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Tenerife waterpark expands Caption?
Since it opened in 2008, Siam Park on the Canary Island of Tenerife, has become one of the world’s leading waterparks. The park debuted with seven signature attractions from ProSlide, and this summer expanded with two new areas called Kinnaree and Sawasdee.
Attractions at Kinnaree feature ProSlide’s first slide complex featuring both a
Tantrum funnel ride and a TornadoWave. Four-man cloverleaf rafts are the order of the day as riders navigate the slide path with their family and friends, oscillating in each funnel multiple times. After a series of tight, high-banking turns through the connecting Mammoth flume, rafts are then launched up a 40ft TornadoWave – the riders are temporarily suspended in a moment of zero-gravity as they are swept across the wall.
In Sawasdee, which means “welcome” in Thai, a new Kidz Zone completes the park’s interactive family area. Four new rides are featured, miniature versions of other ProSlide attractions at the park, including a MiniRacer ride and a Kidz Topsy-Turvy, which mimics the Dragon water ride.
Gosetto update The Italian manufacturer
Gosetto is working on a number of new dark ride and walk-through attractions, including the world’s largest travelling Fun House, which will debut in the Netherlands in 2014.
New attractions are child’s
play for Jora Vision Among a wide variety of projects in Europe and beyond, the Dutch design firm Jora Vision has two interesting child-focused attractions in development. In Hangzhou, about an hour or two from Shanghai, is will design a special hotel for children, where they will stay as part of a three- to four-night school break.
Back in the Netherlands, Jora is helping Plaswijck Park in Rotterdam plan a special house feature, where children can do all the things they can’t do in their home, such as sliding down the banister and jumping on the bed. The attraction will open early 2013 – and it sounds like great fun! Jora Vision has practically doubled in size in the last year or two and now employs 75 staff working across two premises near the city of Leiden, with a further 15 staff employed by show subsidiary Jora Entertainment, which recently picked up a Hallowe’en award for its ghost house at Europa-Park.
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Ahead of that, opening early next year, will be two dark rides for an as yet unnamed indoor park in Mumbai, India. The attractions will be
The Ghost Train destined for Brazil, which will have a bumper car track in the lower level
designed by Sally Corporation, one with an Ali Baba theme and several uphill-downhill sections. Each will be built according to German TÜV standards. One will be interactive. Also on order are a Ghost Train and bumper car track for Brazil and a bumper car and go-kart for a client in the Middle East.
The new dark ride vehicles destined for Mumbai NOVEMBER 2012
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