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Helix Blog Update - The queue is taking shape
Lisa posted another update this week, this time she is concentrating on the status on how the queue is progressing.
There are loads of people moving around in the station area. Preparations in the maintenance area are done to receive the trains tomorrow, electrical works to hook up the control booth is progressing to prepare the ride for testing, the façade is being installed, the roof is nearing completion, etc.
But the area that requires the most work on site is the queue itself. Mainly because it's very complex but also since it's pretty long. The capacity of the queue is 1000 people (not sure if this includes the overflow area or not).
Source: http://projekthelix.se/kofallan-tar-form/
Images!!
Angles and paths underneath the station trough
Underneath he platform, the small stair to the right is the chicken-exit
There are loads of stuff happening in the main area, but all the extra scaffoldings makes it's hard to get an idea on how it will look eventually
A view from the Express-pass entrance, you can see the overflow area to the left side, and to the right there is the continuation of the Express-pass line
On the path you saw in the image above, it will continue down a set of stairs, then meet the normal queue at the platform where the chicken-exit came down on in a picture above
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Ooo, the park have done some nice progress since I was there. Feel free to post more images.
They really have a lot of potential, too bad though that they have the same problem as Skara Sommarland, it's a bit of a trek to get there in the first place.
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That's sounds deliciousOh, and I just remembered: I'll be riding Helix AND Piraten with just one day in between. -
^^ Not a big fan of that one, Eurosat on the other hand
^ Not sure how Liseberg is on ride music, since this is the first ride to get it's own that I know of, sure there is official music in the Kaninlandet area, but nothing more than that, so I don't know if it's possible to get them on CD. Liseberg is a long way from Europa park in that category. But as it is at the moment, then Europa park is what Liseberg is striving to be like, and I don't blame them to get inspiration from there.
You can download 30 minutes more at: http://projekthelix.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMAscore_-_Helix_Station_Full_Demo.mp3
So thanks to extracting the music from the Youtube video I now have 50 minutes on my computer
Nice to have when doing Helix updates
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^^ Great job guys!!
Another 20 minutes of the total 100 minutes long soundtrack have appeared on the IMAscore youtube page:
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^ There you are.
I have to say that this orange look is way better than it did before!!
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So with the massive Wildfire project being teased about in another topic here on TPR: Click
It was really clear that almost no one on here have ever heard of the place before, so I decided to dig up some images from when me and my brother visited the place on our way back from Stockholm, after crashing the last TPR Scandi trip in 2009 for a few days.
During all my childhood, we have driven past the place several times a year, but this was actually my first visit to the place.
The park is a massive thing, we mainly stopped by to do a credit run, but since the place is so massive it took us over 1.5 hours to enter the park, ride the coaster and then head back out again. And no we didn't really stop to admire the animals, most of the images are taken on the go
So it's basically a giant Zoo that is nestled in a massive forest, it caters to family's, with younger children, and it's located almost 2 hours south west from Stockholm, pretty near the Skavsta airport (where you end up if you fly to Stockholm with Ryanair).
So it's very likely that there have been massive changes since, but this will give you a taste of Kolmården!!
Enjoy!!
Arrived on a hot summers day at Kolmården
Yay, they have a escalator to enter the park, beats walking up a hill anyday
Some animal greeted us
Playground
Not sure if this is part of an obstacle course or an animal enclosure, no matter what, at TPR trip will use it to it's fullest anyway
Let's head in that direction
Some ride
Animal
Ostrich
Looks pretty funky
Snow leopards
Tiger carving
Makes sense since this is Tiger World
Hmm, which way to go..
Too bad that the sunken bus wasn't part of the tough way, must have missed the extreme way..
Tigers chilling
It was pretty hot this day
Random fox, no idea how this image ended up in here among the tigers
I wonder if that's blood or just paint, they didn't look that hungry though
One of the many cable cars
YAY, credit!! Why did they build it at the other end of the park
A massive ropeway up in the trees
More ropeway
Even more
It goes on and on
Massive thing this
Finally at Marine World, new for 2009
I can spy a coaster
Miami themed area, looked really nice
Yay, roller-skater
What it's called
Ticket!!
Dolphin themed trains
For the control panel fans
Clever themeing
Of course we went for the last row, wonder how much down force that fin creates..
Rides like any other Roller-Skater if I remember correctly
Final picture
Mmmm Ice-cream perfect on a hot day like this
Heading back to the entrance, past the monkeys
More
Even more
There are animals everywhere
Into the depths of the African Savanna
Elephants
Zebras
Massive Savanna
All the animals kept to themselves
YAY Gobi Desert!!
It was hot like it though.
Hmmm
Last thing we saw was the Wolves
These were fast and hard to get a good image of
Looking for pray
And that's it!!
My only visit to the place, but by the looks of it, then it's time for a revisit in 2016!!
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I could have sworn that I saw in an Amusement Today magazine that Godiståget is to be a clone of Schwaben Park's Zierer Force One (which actually looks really good as far as family coasters go) but after thumbing through the latest four issues, I couldn't find it.
That's really interesting, especially since they already have a roller skater in the park, two rides that are very similar in my opinion.
I just posted some images from the place here: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67510
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Lisa is on fire this week
Another blog update - station cladding
This are the different stages the station went through before the they ended up with the one that is now under construction.
