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FEBRUARY 2012<br />
KALEIDOSCOPE<br />
Facts – Observations – Short Portraits . . . . 4<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Nostalgic Ferris Wheel . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
SPECIAL<br />
Nottingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
HISTORY<br />
Rostock 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
CHRISTMAS MARKETS<br />
Review 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />
SPECIAL<br />
Village Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
MODEL CONSTRUCTION<br />
Kirmes-Highlights en miniature . . . . . . 40<br />
A LOOK BACK<br />
Reports about Specially Selected Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />
COASTER<br />
Raptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
COASTER<br />
Timber Drop . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />
INTERVIEW<br />
Walibi Re-Branding . . . . . . . . . . 58<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
IAAPA 2011 / 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 62<br />
MAGAZINE<br />
Current News from the <strong>Park</strong>-Scene. . . . . 66<br />
PREVIEW<br />
Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />
3
KALEIDOSCOPE<br />
SUPER BOWLER<br />
Weeber’s “<strong>Super</strong> <strong>Bowler</strong>”<br />
DSCHINNI<br />
Text & Photo: Heiko Schimanzik<br />
No matter where the<br />
“Skyline” ride from<br />
Sascha Parpalioni appears,<br />
the “Dschinni” figure<br />
on the attraction is almost<br />
always the most<br />
popular and muchphotographed<br />
motif on<br />
the fairground.<br />
It is a well-known fact that<br />
a “Dschinni” is a genie<br />
who is held captive in a<br />
magic lamp, who comes<br />
up with the craziest ideas<br />
manifested in tales and<br />
stories, and loves to<br />
change his form. Sascha<br />
Parpalioni is always surprised<br />
how popular his<br />
figure is with the visitors:<br />
“It was really a worthwhile<br />
investment”. ■<br />
Text: Ralf Schmitt<br />
Photos: Ralf Schmitt, Norman Vogt<br />
The Stuttgart-based “<strong>Super</strong> <strong>Bowler</strong>” game<br />
booth from Stefan Weeber, unparalleled in<br />
Germany, is mainly appearing at fairgrounds<br />
in Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<br />
The 9 x 2.50 metre game booth offers a total of<br />
12 play areas. The “<strong>Super</strong> <strong>Bowler</strong>” is no team<br />
game, but rather a game where every single<br />
player is required to try their luck. Speedily – but<br />
at the same time quite carefully – a heavy ball<br />
has to be bowled across a bump without rolling<br />
back to the player. Due to the laws of gravity, this<br />
is quite tricky but by no means impossible. If the<br />
ball rolls back towards the player, a pinging stop<br />
device is activated and the game is over. This<br />
unusual game was purchased<br />
by Stefan Weeber’s<br />
mother in 2000,<br />
and then taken over and<br />
toured – in addition to<br />
other game operations –<br />
by Stefan and his wife<br />
Caroline. In 2010, the<br />
game booth was<br />
equipped with a LED<br />
light system. “<strong>Super</strong><br />
<strong>Bowler</strong>” is regularly appearing,<br />
among other<br />
venues, at Landshut<br />
Dult, Bad Dürkheim,<br />
Bopfingen, and of<br />
course at major events<br />
in Stuttgart. ■<br />
4
RHEDE <strong>KIRMES</strong>PLATZ<br />
KALEIDOSCOPE<br />
The Rhede fairground<br />
is now also officially called<br />
“Kirmesplatz”<br />
Text: Michael Petersen<br />
Photos: Michael Petersen, Nils Benthien<br />
Since the last Rhede Fair, the fairground has also<br />
been officially called by the name “Kirmesplatz”,<br />
which it has always been known as by the citizens.<br />
Up until the opening day of the Rhede anniversary fair<br />
2011 (350 years old) it did not have a name in the city’s<br />
street index. After the opening with the tapping<br />
of the keg by Mayor Lothar Mittag and<br />
brass band, the showmen with their flags,<br />
the Rhede Junggesellenschützen, and<br />
many guests marched to the fairground to<br />
put up a signpost with its name. This idea<br />
came from the Rhede Fair organizer, Daniel<br />
Ehlting.<br />
■<br />
LULLUSFEST BAD HERSFELD & SCHÜTZENFEST HANNOVER<br />
Text & Photo: Ralf Schmitt<br />
What do the Lullusfest in Bad Hersfeld and the Hannover<br />
Schützenfest have in common? The answer<br />
is very simple: for both events the attractions approved<br />
to the current event have been known since<br />
a remarkably early date.<br />
On the one hand, early approvals afford planning<br />
reliability for the organisers and the showmen – on the<br />
other hand, advertising and public relations for the<br />
events can start off early. While this has been standard<br />
procedure in Bad Hersfeld for many years, the method<br />
is still relatively new in Hannover.<br />
Wilfried Roßbach, head official of the Lullusfest committee,<br />
had already announced the concept 10 months<br />
prior to the 1160 th Lullusfest (15 th to 22 nd October 2011)<br />
in Bad Hersfeld. Novelty rides among the large attractions<br />
were the “Intoxx” (Pandel) and the “Krumm &<br />
Schief Bau” Funhouse (Hartmann). As usual in years<br />
with even numbers, the “Bellevue” Ferris (Bruch) was<br />
presented, along with, among other attractions, the<br />
“Wilde Maus”, “High Impress”, “Night Style”, “Breakdance”,<br />
“Fantastical Trip”, as well as the “Car for Kids”,<br />
“Bootsfahrt” and “Piraten-Trip” within the kiddie ride<br />
sector. Highlights contracted for the largest Schützenfest<br />
in the world in Hannover (29 th June to 8 th July) were,<br />
among others, the “Fünfer-Looping”, “Roue Parisienne”,<br />
“Booster Maxxx”, “Wilde Maus”, water ride, “Berg<br />
& Tal”, “Artistico”, “Schlittenfahrt”, “Voodoo-Jumper”,<br />
and “Love Dream”.<br />
■<br />
First time appearance at<br />
the Hannover Schützenfest: the<br />
“Love Dream” Caterpillar Ride<br />
5
KALEIDOSCOPE<br />
NEUE BÜCHER<br />
Text:<br />
Ralf Schmitt<br />
Photos: Ralf Schmitt, Archiv<br />
Co-publisher of the book<br />
about his former colleague:<br />
Bernd G. Kreuzer (“El Fantadu”)<br />
65 years of L’Autopède<br />
Two interesting books from the<br />
colourful world of fair and Volksfest<br />
events have recently been<br />
republished. While one of them<br />
deals with the legendary fairground<br />
fortune teller Pia Medusa<br />
Lagrin, the second is about one<br />
of the most famous manufacturer<br />
of kiddie ride mounts, L’Autopède.<br />
Pia Medusa Lagrin<br />
“Pia Medusa Lagrin, née Traber – Life Journey ... Memories<br />
of a life on the high wire” is the full title of the book,<br />
published by Blanka Medusa Lemoine and Bernd G.<br />
Kreuzer (“El Fantadu”). It describes the life and work<br />
of the fairground fortune teller Pia Medusa Lagrin (8 th<br />
Dec. 1918 – 19 th Apr. 1997), who was born shortly after<br />
the end of the First World War in a stable near Hannover,<br />
and grew up within the realm of the famous Traber<br />
artist dynasty. She experienced her personal “hell”<br />
during the Nazi period in 1938, when she marries a Sinto<br />
Romany from the circus family Lagrin, and stands<br />
by her husband despite all the threats of that time. In<br />
1942, her daughter Blanka was born and after the war<br />
she immediately returns to the high wire again in 1948.<br />
Even until she is 55 years old, she successfully performs<br />
as a tightrope artist in the Traber and Lagrin<br />
troupe, touring with them throughout Europe. In 1973<br />
a new life began for her: After the death of her husband,<br />
Wilhelm Lagrin (known as Adam), she<br />
remembered the fortune telling talent she inherited<br />
from her Peruvian grandmother, and together with her<br />
daughter she worked as the now renowned popular<br />
and esteemed fairground fortune teller, Pia Medusa<br />
Lagrin, up until shortly before she passed away in<br />
1997. In her free time she wrote several imaginative<br />
stories (e.g. “The Ghostly Violin”). After her death, most<br />
of these stories existed only as text fragments on loose,<br />
handwritten sheets of paper, but Edzard Klapp researched<br />
and compiled them and made them readable<br />
again. Albert Ritter, President of the German<br />
Showman Association has written a foreword to the<br />
book. An excerpt: “The author takes the reader on a<br />
life journey. The narrative style fascinates, as it is unvarnished<br />
and authentic”. Moreover, Pia Maria Lagrin’s<br />
diary notes are an important document of contemporary<br />
German history. Info: ISBN-No. 9783842381056,<br />
Price: Euro 14.95<br />
65 Years L’Autopède<br />
In the last few years, the Flemish L’Autopède firm has<br />
manufactured countless kiddie ride mounts, enjoyed<br />
by millions of children all over the world (above all Belgium,<br />
the Netherlands, Germany, and France). A book<br />
has now been published containing the history and<br />
stories, as well as more than 440 pictures and documents<br />
about this manufacturer - in 'real life', the<br />
Baeyens family. The book sheds light on the founding<br />
of the firm, its heyday, its international customers, the<br />
upcoming competition from plastic products and<br />
much more. The author of the 190-page book is Piet<br />
Winkelmolen, board member of the fair culture<br />
foundation. The book is available for 22.50 Euro plus<br />
shipping charges, and can be ordered by email at<br />
kermisboeken@hotmail.nl<br />
■<br />
6
HONGKONG FADENZIEHEN<br />
KALEIDOSCOPE<br />
Text & Photos:<br />
Rolf Orschel<br />
Fadenziehen, which might<br />
be translated as “Pulling the<br />
Cord”, is a game with a long<br />
tradition at the fairgrounds.<br />
The pulling of individual<br />
cords from a bundle, at the<br />
end of which there are score<br />
points representing a prize,<br />
provides a lot of fun to the<br />
entire family to this day.<br />
In the former GDR, the game<br />
– originally coming from the<br />
Far East – gradually vanished<br />
from the fairgrounds in the<br />
1970s. Almost 30 years<br />
passed until the Otto family<br />
from Bad Köstritz, in the<br />
Thuringia district of Greiz,<br />
brought this type of amusement back to the<br />
Thuringia fairgrounds. Showman Gunter Otto from<br />
Schlotheim near Mühlhausen/Thuringia had been<br />
operating a kiddie railway and a shooting gallery<br />
for many years, before he changed his enterprise<br />
and ordered the “Hong Kong Fadenziehen” from<br />
the Reppel firm in 1999, which he successfully<br />
toured together with his wife Doris for many years.<br />
When the couple stopped touring for reasons of<br />
age in 2008, their then 18-year-old granddaughter<br />
Luisa Otto took over the concession stall and<br />
founded her own showman enterprise. Already at<br />
the age of 11 she had worked hard in her parent's<br />
fish booth after school and in her holidays, proving<br />
her manual skills as well as her talent for dealing<br />
with customers. After graduating from school,<br />
Luisa worked at her parents’ operation for yet another<br />
year, at the same time attending a number of<br />
“BeKoSch” (development of professional competence<br />
for showmen in block sessions) courses for<br />
showmen, who were still subject to compulsory<br />
schooling at the vocational school in Herne. Four<br />
years ago she met her future partner<br />
Steven Ortelt from Visselhövede<br />
in the three-city triangle of<br />
Bremen-Hamburg-Hannover at a<br />
meeting of showmen youth, and<br />
fell in love with him shortly thereafter.<br />
Born in Lower Saxony and<br />
also working hard in the business<br />
of his parents, who tour sweets<br />
and snack booths as well as a<br />
dodgem track, he moved to be<br />
with his great love in Bad Köstritz,<br />
and in November 2009 they had a<br />
daughter called Cecilia. Luisa<br />
Otto and Steven Ortelt present<br />
their “Hong Kong Fadenziehen”<br />
mainly in Thuringia, Saxony, and<br />
Bavaria. They are very popular<br />
guests and have loyally returning visitors at many<br />
a Volksfest event, among others in Gera, Erfurt,<br />
Sonneberg, Eisfeld, Rudolstadt, Annaberg-Buchholz<br />
and Coburg.<br />
■<br />
Built by Reppel: Otto’s<br />
Hong Kong Fadenziehen<br />
Luisa Otto and Steven Ortelt<br />
7
PREMIÉRE<br />
The new Ferris Wheel<br />
from the Nier family<br />
Announcements of yet another<br />
new arrival at the end of<br />
a season are quite unusual:<br />
The new nostalgic-style Ferris<br />
Wheel from Bernd and<br />
Sylvia Nier celebrated its première<br />
at the Fairytale Christmas<br />
Market in Kassel in late<br />
November.<br />
Text:<br />
Photos:<br />
Norman Vogt<br />
Norman Vogt, Archive Nier<br />
Nostalgic Ferris Wheel<br />
Bernd and Sylvia Nier<br />
with their children Jil and Mike<br />
The 18-metre Ferris Wheel was built by the Italian<br />
<strong>Park</strong>-Ride firm from Bergantino near Verona,<br />
which has already manufactured several wheels of<br />
its kind for showmen and parks all over the world.<br />
This is however the first example of this type for Germany.<br />
The Nier family are not completely inexperienced<br />
in Ferris Wheels,<br />
after all, they owned a<br />
historic wooden Ferris<br />
Wheel up until some<br />
years ago, which was<br />
sold to Klaus Weingärtner<br />
from Hanau some<br />
time ago. Due to the<br />
sale, the attraction was<br />
no longer available for<br />
the Christmas Market in<br />
Kassel, where the visitors<br />
sadly missed their<br />
small Ferris Wheel during the pre-Christmas period.<br />
For this reason, the Nier family decided to purchase<br />
a new Wheel, built by <strong>Park</strong>-Rides, in early 2011.<br />
8
PREMIÉRE<br />
Details of the<br />
Ferris Wheel from Nier<br />
Throughout last year, the Nier family regularly travelled<br />
to Italy in order to accompany the building of its<br />
new attraction. Despite the relatively long period<br />
available to the manufacturer for building the attraction,<br />
time was getting short towards the end. Bernd<br />
and his wife Sylvia travelled to Bergantino at<br />
increasingly frequent intervals to support the<br />
finalization, so as not to jeopardise the première date<br />
at the Christmas Market. At virtually the last minute,<br />
they arrived in Kassel with the centre trailer and baggage<br />
van on the 21 st November, where they began<br />
the first stage of the build up, supported by three of<br />
the manufacturer’s staff. It turned out that the construction<br />
required some further changes, and therefore<br />
could go into operation only on the 26 th November.<br />
The official inauguration with showman pastor<br />
Volker Drewes was attended by many colleagues<br />
and friends of the family, as well as representatives<br />
of the city of Kassel. The attraction operated without<br />
any problems and was very well received. The Ferris<br />
Wheel, with ground measurements of 13.80 x 7<br />
metres, has a total of 14 gondolas accommodating<br />
4 passengers each. After sundown the construction<br />
is illuminated by countless LEDs, and the acoustics<br />
come from sound equipment manufactured by the<br />
Kort firm. Many details can be discovered on the<br />
Wheel – painted in the primary colours cream, gold<br />
and red – such as, among other features, an ornately<br />
decorated wrought-iron handrail in the front area,<br />
various pictures and classic lamps. Also interesting<br />
are the motifs on the cabins, where various historic<br />
Kassel buildings and landmarks are immortalised.<br />
All this helped in changing the manufacturer’s standard<br />
version into a distinct showpiece. In addition to<br />
the Kassel Christmas Market, the Nier family will also<br />
continue touring the “Starlight” Musik Express, as<br />
well as presenting their nostalgic Ferris Wheel at<br />
well-chosen minor events and city festivals. ■<br />
The Nier family changed<br />
the standard version into a<br />
unique showpiece<br />
9
SPECIAL<br />
Crowded fairground<br />
and fully occupied Goose<br />
Fair in Nottingham<br />
The “Goose Fair” in Nottingham<br />
is one of the largest and<br />
most popular traditional fairs<br />
in England, enticing masses<br />
of visitors from near and far,<br />
