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US-based Legacy Entertainment is collaborating with Taman Safari - Indonesia’s respected owner and operator of nine major parks and four safari resorts - to master plan and design its next-generation of experiences and attractions.

Taman Safari Indonesia is a world-class themed recreational park and conservation site located across six locations with eight parks and four resorts throughout Indonesia. The park is home to over 9,325 animals from 409 species and attracts more than six million visitors annually. Since 1980, Taman Safari Indonesia has played a significant role in rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing thousands of animals back into the wild. As a result, Taman Safari Indonesia has become a leading global conservation organisation for Indonesia's endemic wildlife and endangered species.

Legacy will focus on Taman Safari Bogor - the chain’s original park, which debuted in April 1986. That park is located about an hour’s drive from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.  

Taylor Jeffs, President and Chief Creative Officer of Legacy Entertainment noted “Taman Safari Bogor is an icon of Indonesia. Everyone who grew up in and around Jakarta has a deep nostalgia for that park. Our team is honoured to be entrusted with the task of enriching the park – which has been offering visitors a much beloved experience for nearly 40 years -- with next-generation excitement.”

Built on the site of a former Tea Plantation, Taman Safari Bogor was an immediate success upon its opening in 1986. The park’s success and need for added capacity led to a series of rapid expansions over the course of time, without a unifying vision to tie them together.

According to Jeffs, this has led to major new design opportunities that are now available to the creative team at Legacy Entertainment.  

Jeffs added “located in a lush valley near the Gede Pangrango Mountain, Taman Safari Bogor is perhaps the most beautiful site I’ve encountered in my two decades in the business.

“Not only are we working together to solve all of the operational challenges that have popped up over the last forty years, but we are also implementing next-generation designs, both in terms of animal habitats and cinematic-scale immersion.”

According to Jeffs, Legacy’s new designs for the site will dramatically deviate from the ordinary advising “since the Hagenbeck revolution (Carl Hagenbeck was a German merchant of wild animals who created the modern zoo in the late 1800s, with animal enclosures without bars to better present their natural habitats) virtually all zoos and safari parks have sported an international theme, with zones and architecture aiming to recreate international locales. Our goal is to put the spotlight back on the animals at Taman Safari Bogor, and to create a new visual storytelling medium that honours and celebrates these magnificent creatures.”

More details about the future of Taman Safari Bogor will be revealed later this year.

More information on Taman Safari  

Legacy Entertainment stands as one of the most successful, independent, entertainment design firms in the global industry today. Legacy Entertainment has become a highly-in-demand designer of Zoos, Safari Parks and Aquariums, having opened several of the largest and most-successful such venues around the world. These have included: Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park; The Sea Shell Aquarium; and the Chimelong Spaceship.

Legacy also recently announced its work on the upcoming Beijing Haichang Ocean Park, set to open next door to Universal Studios Beijing, in 2027.

Historically, Legacy has developed, designed, and produced over 40 successful projects worldwide, spanning mediums that include Theme Parks, Hotels/Resorts, Casinos, and Aquariums. Signature projects include the Galaxy Macau Resort, Macau Studio City resort, the Georgia Aquarium, Lotte World expansion, Kingdom of Poseidon resort, and the Lotte World Adventure Busan theme park in Busan, Korea, to name just a few.

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