{"id":671,"date":"2007-07-18T07:37:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T14:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2007-07-18T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T14:37:41","slug":"legoland-not-part-of-merlin-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Legoland Not Part of Merlin Sell-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/merlin-logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/merlin-logo.jpg','popup','width=185,height=135,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/merlin-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"72\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Merlin Logo\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merlinentertainments.biz\/homepage\/homepage_en.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Merlin Entertainments<\/a><\/strong>, the UK-based entertainment company that owns all four <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legoland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Legoland<\/a><\/strong> theme parks is selling off (then leasing back) some of Brittian&#8217;s most famous tourist attractions including: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altontowers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Towers<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warwick-castle.co.uk\/warwick2004\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Warwick Castle<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madame-tussauds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madame Tussauds<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> The company is not, however, selling Legoland, yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . Merlin said it would retain some freehold property assets, including its four <strong>Legoland<\/strong> parks, many of its <strong>Sea Life<\/strong> marine conservation centres &#8211; including Birmingham &#8211; and its Italian theme park Gardaland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Merlin Enterainments is owned by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackstone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Blackstone group<\/a><\/strong>, a US-based private equity fund which recently acquired the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackstone.com\/news\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Hilton Hotels Corporation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk\/birminghampost\/business\/tm_headline=tourist-sites-property-assets-sold&amp;method=full&amp;objectid=19473511&amp;siteid=50002-name_page.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Birmingham Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlin Entertainments, the UK-based entertainment company that owns all four Legoland theme parks is selling off (then leasing back) some of Brittian&#8217;s most famous tourist attractions including: Alton Towers, Warwick Castle and Madame Tussauds. The company is not, however, selling Legoland, yet. . . . Merlin said it would retain some freehold property assets, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}