offering “pure entertainment”<br />
for five days in early October<br />
every year. The latest event<br />
was held from Wednesday<br />
October 5 th to Sunday October<br />
9 th 2011. More than 500<br />
attractions and stalls were<br />
built up on the “Forest Recreation<br />
Ground” – only a few<br />
minutes from the town centre.<br />
Text & Photos:<br />
Norman Vogt<br />
Nottingham (UK)<br />
Alook back on the history of the event: Even<br />
more than 700 years ago, people met in<br />
Nottingham to spend time happily together<br />
dancing, eating and drinking. This eventually<br />
evolved into the fair, which was even the largest<br />
one in Europe for a while. There were only two<br />
periods in history, in the 17 th century and during<br />
the Second World War, when the “Goose Fair”<br />
could not be held.<br />
Today, the locals<br />
proudly look back<br />
to the tradition dating<br />
back so many<br />
hundreds of years. According to historians, the<br />
“Goose Fair” was actually introduced by King<br />
Edward I. and there is hardly anyone who does<br />
not associate the names Nottinghamshire or<br />
Nottingham with the legend of Robin Hood. The<br />
town of Nottingham as well as Sherwood Forest<br />
– the forest where the national hero is said to<br />
have once lived – have always been, and remain<br />
Heralding the Goose<br />
Fair and masses of visitors<br />
rushing to the fairground<br />
10
SPECIAL<br />
The two<br />
“<strong>Super</strong>bowl” rides and<br />
the “High Roller” with<br />
a similar ride pattern<br />
popular tourist attractions. Before “Forest<br />
Recreation Ground” became today’s fairground,<br />
the event was held in the “Old Market Square” in<br />
the town centre, for the very simple reason that<br />
initially the “Goose Fair” was a large market<br />
where visitors did their shopping. The name<br />
“Goose Fair” has its origin in the market, where<br />
countless geese were taken from Lincolnshire to<br />
Freak Out “Tango”<br />
and looping in the “Stargate”<br />
11
SPECIAL<br />
“Frisbee” and “Take Off”<br />
be sold in Nottingham. Even though there are<br />
various market stalls available to the visitors to<br />
this day, ride and funhouse attractions are nowadays<br />
clearly the focus of interest. Today’s fairground,<br />
a mainly grassy area paved in parts,<br />
provides a very special flair. A number of pathways<br />
are covered by aluminium floors during the<br />
fair. Traditionally, visitors to the Goose Fair are not<br />
frightened off by rain and low temperatures: on<br />
rainy days during the event for example, children<br />
arrive at the fairground in Wellington boots. While<br />
the 717 th Goose Fair opened its gates from 6.30<br />
p.m. to 11 p.m. on the first day, the attractions<br />
were open between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. on the<br />
Multiple presentations<br />
of Miami, Matterhorn and<br />
Waltzer<br />
12
SPECIAL<br />
Ferris Wheels in<br />
Nottingham: with closed<br />
and open gondolas<br />
following days, except for the last opening day<br />
(Sunday), when the lights went out as early as 9<br />
p.m. The closing time for all participants is<br />
meticulously enforced by the authorities. Different<br />
tram and bus routes took visitors directly to the<br />
fairground. Moreover, car parks were made<br />
available at a fee in the rear section of the fairground.<br />
“No <strong>Park</strong>ing” signs were put up across<br />
a large area, and the police regulated the traffic<br />
every day right from the early morning hours to<br />
prevent chaos. At the different entrances to the<br />
fair, checks were carried out by security<br />
personnel. The police presence was strong as<br />
usual, with small groups of “bobbies” constantly<br />
patrolling the fairground. This proved highly<br />
effective and provided a non-aggressive and<br />
peaceful atmosphere to the fair event. Thus it<br />
was not unusual to encounter many families with<br />
children enjoying themselves at the “Goose Fair”<br />
in the late evening hours. This cheerful and family-friendly<br />
atmosphere is certainly enhanced by<br />
the fact that there is no alcohol for sale throughout<br />
the entire fair. Only non-alcoholic beverages<br />
were sold at the shops or from vending<br />
machines, masses of them deposit-free and<br />
mainly in good old cans. What needs some getting<br />
used to for visitors from the European<br />
continent is that directly next to the many<br />
Coasters: “Magic<br />
Mouse” and “Runaway Train”<br />
13
SPECIAL<br />
Very popular in<br />
England: “Helter Skelter”<br />
barbecues where meat for hamburgers is grilled,<br />
candy floss and other open sweets are also sold,<br />
the latter thereby taking on a slight “hamburger<br />
flavour”. In addition to the aforementioned hamburgers<br />
or cheeseburgers, hot dogs and above<br />
all the famous northern <strong>English</strong> speciality,<br />
“mushy peas” (a soft variety of pea boiled almost<br />
to a purée), very popular with the locals, number<br />
among the main dishes in the snack section. This<br />
green stodge, which is served in plastic or polystyrene<br />
cups, needs some getting used to for<br />
those who are not familiar with it. Actually it<br />
needs some effort to eat this “speciality”, which<br />
is also due to the intense smell of this green<br />
broth. Different countries – different culinary<br />
customs! Less courageous visitors did not have<br />
to go hungry though; after all, there were also<br />
delicacies from the Caribbean, Chinese noodles,<br />
Oriental kebabs, Spanish churros and paella,<br />
French crêpes, and even the occasional<br />
bratwurst on offer. The selection of ride and funhouse<br />
attractions was simply overwhelming,<br />
with almost all rides and tracks being available<br />
more than once. There were for example, as<br />
many as five Waltzer rides, the classic <strong>English</strong> ride.<br />
While rides in these attractions offered familyfriendly<br />
experience during the day, they<br />
changed into virtual disco palaces with a great<br />
deal of smoke, light, laser beams and heavy<br />
bass beats offering ecstatic ride experiences<br />
well into the late evening hours. The “Runaway<br />
Train”, which was called the “largest transportable<br />
track ride in the world” and –said to have been<br />
purchased for a proud £1 million – was heralded<br />
as the truly spectacular novelty this year. With a<br />
ground area of 2,800 square metres for some<br />
300 metres of track, the ground space is<br />
unusually large for an attraction similar to a<br />
Powered-Coaster. Why is a monstrosity like this<br />
on tour and built up for just five days? Further<br />
investigation on the fairground revealed that the<br />
coaster came from the closed-down “American<br />
Adventure” theme park, where it was purchased<br />
by James Mellor. The previously stationary<br />
construction was rebuilt into a transportable<br />
Simulator variety at the<br />
Goose Fair<br />
Typical: multi-pillar<br />
dodgem tracks<br />
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SPECIAL<br />
Funhouse, Rotor,<br />
Labyrinth and Co.<br />
attraction by a number of engineers and craftsmen.<br />
On closer inspection, one can discover<br />
numerous supports and concrete weights,<br />
providing the construction with the required<br />
stability; these latter mentioned may well have<br />
been purchased later on. The lighting was rather<br />
subdued, but the “Wild West” theme was very well<br />
realized. Further coasters were the “Wild Mouse”<br />
and the “Magic Mouse”, both with rotating gondolas.<br />
In contrast to the two Ferris Wheels (one<br />
with closed, the other with open gondolas), both<br />
coasters were built up far apart from each other.<br />
Visitors were also taken<br />
high up into the sky – in<br />
the literal sense of the<br />
phrase – in the two<br />
bungee constructions,<br />
which enjoyed their<br />
peak period mainly in<br />
the evening hours; just<br />
as was the case with the<br />
popular propeller rides,<br />
“Storm” and “XLR8”, as<br />
well as the huge “Sky<br />
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SPECIAL<br />
A typical British<br />
“Galopper” ride<br />
Flyer” chain ride. All in all, the fairground made<br />
a quite disordered impression on the observer in<br />
many respects, as the attractions were actually<br />
built up chaotically or just one after the other<br />
without any clear concept. As a result, many<br />
attractions were discovered only on the second<br />
or third tour across the fairground, and came<br />
very much as a surprise. The classic ride “Sizzler”,<br />
an indispensable 'must' throughout this Island<br />
Nation, was also built up a number of times.<br />
As many as four of these constructions made<br />
their rounds in Nottingham this time. “The Roller”<br />
however, with its train running along a track rotating<br />
on its own axis during the ride, was presented<br />
only once. In addition to an “Orbiter” ride, an<br />
“Experience” (KMG) also made its rounds. Moreover,<br />
visitors were able to enjoy first class loopings<br />
in the “Rock Rage”, an “Inversion” ride from<br />
KMG. The Dutch manufacturer was very well<br />
represented at the Goose Fair generally, as there<br />
were also two “Freak Out” constructions which<br />
competed for the visitors’ favour, together with<br />
the Italian “Chaos” Swing. Visitors who preferred<br />
to be firmly on the ground while swinging and<br />
whirling opted for a ride in the “Frisbee”. Other<br />
thrill attractions were the “Power Surge”, “Top<br />
Buzz” (Top Scan), both “<strong>Super</strong> Bowl” rides, as<br />
well as the “High Roller”. With the “Alpine<br />
A small selection of the<br />
countless kiddie rides at<br />
the Goose Fair in Nottingham<br />
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A lot of fun for the<br />
passengers on the rides and<br />
tracks<br />
Express” and the “Screamer”, visitors were also<br />
able to enjoy two Alpine Bobs. Further round<br />
rides included the “Over the Top” (Take Off), various<br />
“Saltamontes”, a Wave-Swinger (Zierer)<br />
and very many “Miamis”. Moreover, the “Stargate”<br />
– a compact major ride, the ride pattern of<br />
which resembles the “Transformer” – provided<br />
lots of thrills. Placed somewhat unfavourably in<br />
a centre row between two larger rides, it was all<br />
the more remarkable that the “disc” fared very<br />
well nonetheless, and often worked to the limits<br />
of its capacity. Interesting for dodgem track fans<br />
were the numerous dodgem tracks, most of them<br />
classic “multi-pillar constructions”. Moreover,<br />
the nostalgically-inclined were indulged by the<br />
historic and perfectly preserved “Cakewalk”,<br />
where they had to overcome various obstacles<br />
while walking along shaking and moving floors.<br />
Horror on the<br />
Ghost Rides in Nottingham<br />
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Soft toys up to the<br />
roof or plain stalls - both<br />
can be seen at the Goose Fair<br />
Traditional, savoury<br />
or sweet culinary<br />
delights<br />
Even the observing public in front of the attraction<br />
got their share of laughter, as the construction<br />
built of wood was clearly visible from all<br />
sides. It's not possible to imagine a British fair<br />
without a “Helter Skelter”, with spiral slides<br />
presented in every design and size. They come<br />
in both modern and nostalgic designs, with<br />
stairs to climb up inside most of them, before<br />
racing down again on a sliding mat. Despite their<br />
'nostalgic' appearance, the oversized horse<br />
carousels, the “Gallopers”, have little to do with<br />
true nostalgia. Often presented in a golden<br />
colour, most of them are modern constructions<br />
with more than 100 seats as a general rule.The<br />
huge selection of kiddie rides presented at the<br />
Goose Fair is almost unique and vaster than the<br />
eye can take in! Nothing is impossible! In theory,<br />
if a child tried out every single attraction it would<br />
take a whole day. In fact, younger visitors are even<br />
introduced early on to movement sequences that<br />
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A partial view<br />
of the Goose Fair from<br />
above, and nostalgic feelings<br />
at the historic “Cakewalk”<br />
they will later be offered in rides for adults: There<br />
are indeed miniature versions of all of them, be it<br />
the “See Sturm Bahn”, “Free Fall Tower”, “Miami”,<br />
“Helter Skelter”, “Twister” or even the “Waltzer”.<br />
These are joined by multiple versions of classic<br />
rides, bungee trampolines, miniature Ferris<br />
Wheels and kiddie coasters. The favourite attraction<br />
among the younger visitors was the “Crazy<br />
Bulls”, where they had to stay on<br />
top of a moving bull for as long<br />
as possible. Funhouse attractions<br />
presented in Nottingham<br />
were: two “Rotor” rides, as well<br />
as the Walk-Through constructions<br />
and Funhouses “Splash<br />
Mountain”, “Crazy Circus”,<br />
“Mad House”, “Lost City” and<br />
“Circus of Illusions” (labyrinth).<br />
Three Ghost Rides built in England<br />
rounded off the selection of<br />
attractions. Countless games<br />
booths and Continental Pick<br />
Stands – some beautifully<br />
designed, compared to other<br />
rather dismal ones – appealed<br />
highly to the visitors. In addition<br />
to hoop-throwing and crossbow<br />
shooting, there were also exotic<br />
attractions such as plate shooting, with prizes<br />
mostly being soft toys. At some game booths, one<br />
could not even see the front due to the many soft<br />
toys. The Goose Fair in Nottingham is a unique<br />
event with countless attractions. Visitors should do<br />
no more than simply breathe in and enjoy the<br />
fascinating and impressive atmosphere on the<br />
grassy fairground, and join the party! ■<br />
The Goose Fair 2011 poster<br />
and two “Bobbies” on their<br />
last patrol before closing time<br />
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HISTORY<br />
ROSTOCK CHRISTMAS MARKET 1988<br />
Even back in the era of the former<br />
GDR, the Rostock Christmas<br />
Market evolved into a tourist attraction<br />
enticing thousands of<br />
visitors from near and far every<br />
year. From today’s Neuer Markt<br />
(used as a car park in the era of<br />
the GDR, and called Ernst-Thälmann-Platz<br />
from 1952 to 1991)<br />
and meandering on into the<br />
neighbouring Kröpeliner Straße<br />
(rebuilt as the first pedestrian<br />
precinct in the GDR in 1968),<br />
rides and booths were deployed<br />
like pearls on a string during the<br />
Advent season.<br />
Text: Rolf Orschel<br />
Photo: Archive Rainer Taube<br />
However, as was the case at all GDR Christmas<br />
Markets, the one in Rostock was rather more a<br />
fairground with ride attractions, shooting galleries<br />
and Continental pick stands, as they were “Volksfest<br />
events during the pre-Christmas period, functioning<br />
alongside the festive Christmas sales offerings from<br />
the trading cooperatives, as well as handicraft<br />
streets and cultural events”, as the official state terminology<br />
effusively put it. A special attraction at the<br />
Rostock Christmas market at that time was baked<br />
bananas, as tropical fruits were rarely available<br />
otherwise (incidentally, “Bananen im Schlafrock”, or<br />
chocolate-covered bananas, are a local speciality at<br />
the Rostock Markets to this day). Other culinary delicacies<br />
were the Quarkkeulchen dumplings, Rauchwurst<br />
smoked sausage, shish kebab, and oranges,<br />
as well as various goods from “friendly countries”. In<br />
addition to grog and non-alcoholic beverages, a “hot<br />
beverage” of indefinable taste was served. However,<br />
the key players at the Rostock Christmas Market<br />
were showman operations from the north of the republic,<br />
who built up their attractions on the former<br />
Ernst-Thälmann-Platz in front of the Gothic town hall,<br />
with its baroque-style façade and the historic gabled<br />
houses. Visitors in the 1980s were often able to enjoy<br />
a Jet Ride from the VEB Zentralzirkus, or socialist<br />
state circus, (taking annual turns with the Jet Ride<br />
