REPORT 041
EUROPA PARK
Company: Coherent Location: Rust, Germany
The Eurosat ride at Europa Park in Rust, Germany is housed inside the iconic silver sphere, which symbolises the Quartier Français. In addition to the light tunnel, laser beams flash and bounce around the darkened dome interior, and occasionally even shoot off the side of the rollercoaster carriage throughout the entire ride. The visibility of the rapidly switched beams is enhanced by use of a proprietary Lobo low-residue fog. Because of Lobo’s successful design and implementation of Europa Park’s His- torama attraction, Lobo was contracted to handle all aspects of the Eurosat light show upgrade. Key goals set by the park’s management were to continue with a cost-conscious, single colour system, but to deliver a fresher and more unique look. It was felt that much of the public is now over-saturated with green lasers in numerous public and private displays. The management also wanted the highest possible reliability. The Lobo design and engineering teams made the bold decision to minimise costs by generating the new laser effects using a single Sparks projector containing just
one laser, and to maximise the impact by making it a 6W yellow laser; the Coher- ent Taipan 577. The yellow colour was chosen because it is visually distinctive from green, but is still a wavelength to which the eye is highly sensitive. This ride is one of the first single colour displays at this relatively new wavelength. The Sparks projector can incorporate from one to several lasers and nearly all of the Sparks lasers used in installations are state-of-the-art optically pumped semi- conductor lasers (OPSLs) in the form of Coherent Taipan laser heads. From a theme park point of view, one of the most important attributes of OPSLs is their high reliability. To date they’ve been used in Sparks projectors carried on trucks, exposed to sea spray, and in extreme weather conditions, but not a single OPSL has failed in any of these permanent or temporary installations. This ex- treme reliability was a paramount consideration when opting to power the upgraded Eurosat ride with a single OPSL, meaning laser failure would close a ride which carries over 1,500 guests per hour. Luckily, since the installation there has been zero unscheduled downtime due to the laser.
www.coherent.com
EUROPA PARK
Company: CLS Location: Rust, Germany
Germany’s biggest theme park, Europa-Park has opened new wooden rollercoast- er. Wodan is the first Timburcoaster for the park and features 1,050m of track, a peak height of 40m and a top speed of more than 10km per hour. The ride also crosses two other tracks of adjacent attractions, which results in an extra thrilling experience. With such dimensions, creating a lighting design was a challenge in itself. After several experiments by CLS distributor Becker Lichttechnik in close cooperation with Europa Park, a combination of the CLS Miriam GII RGB and CLS Revo Modu- lar proved to be the best choice. The CLS Revo Modular were fitted with amber LEDs, which really gives character to the wooden structure. The impressive round framework with a height of 35m is no problem for the light output of the CLS Revo fixtures due to their 8º lenses. The technical staff at the park also preferred the Revo Modular - above the basic version of the powerlink connectors, which make it possible to link up to 25 units in a daisy chain. It also offers service personnel the possibility to easily dismount the fixture in the case that a malfunction should ever occur. The unit can then be serviced in the safe environment of a workshop, without the need to temporarily shut down the rollercoaster. The immense wooden framework is also illuminated from within by CLS Miriam GII RGB fixtures with 32º lenses. Changing the colours continuously, results in a contrasting glow behind the amber light from the Revo’s, a combination that brings the structure to life.
www.cls-led.com
www.mondodr.com
Image courtesy of Lobo
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