An Illions carousel called The Grand Carousel is added to the Scandinavia section of the park. 2011: Planet Snoopy, an $8-million children's themed area, is added to Worlds of Fun featuring over 20 rides and attractions.2010: Snoopy's Hot Summer Lights, a $1 million immersive light and sound experience, opens in the Europa and Africa sections of the park.It receives the Golden Ticket Award for 'Best New Ride of 2009' by Amusement Today magazine. 2009: A new wooden coaster, Prowler, is added to the Africa section of the park.2008: For their 35th anniversary, Worlds of Fun added a festival called Oktoberfest.It was the park's largest capital investment on a single attraction at $14 million.

2006: Patriot opens as the longest, tallest, and fastest full-circuit inverted roller coaster in the region.

Morgan Manufacturing steel hypercoaster, to the park's attraction lineup in 1998. The new owners invested $10 million with the addition of Mamba, a D.H. Ĭedar Fair LP purchased Worlds of Fun in 1995 for $40 million. Several years later in 1989, Worlds of Fun ended the decade with the addition of Timber Wolf, a wooden roller coaster that initially ranked high in several national polls. Screamroller was transformed into Extremeroller the following year, which featured stand-up trains instead of the original sit-down models making it the first looping, stand-up roller coaster in North America. Also the same year, a sub-world 'River City' was opened in Americana bordering the Orient section. In 1982, Oceans of Fun opened next door as the largest water park in the world. The new section included the debut of Screamroller from Arrow Dynamics, which was a replica of the first modern-looping roller coaster, Corkscrew, that opened a year earlier at Knott's Berry Farm. In 1976, a new section opened in honor of the United States Bicentennial – the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence – and was named Bicentennial Square. In 1974, the first addition to Worlds of Fun was the 4000-seat Forum Amphitheater opened in the Europa section of the park.

The park was originally planned to complement a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) hotel and entertainment complex, but a lagging economy during the park's early years derailed the idea. Mid-America Enterprises, seeking to capitalize on the citywide expansion movement, began construction on a new amusement park in 1964. At the time of its opening, numerous modernization projects across Kansas City were in progress including the opening of Kansas City International Airport, Kemper Arena (now called Hy-Vee Arena) and the Truman Sports Complex. It is situated at the northern edge of a vast industrial complex in the bluffs above the Missouri River in Clay County, Missouri. Working with his business partner Jack Steadman, the two conceptualized and developed Worlds of Fun, which opened on May 26, 1973. He founded an operating company in the region called Mid-America Enterprises, which focused on real estate, mining, and entertainment. Texas and Arkansas native Lamar Hunt brought his Dallas Texans NFL team to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1963 and renamed the franchise the Kansas City Chiefs. Both parks were sold to Cedar Fair in 1995 for $40 million. The water park was added in 1982 adjacent to the amusement park and named Oceans of Fun, which is included in the price of admission to Worlds of Fun. Founded by American businessmen Lamar Hunt and Jack Steadman, the park opened in 1973 under the ownership of Hunt's company, Mid-America Enterprises. Worlds of Fun is a more than 235-acre entertainment complex located in Kansas City, Missouri, featuring the largest amusement park and water park in the Midwest. Jules Verne's novel ' Around the World in Eighty Days'

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