built by Rudolf Schäning), the “Wiener Sport Rad”<br />
(Taube), “Tropical Jet” Matterhorn (Plaenert), a<br />
Twister (VEB Zentralzirkus), a kiddie ride (Fischer),<br />
the “Kindertraum” kiddie ride (Schäning), a<br />
Continental pick stand (Urbigkeit), two shooting galleries<br />
(Taube and Urbigkeit), arcade machines and<br />
video games (Welte), as well as ball throwing<br />
(Taube). However, the “VEB-attractions” Twister and<br />
Jet Ride were not presented every year.<br />
Despite the limited range of wares and decorations<br />
(Christmas decorations could hardly ever be found<br />
at the booths, as there was only a limited quantity of<br />
baubles, glass bells and figurines from the Ore<br />
(Erzgebirge) Mountains available in the GDR, but<br />
these were sold at the Christmas Markets from Hamburg<br />
to Munich instead). The Christmas Market<br />
nonetheless provided the historic Rostock town centre<br />
with pre-Christmas fairy lights, casting a seasonal<br />
spell over its visitors.<br />
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CHRISTMAS MARKETS<br />
CHRISTMAS MARKETS 2011 IN GERMANY<br />
Christmas Markets in Germany<br />
in 2010 were affected by<br />
an early and hard winter, as<br />
well as the terrorist warnings<br />
issued by the German government.<br />
And 2012? No sign of<br />
winter anywhere – but instead<br />
rain in many locations (especially<br />
in the coastal regions),<br />
which balanced things out. In<br />
any case, for most Christmas<br />
Market operators in the German<br />
states, the turnover this<br />
time was a lot better than the<br />
year before – apart from those<br />
selling winter clothes.<br />
Text & Photos:<br />
Ralf Schmitt, Norman Vogt, Helmut Bresler,<br />
Kai Morawetz, Pascal Raviol<br />
Further to the observed tendency was for example<br />
the fact that kiddie ride constructions and –<br />
where available – also large and smaller Ferris<br />
Wheels profited from the mild weather during the<br />
Christmas Market period. Those markets that were<br />
extended after the holidays were all reported to<br />
have increased visitors, who visited the events<br />
once again after the Christmas stress was over.<br />
The additional events that accompanied the markets<br />
also increased – for example the “Flying Father<br />
Christmases” or reindeers in many cities<br />
hovering over the Christmas markets. In Hamburg,<br />
the Christmas parade through the inner city<br />
is a really popular attraction: with 120 participants,<br />
appropriately decorated festival wagons, marching<br />
band and snow cannons. This sort of thing<br />
could go down well in Berlin for example – all sorts<br />
The Christmas parade<br />
in the Hamburg inner city<br />
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of demonstrations take<br />
place there almost every<br />
weekend with various areas<br />
and streets closed<br />
off – why not the same for<br />
something nice for a<br />
change? Many cities and<br />
organisors advertise in<br />
the meantime with the<br />
superlative for their<br />
Christmas Markets: Dortmund<br />
with its “largest<br />
Christmas tree”, Dresden<br />
also with its Christmas<br />
tree, Halle an der Saale<br />
with the “highest advent<br />
candle in the world”,<br />
Lüneburg with the<br />
“largest advent wreath in<br />
Europe”, and the “largest<br />
candle in the world” can<br />
be admired in the Hesse<br />
provincial town of Schlitz.<br />
The market research<br />
institute Mafo.de undertook<br />
a research of 14<br />
Christmas markets in<br />
relation to their strength,<br />
image, and renown for<br />
the special service company<br />
W & V (Werben &<br />
Verkaufen), and came to the following conclusion:<br />
the front runner is Nürnberg, followed by Dresden,<br />
Munich, Augsburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Hamburg,<br />
Dortmund, Hannover and Erfurt. Place 11 in this<br />
ranking is Frankfurt placed even before Bautzen,<br />
Rostock and Stuttgart. By the way Frankfurt: there<br />
was an action here by customs<br />
that didn’t go over very well with<br />
the operators. During business<br />
hours a raid was undertaken,<br />
looking for illegal workers. The<br />
operators were not indignant<br />
about the raid itself, but the way<br />
it was carried out: right in front<br />
of the eyes of customers and<br />
visitors, who partly ran away in<br />
fright. Showman Association<br />
boss Jürgen Feuerstein<br />
demanded more discretion from<br />
customs in such an action in the<br />
end. A lot of fuss was also<br />
caused by a radio-spot for the<br />
“Das Örtliche Service- und<br />
Marketinggesellschaft”, advertising<br />
its telephone book –<br />
through which the showman<br />
branch felt itself insulted. DSB-<br />
President Albert Ritter intervened: “We can’t afford<br />
to have a telephone book advertisement that insults<br />
our profession!”<br />
Nationwide media however went in an entirely different<br />
direction: somebody hell bent on poisoning<br />
the visitors at the Berlin Christmas Market caused<br />
fright and fear. An approximately 45 year old male<br />
invited quite a number of visitors at the markets at<br />
the Gedächtniskirche (church), at the Alexa, on<br />
Alexanderplatz and on Opernpalais to “free<br />
schnapps”. This was mixed<br />
with a poisonous substance<br />
(most probably liquid ecstasy),<br />
which led the victims to feel<br />
nauseous and to suffer other<br />
physical afflictions. The visitors<br />
at the Berlin Christmas Markets<br />
were advised to be extremely<br />
cautious. Charles Blume,<br />
organiser of the market at the<br />
Alexa-Centre offered a 1,000<br />
Euro “bounty” on the head of the<br />
perpetrator and increased security<br />
and security personnel –<br />
as did other organisers. Despite<br />
an intensive search, the offender<br />
could not be detained.<br />
Another special incident that<br />
also affected the Christmas<br />
Market took place in Koblenz.<br />
Almost every second resident<br />
had to leave their home on the<br />
4 th of December due to the<br />
largest evacuation in the history of the city, and the<br />
Christmas Market remained closed on that day as<br />
well. The reason was the defusing of a 1800 kilo<br />
British bomb from the Second World War. ■<br />
CHRISTMAS MARKETS<br />
Christmas magic at<br />
the “new market” in Rostock<br />
The “flying Father Christmas”<br />
at the Christkindlmarkt in<br />
Saarbrucken<br />
The historic kiddie<br />
carousel from Pascal Raviol at<br />
the central station in Leipzig<br />
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CHRISTMAS MARKETS<br />
HAMBURG<br />
Still a magnet to the<br />
public: the Hamburg Christmas<br />
Market from Roncalli at the<br />
Rathausmarkt<br />
Following Berlin, Hamburg is<br />
number 2 in Germany, at least<br />
as far as the number of Christmas<br />
Markets goes.<br />
Undisputed top-dog among the<br />
Christmas Markets for many<br />
years in the hanseatic city is the<br />
Roncalli historic Christmas Market<br />
in front of the Hamburg city<br />
hall – and this ranking was confirmed<br />
in 2011 with almost 3 million<br />
visitors attending the event.<br />
The successful original concept<br />
is always extended with something<br />
new, for example new<br />
marketers and goods on offer in<br />
the themed alleys of the event.<br />
New this time was for example<br />
was the chocolate workshop,<br />
jewellery from Israel, warming<br />
soft toys, and a wooden temple<br />
carver. The organiser of the market<br />
on the Gänsemarkt, the epa<br />
events promotion GmbH firm, provided a surprise<br />
with a new concept: The “Hanseatischen Weihnachtsmarkt”<br />
became the “Alle Jahre wieder – Weihnachten<br />
in Hamburg auf dem Gänsemarkt”. Instead<br />
of the usual stands up until now with the characteristic<br />
blue-yellow design, there were new huts with<br />
gables in dove-blue and white colours, decorated<br />
with quotes from Lessing. Whether or not the new<br />
optic of the market was nicer than in the previous<br />
years, remains in the eyes of the viewer. It’s a shame<br />
in any case that due to the missing entrance portal<br />
(replaced by flagpoles) the atmosphere of “being<br />
closed into itself” suffered somewhat. The market<br />
doesn’t convey a romantic and homey atmosphere<br />
anymore due to the new colours; in fact it’s become<br />
a little cool. In Altona, a new Christmas market made<br />
its première: for the first time there was a market on<br />
the other side of the Altona railway station, in addition<br />
to the well known Ottens Christmas Market in<br />
Scandinavian style – not quite so large, but nicely<br />
designed. And Christmas Market professionals<br />
could note that the blue-yellow booths that were earlier<br />
on the Gänsemarkt were in use here. The smaller<br />
Christmas Market in St. Georg – quasi opposite<br />
Insider tip: the Christmas<br />
Market in front of the town<br />
hall in Hamburg-Harburg<br />
New booths, new name,<br />
and a new concept for the<br />
Christmas Market on the<br />
Gänsemarkt<br />
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CHRISTMAS MARKETS<br />
The Wandsbek “Winterzauber”<br />
the central railway station, was designed this time appropriately,<br />
as the containers on a bordering and large<br />
building site had been removed at long last. And there<br />
was a première at the “Winterzauber” in Wandsbek –<br />
the first “ice rink without ice”. The new attraction is of<br />
synthetic material and is operated without electricity<br />
and water. An insider tip for visitors to the Hamburg<br />
Christmas Markets is the market in front of the town hall<br />
in Hamburg-Harburg, where the stress and hectic of<br />
the city markets can be avoided.<br />
■<br />
NÜRNBERGER KINDERWEIHNACHT<br />
For the 13 th time, the Children’s Christmas Market<br />
was held in the metropolis in Franconia, in addition<br />
to Germany’s most famous Christmas Market – the<br />
Christkindlesmarkt (first mentioned in official documentation<br />
in 1628). Two reasons led to this novelty<br />
in 1999: Firstly, visitor attendance stagnated after the<br />
reunification boom, and secondly the traditional market,<br />
with its some 180 wooden booths, did not offer<br />
any attractions suitable for children. Both venues are<br />
located close to each other and are connected to the<br />
Krippenweg, or crib path. The choice of ‘hands-on’<br />
activities (among others, baking Christmas biscuits,<br />
a candle workshop and a glass workshop) was well<br />
received from the first day and extended every year<br />
– currently by a glass blower. The ride attractions,<br />
coming from the Zoo-Safaripark Stukenbrock near<br />
Bielefeld to Nürnberg in mid-November every year,<br />
are festively decorated. Traditionally, a large doublestorey<br />
ride, a small kiddie ride, a kiddie railway, as<br />
well as a small Ferris Wheel are presented. While the<br />
Christkindlesmarkt is organised by the city of Nürnberg,<br />
the KT-Erlebnis GmbH & Co. KG is in charge<br />
of the Children’s Christmas Market, with among others<br />
Gottlob Krug from BLV Nürnberg and Lorenz<br />
Kalb from the South German Showman Association<br />
as managing directors. With 2.3 million visitors,<br />
Nürnberg has once again lived up to its reputation<br />
as an attractive Christmas City in 2011 – not least<br />
thanks to the Children’s Christmas Market. ■<br />
Small but fine: the<br />
Christmas Market in St. Georg<br />
Feature of the Nürnberg<br />
Christkindlesmarkt: the area<br />
“Kinderweihnacht”<br />
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CHRISTMAS MARKETS<br />
KASSEL<br />
Impressions of the<br />
Märchenweihnachtsmarkt in<br />
Kassel<br />
The Fairytale Christmas Market in Kassel can<br />
look back on a very long history and tradition,<br />
with a “Christmarkt” being held on the Altmarkt<br />
even before 1767, according to official documentation.<br />
From 1767 it was held on the Königsplatz, newly built<br />
by Landgraf Friedrich II. Even at that time, the market<br />
consisted of a double-row circle of booths, in the<br />
middle of which Christmas trees and tables selling<br />
Christmas articles were put up. According to Andrea<br />
Behens from the Kassel Marketing firm, the Christmas<br />
Market has been repeatedly relocated within the<br />
period of three quarters of a century since 1900. The<br />
Meßplatz (today’s Karlsplatz) was followed by the<br />
Ständeplatz, then back to the Karlsplatz and finally<br />
to the Entenanger. Eventually in 1972, it found a new<br />
home on the Friedrichplatz from where it was extended<br />
to the Königsplatz over time. In 1975 the first<br />
Fairytale Christmas Market was held on the<br />
Friedrichsplatz. This year, the new Ferris Wheel from<br />
the Nier showman family from Kassel celebrated its<br />
première, and was very well received. It was joined<br />
by two modern kiddie rides (Bodem and Berger), an<br />
older horse carousel (Schellberg), the Christmas<br />
Railway (Schäfer), as well as the tall, illuminated<br />
Christmas pyramid visible from afar. Among the<br />
snack and drink booths, visitors were also served<br />
specialities from Finland and Sweden. In addition to<br />
the classic Glögg there was also Snövit (white mulled<br />
wine), or a Nordlicht (hot chocolate with vodka and<br />
cream), as well as “Polar Rolle” (cold-smoked reindeer<br />
ham in Polar bread with horseradish-cream<br />
cheese sauce and cranberries) as well as salmon<br />
rolls. In the centre of the site, the rustic-style<br />
“Königsalm” gastronomic booth was built up. In the<br />
end, results were comparable to those from previous<br />
years. According to Andrea Behrens, who has been<br />
working in the event industry since 1998, and has<br />
been responsible for the organisation of the Christmas<br />
Market since 2003, participants and visitors suffered<br />
somewhat from the frequent rain. ■<br />
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ROTHENBURG O. D. TAUBER<br />
CHRISTMAS MARKETS<br />
It may well number among the most romantic<br />
Christmas Markets in Germany and is attended by<br />
thousands of visitors from near and far every year,<br />
the “Reiterlesmarkt” in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.<br />
During every pre-Christmas period, medieval Rothenburg<br />
is transformed into a winter fairytale, which has<br />
been accompanied by a beautiful Christmas Market<br />
ever since the 15 th century. In addition to the Reiterlesmarkt,<br />
an ample variety of cultural events is on offer,<br />
the highlight being the appearances of the<br />
“Rothenburg Reiterle”, after which the Christmas Market<br />
was named. Today, many appealing booths and<br />
stalls are built up along the narrow alleys and on the<br />
The Christmas Market<br />
in Rothenburg o. d. Tauber<br />
squares around the town hall, its vaults and on the market<br />
square during the event. In addition to the classic<br />
red mulled wine, the “white” (mulled wine made from<br />
white wine) is highly popular and much consumed. As a<br />
special feature, mulled wine mugs can be exchanged<br />
only at two centrally located booths. In addition to the<br />
Christmas Market, the adjoining Christmas Village and<br />
the “German Christmas Museum” also entice a large<br />
number of visitors.<br />
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COLOGNE<br />
The market at the Cologne Cathedral numbers<br />
among the best-known Christmas Markets in Germany.<br />
Once again a large number of booths and stalls were<br />
built up in a dream setting next to the imposing setting<br />
of Cologne's world-famous cathedral, casting a Christmas<br />
spell over the visitors. A giant Nordmann fir was<br />
set up in the centre of the market where its countless<br />
lights provided a romantic ambience. From 21 st November<br />
to 23 rd December, 100 events were offered on<br />
the stage under the starry sky. One of the oldest Christmas<br />
Markets in Cologne is held on the Neumarkt. Due<br />
to a new organizer and a new concept, it discarded its<br />
former 1970s’ charm since 2008. Visitors to this location<br />
are now enchanted by the decorations and the<br />
high-quality product choice of the “Markt der Engel”.<br />
