"ABC Powered Suspended-Ride for Potts Park

[Kooky]

ABC builds a coaster like interactive powered thing in the small german park "Potts Park" which is called "Turbo Drachen". Meanwhile the first employes riding this one!

Here are the pics from http://freizeitparkweb.de/cgi-bin/dcf/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=7353&forum=DCForumID4&viewmode=all, which were made by the user "Friesi":

 

 

 

and some older pics, to get a better view of the layout:

[expeditioneverestfan]

Seems more like a ride than a coaster.

[eddie200330]

It's powered, kinda like a monorail.....

[Kooky]

yeah, youre right! the sign says its a new kind of interactive ride.... i think by interactive they mean you can swing with the plan to 55 degrees in both directions with your body movement. So i corrected the thread.

[Kooky]

found two more photos from the test on http://freizeitparkweb.de/cgi-bin/dcf/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=7353&forum=DCForumID4&viewmode=all:

 

 

Seems that it will open soon...

[robbalvey]

Sounds like a another park we need to add to the "Robb & Elissa's Weird Parks of Europe" tour!

 

--Robb

[Kooky]

Would be really nice to see one Photo TR of this little wierdo from you... if you haven`t seen the park map before, i`ll spoil it to you:

 

I´ll bet you that you haven`t seen some of the attractions before like this self powered WellenBahn (WaveRide)

 

edited: Pics deleted because the sources were deleted.

 

Source: http://www.pottspark-minden.de/

[Kooky]

found a video from the test rides on freizeitparkweb.de from the user "Dasdi"!

 

you can download it here.

 

Looks much faster than i expected.

 

if you want to see more about the park here is a link to a german TV report:

http://www.wdr.de/mediathek/html/regional/rueckschau/2009/09/12/lokalzeit_owl_aktuell.xml?offset=1424&autoPlay=truea

[JimmyBo]

I spy a possible Boat Jump ride on that park map!

[Kooky]

not possibly one boat jump ride, there are 4 of them maybe we will see there a new olympic discipline: Synchrone Boat Jump - 4 TPR members jump at the same time

[Kooky]

Finally the abc-prototyp opened. Thanks to a report on Freizeitparkweb.de from the user "dasdi" its possible to show you some pics from the first day.

 

"Dasdi" mentioned that the ride was really fun. Especially the last curves the trains swing up to 60 degree to left and right. But the ride is not fully operational at the moment, two things haven`t been realzied till yet:

 

- it has not the final speed: When its ready they will increase the speed about 20%.

 

- the interactive part isn`t working: when its done you will be able to control the speed of the trains by yourself....

 

So the ride seems to be fun and looks like a good expansion for this little park, even if its not really a coaster (or is it one!?).

 

Edited: (if you haven`t seen the ride in action i remind you of the video from the tests which you can download from http://ladshoch.de/shareportal/app/template/Download.vm/d/F39D5F220BEF19678177531CEF84DCD5 ->you have to wait 10 seconds till the download starts, watch with VLC-Player)

 

 

all sources from http://freizeitparkweb.de/cgi-bin/dcf/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=7353&forum=DCForumID4&viewmode=all

 

EDIT:

 

The park renewed his homepage.

 

I think what you will like is intresting attraction: beside the two adult jumping boats there are two pedal powered kiddie jumping boats (many of the rides in this park are selfpowered):

 

source: http://www.pottspark-minden.de/

[Mochtroid]

This looks fun for the kids. Huzzah for unique European rides!