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Calico 2.0 Mine ride next in line for Knott’s revamp


Following the restoration last season of Knott’s Berry Farm’s Timber Mountain Log Ride (see last issue), Garner Holt Productions is to work again with the California park to overhaul its classic Calico Mine Ride (pictured). The attraction will undergo an all-encompassing refurbishment complete with new state-of-the-art animatronic figures and enhanced scenery. Opened as part of the park’s Ghost Town area in November 1960, the Mine Ride was quickly recognised as one of the world’s most immersive dark rides. Conceived, like the Log Ride, by industry pioneer Bud Hurlbut, the seven-storey


TIVOLI 2014


Tivoli is expanding its hotel operations and upgrading a classic ride for 2014.


The new hotel extension for 2016


Since it opened in 2010, overone million guests have either stayed at or visited the Copenhagen park’s Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center. On the basis of this performance, the Arp- Hansen Hotel Group and Tivoli are now ready to continue their strategic partnership and build a new wing of the existing hotel. The themed 288-


room extension has been designed by internationally-renowned Danish architect Kim Utzon at a cost of hundreds of millions of kroner in line with Tivoli’s “spirit and design history”. Providing easy access to the Congress Center, it will be pitched at both business and leisure travellers, including visitors from Russia and China. When the new 12-storey structure is completed in 2016, the Tivoli Hotel will provide a total of 700 rooms. A further 510 rooms also available at the budget hotel Wakeup Copenhagen, in addition to the 17 well-appointed rooms and suites at the upscale Nimb Hotel near the front of the park. Founded in 1843 as Tivoli Gardens, the Danish institution remains one of the world’s most famous amusement parks, inspiring many operators that followed including Walt Disney. For 2014, it will be relaunching its Rutschebanen wooden coaster by recreating the mountain peaks that were once viewed as unsightly and potentially confusing to travellers alighting at Copenhagen’s adjacent central station.


attraction takes passengers on a train ride through the dimly lit tunnels of a gold mine. Every year over one million guests take part in the eight- minute journey past underground lakes, caverns, waterfalls chambers and more. The ride was due to close this January to make way for refurbishment, which is expected to be complete by the summer. Knott’s 30-year-old Camp Snoopy kids area is also getting an upgrade for 2014. “Camp Snoopy and Calico Mine Ride have delighted guests for decades,” notes Raffi Kaprelyan, Knott’s vice-president and general manager. “The revitalisation of these areas will


once again demonstrate our commitment to Knott’s heritage and will preserve these experiences for a new generation of guests to enjoy.”


Let’s go crazy in Kansas! Designed and built by Schlitterbahn Development Group for Schlitterbahn


Kansas City Waterpark, the new Verruckt attraction will break the record for the world’s tallest waterslide when it opens in 2014. It’s a record which has been held since 2002 by Kilimanjaro at Aguas Quentes Country Club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Verruckt, which translates from German as “Crazy or “Insane”, combines a breathtaking drop with an uphill blast on a hill that’s over 50ft (16m) high. Four riders on a specially designed raft will plummet down the equivalent of a drop from a 17-storey building (about 170ft, or 52m). The exact height will be announced at an official measuring event this coming spring.


When completed, the new ride in Kansas City will include a slide that measures 601ft (183m) long. The supporting tower has been constructed from railroad tanker cars that have been cut open and welded. The ride comes equipped with advanced sensor and nozzle technology as well as a robust conveyor system never before built.


The attraction has been developed by waterpark innovator Jeff Henry, who holds numerous patents for innovations such as inland water surfing, uphill waterslide coasters (Master Blasters) and endless tube rides to the industry. His family operates four Schlitterbahn parks in the US.


Blast the Zombies! Zombie Apocalypse – The Ride is the latest interactive, 3D multimedia dark


The Rutschebanen coaster is getting new mountain cladding for 2014 14


ride adventure now available from the Sally Corporation. Riders – or “survivors” – must battle a plague of zombies, the result of a medical experiment gone wrong, that are dispatching the human race one infected bite at a time. Played out across 13 scenes over approximately 18,000 sq ft (1,672 sq m), or other configurations to suit, the attraction promises a true horror experience with reactive both high definition 3D computer generated and animatronic zombies attacking the passengers in motion base ride vehicles. These “Tactical Survival Vehicles” are equipped with blasters, buttons that detonate explosives and a dashboard communication system.


JANUARY 2014


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