The vampire ride is a suspended coaster that was originally built by Arrow Dynamics and opened in 1990. They subsequently went out of business and with no-one to maintain the increasingly unreliable ride, new hanging coaster cars were designed and built by our friends at...
With the Centre Column being joined to the Ride Stand, which is in turn rooted to the ground, the ride lifts the passengers into the air on its 4.2 metre arms. In a previous post about the QuadStar chassis, we said there was another point...
This could easily be seen as a the less glamorous side of a theme park ride build, but it's still a vital part of the overall operation and ride safety and one we love to get involved with. In terms of the design and build,...
At the heart of the QuadStar Aerial ride is the chassis. It's the incredibly strong underpinning for the lightweight car to sit atop and contain the passengers. The chassis itself is flexible enough to carry almost any design of car, so if you're thinking you'd...
At the heart of the QuadStar ride is an incredibly well engineered centre column. When completed it will weigh over seven tons on it's own, but it is built to the highest engineering standard of BS/EN 1090 so we can guarantee it is made to an...
With all the focus being on the creation and launch of the QuadTrack Tracked Dark Ride system for Santa Park and the subsequent launch at EAS in Barcelona, we have been quietly working on the creation of a completely new ride in the background. It's...
We have had some lovely coverage recently in the Nottingham Post. Dan Robinson, the Business Correspondent wrote a long article about the way the business has grown and the stories behind the story. One thing that he did pick up on was the attention to...
Today at the European Attractions Show (EAS) in Barcelona, we unveiled the completed sleigh and can now reveal that the project we have been talking about for the last few months is the new Magic Sleigh Ride for Santa Park in Rovaniemi, Finland.If you look...
All the planning is complete, the cases are packed and the new dark ride is boxed and ready. We are off to the European Attractions Show (EAS) in Barcelona. We will be on Stand 833 throughout the show which runs from Tuesday September 20th through until Thursday...
In the last post, we talked a lot about the little engineering details that we focus on. Well in this weeks instalment, we have a beautiful example of this in action. Our experience of getting in and maintaining and mending rides in theme parks all...
We are now at a stage where it is all about the details. Lots of little individual parts and sub-assemblies being finalised and coming together, ready for the final assembly of the ride. We're obviously still not saying who it is for as we will...
Another week and another huge amount of progress with the track now completed and ready to fit. There's 147m of it altogether and it works just like a massive Scalextric track with a guide rail and then two pick-ups either side to deliver power.The sub-assemblies...
A lot happens in a week and the construction is at full pace. We are getting ready for the launch of the ride at Euro Attractions Show (EAS) 18-22 September 2016 in Barcelona, on stand 833 and will be showing the completed ride there.So we have...
Things are moving very fast here with the chassis now all completed and ready to be sprayed, it's onto the GRP body for the passenger compartment. However much you draw up plans and measure to the millimetre, it's still one of those parts of the...
Snowdon Mountain railway in action after the rebuild by GarmendaleFollowing the excitement and delivery of the new Coaches for Snowdon Mountain Railway...
Snowdon Mountain Railway CoachesFollowing the award of their first £1, million pound order back in March 2011, Coach 16 and 17 left Dale Works bound, for Snowdon.It will join the already delivered coach 14, one more to go...