Moreover, a classic ride from the Rosenzweig firm<br />
making its rounds fitted perfectly into the overall image.<br />
Another market is located in the heart of the<br />
medieval city centre. The entrance gates to this<br />
rustically styled and lively Christmas Market – also<br />
called “Heimat der Heinzel”, or “Home of the Cologne<br />
Gnomes” – are decorated by a large number of these<br />
dwarfs, and a historic Ferris Wheel entices visitors to<br />
take a ride. Yet another market held this time was the<br />
Hafen-Weihnachtsmarkt at the chocolate museum. ■<br />
Impressions of<br />
various Christmas Markets in<br />
Cologne<br />
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CHRISTMAS MARKETS<br />
LUDWIGSHAFEN<br />
PFORZHEIM<br />
This year, an anniversary<br />
was celebrated in<br />
Pforzheim, where the “40 th<br />
Golden Pforzheim Christmas<br />
Market” was held<br />
from 21 st November to 22 nd<br />
December 2011. Many<br />
booths and huts were built<br />
up throughout the city<br />
centre, including the “Engelspyramide”<br />
(Angels’<br />
Pyramid) from Arnoux for<br />
the first time. More than 70<br />
With the “Winterdorf” on the Platz der<br />
“Deutschen Einheit” – located next to the "Rhein<br />
Galerie" shopping centre – a new market was<br />
held in 2011 in addition to the well-known and established<br />
Christmas Market on the Berliner Platz<br />
in Ludwigshafen.<br />
Apart from a number of booths and a kiddie ride, it<br />
was possible to engage the “Royal Bavarian Wheel”<br />
from Jost as the highlight of the market. The “Winterdorf”<br />
was organised by the management of the<br />
“Rhein Galerie” shopping centre, which opened its<br />
gates 15 months ago. A fireworks display shortly<br />
before Christmas even announced the extension of<br />
the Winterdorf until the 7 th January 2012. ■<br />
marketers presented an<br />
ample choice of festive<br />
gift ideas and hand-crafted<br />
articles. Adjoining the<br />
Christmas Market was the<br />
“City on Ice” ice rink, and<br />
an impressive Christmas<br />
lighting array with<br />
illuminated golden stars<br />
mounted throughout the<br />
whole city.<br />
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HANAU<br />
More than 70 sales and gastronomic booths<br />
once again enticed many visitors to the Christmas<br />
Market (25 th November to 22 nd December<br />
2011) at the market square in the Brothers<br />
Grimm town of Hanau (Hesse).<br />
Perfectly set into the scene again was the “largest<br />
Hesse advent calendar” presenting motifs from<br />
the Brothers Grimm behind the historic windows<br />
of the Neustadt town hall, opening at 6 p.m. every<br />
day. While the artists’ Christmas Market was held<br />
inside the town hall, the beautifully decorated<br />
kiddie rides from Hollenbach and Eberhardt were<br />
built up on the market square in addition to the market<br />
stalls, as well as the historic Ferris Wheel from<br />
Klaus Weingärtner, who presented his wooden<br />
showpiece for the fourth time.<br />
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ROSTOCK<br />
The Rostock Christmas Market opened its gates<br />
from 24 th November to 22 nd December 2011,<br />
illuminating the historic town centre with enchanting<br />
fairy lights. A total of 275 showmen and marketers<br />
invited visitors to stroll and enjoy in a pre-<br />
Christmas atmosphere lasting for 29 days.<br />
With some 250 festively decorated wooden booths,<br />
the Rostock Christmas Market spread across a<br />
length of more than three kilometres, from the Neuer<br />
Markt and Universitätsplatz to the Kröpeliner Tor and<br />
Fischerbastion. While the Fischerbastion accommodated<br />
a fairground with ride attractions and track<br />
rides, the other sites offered a quiet and traditional<br />
atmosphere. Since the early 1990s, the Christmas<br />
Market has been organized by the Großmarkt Rostock<br />
GmbH and has evolved into one of the largest<br />
and most beautiful Christmas Markets in Northern<br />
Germany. During the Advent season the public is invited<br />
to stroll, feast and make use of ride attractions<br />
on a varied and colourful market that also entices<br />
tens of thousands of tourists from Sweden and Denmark<br />
every year. For the official opening at around 2<br />
p.m. on 26 th November, Father Christmas and his entourage<br />
arrived in the city harbour on board the traditional<br />
(sailing) vessel “Albert Johannes”. On docking<br />
they were welcomed by a large number of excited<br />
children and Roland Methling, the Lord Mayor of the<br />
Hanseatic city. Then the Lord Mayor and his guests<br />
were taken by a historic stagecoach through the city<br />
to the fairytale stage set up at the Neuer Markt, where<br />
the Christmas Market was finally opened with the<br />
traditional cutting of the huge stollen Christmas<br />
cake. A visit to the Christmas Market is a long-established<br />
pre-Christmas tradition, not only for the Rostock<br />
residents, but also for many non-resident visitors.<br />
It is a meeting point for acquaintances and<br />
friends to enjoy typical specialities such as fried bananas,<br />
original Rostock Rauchwurst smoked<br />
sausages, Finnish Christmas punch, huge fried<br />
sausages, Mutzen dumplings, or one of the other<br />
countless snacks. Apart from further specialities<br />
from Finland and Sweden, visitors could also try organic<br />
mulled wine this year. Moreover, fairy tales,<br />
music and dance were offered at the historic Christmas<br />
Market, which was held in the nuns' yard of the<br />
Kloster zum Heiligen Kreuz convent. An the historic<br />
market some 25 craftsmen, marketers and jugglers<br />
offered an insight into the medieval way of life,<br />
presenting ancient handicrafts from blacksmiths,<br />
carpenters, joiners, girdlers or bakers. Inside a tent,<br />
children were able to listen to the fairy tales told by<br />
a story teller. Those visitors seeking action hit it lucky<br />
at the Fischerbastion-fairground. After a longer absence,<br />
the winter fair at the popular meeting point for<br />
young people was once again dominated by Blume’s<br />
“Daemonium” Ghost Ride.<br />
Further attractions were the<br />
“Flipper” from Splitt, the<br />
“Projekt1” from the Boos<br />
brothers, the “Hot Wheels”<br />
dodgem track (L. Welte), the<br />
family coaster “Speedy<br />
Gonzales” (M. Welte), Miami<br />
(Weihs), “Crazy Outback”<br />
(Hofmann-Jehn), and<br />
Fehlauer‘s “Breakdance” for<br />
the first time. The “Petersburger<br />
Schlittenfahrt” from<br />
Burgdorf, Sturm’s “Kristall-<br />
Palast”, and the Giant Slide<br />
from Gormanns were also<br />
presented. Additionally, five kiddie rides were built<br />
up for younger visitors on the Neuer Markt and Universitätsplatz.<br />
Apart from Taube’s “Wiener Sportrad”<br />
– belonging to the regular participants of some 46<br />
years standing – visitors enjoyed the beautiful view<br />
on the “Hanse Rad” (Geisler) Ferris wheel or made<br />
rounds in the “Montgolfiere” (Finke-Zarnikau) and<br />
the Wave-Swinger (Eberhard & Barth). Moreover, the<br />
pyramid from Jens Hamberger, the “Weihnachtslabyrinth”<br />
(Lutz Hofmann), and fifteen further snack<br />
booths and beverage outlets provided visitors to<br />
these sites with food and drinks. With a bit of luck,<br />
visitors were even able to win yet more Christmas<br />
gifts at six different game booths and concession<br />
stalls. In addition to the aforementioned “Kristallpalast”,<br />
the Simulator (Walkhoefer) and two kiddie<br />
rides were built up at the Kröpeliner Tor. Two snack<br />
booths and one confectionery booth provided visitors<br />
to this area with food and drinks as well.<br />
The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Showman Association,<br />
which diligently collected donations once<br />
again, was able to hand over almost 4,000 Euros for<br />
charitable causes. Although it was a “green Christmas<br />
Market” in 2011 again – it did not snow a single<br />
day – it rained frequently and was often stormy. However,<br />
in mild and dry weather during the last opening<br />
week, many visitors rushed to the market – especially<br />
on Wednesday – 21 st December, for the live<br />
television coverage from the Rostock Christmas market<br />
by the regional NDE television station. In order to<br />
be able to build up the required broadcasting and<br />
lighting equipment, the kiddie chain ride from<br />
Urbigkeit had to be dismantled one day earlier.<br />
When the “Abendmagazin” was over, visitors<br />
were able to finish off the evening with a ride at<br />
reduced prices on the “Hanse Rad” or at one of<br />
the many other stalls and rides, as the market<br />
was not closed at 8 p.m. as on the other weekdays.<br />
All in all, the Rostock Christmas Market<br />
2011 was once again a successful and financially<br />
satisfying event, despite the frequent<br />
storms and rain.<br />
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Impressions of the<br />
Rostock Christmas Market<br />
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CHRISTMAS MARKETS<br />
NEW PYRAMIDS<br />
Bergmann-Pyramid<br />
Built by Pfaff:<br />
the pyramid from Bergmann<br />
at Alexanderplatz in Berlin<br />
Andreas Pfaff and his four brothers<br />
have been in business for a<br />
long time, and along with the<br />
family firm Marko Pfaff & Co.<br />
Spezialfahrzeugbau GmbH of<br />
Bad Lausick, has gained considerable<br />
experience in designing<br />
and making Christmas pyramids.<br />
An increasing number of<br />
levels have been added to the<br />
pyramids over the last few years,<br />
so that they have continued to<br />
grow ever higher into the skies.<br />
After Henry Jacobs introduced<br />
his XXL-Christmas pyramid in<br />
2010, Arnold Bergmann presented<br />
a version with even larger<br />
ground measurements – 11 metres<br />
in diameter and some 20<br />
metres height, as well as a snack<br />
booth annexe – at his Christmas<br />
Market on the Alexanderplatz in<br />
2011. The initial test and première<br />
had taken place at the<br />
Berlin Oktoberfest before the<br />
construction, requiring 10 transport vehicles, appeared<br />
at the Christmas<br />
Market on the “Alex”. While<br />
the construction minus<br />
decoration is built up<br />
relatively quickly (within<br />
only one day), the number<br />
of transport vehicles is truly<br />
a fright. This results from<br />
the bulky segments that<br />
lack any folding mechanism,<br />
which by necessity<br />
require much space. Three<br />
out of six levels are walkthrough<br />
levels, the other<br />
three are decorated with<br />
crib figurines – just as is the<br />
case at the Christmas Market.<br />
The wings and figurines<br />
rotate and the wings<br />
provide an appealing play<br />
of changing colours. The<br />
base is formed by the sales<br />
section and the kitchen.<br />
The restaurant on the first<br />
level offers 60 seats, a bar<br />
and an extra service lift. On<br />
the next level there is a music<br />
stage to which there is an all-round view. Ten<br />
roofed bar tables are arranged in a circle around<br />
the pyramid, and were well-frequented at the<br />
Christmas market. Arnold Bergmann plans to present<br />
his new construction with changing decorations<br />
throughout the entire year – for example at the<br />
Berlin Ostermarkt at Easter, or the German-French<br />
Volksfest. This is the reason that the Pfaff firm is<br />
currently constructing new partitioning walls and<br />
fence elements, appealingly limiting the beer garden<br />
and creating a pleasing cosy area. His Glüh-<br />
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wein mugs were also of a special shape – slim and<br />
tall – perfectly fitting in with the pyramid. Many visitors<br />
took the mugs with them as a souvenir and had<br />
them refilled at other markets. “My mugs travelled<br />
as far as the Gendarmenmarkt. No wonder that they<br />
were quickly sold-out,” said Arnold Bergmann, who<br />
operated another smaller 10-metre-high Christmas<br />
pyramid version at the Gedächtniskirche on the<br />
Breitscheidplatz, presenting a very fitting conclusion<br />
to 2011.<br />
Angel Pyramid – Arnoux<br />
The “Engelspyramide” from Edgar Arnoux from<br />
Karlsruhe, which according to the owner is a proud<br />
23 metres tall, celebrated its première at the<br />
Pforzheim Christmas Market. Many years ago<br />
Arnoux had toured a number of ride attractions, before<br />
he retired in 1995. The attraction was built by<br />
the Schmäding firm, which designed a concept together<br />
with a Cologne designer from Arnoux’s circle<br />
of friends, and according to Arnoux’s initial ideas<br />
and wishes. After several changes, resulting in a<br />
steady increase of the attraction’s height, construction<br />
could begin. In a construction time of<br />
several months a huge pyramid was built with<br />
magnificent carvings and devoted attention to detail.<br />
Two weeks before the opening the pyramid was<br />
completed. After the “Engelspyramide” had first<br />
been built up on the company premises and the remaining<br />
decoration elements mounted, the pyramid<br />
was dismantled, loaded onto the vehicles and<br />
transported to the heart of the Pforzheim pedestrian<br />
precinct. The ground level emerged from the first<br />
of three containers. Next there is a container above<br />
the first level and then another, which is pulled out<br />
to the top in three sections. The centre of the<br />
octagonal ground level (10 x 11 metre ground measurements)<br />
accommodates a large bar with a lot of<br />
beverage dispensing equipment, an ample number<br />
of shelves, and significant cooling and storage<br />
space. On the level above, the “Engels-Stübchen”<br />
offers seating for up to 30 people. After sundown,<br />
the festively illuminated “Engelspyramide” offers a<br />
special feast for the eyes.<br />
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Built by the Schmäding<br />
firm: the “Engelspyramide”<br />
from Arnoux in Pforzheim<br />
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SPECIAL<br />
Idyll under trees:<br />
The baggage vans of the horse<br />
carousel at the Cloppenburg<br />
Open Air Museum<br />
Even upon entering the<br />
Museum Village in the<br />
Cloppenburg open air museum<br />
in Lower Saxony one<br />
could hear the fairground organ,<br />
when the “1 st Historic<br />
Village Fair” enticed the public<br />
from June 30 th to July 3 rd .<br />
Among other attractions on<br />
offer were a nostalgic Caterpillar<br />
Ride, a horse carousel<br />
and a Swing Boat.<br />
Text & Photos: Nils Benthien<br />
There was much to<br />
discover at the museum fair<br />
Village Fair<br />
Situated along the thoroughfare to the fairground<br />
were special flags with historic pictures<br />
of well-known Volksfest events from the<br />
surrounding region – among others from the<br />
Leer Gallimarkt, the Oldenburg Kramermarkt,<br />
the Bremen Freimarkt, the Zetel Markt, the<br />
Roonkark Markt and the Vechta Stoppelmarkt.<br />
On the fairground, visitors and fans of nostalgic<br />
fairground attractions – some of them coming<br />
from as far away as the Netherlands – were able<br />
to admire the “Alt-Ammerländer Pferdekarussell”,<br />
a kiddie Swing Boat and a Caterpillar Ride,<br />
and indeed had a ride on them at 1960 prices!<br />
The “Alt-Ammerländer<br />
Pferdekarussell” was<br />
built by Friedrich Heyn<br />
in Neustadt/Orla in<br />
Thuringia towards the<br />
end of the 19 th century. It consists of 16 arms, 20<br />
wooden horses, and a lion and a pig, as well as<br />
two carriages, two coffee cups and, as a special<br />
feature, a sea horse. Inside the carousel an organ<br />
from Ruth and Son from Waldkirchen could be<br />
admired, playing merry tunes, To this day, the<br />
carousel is operated with a salt water starter.<br />
From the 1930s, the carousel was owned by the<br />
showman family Fink from Rastede. In 1950,<br />
Friedrich Heineman, also from Rastede near<br />
Oldenburg, purchased the horse carousel and<br />
presented it at fairs and Schützenfest events<br />
throughout Ammerland, hence its name: “Alt-<br />
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SPECIAL<br />
