Hansa Park | Highlander | Funtime Gyro Drop Tower

[CSLKennyNI]

Some shots of the grey Nessie repaint from about week ago. Rasender Roland is also receiving a repaint.

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And the loop has now been repainted - marking the end of the repaint of all 738m of track.

Source HAPA Forum

Erection of the crane which will assemble the drop tower has begun. So won't be long until Highlander starts to rise up.

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EDIT:

From today's Hansa Park newsletter, the first tower segment is on its way!

The park have also started a construction blog series on YouTube the first episode looks at the foundations for the tower and the new Nessie station.

 

[CSLKennyNI]

The newest Hansa Park newsletter teases:
That in the next two weeks, Highlander should be upright and standing as an exclamation point on the Baltic coast. Of course, there is still a lot to do before commissioning. If we know more about that, we'll announce more in the April newsletter.

Nessie's new station remains under cover as theming work is well under way.

Components for Highlander have arrived at the park!

View of the repainted Nessie and new rockwork with the footers for Highlander visible in the bottom left.

Footers for the tower.

These pictures from CoasterFriends.de show the crane for erecting Highlander has now been fully built up.

And the first tower segment has arrived at the park!

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[Hixee]

That is a nice crane.

 

[Lofty]

^ Moved on from bridges to cranes, have we?

 

[Hixee]

I'm very polygamous when it comes to engineering stuff.

 

[CrashCoaster]

It's going up:-

Found on the Coaster Bot Discord server.

 

[CSLKennyNI]

The 3rd tower segment was erected today.

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[CSLKennyNI]

Double Post but Hansa Park released on their construction blog a bunch of new pictures from today.

The gondola was also delivered today.

You can also see the castle themed theming element which eventually be placed on the top of the tower.

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[Efan]

They seriously love castles at Hansa.

 

[kai phillips]

Onboard audio!

 

[Lofty]

It's a shame it doesn't have the really flimsy-feeling Funtime restraints found on Donjon de l'Extrême - they're terrifying and so open.

 

[JuliOverbank]

I think those are not possible because of the tilt-function, you could hit those iron bars quite hard when you drop while tilted

 

[Lofty]

A simple vest would've been adequate to alleviate that, though - look at Ikaros/Falcon's Fury.

 

[JuliOverbank]

That's true, but unfortunately this isn't Intamin...

 

[Ethan]

That's true, but unfortunately this isn't Intamin...

Manufacturers are capable of designing new restraint systems.

 

[Lofty]

My point stands, they could've done so - you didn't state it had to be manufacturer-specific.

 

[CrashCoaster]

This is Hansa Park. Gerstlauer has to be included in some way. In this case, the restraints.

 

[Jared]

I think in this instance it might be a TÜV thing. Hansa are notorious for being well up on their safety codes etc. So it could be that the other style doesn’t tick all the boxes?

 

[kai phillips]

I think those are not possible because of the tilt-function, you could hit those iron bars quite hard when you drop while tilted

i forgot it tilted

 

[Lofty]

I think in this instance it might be a TÜV thing. Hansa are notorious for being well up on their safety codes etc. So it could be that the other style doesn’t tick all the boxes?

Potentially, but they also have a +200ft coaster with a reverse freefall lift, an inversion and that has lap bars soooooooooo