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Mumbo
Jumbo
New coaster makes sense
for Flamingo Land
Based loosely around a
witchdoctor theme, Mumbo
Jumbo is Flamingo Land’s W
e planned this ride a different way round The world record was a happy accident. Nick
than usual. Rather than having a beauty [Buckley, Flamingo Land rides manager] is a real
parade of rides and then talking to coaster enthusiast and pretty much knows all the stats
new record-breaking suppliers, we chose the manufacturer first and then from memory. He said, “If that bit was a little bit
rollercoaster. Supplied by started talking about rides. It’s more than just buying steeper you’d have the world record.” I’ve always been
S&S Worldwide, it opened a toy; it’s a piece of civil works with serious interested in anything like that for the marketing
this summer deep in the engineering. It’s about the project rather than the mileage.
North Yorkshire countryside ride, and what comes after it, and we wanted to work Without a doubt getting Guinness World Records
and is the first of its kind in with S&S. down for the launch was better than having a celebrity.
Europe. The original We could have wasted a lot of time playing poker, Apart from anything else, having a load of people
opened last year at Indiana but our budget was our budget and I was fairly dressed in suits treated as VIPs at a theme park
Beach in America, but by transparent with them. It was also quite an exciting opening is inappropriate because we are more about
tweaking the angle – from time because their company structure was changing a families enjoying themselves in a relaxed setting.
120 to 121 degrees – the little; similar to how Vekoma’s had when we did the There’s seems to be this unwritten rule that you can
British park has been able deal for Velocity (our Motorbike Coaster) and Kumali b/s as much as you want when you launch a new ride,
to bag the bragging rights (Suspended Looping Coaster). I think it was a big plus but the Guinness World Record is scientific; it’s
for world’s steepest drop. for S&S to have a project at Flamingo, and in Europe. empirical. However, we did have a bit of fun with the
Here Flamingo Land CEO
Gordon Gibb (pictured)
explains why Mumbo
Jumbo makes sense
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