Interview with Thierry Coup on turning Kiss into digital avatars

Interview with Thierry Coup on turning Kiss into digital avatars

For themed attraction fans, designer Thierry Coup has long been synonymous with groundbreaking rides like The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man and Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Since his retirement from Universal, Coup has broken out beyond the theme parks and banded together with the legendary rock group KISS to virtually immortalize one of the…

Beyond Margaritas: Jimmy Buffett’s ties to theme parks and tourism
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Beyond Margaritas: Jimmy Buffett’s ties to theme parks and tourism

Two things made me a Jimmy Buffett fan: the song “Holiday” when I listened to Radio Margaritaville for the first time, and the Margaritaville Cafe at Universal Orlando. Over time, those two things would lead me to be fully engrossed in being a Parrothead. And it was Jimmy Buffett’s ties to theme parks and the tourism industry that would become my closest ties to him.