“Festival der lichter” at Phantasialand will never be performed again.
The next video shows the parade for a last time, forever to be kepped in our hearts.

Enjoy watching Black Mamba during Festival der Lichtern.
This small compilation offers some offride & onride footage.

* This video contains some total darkness shots.

Movie Park Germany says goodbye to Cop Car Chase, formally known as “Lethal Weapon” during the Warner Bros period.

The entrance is now used for Halloween, which will be used as a last goodbye to Cop Car Chase (based on Tornalloween at Walibi Belgium 2005). The trains are already moved out of the park. Hopefully to a better place.

Message from Movie Park Germany:
The removal of the oldest coaster in the park is decided. The “Cop Car Chase”, 10 years known as “Lethal Weapon” will no longer drive along curves. “the repairs would have been too expensively” confirmed park spokeswoman Antje Moeller.

The cars are already diminished. Which will be built in place of this roller coaster is not certain.

Themeparkvision

One of the largest attraction builders in the world is situated in the Netherlands. Vekoma designed and build many roller coasters, madhouses, Ferris wheels, … in the past. This year, Vekoma brings a new type of train on the market.

Limitated maintenance

Maintenance is very important and asks a lot of money of amusement parks. That’s why they limited the maintenance for the new trains.

First they looked how they could work modular (standardisation, so parts can be used on other trains). Thanks to this, Vekoma can produce a larger amount of the same parts what reduces the production costs. Next they looked how they could minimize the amount of weld points. This makes it easier for the technical staff (yearly inspections). Eventually they produced a new chassis which can be used on multiple type of coasters (suspended, sitting coaster).

Comfort

A much important fact about the new train is the better comfort. If the track is designed well but the train is not comfortable, then this may affect the ride experience in a bad way.

Vekoma engineers designed a new seat which is more natural for the human body. Pressure is divided over the entire seat. The new seats are comfortable and make you feel free. The “Patented Special Seat & Restraint” is born:

These trains can also be used on inversion coasters, which will give an entire new experience. A vest will be added to the train for more safety but this will not affect the riders vision. Riders will feel totally free.

Next year, the first roller coaster will be equiped with this new type of train. The first impressions are outstanding and we are looking forward to the first installation of it.

Rides.nl

Liseberg, the park with the famous woody “Balder” is getting a new exciting thrill-ride next year.

Their new ride will be an S&S screaming swing, like Rush in Thorpe Park.

Ride details:
- 32 riders/ride
- Speed: 80 km/u
- Height: 30 m
- 30 million krone
- Opening: 28 April 2007

Themeparkvision

Employees at an amusement park in Daejeon failed to safety check a ride, which resulted in two riders falling 35 meters to the ground on Sunday.

The two schoolgirls fell off the rotating ride “Swing Drop,” which rotates 360 degrees and boasts a peak height of 40 meters. Both girls sustained serious head, arm and leg injuries, and were taken to the nearby hospital.

Police said they questioned two employees who operated the ride and admitted they did not check whether passengers had fastened their seat-belts before the ride commenced.

Kumdori Land issued an apology to the public yesterday.
“We apologize for causing trouble and hope the children recover quickly. In future, we will do our best to prevent such an accident happening again.”

koreaherald

Watch Nemesis Inferno, a B&M inverted found at Thorpe Park (UK)

At least two children were rushed to the hospital on Friday night after riding the “Orbiter ride” at the Berlin Fair (Germany).

The fire marshal shut down the ride after some parents complained that the safety bar latch did not work on the ride, and the children were being thrown about.

One mother speaks: “My son was at a hospital undergoing a CT scan because he was thrown around in the ride.” Another mother claimed that her son received similar injuries. Both boys were not riding on the same time.

State officials inspected the ride and could not find any problems. But the ride will remain closed until another inspection can occur.

Nmc30.com

Singaporeans and visitors can look forward to a new Universal Studios theme park with at least 16 customised attractions at Sentosa if Genting international-Star Cruises consortium lands the integrated resort project there.

The bidder says the physical design of Universal Studios Singapore will be larger then the one in Hollywood. Dubbing it a “first-of-its kind theme park in Asia”, the resort operator estimates the park will draw over fine million visitors each year.

Some 1 billion $ will be invested to build Universal Studios Singapore which will include 6 themed areas encircling a lagoon, as well as new rides based on movies like Madagascar, King Kong, Revenge of the Mummy and Waterworld.

There will be live entertainment shows and educational features about computer-generated animation and the art of making a hit movie.

Channelnewasia

No limits 1.6 for Windows is released! It’s a stand-alone full version, the updated version does not require any previous full version install.

New coasters:
- New Vekoma Flying Dutchmen
- New Gerstlauer spinning coaster
- New Maurer spinning coaster
- New Gerstlauer bobsled
- New Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter 2
- New Modern steel looping coaster

See the No Limits Site for further details on the release.