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Condor (ride)
The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen, Germany. It was debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, under the name "Cyclo Tower". The Condor has 28 steel-framed gondolas, each with a fiberglass shell, frequently painted to resemble a bird. The seats hold one to two people, one sitting behind the other if they decide to ride double. It can accommodate approximately 1,700 riders per hour. The automatic doors on the ride are operated by pneumatic air pressure and are manually opened and closed. The ride uses a cable and counterweight system within the tower to assist with the raising and lowering of the rotating assembly. An AC induction motor located at the end of each arm rotates the gondolas; three more on the middle lifting structure rotate the entire assembly and move the tower. To start the ride, most Condors require three buttons be hit at the same time to start the cycle. (The operator in the booth uses his or her thumbs on the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amusement Ride
Amusement rides, sometimes called carnival rides, are mechanical devices or structures that move people especially kids to create fun and enjoyment. Rides are often perceived by many as being scary or more dangerous than they actually are. This could be due to the design or from hearing about accidents involving rides that are similar. They are expected at most annual events such as Fair, fairs, traveling carnivals, and Circus, circuses around the world. Sometimes music festivals and concerts also host amusement park rides. Types of rides * Flat rides are usually considered to be those that move their passengers in a plane generally parallel to the ground, such as rides that spin around a vertical axis, like carousels and twist (ride), twists, and ground level rides such as bumper cars and The Whip (ride), The Whip. * Gravity rides are those where gravity is responsible for all or some of the movement, and where any vertical movement is not about a fixed point, such as rolle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Ronde (amusement Park)
La Ronde () is an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, built as the entertainment complex for Expo 67, the 1967 World Fair. Today, it is operated by Six Flags under an emphyteutic lease with the City of Montreal, which expires in 2065. It is the largest amusement park in Quebec and second largest in Canada. It occupies on the northern tip of Saint Helen's Island–a man-made extension to the island in the vicinity of where the small ''Ronde Island'' had once been, and the origin of the park's name. The park hosts the annual Montreal Fireworks Festival, an international fireworks competition. La Ronde, and Frontier City in Oklahoma City, are the only two company parks not officially branded as Six Flags parks. Grounds The Montreal region park is located within the St Lawrence river on Saint Helen's Island, situated atop a man-made extension on its northern tip where the small (water-enclosed) ''Ronde Island'' had once been. The former granite ''Ronde island'', which the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belantis
Belantis is an amusement park next to Leipzig, Germany. Covering 27 hectares, the park offers over 60 attractions, including four roller coasters. History The park was bought by Parques Reunidos Parques Reunidos (meaning "Reunited Parks") is an international entertainment operator based in Madrid, Spain. The group operates over 60 parks in about dozen countries. Parques Reunidos operates theme and amusement parks, zoos, water parks, fam ... in 2018. List of roller coasters ''Huracan'' has a steeper-than-vertical first hill and five inversions. List of water rides The water ride ''Fluch des Pharao'' starts from a pyramid with a height of 38 m. Further attractions This list in incomplete. Gallery File:Zwenkau_-_Belantis_11_ies.jpg, Entrance File:Zwenkau_-_Belantis_+_Zwenkauer_See_(Aussichtsturm)_01_ies.jpg, Pyramid of ''Fluch des Pharao'' File:BELANTIS_Luftaufnahme.jpg, Belantis in 2015 File:Belantis_008.jpg, Belantis in 2017 File:Belantis_2019_(4).jpg, Belanti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BonBon-Land
BonBon-Land is a Danish amusement park located in Holme-Olstrup in the South of Zealand, about 100 km from Copenhagen. This 34-acre park attracts about 450,000 each season. History The history of the theme park Bon Bon Land dates back to when the Danish sweets boiler Michael Spangsberg began to produce candies with names that children would find funny, like 'mågeklatter' (Seagull Droppings) 'hundeprutter' (Dog Farts) and 'tissebleer' (Pee Diapers). The candies became popular early on, and children wanted to visit the factory in Holme Olstrup (a small Danish town in the countryside). However, the factory couldn’t offer visiting tours because of strict hygiene regulations, so Michael Spangsberg opened the Bonbon-Land theme park. In 1992, the theme park opened with a mini candy factory, a cinema, a shop, and four small boats shaped like ducks located in a small pond. The park was a success with children, and many rides and attractions have been added over the years. Bonbon- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abenteuer Park Oberhausen
''Abenteuer'' (English: "Adventure") is the thirteenth studio album by German schlager singer Andrea Berg. It was released on 30 September 2011 in Germany and soon after in Austria and Switzerland. It marks Berg's second collaboration with Dieter Bohlen. Background Like its predecessor '' Schwerelos'' (2010), ''Abenteuer'' was produced by Dieter Bohlen. The songs were composed by Bohlen, who provided Berg with the melodies for her to write lyrics. According to Berg, ''Abenteuer'' is the first album for which she wrote all the lyrics alone. In the booklet, the singer referred to the development phase of the album as a time "at which life was like shoes adeof lead" and cites her father's death of cancer in April 2011 as one of the reasons. The song "Seelenverwandt" is dedicated to him. The album title, the German word for "adventure", represents Berg's wish to express that every day is a new chance and a first time. Track listing All tracks on all editions are produced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Park (Budapest)
