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New waterpark for Macedonia
Some of the planned Polin slides
Polin Waterparks
and Pool Systems is due to start construction this month on a
new government-funded waterpark in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski attended the groundbreaking ceremony in January. Ratko Kapusevski, director of the new aquatic venue, said the attraction
complements the “Skopje 2014” initiative, a grand project involving the creation of new statues, fountains, bridges and museums to give the city a more stately appearance following a 1963 earthquake that destroyed many of its older buildings.
The cost of the waterpark is estimated at €4.2 million ($5.5m) and it will be named in memory of former Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski, whose five-year reign ended when he died in a plane crash on his way to an economic summit. Despite the potential for rainfall during the construction period, city officials said they expected the park to be open by the start of the
in reverse!
Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great America
summer, with Kapusevski citing construction as taking no longer than 45 days. To help achieve the installation, Polin has established a new office in Macedonia. Major attractions at the new park will include a Multisurf waterslide with head-first mat racing, a combined Turbolance/ Flying Boats waterslide coaster, a Space Boat combining elements of Polin’s Space Hole and Black Hole attractions, an Aquatube with sound and light effects, a body slide and a kids’ area with a rabbit slide, giraffe shower, mushroom fountain, mini octopus slide and a pirate-themed multi-level water-play structure.
Dummy run for Silver
Dollar City Outlaw Outlaw Run, the daring new looping wood coaster at Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri, recently had its first test run. Here is one of its train being put trough its paces, filled with well-dressed water bottles to simulate the weight of riders.
When Six Flags Great America near Chicago introduced Batman: The Ride in 1992 it created a sensation as the world’s first suspended looping rollercoaster. Now, 28 million rides later, the park will operate trains on the Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) ride tbackwards. “No matter how many times you have been on Batman, nothing compares to the thrill of racing down ten stories facing the other direction,” notes park president Hank Salemi. Meanwhile at Thorpe Park near London, The Swarm, a B&M Wing Coaster introduced just last season, will feature a “sting in its tail” with the reversing of the last two rows of cars in each train (as below). Riders are promised that they will be, “dragged backwards into a blind 127ft drop before hurtling through the wasted landscape in a series of gut- wrenching near misses, including, new for 2013, the mangled metal of a devastated billboard.”
The Swarm at Thorpe Park – note the backwards seats at the back
Built by Rocky Mountain Construction, the 2,937ft-long (895m) Outlaw Run is Silver Dollar City's biggest investment in a single ride for the past decade. The new $10 million (€8m) ride sends passengers soaring through the Ozark Mountain landscape and includes several firsts. It will feature the world's steepest drop on a wooden coaster. It will drop more than 16 storeys, 162ft (49m), at 81 degrees. It will be the world's only wood coaster to twist upside down three times including a 720-degree double barrel roll. It will be the second fastest wooden coaster in the world. With a top speed of 68 mph, it will also be the world's fastest wood coaster on steel wheels.
Anapa Aqua Park adds
capacity Russia’s Anapa Aqua Park, in the Black Sea city of Anapa, will soon be home to an elaborate complex of waterslides from ProSlide. The Mach complex will be the first of its kind in Europe include a double-funnel TantrumAlley, a double- feature BowlingAlley and a four- lane KrakenRacer, all linked to the same tower.
Set to open in 2014, the attraction will deliver a combined hourly capacity for 2,780 guests. The installation, delivered in partnership with White Sphere, marks ProSlide's third development on the Black Sea.
12 MARCH 2013
The planned complex by ProSlide
Coasters
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