The theme park in Vaughan, north of Toronto, debuts Planet Snoopy, welcoming the Peanuts gang.
"Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and Sally have arrived at the park and guests have the opportunity to rock at two brand new live shows: Snoopy Rocks on Ice and Rock Band Live," publicist Dineen Beaven said.
Calling the comic character the "world's most popular beagle," Snoopy's new home is full of new rides and others updated to the new theme.
These include the Peanuts 500, Snoopy's Revolution and Lucy's Tugboat while "reimagined favourites" become new classics such as Woodstock's Whirlybirds and Snoopy's Space Race.
The Peanuts gang will also take part in Snoopy Rocks on Ice with "great tunes, colourful costumes and sizzling skating," starting June 26.
Also new is Rock Band Live starting May 29 on weekends and daily from June 26 to Sept. 6 at the International Showplace.
It's called a "one-of-a-kind multimedia experience" that combines the thrill of a stage show with live music that's guaranteed to rock.
Marty's Party is at the Playhouse Theatre for the "wacky inventions" of this boy genius and outrageous outfits of Fiona the fashion queen in KidZville.
Arthur's Baye Dive Show has urban acrobats dancing, flying and twisting through the air while the Victoria Falls High Divers plunge off Wonder Mountain, with both shows on daily from July 1 to Sept. 6.
The big draw at the park -- with its more than 200 attractions, some 65 thrilling rides and Splash Works water park -- is North America's greatest variety of roller coasters.
Behemoth, billed as "Canada's biggest, fastest and tallest" coaster, joined the lineup two years ago.
As coaster number 15, Behemoth is 1,616 metres long and climbs to a height of 70.1 metres that's followed by an adrenaline-pumping 75-degree drop with speeds reaching 125 kilometres an hour in 3.9 seconds.
It then roughs up riders through the "ultimate coaster experience" with high-speed twists and turns, including double-banked flat loops (horizontal loops) and eight drops.
There's also Canada's longest wooden coaster, the Mighty Canadian Minebuster, Flight Deck, an inverted coaster, and Time Warp, a flying coaster.
Riptide spins 360 degrees, there are free falls of 70 metres on Drop Tower and 37-metre hang time on Psyclone.
The Back Lot Stunt Coaster simulates the thrills of being a stunt car driver on a track. Drivers twist through a parking garage, dodge collisions, race down stairs, chase through tunnels and narrowly escape massive explosions triggered by gunfire from a helicopter.
There's warm-weather fun in June through September at Splash Works water park with the huge Whitewater Bay wave pool, Lazy River and 18 water slides.
In the Barracuda Blaster, sliders zip down a high-speed pipe flume and twist around the vertical banks of a giant whirling bowl of water before being flushed out into the Lazy River.
The park also has numerous restaurants, outside cafes, snack bars and shops with souvenirs, film, clothing, candy, snacks and toys.
Wonderland is owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., which has 10 other amusement parks, six water parks, an indoor water park resort and five hotels.
Jim Fox can be reached at onetanktrips@hotmail.com
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