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PortAventura Discussion Thread
n0gades replied to Shockwave's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Hi all, I hope you enjoy the last update of the Universal Studios project in Europe, more specifically in PortAventura. Don't miss the Hogsmeade sketch!!!!! -
PortAventura Discussion Thread
n0gades replied to Shockwave's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Thank you Ben! I also think they could have implemented Harry Potter as well. In fact, I will work on a sketch of Harry Potter for the project of Universal's Port Aventura Park. My idea would be to use nowadays Stampida and convert it into an hybrid coaster that could be the corresponding Dragon Challenge in Islands of Adventure. Hogsmeade could be built in the nowadays extreme of Far West and colonial Mexico of PortAventura. I will keep updating this with new sketches so you will see. -
PortAventura Discussion Thread
n0gades replied to Shockwave's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
What if Universal Studios returns to PortAventura in Europe? I have been doing some sketchs of some of the changes it could happen. Here you have the logos. Universal Mediterranea Resort would be the name of the resort. Universal's Port Aventura would be the current Port Aventura with a big shot of Universal's Islands of Adventure power Universal Studios Barcelona would contain Ancient Egypt, Springfield, Terminator, Shrek casttle, Hill Valley or Diagon Alley. Universal's Ferrari land is the new park that PortAventura is building. It would of course be part of Universal on this project. and Costa Caribe Aquatic Park could be converted into Volcano Bay Aquatic Park. There would be some new waterslides on this park. You will see. Dragon Khan in PortAventura could be converted into the Incredible Hulk Coaster featuring a lunch and a new first inversion. This would make the coaster to pass from 8 to 9 inversions. It would be amazing. Now, it is a pity that the Incredible Hulk coaster is not in Europe but we do have Dragon Khan (and in the background Shambhala) Tutuki Splash could be converted into Jurassic Park River Adventure. Let's see how it actually looks like right now. It is not Jurassic Park the ride or River Adventure. Unfortunately. It is Tutuki Splash in Polynesia area, Port Aventura The nowadays entrance of the Polynesia area would be the entrance of Jurassic Park. Nowadays it is the entrance of Polynesia in PortAventura and it looks like this. Beautiful but not as impressive as if it were the Jurassic Park gate entrance!!! UPDATE: 24/Jul/2015 What if the incredibly funny ride of Popeye & Bluto's land in Europe? Well, if it would land into the nowadays Grand Canyon Rapids in PortAventura Park, it would be something like this. Nowadays, Grand Canyon Rapids looks like this. It's beautiful but a little bit boring and you don't get as soak as in Popeye's. In fact, sometimes you don't even get wet. What about the star of the park? Harry Potter HOGSMEADE in Europe! It would save too much money to the Europeans that need to visit Orlando to live this part of the park. This is how Hogsmeade would fit in PortAventura Park, on the Far West area, next to México. You can see 2 current rides: the free fall Hurakan Condor on the top right and well, it would not be a current ride. It would be a new hybrid coaster based on the dueling coaster: Stampida...obviously renamed as Dragon Challenge Are you prepared? I have been working many many hours on this. I hope you enjoy. The area looks like this now: -
PortAventura Discussion Thread
n0gades replied to Shockwave's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
