Discovery Planet

Discovery Planet
Location	Mississippi, USA
Theme	Animal conversation and natural environment
Owner	(Old) Viacom (2004-2006) Cedar Fair Entertainment (2006-2017) Viacom (2017-present)
Slogan	Be Wild for Discovery and Adventure!
Opened	May 17, 2004

Paramount's Discovery Planet, formally Discovery Planet, is a theme park. It was a zoological and amusement theme park which was a Paramount's answer to Disney's Animal Kingdom, SeaWorld chain, and Busch Gardens chain, but at Mississippi. It was accredited by TBA

The park opened on May 17, 2004.

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Paramount's Discovery Planet logo (2004-2006)

History

In 1998, Paramount Parks had caught the attention by Disney's brand new and fourth theme park for Walt Disney World Resort in Florida called Disney's Animal Kingdom. So since that, Paramount decided to make their own animal theme park to cash in on that Disney theme park. The development of Discovery Planet began in 1999, TBA

Sections

Current

• Africa Walkway - an entrance area of the park themed to Africa
• Down Under - themed to Australia
• Rainforest Country - themed round the rainforest
• Nickelodeon Safari Center - featuring rides and attractions based on Nickelodeon shows
• Tiger Jungle - themed to Asia
• North Nature - TBA
• Wild Cove - an aquarium-themed section
• Farmland - a section filled with petting zoos and children's rides, themed after farm animals.

Former

• Safari Snoopy - a kids/family themed land themed to Peanuts.

Attractions, retails and foods

Africa Walkway

Names	Year Opened	Former name	Type	Theme	Descriptions	Map info	Height requirement
Savanna Plains
Elephants Encounter
Prides - The Lions
Uproar (Twisted Tigers Left Track)	2004/2018	Lion (Gwazi Left Track) 2004-2015	Rollercoaster	Roaring/Lions	An RMC Gwazi Mostly centered around airtime, only 1 inversion, a zero G roll		52"

Down Under

Names	Year Opened	Former name	Type	Theme	Descriptions	Map info	Height requirement
Boomerang	2004	Crocodile Dundee's Boomerang (2004-2006)	Rollercoaster	A Generic Stereotypical Australian Theme about Boomerangs (formerly Crocodile Dundee)	A Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang. Relocated from Six Flags Over Texas, which was originally going to get it before it was rejected for Titan.		52"
Kangaroo Nickelodeon Safari Centerrdens	2004	Kangaroo Safari(2007-2016)	Animal exhibit/petting zoo	Kangaroos and wallabies	TBA		None

Rainforest Country

Names	Year Opened	Former name	Type	Theme	Descriptions	Map info	Height requirement
Congo River Rapids	2004	TBA	Water ride	Congo jungle	An Intamin river rapids ride		48"
Dora The Explorer Live!	2004	The Magic School Bus: Live - Discovering Rainforest (2004-2008) and Explore the Jungle, Charlie Brown (2008-2016)

Nickelodeon Safari Center

Names	Former Name	Description	Opening

Tiger Jungle

Names	Former Name	Description	Opening
Tigris (Twisted Tigers Right Track)	Tiger (Gwazi Right Track)	An RMC Gwazi, this side focuses on inversions, with 7 of them, there is only 12 seconds of airtime.	2004/2018

Farmland

Attactions	Year opened	Former name	Type	Theme	Descriptions	Map info	Height requirement
Redo Bull			Junior rollercoaster	Cattle			36"
Petting Farm			Petting zoo	Farm animals
Farm Animals Carousel

Animal list

Attractions	Animals
Savanna Plains	Giraffes, zebras, ostriches, meerkats, TBA
Elephants Encounter
Prides - The Lions

Education programs

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Events

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Canceled Attractions

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Criticisms and receptions

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Controversies

It had several complaints by PETA.

Incidents

• October 18, 2004, the park's first incident happened where a zookeeper was in the saltwater crocodiles' habitat, at the Down Under section, for feeding time to the crocs, when suddenly, he was unaware that he was way too close standing by right behind one of the crocodiles, who targets at the zookeeper and took a huge bite at his leg with it powerful jaws. TBA
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See also

• Universal Metazoa (amusement parks)
• Disney Animal Kingdom
• SeaWorld
• Busch Gardens
• Zoo Park