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Moser makes a splash!
Moser Rides is one of the latest hard ride manufacturers to target the waterpark market, introducing two new attractions at the recent World Waterpark Association trade show in Las Vegas. Freestyler is a swing ride themed with surf boards, upon which riders stand as they swing and rotate. The ride will be on display this month at IAAPA Attractions Expo in Las Vegas. As an added feature for increased authenticity, the attraction can be built over water. Versions of the ride have already been sold to customers in Malaysia, Indonesia and Ukraine.
Corsair Battle is a wet version of the popular
Tea Cups ride, not unlike Mack’s Twist ‘n’ Splash. Available with one, two, three or six rings of vehicles, it is set in a pond of water and passengers can fire water cannons at those nearby from vehicles themed as round warships. The first unit is already operational at Zoo Safaripark, Stuckenbrock, Germany.
The Italian ride manufacturer also has a new ride in development exclusively for dry parks, a new rotating tower ride, featuring a double-deck circular gondola.
Air Race at IAAPA
Zamperla will present a trailer-mounted version of its Air Race ride at this month’s IAAPA Attractions Expo in Orlando. Following the first park model of the ride launched at Coney Island in 2010, the Italian manufacturer has gone on to sell 10 units. The new portable version, which has already made an appearance at the Dallas State Fair, features eight two-seater planes and packs onto just one trailer – which should make it an enticing prospect for many travelling showmen. An indoor version of the ride was recently sold to a customer in the Middle East.
Moser’s new Corsair Battle water ride concept
New from Technical Park
Here’s a car from Wild Spark, the new flat ride from Technical Park that will soon be putting a smile on the face of German fair-goers when it is delivered to proud owner Lorena Zinnecker. Each of features three light, carbon fibre seats and a single pipe lap bar restraint.
Another new ride concept from the Italian
manufacturer is the Aerobat, a Paratrooper-style attraction featuring 14 single seat cars that the passenger can manoeuvre from left to right and through a
Sea Life Manchester
After the successful launch in 2009 of its first British Legoland Discovery Centre (LDC), Merlin Entertainments is to expand its operations at Manchester’s Trafford Centre shopping mall with the addition of a Sea Life attraction, opening spring 2013.
The £6.5million aquarium will be Merlin’s 14th Sea Life outlet in the UK, situated on a 36,000 square feet site close to LDC at the Trafford Centre’s Barton Square annexe. “We aim to be always ahead in the creation of exciting leisure opportunities for our customers,” says the mall’s director of operations Gordon McKinnon. “Sea Life is a fantastic addition to that offer, and we’re confident it will be a huge hit with our customers.” “The Trafford Centre has proved a brilliant location for us so far, with
Legoland Discovery Centre providing one of our most successful launches,” notes Merlin’s divisional director of ‘Midway’ attractions Russell Barnes. “We are confident that Sea Life will also thrive in this, one of the best shopping centres in the country.” Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council approved planning permission for the aquarium in September. The Trafford Centre generates over 30 million visits a year.
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sideways somersault. The first unit will be delivered to Turkey in summer 2013. See a video of what the ride entails at
youtube.com/C622XPzXvP4 Following the summer launch of a 45- metre construction in Kaliningrad, Technical Park has also sold a further two Giant Wheels with enclosed gondolas,
Aerobat
to a customer in Nevada and
another TBC. Each will feature wheelchair accessible air- conditioned cabins with electric doors and foldable seats. VIP options include leather seats, mini bar and power sockets.
NOVEMBER 2012 Wild Spark
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