ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Toy and entertainment company Mattel has announced it\u2019s picked Orlando to be among the first locations for a wave of new, indoor water parks.<\/p>\n
Dubbed \u201cMattel Wonder Indoor Waterparks,\u201d the Orlando location will be one of five in total, according to a news release<\/a> shared Tuesday. Neither the address of our upcoming park nor any hint of the other locations were known at the time of this report, however.<\/p>\n For what we do know, Mattel promises its iconic brands such as Barbie and Hot Wheels will be integrated into the water park \u201cacross attractions ranging from lazy rivers and wave pools to thrilling waterslides.\u201d<\/p>\n [EXCLUSIVE: Become a News 6 Insider (it\u2019s FREE)<\/a> | PINIT! Share your photos<\/a>] <\/p>\n \u201cMattel Wonder Indoor Waterparks will encompass many iconic Mattel brands that span generations of play, offering innovative water-based attractions and amenities in a dynamic new format for Mattel,\u201d said Julie Freeland, VP of Global Location-Based Entertainment at Mattel.<\/p>\n The water parks will be developed in partnership with aquatic design firm Martin Aquatic \u2014 which was behind Royal Caribbean\u2019s Perfect Day at CocoCay, Universal Orlando\u2019s Volcano Bay, and The Ritz-Carlton Naples \u2014 water park management firm American Resort Management, and developer I-dentity Group, the release states.<\/p>\n \u201cBlending our innovative experiential design with Mattel\u2019s family of brands is a dream come true,\u201d Josh Martin, president and creative director of Martin Aquatic, said in a statement. \u201cWe look forward to inspiring that same sense of wonder for kids and adults alike as they cross the threshold into each Mattel Wonder Indoor Waterpark.\u201d<\/p>\n [MORE THEME PARKS: SeaWorld unveils vehicles for upcoming dark ride]<\/p>\n In the Loop: Theme Park Scoops<\/p>\n More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Toy and entertainment company Mattel has announced it\u2019s picked Orlando to be among the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[34745,1335,139,141,140,2411,34744],"class_list":{"0":"post-55885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-mattel","9":"tag-orange-county","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-theme-parks","14":"tag-water-parks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}