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Phantasialand | F. L. Y. | Vekoma Launched Flying Coaster | 2020

Wow! I am completely floored with the amount of detail in the area now. This ride is going to be truly magical. Look at how the corkscrew hops over the building and dives through the gantry crane, and THEN immediately blasts through the train bridge covering the launch. Basically everything Phantasialand adds looks truly breathtaking, but this might be their best work yet. Rookburgh truly looks like it's on another level.
 
i found it on phantafriends and if i'm not mistaken this is the fly rail in the picture above this is the podcast page
 
Do I witness a paradigm change in Phantasialand's policy about tolerating drone flights here? I remember such things typically being removed from youtube within few days. Does that tell us something?
 
I went to Phantasialand today (8/28/2020). I took some pictures of the Charles Lindbergh Hotel. There was a small crane that was taken down in the evening. At around 7 p.m., FLY was in testing. In the photos I took (see insta link), we can see a blade (which is located above the Wuze Town / Rookburgh entrance) which was moving.


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By now I'm pretty sure that Phantasialand is planning to open Rookburgh for Wintertraum, probably on November 21. As they offer low-price admission until November 20, I think we can exclude any date before. All the same, if they'd aim for an opening in spring there wouldn't be any need to assemble all those details now. It really feels they are wrapping up things. So I'd say, if a worsening Corona situation doesn't upset their plans (cross fingers!), we can plan a trip for late November. :)
 
I went to Phantasialand today (8/28/2020). I took some pictures of the Charles Lindbergh Hotel. There was a small crane that was taken down in the evening. At around 7 p.m., FLY was in testing. In the photos I took (see insta link), we can see a blade (which is located above the Wuze Town / Rookburgh entrance) which was moving.


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It looks amazing imo, certainly the fifth picture! Everything is starting to come together very nicely
 
There's some newer drone footage I didn't see posted in this thread...

That second Zeppelin is kinda hidden between faux rock and rust steel walls.
Will it move out and hover over the track and move back in again. Feels like a waste of money judging from this video, because it looks like it won't be noticed by a lot of people.

or is this open from the Wuze side?
 
IIRC there is an entrance on the Wuze side. Feels like it would really disrupt the guest flow if you could only enter and exit from the Berlin end.

Most likely with corona measures it will be a one way in and one way out type of thing. Probably enter in from wuze town and exit via Berlin or vice versa.
 
Somebody @Phantafriends postet a picture of an employee already wearing "FLY-Rookburgh" clothes. It seems the park really wants its fans to freak out...
 
The photo in question can be found here..

It's quite a generic item of clothing. More something you would expect from, say, merchandise or, at a push, a manager's jacket.
 
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It's quite a generic item of clothing. More something you would expect from, say, merchandise or, at a push, a manager's jacket.

Well this guy is obviously some kind of technician or so. I'm actually a bit confused why he's wearing something referring to rookburgh in general. I mean those technicians are not allocated to special areas but for the whole park, aren't they?
 
Well this guy is obviously some kind of technician or so. I'm actually a bit confused why he's wearing something referring to rookburgh in general. I mean those technicians are not allocated to special areas but for the whole park, aren't they?
Well indeed there‘s project managers etc that are assigned to that specific project.
 
Wasted time speculating on it unless you know for sure. Some parks will have technicians assigned one ride, which would make sense to have a team ready for the opening of such a big (prototype) ride going on - have a group who are accountable and always present rather than roaming/blanket teams of engineers who deal with multiple rides around the parks which is what a lot of parks do.

I guess it does 100% confirm that silly logo though. I was gonna quote myself from like 100 pages ago about the wall entrance and saying how it wasn't yet finished but I also said I doubted that would be the logo. Interesting developments nonetheless and it's certainly promising to expect an opening of some sort before the end of 2020 season!
 
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