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built for speed and is the largest attraction in the Swedish park’s history. Ideal for young thrill-seekers, Lightning is the fastest family launch coaster in the world, designed with a wide variety of surprising track elements and high-speed gravity sections. It accelerates right from the start and reaches a top speed of up to 75 km/h in just three seconds, propelled by a magnetic launch. Gardaland opened Jumanji - The
Labyrinth, a compelling and immersive experience in which guests must put their wits and sensibility to the test. Based on the box office hit film series from Sony Pictures Entertainment, Jumanji - The Labyrinth is suitable for all guests, including families with children of all ages and groups of friends. Gardaland guests can immerse themselves in the wild story of Jumanji, but no longer aboard the iconic off-road vehicle, but on foot and by their own strength, creating their own unique experience inside the attraction. Conceived as a multi-sensory, multi-layered experience, Jumanji - The Labyrinth engages adventurers with multiple challenges to face and overcome before they reach the jungle maze, cross it, and save Jumanji. Le PAL theme park added its very first
interactive media-based dark ride in 2023. Interactive dark ride specialists Triotech and BoldMove Nation
Mandrill Mayhem at Chessington
collaborated on the creation of the attraction, called Champi’Folies, for the park in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The interactive media-based dark ride combines BoldMove’s Smash & Reload attraction with theming from its original TooMush IP in a competitive multiplayer experience. The interactive media-based dark ride combines BoldMove’s Smash & Reload attraction with theming from its original TooMush IP in a competitive multiplayer experience. Liseberg in Sweden opened its custom- designed Family Boomerang roller coaster, Luna, in April 2023. Created by Vekoma, Luna’s train follows a 242 metre long track with fun elements until a drop at a dead-end spike, and then back again! With its 33.5 metre tall spike, Luna is the
tallest and fastest (reaching speeds of 68 km/h) of its kind in the world. Parque Warner Madrid in Spain saw
the May 2023 opening of Batman: Gotham City Escape, a Batman-themed multi-launch coaster featuring a 45-metre top hat and coaster trains inspired by the Batmobile. Batman: Gotham City Escape is a €20 million roller coaster constructed by Intamin, a creator of record-breaking amusement rides. It includes four inversions, 12 airtime moments, three launches, a top speed of more than 100 km/h, and a track length of more than 1,010 metres. Additional highlights for adrenaline junkies include two corkscrews, a 147-foot beyond-vertical drop, a zero-g stall, a reverse sidewinder, and two LSM launches. During the 111-second ride experience, guests meet characters including Batman, the Joker, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. They also travel through locations such as Wayne Manor, the Batcave, Robinson Park, and the Gotham Subway. Toverland expanded its Avalon area
Champi’Folies at Le PAL
with four new attractions which officially opened on 1st July 2023. The Netherlands-based park introduced two new large attractions to the area. These are Dragonwatch, a family friendly drop tower (and Intamin’s newest Parachute Tower) that takes visitors to a height of 17 metres; and Pixarus, an interactive Gerstlauer Sky Fly ride where passengers have the ability to control the number of inversions they want to make. Meanwhile,
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