance to relax away from the excitement of the theme park. The zoo is home to more than 100 animal species from around the world, including big cats, monkeys and primates, as well as exotic birds of prey and various reptiles.

The baby animals aren’t the only new additions at Drayton Manor. A new ride is due to open in Thomas Land™ on Saturday 28th May. Blue Mountain Engines is a wonderfully themed ride featuring four carriages, each based on new characters from Skarloey Railway; Sir Handle, Skarloey, Rheneas and Peter Sam. In the world of Thomas & Friends™, Skarloey Railway runs from Crovan’s Gate to the passenger terminal at Skarloey.

A total of 32 people will be able to go on the ride each time, including 16 adults, which means mums and dads can sit happily in the carriages with their children.

The ride is located near to the entrance of Thomas Land, replacing Terrance’s Driving School, which has been moved to an area near Farmer’s McColl’s Farm.

Also new this year is Europe’s first Ben 10 themed roller coaster, Ben 10: Ultimate Mission, which only opened at Easter to a star-studded event, and launches riders forwards on their first tour of the track before they return travelling backwards along the same route.

The coaster is part of a Cartoon Network Street that includes a shop, showcasing an exciting range of Cartoon Network toys and a Cartoon Network diner, thematically decorated both inside and out, where visitors can sit back, feast on sandwiches, snacks and children’s meals and watch Cartoon Network cartoons playing on flat screens around the diner.

For thrill seeking visitors the park is also home to the adrenaline-inducing, 54-metre high drop tower, Apocalypse, the skin-soaking Stormforce 10 and petrifying gondola swing, Pandemonium, which guarantees to turn your world upside down.

To book tickets, or for more information about the park, visit www.draytonmanor.co.uk or call 0844 472 1960. Reduced prices are available for tickets bought in advance.

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