Mystery Castle
| Mystery Castle | |
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| Data | |
| opening | 1998 |
| construction time | 7 months (in sliding shell construction) |
| Manufacturer | Intamin (Ride Trade) |
| model | Ballistic drop |
| height | 65 m |
| speed | 92 km / h |
| Capacity / trip | 48 people |
| Capacity / hour | 1400 people |
| Travel time | approx. 45 seconds |
The Mystery Castle is a ride (a vertical ride , model Ballistic Drop Tower) in Phantasialand Brühl , which, together with River Quest and the Klugheim theme world, which includes Taron and Raik , forms the mystery theme. The manufacturer of the patented drive technology (Air-Drive) is Ride Trade, a company belonging to Intamin .
Unlike other rides of this type, the ride takes place inside the closed 65 meter high tower and is accompanied by a complete story.
The attraction is divided into two sections and tells the story of the fictional family "von Windhoven".
First, the visitor is led through the castle surrounding the tower and frightened on the way by various park employees disguised as ghosts and monsters. The story of the “fight against evil”, which manifests itself “high up in the tower” and which the guest is supposed to fight with his “positive energy”, is continued during the waiting time inside the building.
Trip description
For the actual journey, eight people each sit in the six passenger carriers. The gondolas run on rails that are attached to the inner wall of the tower. A pneumatic system is used as a drive , which can accelerate the passenger carrier both up and down by means of circulating steel cables. For braking at the end of the journey, brake blades are installed in the lower third of the vertical section, which in combination with permanent magnets on the passenger carriers form eddy current brakes that are independent of a power supply . In the rare event that a gondola was shot down at too high a speed, the same system can also be found at the top of the rail.
Depending on the number of visitors, two, four or all six lanes can be operated. There are also three different driving programs of different lengths, whereby the first driving program is no longer used. The programs always include a launch with 4 g from the ground position of the 48.6 meter long route, which is followed by a fall in quasi free fall (real free fall does not occur because the gondola is always connected to the drive) from the highest position . The system can not only drop the gondolas, but also shoot them down. This creates a downward force of 1.5 g. The passenger feels this by literally pulling the shoulder straps downwards. The journey takes place in almost complete darkness. The attraction has a maximum capacity of 1400 people per hour. In the mornings, the park uses the more intensive drive program 2, during the course of the day at around 2 p.m. it changes to the longer drive program 3.
| number | procedure |
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| 1: Very briefly | It is shot to the very top
The gondola is shot down The gondola is shot up Fall down End of the journey |
| 2: a little more intense | It is shot to the very top
The gondola is shot down The gondola is shot up Fall down The gondola is shot up Fall down End of the journey |
| 3: a little longer | Half shot up, in the middle
slow release The gondola is shot all the way up The gondola is shot down The gondola is shot up Fall down End of the journey |
The building consists of the 65 meter high central tower, almost a third of which is made of reinforced concrete and rests on a two meter thick floor slab. The 25 meter high base building offers space for the technology and the castle tour. Pressure tanks are installed on the roof of the building as buffer storage, which are filled by four compressors.
In 2015, all IMAScore soundtracks were revised and remixed.
Web links
- The Mystery Castle on the Phantasialand website
- Report on the technology of Mystery Castle
- Park's own report on the technology of Mystery Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mystery Castle | Intamin | Rollercoaster Supplier & Amusement Ride Manufacturer. Retrieved June 8, 2019 (UK English).
- ↑ Mystery Castle Technique. Coastersandmore, accessed May 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Documentation about changing the rope in Phantasialand's own blog. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
- ↑ a b How does the Mystery Castle actually work? October 24, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Marcel Wolber: How the free fall tower Mystery Castle works. General-Anzeiger, December 4, 2012, accessed May 21, 2014 .
- ↑ New soundtracks for attractions in Phantasialand. Retrieved June 28, 2016 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 53 ′ 3 ″ E