New water park expansion for Costa Caribe waterpark in the PortAventura resort. It may open May 2013. Including a 12 stories free fall slide, the HIGHEST SLIDE in Europe. The former Volcano with the World Highest slide seems to be canceled finally. Most important: two new Caribbean style pools, Sesame Street Caribbean ship with small slides for children, 6 lane racer slides and two big slides including the higher free fall slide of 12 stories. More details in Spanish here (sorry, I am too lazy to translate this below): PortAventura confirma para esta temporada uno de sus proyectos más esperados: la renovación completa y ampliación del Costa Caribe Aquatic Park, el segundo parque del resort y adyacente al parque temático PortAventura. En 2013, la estrategia comercial se apoyará en el nuevo parque acuático, pero especialmente en los grandes proyectos de éxito recientemente incorporados a PortAventura: el área familiar deSésamoAventura que ha supuesto la ampliación más importante de la historia del parque con una superficie de 13.000 metros cuadrados de nuevas atracciones para familias, y Shambhala la montaña rusa más alta de Europa. Ambos proyectos están actuando como nuevos emblemas del parque y han convertido a PortAventura en un Resort destino de ocio familiar referente a nivel europeo. El proyecto del Costa Caribe Aquatic Park consta de una ampliación de 14.000 m2 de nuevas instalaciones, alcanzando de este modo los 50.000 m2 de superficie total del parque. La ampliación tendrá un presupuesto de 10 millones de euros y abrirá sus puertas en mayo. Este proyecto se enmarca en el plan de inversión de 75 millones de euros aprobado por Investindustrial en noviembre de 2012 y que tiene como objetivo la expansión y adaptación del resort para un público cada vez más internacional. El parque acuático es un equipamiento clave para esta estrategia, como lo demuestra el hecho de que los visitantes extranjeros suponen más del 50% de las visitas del parque acuático (especialmente ingleses y rusos). De hecho, en 2012 se realizó un estudio en Rusia que puso de manifiesto que uno de los factores principales para elegir PortAventura para unas eventuales vacaciones es que dispone de un parque acuático. Un tobogán de 12 pisos de altura Entre las nuevas atracciones del acuático destacará muy especialmente el tobogán de caída libre más alto de Europa que supondrá un auténtico reto para los más aventureros con sus 31 metros de altura, lo que equivale a un edificio de 12 pisos. Se trata del tobogán de estas características más alto de Europa. Los aventureros que se atrevan deberán hacer frente a una pendiente vertiginosa de 55º y una velocidad de descenso de 6 metros por segundo. Sin duda una experiencia irrepetible. Tobogán multi bump Junto al tobogán más alto se ubicará un segundo tobogán para los que prefieran una experiencia más moderada pero igualmente divertida. Será del tipo Multi Bump, es decir, con un recorrido ondulante y dos rápidos cambios de rasante. Este tobogán tendrá una altura de 19,64 metros y un recorrido de más de 100 metros. Tobogán de competición Otra sección del parque se ha dedicado a un tobogán de 6 carriles pensado para que tanto niños como adultos compitan para ver quien baja más rápido. Para el descenso, los visitantes se tumbarán sobre una suerte de alfombra-trineo y se proyectarán de frente a toda velocidad. Encontrarán un recorrido lleno de cambios de rasante y divertidos saltos de agua. Piscina para niños La piscina infantil tendrá dos niveles de profundidad: 50 cms y 30 cms para los más pequeños. Uno de de los elementos centrales de este espacio será un barco pirata repleto de personajes de Barrio Sésamo donde los niños lo pasarán en grande paseando por sus cubiertas o deslizándose por sus 4 toboganes. Al lado de la piscina infantil también se encontrará un Splash Pad, un pequeño espacio de juego con chorros de agua interactivos que los niños podrán pisar y perseguir. Piscina tropical para adultos Conectada a la piscina de niños estará la de adultos. Ambas estarán situadas a diferentes niveles, generando así una cascada de agua en la piscina de los niños. La piscina de los adultos está pensada para la nadar, divertirse pero también para relajarse. Es por eso que se instalarán camas de agua a poca profundidad y tonificantes efectos de agua. Al igual que la infantil, la piscina de adultos también dispondrá de una bonita cascada que contribuirá a reforzar la tematización caribeña del recinto. Ambientación caribeña Además de las cascadas, el equipo de Desarrollo de PortAventura ha dotado el parque de una cuidada tematización con el objetivo de que toda la familia pueda vivir una aventura caribeña combinando emociones y relajación. El parque dispondrá de grandes zonas verdes donde se plantarán más de 50 especies de plantas y palmeras. Toda la decoración transportará al Caribe, desde la