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Nigloland | Le Donjon de l’Extrême | Funtime drop tower

_koppen

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Nigloland have had some nice seasons now and for 2016 they are adding two drop towers. One from Zierer for the kids named La Tour des Petits Fantômes and one from Funtime for the adults named Le Donjon de l’Extrême.

It will be a rather impressive installation for this park! It will be Funtime's first permanent free fall tower.

Here's the spec for the Funtime tower:

Total height 100 meter
Capacity of 700 people per hour
Capacity of 24 passagers
Top speed 115 km/h
Total time of free fall 3 secondes
Height restriction 1.40 meter

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Zierer tower arriving.

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Zierer seats.

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Pouring the foundation.

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Funtime tower arriving.

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I really like the colors on this one!

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Here's how the towers will be arranged. Obviously the scale of the rides are flawed.

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Funtime seats.

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Here we can see that Funtime have abandoned the Gerstlauer restraints previously used on their drop towers for these new restraints which IMO looks like a huge improvement.

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Up it goes!

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Also the Zierer tower is going up.

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Looks very nice and comfy.

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The top decoration looks great!

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Fresh photo from the topping of today, I except better photos will be out soon. It's a really tall sucker considering it's one of the less complex drop tower installations!

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peep

CF Legend
Yeah this thing looks massive, it's going to tower over the whole area. Nice to see there will be a themed element to this new addition, hopefully it'll fit into the park nicely.

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_koppen

Hyper Poster
Here's some fresh photos! If this new tower isn't too expensive I can see a lot of smaller parks showing interest in this!

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andrus

Giga Poster
Wow! 100 meters you say? That's one massive drop tower!!

Will be nice to give it a try once I get my ass out to Nigloland :)
 

owentaylor121

Giga Poster
I was worried this would have looked like a fun fair model, but it actually looks amazing! I really like the seats! I with the Nigloland sign was on both rides of the tower and not just the front.

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_koppen

Hyper Poster
Here's a great photo! We can see that each tower section is almost 12 meters long. They lifted up 8 sections so that would give us a tower height of almost 96 meter plus the top decoration.

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SaiyanHajime

CF Legend
This looks really cool, I love those restraints. And Christ that's tall... Over 300ft??

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oriolat2

Giga Poster
MackLand, I mean, Nigloland is already an amazing park! I can't wait to go back and try this bad boy!

I *think* there was a similar model touring the German fair circuit last year under the name Hangover. I rode it and it felt great! So much better than some standard Intamin drop towers.

I hope to see other small-ish parks get more of these!
 

Lofty

CF Legend
We rode it recently and it's terrifying.

The initial release is somewhat weak but it just keeps picking up speed until it hits the brakes. I know this sounds odd but most drop towers I've been on seem to get to a terminal velocity (not literally, just the feeling) really quick, this didn't. It literally just falls and falls and falls then hits the brakes.

Also, the restraints and seats aren't as cheap in real life as they are on photos. They're a soft rubber in essence and really comfortable.


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