Ripley Entertainment

Ripley Entertainment

Company type	Subsidiary
Founded	1918; 107 years ago (1918)
Founder	Robert Ripley
Headquarters	Orlando, Florida
Key people	Jim Pattison (CEO)
Parent	Jim Pattison Group
Divisions	Ripley Publishing
Website	ripleyentertainment.com

Old logo of Ripley Entertainment

Ripley Entertainment Inc. is an entertainment and edutainment holding company owned by the Jim Pattison Group of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company, headquartered in an unincorporated part of southern Orange County, Florida, was founded by cartoonist and amateur anthropologist Robert Ripley, the namesake of the company, in 1918.^[1][2]

The company primarily deals in amusement attractions, most notably the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museums, which feature various collections of oddities.^[3] They additionally own a publishing division, Ripley Publishing, which publishes the Ripley's Believe It or Not Annual alongside other books under the Ripley name.

Properties

Current

Name	Location(s)	Year opened	Year acquired	Notes
Guinness World Records attractions
Louis Tussaud's Waxworks	United States Newport, Oregon Grand Prairie, Texas San Antonio, Texas Other countries Cancún, Mexico Niagara Falls, Canada Pattaya, Thailand		2004 (Grand Prairie)^[citation needed]
Ripley's Aquarium	Toronto, Ontario Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Gatlinburg, Tennessee	October 16, 2013 (Toronto)
Ripley's Believe it or Not! Odditoriums	Mexico Cancún Guadalajara Mexico City Veracruz United States Los Angeles, California San Francisco, California Orlando, Florida Panama City Beach, Florida St. Augustine, Florida Ocean City, Maryland Branson, Missouri Newport, Oregon Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Gatlinburg, Tennessee Grand Prairie, Texas San Antonio, Texas Williamsburg, Virginia Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin Other countries Surfers Paradise, Australia Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada Niagara Falls, Canada Copenhagen, Denmark Blackpool, England Genting Highlands, Malaysia Amsterdam, Netherlands Pattaya, Thailand
Ripley's Haunted Adventure	Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Gatlinburg, Tennessee San Antonio, Texas Pattaya, Thailand	1999 (Gatlinburg) 2001 (Myrtle Beach) 2002 (San Antonio) 2004 (Pattaya)[4]
Ripley's Mini-Golf and Arcade	Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Ripley's Moving Theater
Ripley's Red Train Tours	St. Augustine, Florida
Ripley's Mirror Maze	Orlando, Florida Ocean City, Maryland Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Gatlinburg, Tennessee San Antonio, Texas
Ripley's Davy Crockett Mini-Golf	Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Ripley's Old McDonald Mini-Golf	Sevierville, Tennessee

Former

Name	Location(s)	Year opened/acquired	Year closed/sold	Notes
Ride the Ducks	Branson, Missouri	1970 (opened) 2017 (acquired)	2019	Permanently closed following the Table Rock Lake duck boat accident.[5]

References

1. "Contact." Ripley Entertainment. Retrieved December 7, 2009. Location per Google Maps.
2. "Entertainment". The Jim Pattison Group. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
3. "Company Overview". Ripley Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved November 20, 2025.
4. "Ripley's Believe It or Not Pattaya Thailand". Sightseeingbangkok.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013.
5. "Death toll from capsized duck boat on Missouri lake rises to 17". NBC News. Retrieved 2018-07-20.