Theme Park Insight

The word, wow can't really sum up how incredile Phantasialand new Floorless Top spin is. Without a doubt Talocan is an outstanding ride and it really sums up how different the UK's themepark industry is to that of Germany's. British parks philopsy seems to be get em in and give em quick fixes. Themeing is nothing to shout about either. Yet in Germany, theme park vistors in general are a lot more picky about what makes a good ride and what makes a great ride. Albeit the German theme park is nealry 5x bigger. A quick search on RCDB reveals that what i consider to be around 10 biggger theme parks in the UK of varying sizes and decaying themeing. But Germany is not only home to more parks and bigger parks; most importantly its home to better rides.

Is it to late for Britain to be build any incredible rides again?

For more stunning images of Talocan visit: onride.de

Labels: Germany, Phantasialand, Talocan, Topspin

Plans have been revealed for Alton Towers new and "world's first" water slide.

The slide itself resembles to be an open-topped tornado type ride and will be located outside at the back of Cariba Creek, Alton Towers, water park buit in the centre of the Splash Landings Hotel.

Little is currently known about when it will open, but we do have some rather swish plans.

To see all of the plans click here.

 

Labels: Alton Towers, Cariba Creek, Water Park, Water Slide

It has surfaced that Maverick will in fact not open this Saturday to the public like the rest of the park will but instead has been delayed till mid June.

The reason?

Intamin and Stengel's love child has some strange and irregular issues. After some more testing it is clear that some of the ride's track is settling in as expected. Maverick's bitter-sweet, post-launch 360-degree heartline roll has stirred up some problem. The problems could be very varied but the most likely fault is due to the intesity of the roll located shortly after the rides 70mph launch. To much stress is being but on the track and trains by the roll. Forgetting the fact that roll will most likely decapitate willing maverick riders Intamin, IntaRide or Stengel(ride engineer/designer) would have already calculated the stress accurately. But it appears not, his engineering skills can now easily be compared to some of the late Togo's standards. Well maybe not exactly.


While I applaud Itamin for taking a radical route in building their latest and greatest thrill rides- well compared to B&m's orthodox and tired ideas; yet has Maverick been in the now (thank God)defunct Arrow class of construction?

Now there are two options available to Cedar Point. Either modify, the heartline roll or replaced it with some fascinatingly dull straight track and just hope the ride works from there on.

This type of issue is very rare, and no coaster pops to my mind that had to be re-tracked before it even opened but we will just have to wait and see if this ends up like the first 4d coaster; a proudly Arrow inovation.

Labels: Cedar Point, Heartline-roll, Intamin, LSM Launch, Maverick