Laser, the coaster that stood at Dorney Park for over two decades before being sold last year (original topic here), will have new trains and a new name. Meyer-Rosenzweig, the company that purchased and shipped the coaster back to Germany, have named the Schwarzkopf double looper Teststrecke (Test track). They also purchased new trains stating that renovating the old ones wouldn't have been cost effective at roughly 400,000 Euros.
The cousins Theo Rosenzweig and Thomas Meyer bought Laser/Teststrecke with intention of returning it to it's roots as a traveling coaster on the German fair circuit and were hoping to have it's premier at the Maimesse in Minden, Germany this month. But a delay in delivering the new trains forced the cancellation of the Maimesse debut, even though the track had been completely overhauled in order to pass the tough Germany fair circuit inspection (TÜV).
"We inspected every nut and bolt on the entire ride in addition to installing a system monitoring computer as required in Europe," Rosenzweig told the Mindener Tageblatt newspaper.
"I thought I didn't hear correctly" he said about being informed of the delay with the train delivery. "It isn't easy to erect a ride this large in a town like Minden, but we had plenty of time for the construction, which always includes difficulties with an undertaking such as this. Above and beyond that, we also would have had craftsmen standing by that know the track inside out. That would have been a great advantage for us," he added.
Now Teststrecke is scheduled to make it's debut at the Hamburger Dom fair, that runs from July 24 through August 23, 2009. "The track has to be built much faster at the huge fairgrounds like Hamburg, Stuttgart or Munich," Rosenzweig added. All pre-debut preparations will now be carried out at the family-owned Oeynhausen workshop. According to Rosenzweig, the new trains are supposed to look similar to Formula 1 racing cars.
Too bad those of you going on the European Live in July aren't able to stop by and ride this great little coaster.
The cousins Theo Rosenzweig and Thomas Meyer bought Laser/Teststrecke with intention of returning it to it's roots as a traveling coaster on the German fair circuit and were hoping to have it's premier at the Maimesse in Minden, Germany this month. But a delay in delivering the new trains forced the cancellation of the Maimesse debut, even though the track had been completely overhauled in order to pass the tough Germany fair circuit inspection (TÜV).
"We inspected every nut and bolt on the entire ride in addition to installing a system monitoring computer as required in Europe," Rosenzweig told the Mindener Tageblatt newspaper.
"I thought I didn't hear correctly" he said about being informed of the delay with the train delivery. "It isn't easy to erect a ride this large in a town like Minden, but we had plenty of time for the construction, which always includes difficulties with an undertaking such as this. Above and beyond that, we also would have had craftsmen standing by that know the track inside out. That would have been a great advantage for us," he added.
Now Teststrecke is scheduled to make it's debut at the Hamburger Dom fair, that runs from July 24 through August 23, 2009. "The track has to be built much faster at the huge fairgrounds like Hamburg, Stuttgart or Munich," Rosenzweig added. All pre-debut preparations will now be carried out at the family-owned Oeynhausen workshop. According to Rosenzweig, the new trains are supposed to look similar to Formula 1 racing cars.
Too bad those of you going on the European Live in July aren't able to stop by and ride this great little coaster.
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