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Mammoth! Another record breaker for Holiday World
The world’s longest waterslide coaster will open at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, Santa Claus, Indiana, next May – beating the park’s own record set by Wildebeest last season. “Wildebeest was a runaway hit,” says park president
Dan Koch. “So we asked our designers for something even bigger. The new twist to this water coaster is the six-passenger boats, a brand-new design.” Located east of the 1,710ft-long (521m)
Wildebeest, Mammoth will be slightly longer at 1,763ft (537m) – or a third of a mile. The supplier
Skyrush at Hersheypark
Rising out of the earth at Hersheypark will soon be a “whole new breed of roller coaster” – Skyrush, a mega/hyper coaster with winged seating. It will be the tallest, fastest and longest coaster at the Pennsylvania park and the third supplied by Intamin.
The trains on this 200ft-tall steel coaster Fantasy Island celebrates 50
Catanosos buy Steel Pier
The Catanoso brothers and their partners have taken over ownership of Steel Pier, the amusement venue they have leased and operated for 20 years in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Steel Pier Associates purchased the 113-year- old landmark for $4.25 million from Trump Entertainment just weeks before it was to go to auction. The sale includes the pier, its buildings and rights to the name Steel Pier. Steel Pier Associates’ principals include the Catanoso brothers – Anthony, Charles and William – and long-standing partner Ed Olwell, . A new partner is Paul Steelman, entertainment architect best known for designing The Sands Macao, the first Las Vegas Style casino in Asia.
of both rides is ProSlide. Mammoth’s water-filled fun will begin with a conveyor ride up the ride’s lifthill. Following the five- storey drop at a 45-degree angle, linear induction motors (LIMs) will propel the six-person round boats up additional hills, into dark enclosed sections and through twists and turns. Mammoth will cover three acres, increasing the water park’s size to 30 acres. The conveyor-style lifthill replaces any slide-tower stairs, making the water coaster accessible to riders who might have difficulty, or are too lazy, to walk up
will feature two floored seats flanked by two floorless, winged outer seats, offering a 270º panoramic viewing perspective. The cantilevered trains, similar to those employed by Intamin on Furius Baco at Port Aventura in Spain, are to be the first of their kind in the United States.
A renedering of the new waterslide coaster
stairs. It is the largest single-ride investment in the park’s history, with a “Mammoth” price tag of $9 million.
The new ride raises the number of coasters at Hersheypark to 12.
www.hersheypark.com
Martin’s Fantasy Island, Grand Island, New York, marked its 50th year in July. Originally opened in 1961 as a small kiddie park featuring storybook displays, a western street and small rides, Fantasy Island changed owners and its audience several times over the following years. The park became Martin’s Fantasy Island in
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1994, when it was purchased by Martin DiPietro, and has since been developed into a family friendly park and waterpark. New for 2011, the park has added a Technical Park Loop Fighter called Mind Warp (pictured) and Devil’s Hole, a Chance Rotor.
www.martinsfantasyisland.com AUGUST 2011
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