WISCONSIN DELLS — Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park, under the ownership of Nick and Eva Laskaris, has expanded once more to include Copa Cabana Resort Hotel & Suites.

Nick Laskaris said buying and remodeling the property will cost at least $4 million. Guests who were planning to stay at Copa Cabana Resort Hotel & Suites will be transferred to Hotel Rome until the remodeling is complete in the spring, he said.

“My goal is to finally get the Strip back into not only looking good but performing well. And to perform well, it’s got to look good,” Laskaris said.

Laskaris said he bought the property in part because it will serve as the entry to the properties he owns along Wisconsin Dells Parkway. The Copa Cabana has an elevated walkway that has been there since the 1960s, according to the history of the resort on the Copa Cabana website.

Laskaris said the walkway is iconic, being the only bridge across the parkway, and he plans to use it to mark the beginning of the numerous properties he owns along the Strip.

Properties he has acquired include the former RiverWalk Hotel in Wisconsin Dells, American World Resort, Star Motel, Star Motor Inn, Luna Inn and Suites, and Raintree Resort.

With the acquisition of Copa Cabana, Laskaris said he now has about 1,000 hotel rooms in the Lake Delton-Wisconsin Dells area. With the new property, he added 130 rooms and an indoor waterpark.

The Scorpion's Tail in Noah's Ark Waterpark in Wisconsin Dells is the first looping waterslide in the U.S. Riders step into a capsule-like entrance, an attendant closes the door, and then the floor drops out, plunging the rider down the long, curving tube.

When the Benzini Bros. Circus train steams across the big screen Friday, Wisconsin will be well represented, but the state could have had a starring role right along with Reese Witherspoon and teen heartthrob Robert Pattinson.

That's because the movie's director, Francis Lawrence, wanted the love story, "Water for Elephants," based in a 1930s circus in upstate New York, to be as historically accurate as possible.

In 2009, Lawrence spent time at Circus World Museum here, studying photographs, films, costumes, documents and circus wagons.

He also got a feel for the topography of Sauk County, which is similar to that of the rolling hills of upstate New York.

At the time it appeared to Steve Freese, executive director of Circus World, that Wisconsin had a reasonable shot of being the backdrop for Lawrence's movie, which is based on Sara Gruen's best-selling 2006 book.

A Minnesota man is in jail after he allegedly drank alcohol, swore and urinated at a matinee screening of the animated film “Rango” in Wisconsin.

Forty-nine-year-old Timothy Elvester of Aitkin, Minn., is charged with vandalism and disorderly conduct.

A police officer was called Saturday afternoon to the Desert Star Cinema in Lake Delton. The theater manager told the officer a patron was “very intoxicated” and drinking liquor from a pint bottle.

The Baraboo News Republic reports the manager said he had received complaints about the man swearing during the movie. Staff told police Elvester had urinated in the theater and had fallen on the stairs.

The movie was stopped so officers could pull Elvester from the theater, which was about 90 percent full.

This one goes underground...twice! Crazy!

Great Wolf Resorts chief executive officer Kim Schaefer went behind the scenes of the Madison indoor waterpark resort company for the sake of network television.

Schaefer will be featured on "Undercover Boss," a CBS reality program that shows top executives of companies doing jobs of ordinary employees to get a taste of what goes on behind the scenes and how people feel about their jobs.