SHOW PREVIEW
SOHRET PAKIS Marketing manager
Polin Waterparks & Pool Systems
What are the current trends? In waterparks, clients are looking for more technology in slides and rides. This includes special effects, fog systems, water sprays, lasers and media features, such as music and videos. For example, we’ve incorporated big projectors into our ride Magic Sphere so users have a cinematic experience while they’re on the ride. Effects and technology-integrated
waterslides are key. These can be integrated automated systems, such as waterslide traffi c control/signal lights/ systems, interactive sensor systems, waterslide timing systems and control units plus visual and audio effects.
What are the challenges? Our clients demand interactive rides that provide a heart-pounding experience. Combining this with spectator appeal is a challenge to park owners. Using translucent and transparent slides is one way to make the rides interesting to watch.
What’s new and exciting? Our most exciting developments include natural light effects in resin transfer moulding manufactured slides. To achieve this, we build rides that allow natural daylight to go through the slide and create
CASE STUDY P&P Projects, The Netherlands T
urnkey specialists P&P Projects will be showcasing an interactive, 3D dark ride that they’re designing for Parques Reunidos’ theme park Tusenfryd in Norway.
The team at P&P Projects is currently developing the scenes, audiovisual scripts and scenic elements for the ride, which will be built in an unused cavern in the park. The ride will have the capacity for 800 guests per hour and will target teenagers and young adults, which is a new direction for the primarily family-focused park. Unlike a traditional dark ride, the attraction will incorporate audiovisual and fi lm sequences. Created to mark the park’s 25th anniversary, the ride will open in 2013 and will be Tusenfryd’s largest indoor attraction.
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Polin’s slide at the South Australian Aquatic and Leisure Centre, Australia
“Combining interactive rides that provide a
heart-pounding experience with spectator appeal is a challenge to park owners”
colour effects inside the tunnel when combined with the fl ow of water.
What are you showing at EAS? We’ll be showcasing our patented King Cobra slide, which made its debut in America at Six Flags on July 24th. Already in a number of waterparks around the world, the ride is going to be installed under the name The King Dragon slide in the Great Mall of China.
We’re also heading up the construction
of the very fi rst Cartoon Network themed waterpark in the world, which is currently being built in Thailand. Scheduled to open in 2013, the park will feature signature attractions including a gigantic family wave pool, a winding adventure river, speed-rac- ing slides, family raft slides and one of the world’s largest interactive water play areas for children. It’s one of the most exciting projects I’ve ever worked on.
The ride will be built in an unused cavern in the park
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