CBL - Wonder Works, an amusement park for the mind that will combine education and entertainment, is coming to Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, at the site of the former Crab House Reastaurant. The venue will offer more than 100 hands-on exhibits, with opportunities to lie on a bed of 3,500 nails, be blown away by 74 mph winds, ride a 360-degree virtual roller coaster, manuever the controls of a NASA spacecraft to land the Shuttle, pilot a figher jet, play virtual sports and lazar-tag and participate in numerous other adventures.
At 97 feet in height and 50,000 square feet, with the appearance of being upside down, the WonderWorks construction will include 145 tons of rebar, 315 tons of structural steel, 2,100 cubic yards of concrete, 47 artificial updide down window boxes and 8 artificial palm trees. Already operational on site are a Zipline that takes participants 1,000 feet between towers, 50 feet above the water, and a pirate-themed ropes course that stands 40 feet tall, spans three levels and includes 33 different challenge elements with more than 3,000 ropes and cables.
The Broadway and the Beach venue will be the fourth WonderWorks. The others are in Orlando and Pananama City Beach, Fla., and Pigeon Forge, Tenn. The hands-on amusement park is the brainchild of attorney and developer John B. Morgan, who lives in Florida, and Robin L. Turner, who resides in Tennessee and has a background in special event and fair/attraction management. In 1997, the two men co-founded Attraction Concepts, Ltd., which opened the first WonderWorks attraction in Orlando in 1998.
WonderWorks, which is scheduled to open in March 2011, will offer group and combo packages to fit various groups and budgets.
