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During the 30 seconds on the Thunderbar, the passengers
are thoroughly shaken.
Describing the movements of the attraction
we could do with shoot-up,
tilt, drop, but in Germany‘s amusement
park Tripsdrill it is called “Donnerbalken”,
“Thunderbar”, which
used to be the felled trunk on which
you sit in case the closet is far. Timid
people might indeed find themselves
scared silly when they are accelerated
vertically to a speed of 8m/s,
Technical information
slowed down, tilted forward and falling
down almost in a free fall. Kicks
like this are all part of the fun of an
adventure park. The special thing
about the Thunderbar, apart from
the atmosphere of a wildernesslike
environment, is the feeling of
being subjected to extreme acceleration
while sitting, to all intents and
purposes, on a tree trunk. It does
Height without decoration 15 metres
Ride height approx. 15 metres
Number of persons per gondola 12
Maximum speed of ride 7 metres per second
Maximum acceleration going down 8 metres per second2 (corresponds to
0.2 G)
Maximum deceleration going down 5 metres per second2 Maximum acceleration going up 4 metres per second2 Maximum deceleration going up 8 metres per second2 Ride time 30 seconds
(three different ride
programmes)
Capacity 450 persons per hour
Electrical power requirement 200 kilowatts
not simply go up and down quickly.
Rather, the ride platform is also
tilted forward at its uppermost point.
There are also different ride games
and varying intensities. In short:
During the 30 seconds on the
Thunderbar, the passengers are
thoroughly shaken about. And the
fact that they can look their fellow
sufferers on the opposite, identical,
Thunderbar in the eye, gives
the whole event an additional visual
appeal. The ride platform has twelve
seats each of which is equipped
with a safety bar. The operator of the
amusement park had issued a tender
for this attraction.
BEAR rides AG, a subsidiary of Bartholet
Maschinenbau AG, ultimately
won because, as Managing Director
Peter Ziegler puts it, “we had presented
the most coherent concept.”
It was primarily the security aspects
that played an important role in this
completely new construction. The
system has a completely redundant
design – virtually with a double security
line – and complies entirely
with the norms of the German technical
inspection agency TÜV.
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Amusement Park Systems