The “Alt-Ammerländer<br />
Pferdekarussell” from<br />
Heinemann<br />
Ammerländer Pferdekarussell”. In 1979, the<br />
Cloppenburg Museum Village purchased the<br />
carousel. With the support of the Oldenburg<br />
Chamber of Trade and the Oldenburg employment<br />
centre, the ageing carousel was restored to<br />
visual glory. The Swing Boat tells another story:<br />
show-woman Maria Müller from Neustadtgödens<br />
once had a kiddie Swing Boat built by<br />
local craftsmen; namely the blacksmith<br />
Kernkamp and her neighbour, Manfred<br />
A selection of mounts of<br />
the horse carousel<br />
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SPECIAL<br />
Details of the horse<br />
carousel from Heinemann<br />
Clemens, who painted the artwork,<br />
to name but a few. From<br />
1947, Maria Müller toured the<br />
completed kiddie Swing Boat, which was taken<br />
over by the Museum Village in 1991. The 50-yearold<br />
original hardboard with the painted motifs<br />
was put into storage in the museum’s depot, and<br />
replaced by reproductions from artist Vladimir<br />
Schlündt. The museum often used the kiddie<br />
Swing Boat for advertising and entertainment<br />
purposes. During the four-month restoration of<br />
Artwork on the carousel’s<br />
rounding boards<br />
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SPECIAL<br />
The Kiddie Swing Boat<br />
from 1946<br />
the attraction by the Ludgerus-Werke from<br />
Lohne supported by the Vechta job centre as<br />
part of a vocational training project in 2010, as<br />
much of the old substance was preserved as<br />
possible. The Caterpillar Ride from 1936, built by<br />
ride manufacturer Hans and Paul Gundelwein in<br />
Wutha (near Eisenach) in Thuringia, was the<br />
heart of the historic village fair. In 1936, the Datteln<br />
building authorities granted permission to<br />
build up and operate the ride at markets, fairs,<br />
and Schützenfest events. While the Caterpillar<br />
Ride was owned by Ida Reminder from Duisburg<br />
from 1952 on, it is not known to this day who the<br />
previous owner of the ride was. In 1960, Willy<br />
Krabbe and his son, also Willy, from Gronau in<br />
the Münsterland purchased the Caterpillar Ride,<br />
which they operated for 18 years. In 1975, the<br />
ride was sold to the showman family Michen in<br />
Berlin, who parted with it already in 1977. Its next<br />
stop was Hamburg, from where showmen Roman<br />
and Henry Rasch toured the Caterpillar<br />
Ride for 18 years. The last showman who owned<br />
the ride from 1995 on was Fred Vater from the<br />
Harburg district. In 2005, he sold it to the Cloppenburg<br />
Museum Village due to ill health. Up until<br />
2002, this ride had been regularly operated.<br />
From February 2009, the Caterpillar Ride was<br />
elaborately restored in cooperation of the Oldenburg<br />
Chamber of Commerce and the Oldenburg<br />
employment centre, as well as many voluntary<br />
helpers. While Paul Münch from Cloppenburg<br />
was responsible for the upholstery work,<br />
the electrical equipment was renewed or restored<br />
by Ingo Nordmann from Cloppenburg, and<br />
Helmut Wilken from Schortens took care of,<br />
among other aspects, the sound equipment and<br />
the salt water starter. The restoration was modelled<br />
on a 1960s look, for which the qualified<br />
restorer, Jaroslav Orzag from Bremen, prepared<br />
a restoration analysis and helped with the<br />
documentation and reproduction of old colour<br />
schemes. The Caterpillar cover and the tarpaulin<br />
parts were made by Raap Planen und Zelte KG<br />
from Hamburg. Next year, the arms will be<br />
replaced by new additions built by the Spezialmaschinenbau<br />
Kurre GmbH from Ramsloh.<br />
A historic shooting gallery was also presented at<br />
the event. In 2005, the Museum Village purchased<br />
the shooting gallery, which was built in the<br />
1950s and had belonged to a showman from<br />
Lower Saxony. This attraction was also restored<br />
A shooting gallery from<br />
the 1950s<br />
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SPECIAL<br />
The Caterpillar Ride,<br />
built in 1936<br />
The Caterpillar cover is closing<br />
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SPECIAL<br />
The Caterpillar Ride in<br />
operation and its ride chip<br />
Showman Fred Vater<br />
was one of the Caterpillar’s<br />
previous owners – and returned<br />
to the operator stand for the<br />
Museum Fair<br />
by the Ludgerus-Werke from Lohne, supported<br />
by helpers. Moreover, the “Heyderhoffmann”<br />
puppet theatre from Oldenburg and the “Tonga”<br />
flea circus appealed to young and old visitors<br />
alike. In addition, there were illusions in the style<br />
of the 1920s as well as “Kuby’s High Wire Show”.<br />
After the show from the professionals, younger<br />
visitors had the opportunity to try and walk on the<br />
thin wire themselves. Visitors were also able to<br />
enjoy the entertainer “Lorenzo” with his juggling<br />
performance and soap bubble pantomimes, as<br />
well as the classic “Hau den Lukas” Hi-Striker,<br />
and an artist doing portraits. Naturally, popcorn<br />
and candy floss were also available, along with<br />
fish rolls and smoked eel offered by the Aalräucherei<br />
Bruns. Additionally showman family<br />
Wilken built up its<br />
snack and drink<br />
booth, and an organ<br />
grinder provided<br />
appropriate Volksfest<br />
music. Another attraction<br />
causing a lot<br />
of furore were the<br />
strong men from the<br />
“Kettlebell” troupe lifting<br />
35 kg with each<br />
hand. Showman Fred<br />
Vater, the last owner<br />
of the Caterpillar<br />
Ride, put his heart<br />
and soul in operating<br />
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SPECIAL<br />
The unique Museum Fair<br />
setting used as motifs by a<br />
number of bridal couples<br />
“Kuby's High Wire Show”<br />
and illusions inside the tent<br />
his former ride and making announcements over<br />
the microphone. On Thursday afternoon, the<br />
director of the Lower Saxony Open Air Museum,<br />
Prof. Uwe Meiners, opened the 1 st historic village<br />
fair in the presence of 150 guests from the field<br />
of politics, industry, and civic administration,<br />
accompanied by pop and rock 'n’ roll music<br />
played by the “Schlagerlust” trio. On Sunday,<br />
Matthias Bunzel from the museum staff and Susanne<br />
Fredebeule, a restorer and expert on<br />
carousel horses, held a guided tour explaining<br />
the restoration work carried out on the individual<br />
rides. For Maria and Axel Thomsen from<br />
Cloppenburg, it was a trip down memory lane.<br />
After all, they had enjoyed their first kiss in this<br />
very Caterpillar Ride, which used to be a fixture<br />
at the Cloppenburg Kirmes some 34 years ago!<br />
The museum team surprised the couple with an<br />
extra tour that they enjoyed all on their own, and<br />
the museum director Prof. Uwe Meiners presented<br />
them with champagne and two roses from the<br />
shooting gallery after their tour. The historic village<br />
fair also attracted extensive media coverage.<br />
By the way, the Cloppenburg civil registry<br />
office is also located in the Museum Village. Thus<br />
bridal couples having a very special wedding<br />
photo taken could be seen on the fairground regularly<br />
throughout the event. All in all, 10,000 visitors<br />
came to the museum village for the 1 st village<br />
fair, which lasted 4 days. Due to this success, the<br />
organizers are currently considering holding an<br />
event such as this again in 2012.<br />
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MODEL CONSTRUCTION<br />
FOG MACHINE<br />
The fog machine in<br />
operation at the Musik Express<br />
The fog machine is<br />
located in the roof framework.<br />
In detail: The tank and the<br />
proportioning pump<br />
Text: Rolf Orschel<br />
Photos: Christian Geist<br />
Last year, fairground model builder Christian<br />
Geist from Hembsbach near Mannheim,<br />
built a functional evaporator fog machine<br />
for his 1:16 scale Musik Express model<br />
(see KPR No. 147), which went into operation<br />
at the “model-hobby-spiel” exhibition<br />
in Leipzig in early October 2011.<br />
The casing of the miniature fog machine was<br />
milled from aluminium, and the nozzle for the<br />
issuing fog was turned on a lathe by the trained<br />
mechanical engineer. Next, the casing was<br />
anodized in black, as it gets very hot during<br />
operation and standard varnish would simply<br />
not withstand such high temperatures. The<br />
heating element consists of a copper cylinder<br />
turned on a lathe, the surface of which is<br />
increased by winding copper strands around<br />
it. Due to the resulting capillarity, the fog fluid<br />
can fully evaporate. A 35 Watt halogen lamp is<br />
used as heating for the evaporator. As is the<br />
case in all evaporator fog machines, the artificial<br />
fog is produced by pumping fog fluid in<br />
little drops from a tank onto the heating<br />
element with the aid of a proportioning pump.<br />
The fluid drops evaporate on the hot copper<br />
cylinder, instantly atomised and emitted<br />
through the case nozzle. The airstream arising<br />
from the ride’s rotating movement disperses<br />
the fog in the model. Christian Geist uses<br />
standard fog fluid as evaporator liquid for his<br />
miniature fog machine, but to improve<br />
efficiency he increases glycerine concentration.<br />
As a result the fog grows thicker and less<br />
fluid is required.<br />
At the first public presentation of the fog<br />
machine at the exhibition in Leipzig, 100 ml of<br />
fog fluid sufficed for three 8-hour days of<br />
continuous operation, during which the 20 x<br />
20 x 70 mm fog machine, operated at 12 volts<br />
direct current, proving its efficiency and<br />
absolute reliability.<br />
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A LOOK BACK<br />
GERA<br />
Guest at Gera:<br />
"High Explosive” coaster<br />
Promotion made by<br />
showmen in the inner city<br />
Halloween-mood at<br />
the dodgem from Krebs<br />
Text & Photos: Rolf Orschel<br />
After an absence of more than 20 years, it proved<br />
possible to present a coaster once again at the<br />
Gera, celebrated from 22 nd October to 6 th November<br />
last year. The extensive advertising<br />
campaign was completely dedicated to this attraction.<br />
With this crowd puller along with the<br />
other attractions, the Herbstfest enjoyed a virtual<br />
dream start – by Gera standards.<br />
Due to the Pope’s visit to Thuringia, which upset<br />
the federal state’s schedule of autumn events, the<br />
last Gera Volksfest of the season had also to be<br />
postponed by a week.Thanks to the changed<br />
schedule, the municipal culture and event<br />
management and the city’s advisory council<br />
organising the event in cooperation with the<br />
Thuringia Showman Association, were able to<br />
engage 30 showman operations. As a result, the<br />
Herbstvolksfest 2011 was one of the largest during<br />
the last two decades. The following attractions<br />
were built up on the Hofwiesenpark-fairground:<br />
the “Moulin Rouge” Ferris Wheel (Wolters-<br />
Domke), “High Explosive” (Vorlop), “Breakdance”<br />
(Hentrich), “Cortina Jet” (Sachs-Schmitgen), the<br />
“Cape Fear” Ghost Ride (Boos), the dodgem track<br />
from Krebs, “Flying Circus” chain ride (Kirchner),<br />
and the “Time Machine” simulator (Schieck).<br />
Moreover, the “Magic” from Müller-Volklandt was<br />
presented as an adequate replacement for a ride<br />
attraction that had cancelled its contract on short<br />
notice. Children could enjoy a “<strong>Super</strong>-8-Schleife”,<br />
a kiddie carousel, a kiddie railway, and a Jet Ride.<br />
The Herbstfest was officially opened with the<br />
traditional tapping of the keg by Lord Mayor Dr.<br />
Norbert Vornehm at 4 p.m. on 22 nd October. From<br />
2 p.m., the rides and tracks had already made<br />
their rounds over half of the fair for 30 minutes. For<br />
the first time, the showman youth went on a promotional<br />
tour in the city centre on the first and the<br />
second opening Saturdays. For this initiative,<br />
showman Gunter Gerhardt had built a special<br />
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transportable and functional mini-Ferris Wheel.<br />
The builder of the mini-wheel and Manfred Hentrich<br />
had come up with this idea some months earlier<br />
while sitting at a beer table. Apart from the Ferris<br />
Wheel, the young people had built up a candy<br />
floss stall and a wheel of fortune, offering candy<br />
floss or ride chips as a prizes, on the event area<br />
in front of the cultural and conference centre. The<br />
promotion campaign was well received by the<br />
public and was accompanied by the percussion<br />
group from the Gera music school, who also<br />
marched at the head of the lamp and torchlight<br />
procession. Among the highlights of the event<br />
there were the well-attended family days, with reduced<br />
prices on Wednesdays and a Halloween<br />
party being celebrated on the second weekend<br />
from 29 th to 31 st October. The three party days started<br />
with a lamp and torchlight procession on Saturday<br />
that wound from the city centre to the fairground,<br />
where Halloween bonfires were lit. The<br />
showmen had decorated their attractions with typical<br />
Halloween decorations, and a surprisingly<br />
high number of visitors were dressed up in appropriate<br />
costumes during the three days. On Friday,<br />
4 th November at about 9:30 p.m. a brilliant fireworks<br />
display next to the fairground heralded the<br />
final weekend of the Herbstfest.<br />
As far as business was concerned, the organizers<br />
and showmen were pleased with a noticeable upward<br />
trend. After a dream start, visitor attendance<br />
at the Herbstfest was much higher on the weekdays<br />
and even more noticeably at the weekends<br />
than in previous years, bringing most showmen<br />
good financial results.<br />
■<br />
A LOOK BACK<br />
SCHLÜCHTERN<br />
Text & Photos:<br />
Rolf Orschel<br />
From 4 th to 8 th November 2011, the 61 st Kalter Markt<br />
– one of the most significant Heimatfest events<br />
of the region – was held in the small town near<br />
Fulda in East Hesse. The origins of this traditional<br />
event date back as far as the 12 th century.<br />
The original horse market is celebrated on the first<br />
weekend in November every year and transforms<br />
the small town into a party metropolis. The organiser,<br />
the Schlüchtern town authorities, always makes<br />
every effort to put together an appealing mixture of<br />
a colourful market and an attractive fair event. While<br />
a large bric-a-brac market with 280 stalls is held in<br />
several streets throughout the town centre, the adjacent<br />
car park at the Untertor is the perfect site for<br />
the amusement section. Last year the fairground<br />
attractions presented were the “Caesars Wheel”<br />
(Landwermann & Henschel), the “Flip Fly” (Clauß),<br />
“Star Light” Musik Express (Nier), the “Taumler” from<br />
Roie, the dodgem track from Kalbfleisch, and<br />
Schramm’s “Drop Zone”. The younger visitors enjoyed<br />
a Jet Ride, a <strong>Super</strong>-8-Schleife, and a Bungee-<br />
Trampoline. A number of snack and confectionery<br />
stalls and different concession stalls, such as a<br />
shooting gallery, a Continental pick stand, a can<br />
throwing booth and horse race, rounded off the<br />
selection of fairground attractions. Moreover, four<br />
kiddie rides and many concession stalls were built<br />
up in the adjoining festival-mile “Unter den Linden”.<br />
The offer of the snack and game booths was very<br />
balanced as only a couple of operations with the<br />
same product choice were approved and placed far<br />
apart from each other. Moreover, several snack<br />
stalls and tents operated by merchants and<br />
associations with an ample product choice provided<br />
the visitors with food and drink. Highlights of the<br />
event were the children's lamp procession on Saturday,<br />
the fireworks display on Sunday evening, and<br />
the Family Day with reduced fares on the closing<br />
Tuesday. In almost ideal weather, the 61 st Kalter<br />