cartelería, hasta las pérgolas, pasando por las zonas de hamacas y el apartado de restauración. Con la ampliación, el Costa Caribe Aquatic Park contará con una superficie de 50.000 m2, dispondrá de 16 atracciones y toboganes, así como de más de 8.500 m2 de lámina de agua y 5.000 m2 de zonas verdes y de descanso. Asimismo, se instalará un nuevo snack bar para complementar la oferta de restauración del parque acuático. Sources: Follow up http://portaventura-aquatic-park.pa-community.com/construcciones/parque-acuatico-2013 and the above new link with the text in Spanish and the same pictures http://www.pa-community.com/articulo/costa-caribe-aquatic-park-el-nuevo-parque-acuatico-de-portaventura PortAventura resort map of 2012 You can see above where the current small water park is located Here you can see a video of the nowadays water park without the new area And here the commercial of Universal Mediterranea (Port Aventura + Costa Caribe + hotels) of 2002 when PortAventura was part of the Universal Studios Resorts. You could see cool shots of the water park in the below spot and since then the water park did not include any new slide or pool. Only the trees have growed since then -
PortAventura Discussion Thread
n0gades replied to Shockwave's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
It's because the crazy inventor that has created that amazing wine transport tape did some tests with that dummies before. Unfortunately with no success. I think he had a problem with bars and brakes. An accident happened too. You can see a previous train completely damaged in the ground next to the entrance of the ride. -
PortAventura Discussion Thread
n0gades replied to Shockwave's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
The PA-Community have made a new Construction Diary here: http://www.pa-community.com/diario/diario.php With a DELUXE GALLERY that contains extralarge pics like this: An e-mail is needed for log in only. -
New PortAventura masterplan (2006-13)
n0gades replied to n0gades's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
The cost of the last masterplan before this new one (It's almost the same) was 1'5 Bilion € so it's gonna be the same or maybe more. Among the resort, you will may be able to move by tramway. -
New PortAventura masterplan (2006-13)
n0gades replied to n0gades's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
The Pandora's Box is supposed to be inside PortAventura Park in 2008 or 2009 in the China's portion of the park. It doesn't appear on the map. -
New PortAventura masterplan (2006-13)
n0gades replied to n0gades's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
If you look this map You'll see the official map. It's done by pa-community.com but it's copied point by point from the official one. "Nuevo Parque Temático" means New Theme Park. The new coaster appears on the bottom of "Parque PortAventura" (PortAventura Park) as a "eight shape". The park includes an new area called "Nueva Zona Parque" (New Park Zone) that is described in the comments as "Amazonia" (South America). The water park is also to be enlarged as it's said "Parque Acuático" (water park) and "Extensión Parque Acuático" (Water Park Extension) on the map. Right now all the other maps are wrong, old or incomplete. Nowadays it's done: -PortAventura Park (95) -Costa Caribe water park (02) -Hotel PortAventura (02) -Hotel El Paso (02) -Hotel Caribe (03) -Beach Club (06) -Sèquia (06) (wild zone protected area) -Parc de la Torre d'en Dolça (05) (urban parc owned by Vila-seca) It's being built: -Accelerator coaster (07) -Golf North (08 ) -Golf Centre (08 ) -Golf South (09) -Convention Centre (09) -Residentials (¿?) -Something in the south parking ¿Boulevard (City Walk)? (¿?) -Something near the Beach Club ¿Hotel Beach Paradise and Spa? (¿?) It's going to start very soon: -Hotel Ghost Town (¿08-09?) -Pandora's Box new ride for PA (08-09) We don't know when are being built (before 2011 anyway): -Hotel Tahiti -Sport Centre -The new Theme Park (before 2013) -PortAventura new area -Costa Caribe new area -two more hotels So, to sum up. There's a very little part of the whole masterplan that is unkown. The masterplan is real and they are building it so fast. Before 2011 and the third park (Universal Studios) before 2013.