Use As Film Shoot Location
The New Orleans Industrial Development Board agreed to let 20th Century Fox film Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters in the abandoned theme park, during the summer of 2012 through August. Mega Zeph, Ozarka Splash, and The Big Easy are three rides that have been shot for the movie along with five other rides that the production crew had brought into the park, since all the original rides were rendered inoperable to shoot for the movie. Before shooting at the park for five weeks, the production crew took two weeks to whip the derelict park into the needed condition by installing lighting and covering up the graffiti on the buildings. The park will portray the fictional Circeland on the island of Polyphemus, that was built by the goddess Circe, only to be destroyed by the cyclops Polyphemus.
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