Original concept drawing, with smooth steel panels
Final version a wavy roof line with a wire mesh to give it a smooth billowing apperance
Another version but with wooden slats
No matter what the cladding would end up, this is what the station looks like without it
What they look like installed
Lifting up the beams that will form the edge where the mesh will be tensed over, these are heavy and are welded into place
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^ That is a concept from Hoei-Sangyo, which can be found on their web-page: http://www.hoei-sangyo.co.jp/roller_coaster/roller_coaster08.html
There isn't that much information about it though.
Speaking of other ideas. A massive S&S free-fly would be epic
Zipping through the forest, an making incredible turns between trees.
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^ I have a feeling that they planned that teaser to somewhat overshadow the track completion on Helix. In a same way that the final announcement is scheduled for the day after Helix will begin testing. The coaster/ride war is raging here in Sweden right now
Small update from the blog, the trains are ready to be loaded at the factory for the drive up to Sweden
Can't wait to see more when they arrive on Monday, expect images
Source: http://projekthelix.se/halsning-fran-fabriken/
Yay, trains!!
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The only time I have been to the place was on our way back from Stockholm after a few days of joining the TPR scandi 2009 trip. If there are interest then I might be able to dig up some images from back then??
The thing is, during all my childhood we have driven past the place several times every year, but never went until me and my brother could go there ourselves, and then only for the credit
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^ The Polish flag is for the workers that put the whole thing together. Sure RCS may be German, but the majority of the people that do the actual ironwork for them comes from Poland, hence the Polish flag.
Another note on Helix:
It's the longest coaster with inversion in Europe, and also the longest coaster with inversions outside North America.
And the video of the installation:
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^ Helix vs. Wildfire vs. something else for Gröna Lund and Skara Sommarland!!
BRING IT ON!!
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robbalvey... Can't you just rank how awesome this will be? Cooler than HELIX?
Speaking of which, it's pretty interesting that they have chosen this date to release this, I mean Helix was made full circuit today as well
The Swedish coaster wars from the late 80's, have rekindled
The owners of Grona and Skara? They have an awesome history of putting in unique and just plain awesome, smart coasters. Ex. Insane (The only insane Intamin ball coaster), Twister (one of a kind compact GG), Vilda Musen, Tranan (that fun looking S&S coaster). And they did have that Intamin stand up coaster back in the day. So they've got awesome connections with the companies we like to see. I would love to see an insane new S&S launch coaster. They've done some freaky, funky stuff over the years.Well they are only responsible for the newer additions, the whole "Parks and Resorts Scandinavia" is not really more than 10 years old.
So the Intamin stand-up you are talking about is way before they arrived on the scene.
That one was one of the players in the coaster war in the late 80's, Lisebergbanan vs. Jet-line vs. Stand-up!!
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^ Good find!
But I do agree with Hyyyper, don't expect on any too extreme attraction, it's a family park, so it still have to cater for a large part of the family.
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More pictures can be found on the local paper's webpage: GP.se [swedish]
There are also some fun things like that they celebrated the completion of the track on Helix and it's Pretzel loop with Beer (non-alcoholic) and Pretzels
Then the repoter asked the CEO what will happen next, and Andreas said, that after the track is done and the trains are on site you start to do the testing of the ride, and about the testing phase he said:
"You start with dummies, then the CEO and finally ordinary People."
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Helix going full circuit!!
So the day that we have waited for a long time finally happened, the final track-piece went in place earlier today, and here are some images from this!!
Source: Liseberg FB page
Enjoy!!
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Just one of the reasons why Japan is so awesome!!
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^ That's sounds promising!!
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Did they tell you anything about when the details will be released? A week? a year?
According to the site http://wildfire.kolmarden.com/countdown
Then all will be known on the 8:th of April, so just a couple of weeks to go.
Kolmården is really shaping up to be a kick ass family park with this pace.
They already have a massive "Bamse" themed area going in for next year.
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^ They just need some crowbar action to get that in there, it's a pair of studs that are sticking out from the track-pieces that hinder them to slot into each other smoothly.
Yes the last piece of support that will go on top of those two supports that are sticking up near the crossover of the Pretzel loop, it's the one that was sent down to Mack last week, it will arrive tomorrow and will bolted into place soon after.
But before that there is another piece of support that will connect to the final track-piece. It will be mounted on top of the
big structure at the top of the image, the piece can be seen behind the RCS crane. But I guess that it will go in before they all go to lunch.
On another note, I do love the curvy path they are making up to the tower complex on that image, looks way better than the straight steep path that was there before. The landscaping guys have really put the hammer down lately, you can see the progress made between almost all of the web-cam images. Can't wait for them to clean up the Pretzel area, and yes that massive slab underneath the Pretzel loop will be covered
EDIT: it's now official, the crane have been unhooked, all track pieces have been installed!!
Took a long time longer than I anticipated.
EDIT 2: The second to last support piece is being installed right now, so just the final piece left tomorrow, I do hope that it will arrive and fit beautifully.
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^^ ^ Thank you!!
Seems like the lift goes ahead of schedule, since it seems like they are doing it now!!
EDIT: It's in!! Looks like the piece arrived on schedule and without any major hiccups.
Looks to be a lot more interested people than I first thought
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Looks really nice, unfortunately I won't be riding it any time soon, even if it's close by in Norway
About the switch-track, they might just want a proper maintenance area, so I actually doubt that we will see more than one train on it, still thinks that it might be plenty with just one.
What is your next park?
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Liseberg tomorrow!!