Some more interesting details about the ride, released Thursday during a hard hat tour on the Pulsar constructionsite.
* Planning of the rid started in 2013, right after Psyké Underground opened.
* Walibi Belgium made a list of 15 criteria for their new ride and went to several manufacturers to offer them the best proposition.
* Mack AG had an early idea the Power Splash, yet the idea wasn't complete yet. The development of the Splash Coaster is a cooperation between Mack AG and Walibi Belgium.
* Pulsar will have the biggest wheels on a rollercoaster ever build. They weigh about 200 kg (400 pounds) each and have a diameter of 90 centimeters (35 inch).
* Boats for Pulsar weigh about 7 tons when empty, 9 tons when fully loaded.
* The ride is placed in the park so people inside the boats will face the side of the park that is near the highway, in order to please the parks locals and avoid screaming going their way.
* It will take about 6 seconds to raise the waterlevel for the final splash. It takes about 50 seconds to pump the water out of the basin. The waterlevel can be adjusted depending on the weather. There will also be a splash zone for those not riding.
* The park will use storytelling on Pulsar, which can be seen in the rides waiting line and theming throughout the ride.
* The story behind the ride is about an unindentified object that crashed on earth and found by an unknown man. It seemed that this object hides all the lost energy on earth. Eventually, this lost energy has to be released every so often to prevent an energyexplosion. The man hides this object in somekind of machine that helps to keep the energy outburst under control. He hid this machine in an abandoned warehouse close to a harbor (the actual station from Pulsar will be themed as a warehouse) and came up with the idea to use this energy for the development of a brand new rollercoaster. The energy outburst will help this rollercoaster accelerate.
* As said before, the station from Pulsar will be themed as a warehouse and while queueing, the story behind the ride will be explained with the help of two preshows, using videomapping and an animatronic (the heart of the machine). During the first preshow, visitors will be exposed to the force of the outburst from outside the warehouse. The second preshow will have visitors see the actual object inside the machine and witness how the 'machine' accelerates the coaster.
Lot's of other pictures:
http://pretparken.be/article/1562/EXCLUSIEF: op de werf van Pulsar in Walibi Belgium