Recent content by Absimilliard

Close, but no. The original Space Shot prototypes opened in 1995 at a FEC in Wisconsin Dells and at the Reino Aventura amusement park in Mexico City. Those only had 2 seats per side (8 seats total) and used Arrow restraints. In 1996, S&S refined the concept further and launched the 12 (Worlds of...

Futuroscope spoke about their future projects today and the most interesting is "The Race". If I translate the quote in the photo: "The Race" project will be a new roller coaster, where guests will "be suspended in a motorcycle position". This reminds me of the Vekoma Thrill Glider concept that...

Things improved with the ride compared to what I had heard, as the ride soft opened a few days ago, with missing effects. The first POV of the ride was just posted here, with a spoiler tag.

That's delayed even further, as the previous opening date was june 14th. Doesn't seem like testing is going as well as they expected for the ride.

Boomerang at La Ronde reopened today with its Vekoma upgrades. Beside the obvious new mk-1212 train, the station was redone with a new roof and flooring. Magnetic brakes in the station were also installed and the top half of the vertical loop replaced.

Anaconda is getting a replacement Morgan style train. The steel frames were made by a local french company and the new fiberglass shells by Reverchon. The park general manager in a Q&A in french a few weeks ago mentioned that adding any other style of train to the ride would have caused too...

Wild Train at Parc Saint-Paul was scrapped this week, as seen on this TikTok video: Wild Train removal. I am not shocked, as the park was taken over by Looping Group and they have a major cleanup job to do there. The Pax Drop Tower was already removed prior to this season and was to be replaced...

https://news.compagniedesalpes.com/compagnie-des-alpes-announces-the-acquisition-of-belantis-one-of-the-largest-amusement-parks-in-eastern-germany/?lang=en Compagnie des Alpes just announced that Belantis amusement park in eastern Germany was purchased from Parque Reunidos. It is a return for...

https://actu.fr/hauts-de-france/ermenonville_60213/c-est-quoi-cette-nouvelle-attraction-a-sensations-qui-est-en-train-de-voir-le-jour-a-la-mer-de-sable_61694003.html According to this local news site, the ride will also feature a 40-meter-long tunnel.

GCI is the manufacturer of the ride according to people at the park today and who saw the shipping labels on the lumber present at the park.

Intamin press conference As seen in the link above, Intamin and Dreamworld will announce a new attraction at IAAPA Expo Europe. Attraction sounds like it won't be a coaster, so what could it be? They already have a gyro swing.

Press conference list Paulton's Park and Lagotronics will unveil details of the new interactive attraction on september 24th at IAAPA Expo Europe.

La Recre des 3 Cures, an amusement park in western France, will add an 80-meter-tall (262 feet tall) Funtime drop tower in 2025. The name and theme haven't been determined for now, but to give you an idea of the scale of this ride, it will be the third drop tower in the country. Nigloland (100...

In the case of the Orlando accident, when the person modified the restraint sensor, he would have just made the seatbelt longer to match. A seatbelt that long with those forces can either snap or severely injure a rider. What make you think that a seatbelt would have prevented it?

Mack hasn't built a new Log Flume in 20 years. They are out of that market and pushing water coasters instead.