Park Products
EXTRA
What new products caught your eye at this winter’s trade shows and what can we expect to
see appearing in our parks and attractions in the season to come? Over the next four pages
Park World brings you some of rides and attractions to look out for in 2010
SKY TOWER BUS WASH
With the architects behind London Eye planning such an Based on a similar concept to its Crazy House ride, but with a tighter
attraction, observation towers are expected to enjoy a footprint, the Bus Wash is a new attraction aimed at FECs from Italian
renaissance in the years to come, just as the Ferris Wheel ride manufacturer Preston & Barbieri.
already has. With this in mind, Huss Park Attractions has “Children love a visit to the car wash,” notes P&B’s Francesco
updated its Sky Tower with a stylish new cabin featuring
Ferrari. On the Bus Was they will be able to enjoy a similar experience
curved full-length windows and a capsule-like appearance.
with the added thrill of the vehicle lifting and rotating during the ride.
The tower itself has been designed using similar
Water and bubble effects
engineering practices to those employed in wind
add further to the fun.
turbines, offering optimised force resistance and quicker
The 24-seater attraction
on-site assembly.
measures 7.8-metres in
The first unit will open this year in Changzhou,
diameter and lifts to a
China, at a new shopping and leisure area being
height of 6.6-metres.
constructed next to the city’s Dinosaur Park (where Huss is
Theoretical hourly
supplying a King Kong ride). The Sky Tower will measure
capacity is 480. The
120-metres in height, with the cabin travelling to just over
trailer-mounted version of
88-metres, making it the company’s tallest such
the ride you see here
installation to date.
debuted at the Texas State
Fair this October.
www.hussrides.com
www.prestonbarbieri.com
DROP ‘N’ LOOP FIGHTER
TWIST
New from Technical
Park of Italy, the Loop
This new tower ride by Italy’s
Fighter (left) is a 16-
SBF/Visa Group follows the success
seat travelling ride
of the company’s drop tower rides,
using the same looping
which have sold over 100 units
gondolas at the
worldwide.
company’s Pegasus
The Drop ‘n’ Twist tower,
ride. However, this time
however, offers multiple ride
they are attached to a
patterns including shot, drop and
swinging arm turning
bounce. As the gondola moves up
through 360 degrees.
and down it also rotates, either
The first unit is expected
clockwise or anticlockwise. A
to debut at the April
“slow” mode is also provided,
Fair in Seville, Spain,
allowing operators to offer the ride
as an observation tower.
“You therefore have four towers
in one!” highlights SBF’s Augusto di
Santi.
under the ownership of
the Bañuls family.
A variety of different sizes are
Technical Park has
available. Pictured here is a 17-
also updated its
metre version destined for an
Streetfighter ride by
amusement park in the south of
offering an arm that
France. Due to go into production
swings through 360-
any day is a 28-metre version for a
degrees (as seen right),
British park. Others have been sold
and rising to 21-metres
to customers in Europe, Russia and
in height. Previously this
the Middle East.
16-seater Frisbee-style
Optional extras include LED
attraction was confined
lighting and a photo capture
to a 240-degree arc.
system.
www.technicalpark.com
www.sbfrides.com
24 FEBRUARY 2010
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