I remember hearing a while back that Paramount Parks Design and Entertainment department was closed or scaled down. Does anyone else remember hearing this? As far as I can tell, PPDE is still in charge of the theming and design of new attractions. Or am I just simply thinking that PPDE is no longer in control of designing the shows for the parks because they now outsource that? The reason I ask is I interviewed an architect today, who helped design Flight of Fear (she helped design the station, the UFO and the inside of the hanger). Any way, she no left to pursue residential architecture, and she said during the interview that Paramount Parks no longer has an inhouse design team. Does anyone care to shed some light on this subject if you know anything?

shut down......? NO, they did the SFX for Tomb Raider and are doing the SFX for Italian Job

I thought Technifex did the SFX on TRTR.

I think Technifex is doing IJST. I know PPDE is not doing IJST.

in collaboration with PPDE

PPDE is still around, i believe charlotte is the headquarters.....but they no longer deal with entertainment. That is mostly in house now.

I must have been thinking about the entertainment. Don`t you mean that the entertainment is no longer in house? PPDE is part of Paramount Parks, so if they aren`t doing the shows, then it would be outside and not in house. Yeah, I guess they are still around, just not dealing with the shows and entertainment anymore. Technifex worked with PPDE on TR:TR. I don`t know if Technifex is involved with IJST, or if PPDE is, but it seems like it woould be since it is still around apparantly.

No it is IN house, as in the seperate parks decide on it. well sorta almost all the parks have the same shows, its the costumes and stuff.

Its a little confusing then. So PPDE doesn`t do anything show related. That is up to the individual parks? Was the Nickelodeon Celebration Parade a PPDE production?

I'm not sure. The floats and stuff toured, but the actors didn't. Magic of the Movies was seen at several parks as well.

Magic of the Movies was produced by an outside company for the parks, right? Or am I just imagining that?