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MANUFACTURER NEWS Chance
Chance Rides will deliver four new rides in 2012 to Galveston Pleasure Pier, Galveston, Texas. These include a two-deck Carousel, a 27-metre (89ft) Ferris Wheel, Sea Dragon and Revolution 20 (Frisbee-style ride).
The American manufacturer will also supply a Pharaoh’s Fury to Morey’s Piers in New Jersey, a
Vekoma
Vekoma Rides Manufacturing has over 10 confirmed rides on order or due for delivery between now and 2013. Turkey’s first ever theme park, Landora in Istanbul has already taken delivery of a Junior Coaster. The 335-metre-long ride forms part of the ORA shopping mall development in the Turkish capital, due to open any day now. Open since the end of September Shanghai’s Jin Jian Action Park is a Giant Inverted Boomerang. The ride provides a very arresting sight to motorists on the passing Humin highway.
Opening soon will be a custom indoor Motorbike Launch Coaster at Red Sun, an FEC/shopping mall development in Nanjing City. The ride, which will run partially outdoors, will feature 610-metres of track and one train of eight coaches. Another Motorbike Coaster will open in 2013 at Berjaya in Beijing, but before that two Boomerangs will open at the Fanta Wild parks in Zhengzhou and Xiamen in 2012. Following the debut last year in Taiwan of Vekoma’s I-Ride panoramic (Soarin’- style) flight simulator, four units are currently on order, one for Guei Yang in China and the other three for unidentified clients. Built together with Brogent Technologies, the I-Ride comprises a spherical screen, projection system and nine moveable platform units providing capacity for 72 passengers.
Meanwhile at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi,
Motorbike Launch Coaster: two more destined for China
Mack
Further to the update in the October issue of Park World, we can bring you news of further sales from Mack Rides.
The German manufacturer will install a Wild Mouse at Dyrehavsbakken in Klampenborg, Denmark, to open in 2012. With a track length of 370 metres, 10 cars will be included. Jungleland in Bogor, Indonesia, 50km south of Jakarta, will unveil an interactive boat ride, a six boat water battle between good and evil. In Italy Mack Rides is building another SuperSplash ride. It will feature two drops and the longest track ever created for this type of ride. Client to be confirmed. By end of 2012 a Mack Rides spinning coaster will open at Toverland in the Netherlands. Mack’s biggest Omni-Mover dark ride system is destined for China. It will feature more than 120 vehicles and a ride time of more than 10 minutes, making it twice as big as existing Omni-Mover installations. For the new theme park being created at Sochi, Russia, Mack Rides will deliver three rides, a Wild Mouse, launch coaster and tea cup ride. The park is due to debut in time for the Winter Olympics in 2014.
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Vekoma will be supplying a custom-designed Suspended Family coaster. The interactive Splash Party is expected to be part of Farah Leisure’s new waterpark adjacent to Ferrari World. Replacement M1212 sit down coaster trains will be delivered in 2012 to the Dutch parks Efteling and Walibi Holland plus Hershey Park in the USA, while Spain’s Isla Magica gets a new train for its Suspended Looping Coaster.
CP Huntington Train (as pictured) to Waldameer Park in Pennsylvania and a 17-metre (50ft) carousel to the new Roman World park in Ningbo, China. More specialist projects include the construction of the first SkyQuest people-mover, designed by Bill Kitchen and destined for the Indianapolis Zoo, plus two amphibious vehicles for Boston Duck Tours.
KMG
Dutch ride manufacturer KMG is to produce new 70-metre-high (over 200ft) versions of its Speed propeller ride and Inversion 360º pendulum ride. Both will be available as transportable or fixed park models and are expected to debut in 2013. The Speed will offer capacity for 24 to 32 persons, a significant increase on the existing 40-metre Speed, while the 70-metre Inversion will seat 24
The 70-metre Speed - a sketch
riders and be based around four semi-trailers. As with all KMG constructions, no crane will be needed for assembly of either ride. It has been confirmed that Jarno Otten will travel the first XLR8 by KMG as from 2012 (see Park World, November 2011). The Dutch showman has previously operated several other KMG prototypes.
Meanwhile in the United States, KMG is benefiting from the weak dollar. “It looks like the North American amusement industry has have found more trust in the future now the euro rate has dropped [against the dollar] as a result of the unstable European economies,” notes sales manager Peter Theunisz. The company is currently working on several sales for parks in the US, Canada and Brazil. Following a trial run at the Fun Spot in Orlando during IAAPA Attraction Expo, the first X-Factory for the US will go to carnival operator Drew Exposition. A park model of the ride is due for Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California. At the IISF Trade Show in Gibsonton, Florida this February, KMG will exhibit
a Freak Out ride destined for Bohlander Bros’ Poor Jack Amusements and a Speed propeller ride ordered by Armco Inc (Larry Sankowsky).
The company also reports US interest in the Sicko, the first of which will debut in May on the French fairground circuit (see Park World, November/October 2011). Production is now booked at KMG’s factory in Neede, The Netherlands, until April 2013.
REG/Gerstlauer
Off the back of its busiest year ever in 2011, with more than 16 projects around the world, the US-based Ride Entertainment Group enters 2012 with new orders under its belt. The company has sold a custom Gerstlauer
Euro-Fighter to a park in North America. The coaster will use the German manufacturer’s new eight-seat Euro-Fighter vehicle. REG has also sold three Gerstlauer Sky Fly rides (as pictured), two for Europe including Nigoland In France, and one in North America. This new ride, comprising one or two giant arms with either six or 12 open seats allows riders to control their orientation as they fly through the sky by operating the wings at their side. Meanwhile REG has secured an order for Gerstlauer replacement trains on Hersheypark’s Schwarzkopf Superdooperlooper coaster in Pennsylvania. Gerstlauer now operates Schwarzkopf’s old factory in Munsterhausen.
DECEMBER 2011/JANUARY 2012
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