Markt with its varied and balanced entertainment<br />
contingent attracted some 100,000 visitors. At the<br />
weekend the market streets and the fairground were<br />
filled with pushing crowds, so visitors sometimes<br />
had to form long queues in front of the fairground<br />
attractions. All the showmen were satisfied with the<br />
course of business.There were only a few mere<br />
“gazers”, and the attractions were very well received<br />
by the visitors, who brought most of the showmen<br />
a good to very good turnover.<br />
■<br />
"Flip Fly” and<br />
"Drop Zone” in Schlüchtern<br />
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A LOOK BACK<br />
BROCKUM<br />
Large market time at<br />
Brockum<br />
Opening and the tapping<br />
of the keg in the festival tent<br />
Piontek’s “Breakdance”<br />
Text & Photos: Nils Benthien<br />
From 29 th October to 1 st November 2011, the 453 rd<br />
Brockum Großmarkt enticed more than 200,000<br />
visitors. The 11-person market committee is responsible<br />
for the approval of the participants.<br />
Apart from their council’s mandate, the male and female<br />
members of the Brockum council voluntarily<br />
commit themselves to the organisation of the market.<br />
With eight members no longer running for the local<br />
council, 160 years of market experience are immediately<br />
lost. For Mayor Ingrid Thrien it was also the last<br />
Brockum Großmarkt, as the Brockum Mayor is also the<br />
local Fairground Director. The<br />
departing members were honoured<br />
by the showman spokesman<br />
Arno Eisermann. 500 showmen<br />
were approved to the 60,000<br />
square metre festival area. Attractions<br />
presented this time were,<br />
among others, “Breakdance”<br />
(Piontek), “Heiße Räder” (Armbrecht),<br />
the “Around the World”<br />
Ferris Wheel (Cornelius), “Flash”<br />
(Weber), “Musicfactory” dodgem<br />
track (Braun), “Family Star” (Alberts),<br />
“Free Style” (Agtsch), and<br />
the “Amercian Fly” chain ride<br />
(Toni). Younger visitors could enjoy,<br />
among other rides, the “Flying<br />
Crazy Bus” (Bruch), “World of Fantasy”<br />
(Bruch), the “Cars for Kids”<br />
kiddie scooter (Wegener), “Hummelflug”<br />
(Hortmeyer), and the<br />
pony ride (Pasquali). Moreover, the<br />
Lesnik showman family once again built up their Galloper<br />
built in 1886 in Brockum. This potpourri of rides was<br />
rounded off by a harmonious mixture of attractive<br />
concession stalls from all sectors. At the bric-a-brac<br />
market and the trade show, visitors could buy an ample<br />
assortment of everyday articles, as well as agricultural<br />
implements. Monday was the designated Family Day<br />
with reduced prices and free entry to the trade show and<br />
on the market Tuesday the traditional livestock market<br />
was held from 7 a.m. The largest Volksfest in the region<br />
was advertised on posters and flyers with the mascot (a<br />
horse) and a slogan naturally in Low German “Da moßt<br />
du hen!”, or “You've gotta’ go”!<br />
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HOCHHEIM<br />
Text & Photos:<br />
Norman Vogt<br />
The 527 th Hochheim Market was a “very good vintage” –<br />
after all with an estimated 580,000 guests, record-breaking<br />
visitor numbers were achieved in 2011.<br />
In previous years, the event had suffered mostly from rather<br />
poor November weather, with much rain or even snow. This<br />
year however there was sunny weather throughout the event<br />
that took place from 4 th to 8 th November. While wood chips<br />
and gravel were sometimes carted to the fairground to prevent<br />
visitors from getting their feet wet in the last few years,<br />
they “got all dusty” this year. This was tolerated however, as<br />
almost all the showmen achieved good or even very good<br />
results. The Ferris Wheel from Jost was built up in the centre<br />
of the fairground for the first time, and as novelty attractions<br />
visitors could enjoy the “Spinning Racer” (Bruch), Prumbaum’s<br />
“Sky-Glider”, and the “Flash” (Weber) as well as<br />
Schütze’s “Große Geisterbahn”. Further attractions presented<br />
were Bausch’s “Top Spin No.1”, Ruppert’s “Take Off”, and<br />
the “Hollywood” from Renz, Häsler’s “Psychodelic”, Sottile’s<br />
Simulator, Barth’s Skooter, Roies “Wellenflug” and Kipp’s<br />
“Action House”. The livestock market, the Family Day as well<br />
as the closing fireworks display on the last opening day -<br />
which was held already at 7 p.m. so that families with children<br />
could also enjoy the spectacle - numbered among the<br />
highlights of the event.<br />
■<br />
ORTENBERG<br />
Impressions of the<br />
Hochheimer Market<br />
Text & Photos:<br />
Norman Vogt<br />
On 28 th October 2011, the 745 th Kalter Markt<br />
was opened in Ortenberg. Thanks to attractive<br />
rides (including three novelties), a<br />
new beer tent as well as over 400 marketers,<br />
the 5-day event enticed more than<br />
200,000 visitors.<br />
The opening ceremony in the Weindorf, or<br />
wine village, from Roie in front of the<br />
Sparkasse bank on Carl-Fries-Platz, was followed<br />
by the opening torchlight procession<br />
through the Ortenberg streets. Due to the<br />
somewhat steep fairground some attractions<br />
had to be heavily propped up. Ride novelty<br />
was the “Flip Fly” Swing from Clauß, which<br />
was very well received by the public, just as was the<br />
second novelty, Michael Schneider’s “Pirates Adventure”<br />
walkthrough construction. On the last opening<br />
day, the owner of the latter was highly satisfied with his<br />
results and enthralled with both the event and the public.<br />
New for the children was “Käpt’n Reikas Erlebnisreise”.<br />
Other attractions presented were the “Starlight“<br />
Matterhorn from Nier, Ruppert’s “Take Off“ and the<br />
dodgem track (Kalbfleisch). As previously mentioned,<br />
the Almhüttenzelt beer tent – with a spacious beer garden,<br />
VIP-area on the 2nd level and an ample live music<br />
programme – was built up in the exhibition section<br />
for the first time. Apart from the horse and livestock<br />
market, the Family Day with reduced prices was once<br />
again held on the last opening day. The day before, a<br />
brilliant fireworks display had been held.<br />
■<br />
Fun for big and<br />
small at the Kalten Markt<br />
in Ortenberg<br />
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A LOOK BACK<br />
SOEST<br />
“Crazy Mouse” in Soest<br />
“Beach Jumper” in Soest<br />
Text: Michael Petersen<br />
Photos: Nils Benthien<br />
With more than one million visitors, the 674 th<br />
Soest Allerheiligenkirmes from 2 nd to 6 th November<br />
brought the participating showmen a dream<br />
season finale to 2011, exceeding the expectations<br />
and wishes of even the greatest optimist.<br />
Many a showman even talked of financial results<br />
similar to those in very “fat” fairground years. Soest<br />
has once again proved its special importance as the<br />
largest medieval city fair in Europe. Throughout the<br />
event, masses of visitors virtually besieged the fairground,<br />
with visitor attendance being particularly<br />
striking on the opening day. It was certainly an<br />
advantage that the fair took place during the autumn<br />
school holidays in North-Rhine Westphalia this year.<br />
Not only did families stay very long on Wednesday,<br />
there was barely any room to move on the fairground<br />
on Saturday and Sunday, when the Allerheiligenkirmes<br />
was at its best and the ride attractions<br />
could hardly cope with the rush. Not only did the<br />
snack and drink booths work to their limit, the game<br />
and sales booths also achieved very good financial<br />
results. Due to warm<br />
temperatures, sellers of<br />
mulled wine didn't fare<br />
too well though. In<br />
beautiful sunny weather<br />
and temperatures of<br />
almost 20° C, hot drinks<br />
were in little or no<br />
demand. Last year’s<br />
Allerheiligenkirmes presented<br />
a highly prominent<br />
cornucopia of fairground<br />
attractions.<br />
Many novelty rides and<br />
others returning to the<br />
event made the city<br />
centre fair a very special event. The different sites<br />
in the city centre provided a varied layout, with the<br />
novelties being well spread out. After a two-year<br />
break, the “Power Tower 2” eventually returned to<br />
the ancient Hanseatic city, welcoming the visitors in<br />
the entrance area opposite the railway station. The<br />
arrangement of the “Happy Sailor” and the “Bayernrutsche”<br />
slide was quite successful, and as a débutante,<br />
the “Salto Mortale” was virtually besieged. The<br />
“Bellevue” Ferris Wheel being allocated a new site<br />
in the Dominikanerstraße this year, provided its<br />
passengers a completely different view across the<br />
city this time. While the power attractions “Booster<br />
Maxxx” and the “High Impress” provided the visitors<br />
with a lot of action on the market square, families<br />
were able to enjoy the Musik Express and the “Magic<br />
House” in this location. An over-the-top course<br />
consisting of “Skater”, “Devil Rock”, and “Shake”,<br />
built up all around the St. Petri Church was clearly<br />
too much of a good thing. The placing of a family<br />
ride would have suited this area much better. The<br />
“Haunted Mansion” Ghost Ride however had been<br />
perfectly placed, and was very well received. The<br />
Große Teich fairground was also very skilfully laid<br />
out, with the “Autoskooter Number 1”, the “Crazy<br />
Mouse” coaster and the “Konga” mega-swing being<br />
effectively placed and almost always fully occupied.<br />
The “Beach Jumper” was also among the<br />
winners in Soest, even though it had been allocated<br />
an unfavourable site. Moreover, Wave-Swinger,<br />
“Star Flyer”, “Big Monster”, “Scheibenwischer”, “<strong>Super</strong><br />
Hupferl” and “Labyrinth”, as well as many a<br />
kiddie rides were very well frequented throughout<br />
the event.<br />
A prominent occupancy and spring-like weather<br />
were the successful crowd pullers at the Soest Allerheiligenkirmes<br />
2011. An extensive advertising campaign<br />
and the excellent reputation of the city centre<br />
fair attracted visitors from throughout the surrounding<br />
region also.<br />
■<br />
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BERGHEIM<br />
A LOOK BACK<br />
Impressions of<br />
the Bergheim Hubertusmarkt<br />
Text & Photos:<br />
Norman Vogt<br />
The Hubertusmarkt in Bergheim, the largest<br />
Volksfest event in the Rhein-Erft region, opened<br />
on 28 th October 2011.<br />
For nine days, some 100,000 visitors were able to<br />
enjoy a large number of ride and funhouse attractions<br />
in front of the Aachener Tor. The opening ceremony<br />
with the tapping of the keg by Mayor Maria<br />
Pfordt at the Alpen-Gasthof was followed by a stroll<br />
across the fairground, and in the evening the opening<br />
fireworks display was held. As the following<br />
opening days were very well attended, the showmen<br />
were quite satisfied with their results. Even the<br />
Family Day on Wednesday was well worth seeing.<br />
However, visitor attendance slackened in the following<br />
days. On 6 th November, this year’s market<br />
closed with an open shopping Sunday in the<br />
pedestrian precinct and a large closing fireworks<br />
display. The two highlights on the fairground were<br />
Gorman’s “Liberty Wheel” Ferris Wheel and the<br />
“Adrenalin” Freefall Tower from Bügler. The round<br />
rides presented included the “Joker” (Bügler),<br />
“Beach Party” (Milz), “Flipper” (Meeß) and Barth’s<br />
“Südseewellen”, which were joined by Barth’s<br />
“Wilde Maus”, the “Drive In” dodgem track<br />
(Schmidt), Deinert’s “X-Factor” and Bonner’s large<br />
“Breakdance”. Moreover, in addition to a simulator,<br />
visitors could also enjoy the walkthrough construction<br />
“House of Horror” (Spindler) and the<br />
“Kristallpalast” (Sturm). With Parpalioni’s “Hubertusmarkt-Treff”<br />
with bar and grill, a novelty was presented<br />
in the gastronomy section. Although business<br />
slightly slackened towards the end, the Hubertusmarkt<br />
was an attractive and varied event. ■<br />
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A LOOK BACK<br />
PADERBORN<br />
Herbstlibori in Paderborn<br />
Text: Ralf Schmitt<br />
Photos: Ralf Schmitt, Nils Benthien<br />
With the Herbstlibori event, the annual fairground<br />
rounds came to a traditional end in Paderborn. This<br />
time (22 nd to 30 th October), autumn showed itself<br />
from its sunny side – and made sure of good<br />
turnover.<br />
On Saturday 22 nd October the starting shot fell for the<br />
Herbstlibori Fair, for which 66 showman operations<br />
were chosen from a total of 232 applications. The top<br />
attractions were the "Skydance” (Nülken), and the<br />
coaster "Berg & Tal” (Schneider). They were joined by<br />
other attractions such as the Ferris Wheel "Caesars<br />
Wheel” (Landwermann-Henschel), "Musik Express”<br />
(Schneider-Krause), "Breakdance” (Vespermann),<br />
simulator (Becker), "G-Force” (Kollmann), "Geister-Hotel”<br />
(Burghard) and the "Paderborner Bodenmühle”.<br />
There was also a good mixture of kiddie rides and concessions<br />
stalls. Particularly well visited was the "Paderborn<br />
<strong>Super</strong> Sunday” on the 30 th of October, during<br />
which time the shops and gastronomy outlets near the<br />
inner city were opened from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. – resulting<br />
in tens of thousands of people visiting the city and<br />
the fairground mile. The résumé of showmen<br />
spokesman Hans-Otto Bröckling was quite good in the<br />
end: "Herbstlibori was extremely satisfying, particularly<br />
the combination of open shopping Sunday and the<br />
Herbstlibori – really great.”<br />
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MINDEN<br />
A LOOK BACK<br />
Impressive fairground-skyline<br />
at Minden<br />
Text & Photos: Nils Benthien<br />
The largest fair in the Weser region, the Herbstmesse<br />
in the East Westphalia town Minden was<br />
held on the “Kanzlers Weide” fairground form<br />
5 th to 13 th November last year.<br />
A total of about 120 showman attractions were<br />
engaged for the event. From more than 400 applicants,<br />
the organising Minden Marketing GmbH,<br />
together with the Showman Association Minden-<br />
Lübbecke e.V., put together an appealing fairground.<br />
Steiger’s Looping-Coaster “Teststrecke”<br />
and the 55 metre high “Diamond Wheel” Ferris<br />
Wheel from Harms were chosen as novelties for<br />
Minden. Other ride attractions built up on the fairground<br />
on the right bank of the Weser River were<br />
“Schlittenfahrt” (Noack), “Disco Swing” Twister<br />
and “Venturer X14” Simulator (both Tacke),<br />
“Breakdance”(Noack),<br />
“Euro-Rutsche”<br />
(Kutschenbauer-Roden), “Sky Flyer” (Meeß),<br />
“Flipper” (Schneider), “Hip Hop Fly” Swing<br />
(Noack), “Höllentaxi” (Senk), “Ghost” walkthrough<br />
construction (Burghard), “Eclipse” (Korten),<br />
Musik Express (Krabbe), as well as the “Speedway”<br />
dodgem track (Tacke) and the “Formel 1”<br />
(Schneider). For the younger visitors there were a<br />
total of four kiddie rides, a pony ride, a kiddie chain<br />
ride, a Jet Ride, a bungee-trampoline, and the<br />
“World of Fantasy” kiddie coaster. A number of<br />
snack and drink booths, sweets, games and sales<br />
booths rounded off the ample selection of attractions.<br />
In beautiful weather, the Herbstmesse was<br />
opened by the Minden Mayor, Michael Buhre, the<br />
Chairman of the Minden Marketing, Dr. Jörg-<br />
Friedrich Sander, and the Chairman of the Minden-<br />
Lübbecke Showman Association, Wolfgang<br />
Michael. The opening was followed by the traditional<br />
tapping of the keg and the stroll across the<br />
fairground with the guests of honour. Wednesday<br />
was the designated Family Day with reduced<br />
prices at all the attractions. As the highlight of the<br />
event, a brilliant fireworks display was held from<br />
8:30 on Friday evening. The event was very well<br />
frequented, with the Ferris Wheel and the Looping-Coaster<br />
enticing many visitors. The event was<br />
again extensively advertised with flyers and a<br />
poster, as well as advertisements in newspapers<br />