The City Park ( hu, Városliget; german: Stadtwäldchen) is a public park close to the centre of Budapest, Hungary. It is a rectangle, with an area of , located in District XIV of Budapest, between ''Hungária körút'', ''Ajtósi Dürer sor'', ''Vágány utca'' and ''Dózsa György út''. Its main entrance is at Heroes' Square (''Hősök tere''), one of Hungary's World Heritage sites. Map Updated Map 2022 Name The area was formerly called ''Ökör-dűlő'', meaning "Oxmeadow". The first mention of the name comes from 1241 in the archaic form, Ukurföld. In the 18th century, the area was called ''Ochsenried'' in German. Around 1800 the official name was changed to ''Batthyány-erdő'' (Batthyány Forest) after its tenants, the Batthyány family. The first trees and planified walkways were established in 1751 and after the public park was created in the first decades of the 19th century the present-day name, ''Városliget'' (and its German version, ''Stadtwäldchen'', lit.: "li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attractiepark Slagharen
Attractie- & Vakantiepark Slagharen is an Amusement park and holiday resort in Slagharen, located in the Dutch province Overijssel. The park opened in 1963 and was originally named ''Ponypark Slagharen''. The logo contains the English name ''Slagharen Themepark & Resort''. The Amusement park contains two areas, which are connected by a main street containing shops and restaurants. The park has more than 30 attractions, including 2 Roller coasters. The park contains 6 themed areas: Indian, Yellowstone, New Orleans, Mexican, Wild West and Jules Adventureland (named after the French writer Jules Verne). The entrance and Apollo, Enterprise and Free Fall rides are all found at the southern end of the park. Whilst, the larger roller coasters including Gold Rush, Wild West Adventure and Tomahawk rides are at the northern end of the park. The flour mill built in 1859 named De Pionier can also be found at the northern end of the park. Adjacent to the main street is the ferris wheel and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serengeti Park
The Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen, Lower Saxony, is a zoo and leisure park in North Germany. History In 1972, the Duke of Bedford had the idea of building the largest safari park in Europe with partners from America. In 1974, this plan was realized and, since then, the Sepe family has run the park. When it opened the investors had spent about 20 million deutschmarks. In 1983, the park was extensively renovated. Nowadays the park consists of three different areas: Serengeti-Safari, Jungle-Safari and Adventure-Safari. In 1996, Serengeti Park was the first to release white rhinos, bred in Europe, back into the wild. In 2003, Serengeti Park admitted its first white tiger. In 2004, Serengeti Park received permanent recognition as a zoological garden in accordance with current EU guideline 99/22/EG and §45 of the north German nature reserve law and on the basis of a LANA inspection. 23 March 2006 saw the first African elephant calf to be born in north Germany for 30 years. On 27 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dream Park (amusement Park)
''Dream Park'' is a 1981 sci-fi/murder mystery novel written by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes set in a futuristic amusement park of the same name. It was nominated for the 1982 Locus Award and later expanded into a series of cyberpunk murder mysteries: ''The Barsoom Project'' (1989), ''The California Voodoo Game'' (1992), and ''The Moon Maze Game'' (2011). The books describe a futuristic form of live action role-playing games (LARPs), although the term was not in use when the original novel was published. The novels inspired many LARP groups, notably the International Fantasy Games Society, named after a fictional entity in the book. Overview The ''Dream Park'' series is set in a near-future Earth, the first book taking place in March 2051. Technology is used to create realistic games in which participants act out the roles of free-willed protagonists in various stories. These are role-playing games and foreshadowed many aspects of modern live action role-playing games. Many e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freizeit-Land Geiselwind
Freizeit-Land Geiselwind is an amusement park near Geiselwind, Germany. Covering 55 hectares, the park offers over 100 attractions, including 6 roller coasters. History The park was founded in 1969 by Ernst Mensinger under the name "Vogel-Pony-Märchenpark" (fairy tale park with birds and ponies). It was opened next to a newly buildt section of the Federal Motorway A3. In the beginning, the park had a focus on animals. Later, more and more amusement rides were added. For several decades Acapulco divers entertained the visitors. The new owner after the death of Mensinger in 2017 is Matthias Mölter. Roller Coasters The last four roller coasters don't have an inversion. Cobra has one inversion and Boomerang three (six per ride). Further attractions This list of attractions is incomplete. Gallery File:Cobra_-_Freizeit-Land_Geiselwind.jpg, Cobra File:Geiselwind00002.JPG, Enterprise Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to: Business a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday Park, Germany
Holiday Park is an amusement park in Haßloch, Germany, owned and operated by Plopsa. It is one of Germany's most popular theme parks (receiving about 660,000 visitors per year) and is part park and part woodland. History Family Schneider In 1970 the ''Schneider'' family bought the ''Märchenwald Haßloch'', a fairytale forest. The family had a Liliputan Circus for several generations, where people could watch other people with dwarfism. The purchase allowed the family to give the circus a permanent place and the renewed park opened in 1971 with the Liliputaner town, a dolphin show, a Wild Mouse rollercoaster and a fairytale village. The park was renamed Holiday Park in 1973. Initially the park covered 70,000 m², but nowadays it has grown to 400,000 m². The park grew – over the decades that it was run by the Schneider family – to become the seventh largest amusement park in Germany. Under the family's leadership Germany's first Rapid River and Free Fall Tower opened. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Flags Great Adventure
Six Flags Great Adventure is an amusement park located in Jackson, New Jersey. Owned and operated by Six Flags, the park complex is situated between New York City and Philadelphia and includes a water park named Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, Hurricane Harbor. It first opened to the public as simply Great Adventure in 1974 under the direction of restaurateur Warner LeRoy. Six Flags acquired the park in 1977. In 2012, Six Flags combined its Great Adventure with its Wild Safari animal park to form Six Flags Great Adventure & Safari park. At , it is the second-largest theme park in the world following Disney's Animal Kingdom. The park is located right off of Interstate 195 (New Jersey), Interstate 195 and is along Monmouth Road (County Route 537 (New Jersey), County Route 537). History Warner LeRoy era (1974–1977) In 1972, entrepreneurial businessman Warner LeRoy developed concept plans for the Great Adventure entertainment complex, proposing seven parks be built within the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
