Hansa Park | Kärnan | Gerstlauer Hyper Coaster

[Nemesis Inferno]

If Hansa can build a good Eurofighter, then I have faith in this...

Saw a bunch of goons on a site tour when I visited... Was amusing...

 

[TheCoasterCruiser]

I love the fact that they're going all in with this.
- I mean building a 79m tall tower "just" for the theming of a coaster is pretty damn awesome!

I'm curious as well as to what Gerstlauer can do with this scale of ride.

 

[nadroJ]

I'm interested to see whether they will introduce a new track style. The height of this thing surely means that they won't be using the usual spindly track?

 

[BBH]

^I would think that they'd use the quad-tube track that they used on Takabisha's "dog tongue" element:

 

[CookieCoasters]

^ That would make it look like an intamin hyper

 

[elephant58]

^But that wouldn't matter, because as soon as you get on it, you'll be able to tell the difference. :wink:

 

[ThomVD]

I have to admit a 73m tall vertical drop hyper coaster with a lifthill build into a tower does sound quite interesting.

 

[owentaylor121]

79meters is going to make this Europe's tallest rollercoaster.

 

[elephant58]

^Only the tower is 79m tall, the coaster 73m tall.

 

[robbeal]

Well this is sounding like it'll be a bit of a monster!

I've never been to Hansa, but i've heard pretty good things about it, and the Novgorod thing looks like it was well done. So, with any luck, they'll do a good job with this too. It just remains to be seen how Gerstlauer get on with building such a big thing! If i'm recalling correctly, I can't think of anything bigger than Takabisha, at 140-odd feet, that they've built, so this is going to be quite a step up for them.

 

[Darren B]

Takabisha's "dog tongue" element

What the **** is that? And who the **** called it that?

Morons.

The ride; yeah, it's going to be fantastic. I'm getting harder and harder thinking about it now.

 

[elephant58]

^RCDB calls them banana rolls, which is arguably worse.

 

[Lofty]

This baby!

 

[ECG]

Sorry for taking so long to post this, but here's a video of the site I filmed back in July:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_Qszy5v4U[/youtube]

Since then the tower foundation has been poured and the latest photos can be found at http://www.kärnan.de/de/baublog/.

The photos above are from the Der Schwur des Kärnan - Hypercoaster Facebook page.

I also took photos and will try to find them to post here as well.

 

[Ethan]

I really hope it's a good coaster. Hansa Park seem to put lots of effort into their investments?

 

[GorresCoasters]

I really hope it's a good coaster. Hansa Park seem to put lots of effort into their investments?

That's pretty much expected on most European parks.

 

[Ethan]

That's pretty much expected on most European parks.

Oh look, it's the troll from the RealTycoon forums.
If you've ever been to a theme park in Europe, you'd know what you just said is completely wrong.

 

[TheCoasterCruiser]

On this new concept art, it looks like the first element will be some kind of a non-inverted sea serpent.
It also looks like it will go into the tower again after a portion of the layout.

We also now know that the track length will be 1235 m and the first drop will be 67 m tall.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/hapaforum?fref=nf

EDIT: They actually just posted this colored version and on second thoughts it doesn't look very accurate.

 

[Ethan]

^ Interesting, not the sort of elements I thought we'd see on this.


As for construction today...

Source - https://www.facebook.com/hapaforum/

 

[Nemesis Inferno]

That was some quick construction of the tower, considering only 3 weeks ago it was just a hole in the ground...

I still believe that if all the markers that stretch towards the Water Slide are for this, the layout is going to absolutely dominate that side of the park...