and radio commercials.<br />
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Top-attraction in Minden:<br />
Double-looping "Teststrecke”<br />
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COASTER<br />
Fast directional<br />
change provides for a lot<br />
of disorientation<br />
Following the step ahead by<br />
Intamin, competitors from<br />
Rhône-Tal also attempted the<br />
concept of arranging seats to the<br />
side next to the tracks. This new<br />
type of passenger carrier system<br />
that on Intamin’s first, named<br />
“Furios Baco” (Port Aventura,<br />
Spain), which unfortunately<br />
found little favour due to negative<br />
ride features that can’t be denied,<br />
stood naturally under surveillance<br />
by competitor B&M.<br />
The main question therefore is:<br />
What is a ride really like on the<br />
“replica” Wing Coaster?<br />
Text:<br />
Tim Herre<br />
Photos: Wolfgang Payer<br />
The first drop follows<br />
directly after the chain lift<br />
Raptor<br />
In the run-up it means that the vibrations on the<br />
“Raptor” should definitely be weaker. And after a<br />
complete season of operation it’s been confirmed:<br />
the graceful ride features of a B&M-Sitdown or<br />
Inverted Coasters have not been achieved, but the<br />
construction delivers a solid performance as far as<br />
comfort is concerned, and is worthy of carrying the<br />
B&M logo.<br />
In the strict sense of the word, the lack of dimensions<br />
is problematic. “Raptor” is neither particularly<br />
high nor particularly long, which causes a slightly<br />
disappointed facial expression on some visitor<br />
faces, at least before the ride. However a<br />
Velociraptor, after which the new coaster was<br />
named, is no Pterosaur, and too high a flight would<br />
only have prompted questions regarding a<br />
consistent storytelling. But these are things that are<br />
probably only apparent to those who question<br />
critically, and are immaterial to the normal public.<br />
The connection “dangerous dinosaur” – “dangerous<br />
coaster” is logical enough for most visitors.<br />
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The design in other respects is in order, even<br />
though there have been no new standards set<br />
here as far as love of detail go. Concrete governs<br />
the appearance; after all we are in a Raptorcontainment-area,<br />
and not in a petting zoo. The<br />
waiting line is kept in check by barbwire and wire<br />
mesh fences, which makes queue-jumping<br />
difficult in most places, but which on the other<br />
hand would be a hindrance if the waiting area had<br />
to be evacuated. The station area itself is<br />
underground and with its concrete sobriety fits to<br />
the rest of the theming.<br />
Here, passengers are separated to both sides of<br />
the train – although the seats at the front-right are<br />
preferable to all others as it’s here that most of the<br />
near-miss-effects are, whilst naturally the first<br />
drop has the strongest effect in the back seats.<br />
In the case of “Raptor” it’s first and foremost all<br />
about near collisions, and to experience these<br />
one has to sit in the front, or at least in the first<br />
three rows of the train for an optimal experience.<br />
The collision points are for example a tree, where<br />
passengers fly through its split truck to the side,<br />
a half destroyed bridge, a slightly damaged<br />
observation tower, a metal frame that may well<br />
have been part of a Raptor cage, a rock and a<br />
double portal support of the coaster itself.<br />
Logically the effects are repetitive, but they are<br />
The attraction lives from<br />
well-nigh collisions in particular<br />
The head-chopper element<br />
also has its desired effect at<br />
night<br />
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great each time.<br />
The ride course that is located on a hill in the<br />
centre of the park area is 770 metres long in total,<br />
and the straight track sections are limited to the<br />
station, lift, first drop, and brakes. The rest of the<br />
course is briskly curved and leaves a really<br />
entertaining impression.<br />
There are three inversions that are well spread<br />
over the course: a Corkscrew, a Zero-g-Roll, and<br />
an Inline-Twist. Boring sections are searched for<br />
in vain, as “Raptor” really offers action right to the<br />
end but doesn’t overdo it at all. It could almost be<br />
categorised as “family friendly” if it weren’t for the<br />
three inversions. And it’s exactly here that lies the<br />
only problem of an otherwise downright successful<br />
construction: it sells itself as a real vicious killerconstruction,<br />
but is “only” a successful middle<br />
sized “Wing Coaster” in which one can comfortably<br />
seat granny or mother-in-law if they don’t<br />
have any great problems with their heart. Somehow<br />
it reminds one of the slightly exaggerated<br />
marketing of “Thirteen” at Alton Towers. This<br />
tarnishes the definitely positive overall impression<br />
of “Raptor” a little, as it can be verified that Gardaland,<br />
with its ride on a dinosaur, has installed an<br />
original and entertaining coaster.<br />
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RIDE FACTS:<br />
■ Opening: 1 st April 2011<br />
■ Track length: 770 m<br />
■ Track height: 33 m<br />
■ Max. Speed: 90 km/h<br />
■ 3 Inversions: Corkscrew,<br />
Zero-g-Roll, Inline-Twist<br />
■ Max. Acceleration: 65°<br />
■ Effective ride time: 1 min 50 sec<br />
(station to station)<br />
■ Effective ride time: 1 min 10 sec<br />
(station to final brake)<br />
■ Pure ride time: 45 sec<br />
(first drop to final brake)<br />
■ Axial dimension track: 1.200 mm<br />
■ Train dimensions: 15 m long,<br />
6 m wide, 15 t empty weight<br />
■ 2 trains each with 7 cars,<br />
per car 4 pers.<br />
■ Capacity: 1.100 p.p.h.<br />
■ Manufacturer: Bolliger &<br />
Mabillard, Monthey, Switzerland<br />
■ Operator: Gardaland,<br />
Castelnuovo del Garda, Italy<br />
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COASTER<br />
The new coaster at<br />
Fraispertuis City offers two<br />
inversions and a whole lot<br />
of strange elements<br />
The 2011 season was also<br />
extremely successful for the<br />
amusement branch in France,<br />
especially as far as the installation<br />
of new coasters is concerned.<br />
In addition to a number of<br />
smaller attractions, there were<br />
also a Junior Boomerang from<br />
Vekoma at Parc Touristique des<br />
Combes, a Spinning Coaster<br />
from Mack at Parc Le Pal, and an<br />
unusual vertical coaster from<br />
S&S at Fraispertuis City.<br />
Text:<br />
Jochen Peschel<br />
Photos: Jochen Peschel,<br />
<strong>Park</strong>z.com.au<br />
The first drop is<br />
unbelievably 113° steep<br />
Timber Drop<br />
admittance in 1988. The park has remained<br />
faithful to the theme Wild West<br />
– the first ride in 1971 was a western<br />
train.<br />
These days, the park continues to be<br />
On the “Timber Drop” named coaster of type operated by Patrice Fleurent, the son of the<br />
“El Loco” (former manufacturer name founder, and has strongly developed under his<br />
“Screaming Squirrel”), cars accommodating four management over the past years. In 2009, the<br />
passengers rotate whilst doing their rounds Splash Battle “Crique des Pirates” from Mack was<br />
through the theme park in the Vosges Mountains. opened at an investment amount of 1.7 million<br />
Nestled in thick forests, Fraispertuis City is located<br />
on the road between Rambervillers and Saint- wanted more: a new coaster. For a short period a<br />
Euro. However, the annual 220,000 park visitors<br />
Dié-des-Vosges. Its history goes back to the year Launch Coaster was under debate, and “Anubis”<br />
1966, when Michel and Simone Fleurent had at Plopsaland was extensively examined. But due<br />
founded a guest-house on this area, which was to the closeness of Europa-<strong>Park</strong> and its “blue fire”,<br />
enriched step-by-step by various attractions that the option was discarded. A “Mega Lite” and<br />
eventually led to a classic theme park with daily classic coaster from Intamin at Nigloland, almost<br />
three hours away by car, came under discussion.<br />
Even if this is at the very least deferred, Patrice<br />
Fleurent wanted to rise above other parks.<br />
And so he discovered the “El Loco” coaster at the<br />
S&S Power stand during IAAPA 2009. Following<br />
a trip to the <strong>English</strong> Flamingo Land with his nieces<br />
and nephews, the decision was made: it had to<br />
be such an attraction. The contract was finalised<br />
at the EAS in Rome in 2010, and with that “Timber<br />
Drop” became a real international joint project.<br />
Only the cars came from the USA, the supports<br />
were completed in China by an S&S Power<br />
joint venture, the tracks were produced by OCEM<br />
in Italy, the control by Actemium in Germany – and<br />
a number of screws were supplied by a local<br />
hardware store, as the applicable delivery didn’t<br />
arrive by the required time. Overall there were<br />
small delays in delivery. Actually the six week<br />
build up was planned to start on the 1 st of April,<br />
but this date could not be adhered to. For this reason,<br />
parts of the theming in front of the coaster<br />
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were installed, and the opening was only delayed<br />
by a week, taking place on the 1 st of July 2011.<br />
Visitors reach the new attraction area by walking<br />
through a huge tree stump from where the waiting<br />
area is initially at the rear, leading to the loading<br />
section over a ramp. Commendably, the “Single<br />
Rider Line” already commences at the foot of the<br />
ramp, which is very effective for single cars and<br />
is well taken into account by personnel. The name<br />
of the coaster is more than justified at the station,<br />
as it is to the most part of wood. Lumberjack<br />
utensils are used as decoration elements, and<br />
even the cars are themed as tree trunks. Overall,<br />
the design is very consistent. Atelier Artistique du<br />
Béton completed very convincing work for<br />
approximately one million Euro.<br />
After riders take their place in one of the four<br />
seats, the two-piece restraint is locked. The<br />
fingers that grip over the shoulders near the head<br />
and the pelvic restraint can be adjusted separately<br />
for height. Although this requires a complex<br />
mechanism, it provides for ideal customisability<br />
to each different type of physique. After leaving<br />
the station, a 180° right curve leads to the fast as<br />
well as steep chain lift that brings the car to its exit<br />
height of 30 metres.<br />
From there, the ride beings with a small right curve<br />
and a larger left curve that leads into the first drop.<br />
After the slow section between the lift and the<br />
drop, it’s left up to the riders to either decide to<br />
enjoy the grandiose view over the park and the<br />
surrounding forests, or to wish with closed eyes<br />
still to be on the ground. But it’s all too late for that:<br />
the car travels through the first part of the drop<br />
braked magnetically but definitely not travelling<br />
slowly, until reaching an approximately 90° maximum<br />
vertical angle. The rest is travelled through<br />
without any brake sections until a maximal angle of<br />
113° is reached. The drop leads through a hollow<br />
tree stump, however not reaching ground level, at<br />
a top speed of 66 kilometres per hour. There is in<br />
this section the only small jerk during the whole<br />
ride, but this is very soon forgotten. During the<br />
following ascent that becomes a left turn with the<br />
first block brakes, there’s plenty of airtime.<br />
The overall view<br />
The spectacular first drop<br />
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The ascent and one of<br />
the many unusual sequences<br />
(right)<br />
Sharp horizontal and<br />
vertical curves on a number of<br />
levels are a distinguishing<br />
feature of this almost vertically<br />
arranged coaster track<br />
This is then followed by the most remarkable<br />
section of “Timber Drop”: the left curve after the<br />
block brake is up to 45° laterally banked – but outwards,<br />
which is only found on very few coasters.<br />
After the curve it all becomes even more unusual<br />
as in the next left curve the track<br />
turns 225° anticlockwise until<br />
the car is upside down. And it<br />
remains so for a number of<br />
almost horizontal track metres<br />
before a half-circle formed drop<br />
prepares an end to the inversion<br />
and travels almost at ground<br />
level, followed by the obligatory<br />
ascent into the second block<br />
brake, which as the first, almost<br />
brings the car to a still stand.<br />
But there’s also almost no time<br />
to take catch ones breath here either, as the ride<br />
shoots to the next turn – this time to the right, and<br />
in the classic manner, banks laterally to the right.<br />
That was it then, but also the conventional track<br />
course as well, as S&S had built in an anticlock-<br />
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COASTER<br />
wise roller. The tree truck is travelled through<br />
again, the one which the first drop had squeezed<br />
through already. A right curve follows, this time<br />
with up to 90° banking, before the car travels into<br />
the final magnetic brakes, 80 seconds after leaving<br />
the station, and 50 seconds after leaving the<br />
lift.<br />
The complete construction of the “El Loco”<br />
coaster rests on four towers of varied heights,<br />
each comprising of four vertical supports strutted<br />
together. Strutting between towers does exist, but<br />
up to the tracks hardly ever. And the various<br />
deliveries are definitely not structurally identical.<br />
“Steel Hawg” and “Mumbo Jumbo” have no<br />
lateral banking between the lift and the first drop<br />
in the tracks. This has been introduced on<br />
“Timber Drop” in order to reduce the wear and<br />
tear of the wheels.<br />
Another difference is in the maximum angle of the<br />
first drop. This construction type was designed<br />
right from the beginning with a maximum 120°<br />
vertical angle. Indiana Beach wanted more than<br />
90° for “Steel Hawg”, but nothing too crazy, and<br />
ended up with 111°. “Mumbo Jumbo” added one<br />
more degrees and held the record until “Timber<br />
Drop” again added one additional degree and<br />
reached 113°. Patrice Fleurent originally didn’t<br />
want to greatly emphasise this fact but couldn’t<br />
resist the marketing possibilities in the end, and<br />
had the record acknowledged in the Guinness<br />
Book of Records. Nevertheless only 15 days later<br />
the best-mark was topped as Gerstlauer’s “Takabisha”<br />
at Fuji-Q Highland with its 121° brought the<br />
“one degree more” piecemeal tactic to an abrupt<br />
end.<br />
All told, “Timber Drop”, just as its siblings, offers<br />
a passenger not just a lot of fun on a small ground<br />
area with an unusual track course, but also a lot<br />
to those viewing optically. Bearing in mind the<br />
moderate price and the now available version<br />
with higher capacity, a new sales hit could well be<br />
looming. However its attractiveness is not least due<br />
to <strong>Park</strong> Fraispertuis City, which hasn’t simply placed<br />
the elaborate acquisition in a green meadow, but<br />
has fitted it in perfectly into the western theme.<br />
Chapeau!<br />
■<br />
<strong>Park</strong> Owner Patrice Fleurent<br />
RIDE FACTS<br />
■ Opening: 1 st July 2011<br />
■ Track length: 420 m<br />
■ Track height: 29.5 m<br />
■ Max. speed: 66 km/h<br />
■ 2 inversions<br />
■ Max. vertical angle: 113°<br />
■ Acceleration (vertical):<br />
-1.5 to +3.5 g<br />
■ Ride time: 80 sec<br />
(incl. 30 sec to 1 st drop)<br />
■ 4 single cars,<br />
per car 4 pers.<br />
■ Ground area: 59 x 14 m<br />
■ Manufacturer: S&S, Logan,<br />
Utah, USA<br />
■ Operator: Fraispertuis City,<br />
Jeanménil, France<br />
EL LOCO FOR AUSTRALIA<br />
The „ “Timber Drop”, following “Steel Hawg” at<br />
Indiana Beach (USA) and “Mumbo Jumbo” at<br />
Flamingo Land (England), is the third delivery of this<br />
