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coaster there, but as Fårup Sommerland is a typical family park we were concerned that this ride would be a bit too intense for their target group. Therefore we had to work on a less intense version, focusing more on airtime and less positive forces. This is how Fønix was born. As this design only existed as a concept and all engineering work still had to be done, the earliest date of opening could be 2021. This would have been 8 years after the launch of Orkanen and we all felt that this was too long. Then we came up with the solution of launching an intermediate ride, opening in 2020, followed by the big Thrill Ride in 2022. This was the birth of Saven, the first out and back Family Boomerang in the world, which turned into a great success for the park and being the perfect step up to the launch of the record-breaking coaster in 2022.”


Figures of fun • Height: 40 metres - Denmark’s highest


roller coaster


• Speed: 95 km/h - Denmark’s fastest roller coaster


• Length: 905 metres - Denmark’s longest loop roller coaster


• 14 airtime moments - which will make up 9.2 seconds of ride time


• 2 below-ground trench dives • 3 inversions - (Stall Loop, Upward Barrel Roll and Station Fly-Through Corkscrew)


• Footprint: 144 x 66m • Number of trains: 2 • Number of coaches per train: 4 • Number of passengers per train: 16 • Height restriction: 1.20m


UNIQUE RIDE ELEMENTS Fønix features three unique inversions and 14 airtime moments.


First Drop: A 40m eye-catcher ride element with near- vertical 80° descent that pulls-out into a trench at a top speed of 95km/h.


Stall Loop: The “Stall Loop” is a world’s first element that combines a traditional Immelman inversion with an unexpected pop of inverted airtime, or hangtime, at the top. Vekoma wanted to spice up the classic turn-around element, by turning its apex into an extended, parabolic arc. This causes the vehicle to ‘pause’ briefly while upside down, providing some negative forces before picking up speed again down a double vertical twist. The rider will be exposed to the effect of a negative G-force and thus experience weightlessness while hanging upside down.


Station Fly-Through Corkscrew: The Station Fly-Through Corkscrew is a unique ride element that reflects a disorienting near-miss on-ride sensation. It’s a one of a kind interaction with the guests in the station. We first incorporated this element on Lech Coaster in Poland and was one of the elements that we definitely wanted to carry over to Fønix: it’s one of the coaster’s key aesthetic signatures. For guest queueing in the station, seeing the train fly upside down through the building at high speed amps up the anticipation, while to guests on-board the element provides some awesome near-miss visuals. On Fønix we actually took this near-miss effect one step up from Lech Coaster, by placing the approach to the flip-over at ground level. The train seems to fly-up to the cut-out only just in time.


Benjamin Bloemendaal, head of concept


engineering at Vekoma, added: “The key design drivers for Fønix’s track design were pacing and airtime. From the exit of the Stall Loop all the way to the final brake run, the vehicle maintains a break- neck pace leaving no time to catch your breath. The design focuses on rapid-fire direction changes and non-stop pops of airtime. Almost every ride element provides some form of airtime: floater, ejector, side-banked or inverted, where the latter (i.e. the three inversions) are spread strategically throughout the length of the course to create the best possible variety in the experience.” “Owing to this historic investment, we at Fårup


Sommerland are now looking into a tremendously exciting season,” Niels Jørgen Jensen continued. “We hope and trust that, by way of such a substantial addition, we will be able to attract both Danish and international guests to the benefit of Fårup Sommerland as well as the rest of the Danish tourist industry in general.”


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14 air-time moments: This makes the Fønix the roller coaster in Scandinavia with the most so-called airtime, which is the weightlessness occurring when the body is exposed to the effect of negative G-forces.


Rodeo finale:


Yhe low profile track enhances the sensation of speed, rapid-succession direction changes and out-of-control 7-fold airtime sensation.


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