Nrthwnd Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 I couldn't wait to show pix I just found, of this new attraction being built in Amsterdam. All the more so, because hopefully, it will have opened just before I arrive there for a week's+ stay, end of this month! And the whole system is built in an already existing church! Now that's unique, hmm? And I do believe there's a hill in there, if you look closely? With a reverse track turntable, too? :shock: This is definitely going to be a neat unexpected add-on to my visit there. Note: All pix are from www.whooshmagazine.com (Also - sorry the pix are shown in reverse order. I still haven't gotten numbering sequences and posting skills, etc. down good...yet. ) Here's the main sign. And all pix are from www.whooshmagazine.com And where it's located. Roughly, lol. I think it starts around here, on this part of the track. Hmmm. Wonder if you start forward, or backward... What the upper track passes over... The turntable - and can you see the hill yet? Heh heh heh. The lower track and a car 'base' it looks like, on it. Hmmm... Now you can see that hill, right? Close up of lower track and car 'base'. Near the end of the 'ride'? Photos all from www.whooshmagazine.com
coasterguy618 Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 That's very cool. I like how it is not in an amuesment park.
M_Force_4_ever Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 thats very neat, I have to try that when I visit Amsterdam in 2007
kenshinmac Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 Whoa... Just seriously WHoa... That looks like a tiny space for anything... The idea of putting something like that in though is crazy...
chauncey Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 This is really wonderful! The church looks gorgeous, and it has a rollercoaster! Awesome.
ahecht Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 What is an e-motion? The track and cars look a bit like a spinning mouse.
DragonKhan Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 http://rcdb.com/id2470.htm Basically a mouse where the cars can tilt from side to side...
ebl Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 A coaster inside a church? Talk about your Holy Rollers... Eric
Nrthwnd Posted October 4, 2005 Author Posted October 4, 2005 And this is the company that produced the Dungeons of London - Edinburgh - and Hamburg. I believe these other three 'Dungeons of...' have boat rides thru them? And none of them in a converted church like this, yes? No? Ah those wonderful, crazy Dutch peeps. What were they smoking when they dreamt this one up, LOLO???!
verticalzero Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 I wonder if there has been any letters to say a coaster should not be built in a church.. Good place for 1 I say.
Nrthwnd Posted October 4, 2005 Author Posted October 4, 2005 Well, the Main Thing Is.... it's a credit, right???
CreativeForce Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 If every church had one of these, I know I'd be coasting my way to heaven! "Come on everybody, it's time to jump on the Jesus train!" For the really good airtime, ride the Moses train in the back.
X Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 Aww Man! When did Amsterdam get a new credit? When I LEFT!!!!! Kevin"Go to go back to Amsterdam"Bujold
ECZenith Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 http://rcdb.com/ig3267.htm?picture=1 Reaper: Drop Ride To Doom So what are the other Dungeon rides like? I never even knew about this chain of attractions.
Nrthwnd Posted October 5, 2005 Author Posted October 5, 2005 Here's the site for the Dungeons of... http://www.thedungeons.com/ I do believe the other three use a boat ride thru part of their setup. But Am'dam's is the first with a coaster element. I also just found out, that this will cost (adult) 14.50 Euros admission :shock: That's quite alot for a coaster credit, lol. I realize it's for the entire 'package tour' with talent involved. Not just a coaster ride... Ah well, a credit IS a credit, and this will be a pretty unique one, yes?
Cerberus Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 I find this quite funny actually. When visiting foreign countries with vast, extravagant churches I'm always sitting there bored, tracing the walls with my eyes wondering how cool it'd be to suspend a coaster from the ancient architecture whilst everyone else just admires the windows or something I'm surprised nobody kicked up a fuss about it too! "Thou shalt not build modern, pleasurable junk in mine temple of Jeebus worship!" Mack are all going to hell! Cerberus
cfc Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 I do believe the other three use a boat ride thru part of their setup. The Edinburgh Dungeon features a boat ride with vampires--as I recall, it's basically darkness, spooky sound effects (such as evil whispering), and some basic dark-ride monster-on-a-spring-or-wire effects. Pretty cheesy (not that this is necessarily bad--I thought the place was a hoot). And I think the "boat" actually rolled on wheels in a few inches of water.
Teddymonster Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 I wonder if there has been any letters to say a coaster should not be built in a church.. Good place for 1 I say. Amen to that (no pun intended)! Some like this may actually get my ass into church.
DragonKhan Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 you have to remember that this is NOT America... also, a church basically loses its purpose when it's not used what it was orginally intended for. It becomes just "another fancy building"
SharkTums Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 Heck, the Church at Williams Grove was turned into a Laser Tag arena!!!!
DragonKhan Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 Yup. Most seriously christian people don't have a problem with that. Because it's not the building that makes it a sacred place, it's what you do in it.
cfc Posted October 6, 2005 Posted October 6, 2005 Heck, the Church at Williams Grove was turned into a Laser Tag arena!!!! "Holy Laser Tag, Batman!" "Very well put, Robin. Only a fiend with a mind as twisted as the Joker would turn a house of worship into an arena for training a new army of juvenile delinquents!" Chuck "I'm having a flashback to 1960s TV" Campbell
krouvi Posted October 6, 2005 Posted October 6, 2005 one more great great great reason to go back to Amsterdam. I love this city.
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