coaster type. One could also speak about a fourth<br />
construction, however “Afterburner” at Divo Ostrov<br />
(Sankt Petersburg), that looks more like an “El<br />
Loco” optically, rather than a “Screaming Squirrel”<br />
as the one at Gardaland, has never gone into<br />
operation due to a legal dispute. Another<br />
delivery opened in December as the “Green<br />
Lantern” at Australia’s film park Warner Bros.<br />
Movie World, with – different to its predecessors<br />
– eight seat cars (two rows, each for four<br />
passengers). The layout is basically identical to<br />
the one in France, however due to the larger<br />
size of the cars, is located on a larger ground<br />
area.<br />
■<br />
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INTERVIEW<br />
New characters have<br />
moved into the Walibi-<strong>Park</strong>s<br />
– and create a furore with<br />
the kids<br />
It’s very rare that a complete park<br />
group undertakes this type of extensive<br />
re-branding as was done<br />
this year at Walibi.<br />
We spoke with the group’s Director<br />
of Entertainment, Rascal Udo<br />
Hüppe, about this ambitious<br />
project.<br />
Walibi Re-Branding<br />
Text:<br />
Tim Herre<br />
Photos: Walibi<br />
Our dialogue partner was<br />
Managing Director of Grévin<br />
Deutschland GmbH between<br />
2003 and 2009 to which Fort<br />
Fun Abenteuerland and<br />
Panorama <strong>Park</strong> belonged;<br />
since then he is Director of<br />
Entertainment<br />
You were musician and manager simultaneously<br />
for a long time. So a re-branding with<br />
a music theme sailing under your colours<br />
isn’t a coincidence, or is it?<br />
It’s quite true that I started my career in the<br />
music industry. I was initially a musician and became<br />
Product Manager at Indie-Label Rough<br />
Trade quite early.<br />
The Walibi Group actually has a strong<br />
character in the omnipresent Wali-kangaroo.<br />
Why then the re-branding?<br />
The mascots were developed in the 70s and<br />
were at that time extremely successful, but somewhere<br />
along the line they became outdated.<br />
Besides that there is a kangaroo at both Walibibands<br />
again – in a considerably pepped up form.<br />
What makes the new Walibi characters<br />
different?<br />
The new characters have their source from the<br />
lived-in world that correlates with today’s teenagers,<br />
with all their aspirations, wishes, worries, problems<br />
and adventures. In the park and show operation, it’s<br />
important to us to have agile, active, and the most<br />
vibrant live-characters possible. The portrayal of<br />
their comic world from where they originate is also<br />
important. All performers undertake a special and<br />
individual movement and masquerade training. We<br />
don’t just want people in animal costumes, but<br />
real characters. Each individual character<br />
has its own trained stereotype movement.<br />
“Haaz” for example moves like a cheetah from<br />
the spine, “Squad” from the hip in a provocative<br />
way, and so on. The boundary between<br />
the stage and cartoon world has been<br />
opened up. The characters spring around in<br />
HD-video pictures and come out again in another<br />
place. We have further developed the<br />
theme masquerade technology substantially<br />
in order to make such stunts and acrobatics<br />
possible. We have been able to realize stunts<br />
and dance acrobatics with masquerade that<br />
were not possible earlier with the usual and<br />
common Walking-Acts. All the costumes have<br />
been so developed that they are very light,<br />
and the actors have optimal freedom of movement.<br />
With that – and the considerable birth<br />
pains – we have definitely opened a new<br />
chapter in disguise and costume technology.<br />
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The idea of rivalling rock bands is very<br />
new, and doesn’t really tend towards the current<br />
much courted family public by all parks.<br />
Why have you chosen this theme that addresses<br />
teenagers a lot more.<br />
Wouldn’t it have been more consistent to<br />
take deference to the musical trend development<br />
that shows that it’s not rock music, but<br />
electronically generated music that is more<br />
mainstream?<br />
Basically we are targeting the Tweens who<br />
are not quite teenagers between 9 and 12 years<br />
of age with this music theme. Additionally we also<br />
have two bands: the “WAB” as Pop-Band and the<br />
“SkunX” of a harder gang type. Both bands rival<br />
with each other and the public rivals as well. The<br />
“SkunX” is also popular with the fathers. In our<br />
market research group the young participants<br />
were already arguing about which of the two was<br />
the cooler band. All hell let loose. And we saw<br />
that it all functions! “WAB” is a lot happier and<br />
friendlier; it’s all about solidarity, friendship, and<br />
a positive view of the world. “SkunX” is somewhat<br />
harder and more negative, and are the coolest<br />
and best recipe to contra boredom in the world.<br />
Firstly we have a trendy and rocky band. And<br />
naturally “SkunX” uses a lot of electronics, which<br />
is indispensible in current and modern music<br />
production. But I really think that it’s immaterial in<br />
the meantime these days, as the borders become<br />
indistinct anyway. There’s just music that I like, and<br />
some that I don’t like. The music springs up from<br />
the lived-in world of both bands and is popular –<br />
what more do we want? Whether the music sounds<br />
electronic or analogue is only interesting for the<br />
professional circles and less for the young fans in<br />
a mass market. The CD is available in the parks<br />
and is one of the best sold articles, overwhelmingly<br />
the top 5 in the parks. The bands have generated<br />
real fans, and surpass our boldest expectations.<br />
We have already presented an<br />
in depth report about the redesigned<br />
Vekoma-Boomerang “Speed of<br />
Sound” in the KPR 5/2011 edition<br />
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The “SkunX”-Freefall<br />
The music is also on a very high niveau that has<br />
been produced by people who are at home on the<br />
European charts.<br />
The coaster “Speed of Sound” (see KPR<br />
5/2011) and the large shows are the most<br />
noticeable novelties. What is planned next?<br />
One can have a whole lot of fun in the experience<br />
realm of both these bands. In Rhône<br />
Alpes there is a “SkunX Tower“, a S&S-Spaceshot,<br />
which has been worked over with specially<br />
composed and adapted music. This works extremely<br />
well, and brings added value to the ride<br />
even though the actual changes to the ride are<br />
not particularly elaborate. This is the reason that<br />
the Indoor-Breakdance “Dark Raver” at Fort Fun<br />
was one of my favourite projects. A lot can be<br />
achieved with a good idea and the correct music.<br />
Naturally we have a lot new ideas, but we don’t<br />
want to talk about them at this stage.<br />
Are there plans to combine other ride<br />
constructions or coasters with a music<br />
theme?<br />
The On-Board-Sound on “Speed of Sound”<br />
was a long fight with finances, because the<br />
whole thing was very expensive. But naturally I<br />
would personally like to connect more ride attractions<br />
with music and a dynamic story in the<br />
future.<br />
Such characters are not developed from<br />
one day to the next. Are there plans to allow the<br />
new figures to appear also in the parks of Compagnie<br />
des Alpes group that don’t carry the<br />
Walibi name?<br />
At the moment we are naturally happy about<br />
strengthening the trademark Walibi so successfully.<br />
But the next step of course is to take a look<br />
at what can be done in the other parks. It’s quite<br />
possible that there could be a type of “Walibicorner”<br />
at the other parks, where products will<br />
also be available.<br />
Are there plans to embed “WAB” and<br />
“SkunX” in for example children’s programmes,<br />
apart from music television programmes?<br />
We are currently talking to large stations and<br />
networks in France. This is of course connected<br />
with a lot of money for which we are looking for<br />
in partnerships in the networks. In the web there<br />
is already an interactive manga that we would<br />
like to continue. I was personally – quasi as Band<br />
Manager – with “WAB” on French television.<br />
These are special moments that one experiences<br />
with their characters. Let’s see what<br />
comes in the future.<br />
Thank you for the interesting interview.<br />
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EXHIBITION<br />
IAAPA EXPO 2011 PART 2<br />
Photos:<br />
Frank Lanfer<br />
As already reported in our previous edition, the<br />
past IAAPA Expo Show, the largest and most<br />
important trade exhibition in the amusement<br />
industry, was well visited. Many potential buyers,<br />
showmen, as well as park operators made their way<br />
to Orlando to attain information about new projects.<br />
Around 15,300 trade visitors also enjoyed the four<br />
exhibition days in November 2011 as a social<br />
occasion as well.<br />
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Roland Mack (Europa-<strong>Park</strong>, Germany) is the<br />
new IAAPA President for a year<br />
Gerardo Ahteaga (Fantasilandia, Chile) was voted IAAPA’s Third President<br />
and with that will become IAAPA-President in 2014; here with both his Fantasilandia<br />
colleagues Andres Moreno (left) and Robert Medel (right)<br />
Bob Masterson (Golden Planet Pleasure,<br />
earlier Ripley’s Believe It or Not) was IAAPA-<br />
President in 2008<br />
Grönalund had a number of representatives (on both photos f.l.t.r.)<br />
Richard Söderberg, Mikael Selming, Heinz Pelz and Peter Andersson<br />
Grönalund associate Mattias Banker takes the amusement<br />
industry just as it actually should be: not quite so seriously<br />
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Bob Rippy (Jungle Rapids), here with wife Jenny, was IAAPA-<br />
President in 2010<br />
<strong>Park</strong> Manager Nico Rössler and his colleague Stefan Bryxi<br />
from the Bavaria Filmstadt (Germany)<br />
Andreas Stickel is Manager of<br />
the German experience world at<br />
Nürburgring<br />
The American showman company Buttler Amusements Co. (f.l.t.r.), daughters<br />
Elizabeth and Shannon together with their parents Dorothy und William Truax<br />
Volker Meyer from the amusement<br />
company Saudi Brothers<br />
Baroness Caroline and Baron Friedhelm von<br />
Landsberg-Velen (Castle Dankern)<br />
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Jeff Morey from the American amusement<br />
park Morey’s Pier (a large wooden<br />
coaster will be built there by 2013)<br />
Alain Trouvé from Compagnie des<br />
Alpes (currently a new B&M Inverter is<br />
being erected at Parc Astérix)<br />
Jacky Schoepen (earlier junior boss at<br />
Bobbejaanland) is planning something new<br />
for Belgium very soon<br />
The American showman family Schuper: Everett Schuper (3rd f.l.) with daughter Toni<br />
and wife Lisa, and his brother Jeff (left)<br />
German showman Karl Häsler also<br />
gathered information in Orlando<br />
Sören Kragelund with daughter Kirsten from the Danish theme<br />
park Faarup Sommerland<br />
Siblings Amanda and Nick Thompson from Great Britain’s<br />
Pleasure Beach in Blackpool<br />
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Gary Story (here with wife Lorena) was longstanding<br />
Six-Flags-Boss and now operates the Clementon <strong>Park</strong> and<br />
Ocean Breeze with earlier Six-Flags colleague Kieran Burke<br />
Even Richard Rodriguez,<br />
world record holder in continuous<br />
coaster riding, was at Orlando<br />
Shaun McKeogh has<br />
worked in the area of Human<br />
Resources for Ferrari World<br />
Michael Withers from Disney Imagineering and Agi Reddersen<br />
from Kirmes & <strong>Park</strong> Revue<br />
Rich Langhorst and Greg Hale (right) are also in leading Management<br />
positions at the Walt Disney Company<br />
British showman Jason Mayne visited IAAPA together<br />
with his wife<br />
American showman<br />
Mark Fanelli<br />
Michael Reitz is Corporate<br />
Engineer at Six Flags<br />
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MAGAZINE<br />
COMMENTARY – DYNAMIC PRICING<br />
MR. SPEIGEL<br />
In our last edition we commented<br />
about the pricing policy<br />
at the new Legoland Florida<br />
<strong>Park</strong>, and observed various<br />
maximum day ticket prices.<br />
Another problem, especially in<br />
the USA, is the varied types of<br />
discount offers.<br />
In this article Dennis Speigel<br />
writes for us, who is an "old<br />
hand” and almost a legend in<br />
the American amusement<br />
industry.<br />
With his company ITPS – International<br />
Theme <strong>Park</strong> Services,<br />
Inc. www.interthemepark.com<br />
he advises clients in the amusement<br />
industry.<br />
He began in 1960 as a seasonal<br />
worker at the amusement<br />
park Coney Island Ohio, to become<br />
later the <strong>Park</strong> Director of<br />
Kings Island and Kings Dominion.<br />
He continued on to become<br />
Deputy General Manager of<br />
International Operations for<br />
Taft Broadcastings in the<br />
amusement segment.<br />
Additionally, Dennis Speigel<br />
was also Chairman of IAAPA in<br />
the past.<br />
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Commentary : Dennis Speigel<br />
One of the greatest threats to the theme park<br />
industry, both domestic and foreign, is "rampant<br />
discounting.” We have seen our a la carte segment<br />
of attendance by ticket type shrink<br />
dramatically during the past 20 years. A major<br />
factor causing the shrinkage has been the<br />
expansion of the parks’ season pass programs.<br />
Twenty years ago, parks like Six Flags over<br />
Texas, Kings Island, Worlds of Fun, and many of<br />
the other major U.S. theme parks counted on at<br />
least 30-35% of their annual attendance to come<br />
to their park and pay full price. I have often said<br />
that anyone who comes to a theme park in this<br />
day and age and pays full price must be from<br />
outer space. Today, that 30-35% of full-paying<br />
customers has shrunk to as little as 2% in many<br />
of the major parks. Why? <strong>Park</strong>s are historically<br />
known for taking one approach when they have<br />
to fill an attendance void: D-I-S-C-O-U-N-T.<br />
Whether it be early, middle or late in a season,<br />
the approach du jour is "toss out more discounts<br />
to spin the turnstiles.”<br />
During the last four years, we have seen the<br />
U.S.A regional parks continue to "step it up” as<br />
it relates to their discounting efforts. In 2007, prior<br />
to the announcement of being in recession, it<br />
was high oil prices that made the U.S. parks put<br />
discounts out early in the season, make them<br />
deeper than they ever had previously, and keep<br />
these discounts out all season long.<br />
The years 2009 and 2010 saw similar discounting<br />
practices with a small amount of withdrawal,<br />
but not a lot of retreat from the previous years.<br />
Lest we forget, pricing has always been sensitive<br />
when changes were made in our industry. It<br />
all began with selling nickel tickets in a "pay-asyou-go”<br />
format.<br />
Each ride at an amusement park charged a<br />
certain number of tickets based on the<br />
popularity of the ride. A new program – the<br />
"ticket book” – was introduced in 1955. Three<br />
months after Disneyland opened, it sold value<br />
books of multiple tickets, which ranked the usage<br />
by popularity.<br />
That system remained in force until the 1970s<br />
when Disney was forced by public acceptance<br />
of the newly-introduced "pay-one-price” (POP)<br />
concept to change to the POP system.<br />
Now, keep in mind that each time a new pricing<br />
concept came along, there were industry people<br />
who said these newer concepts would not<br />
work. They were proven wrong. Pay-as-you-go<br />
tickets were in existence for decades and payone-price<br />
has been around now for 50 years.<br />
The reason I am discussing these established<br />
types of pricing in conjunction with the earlier<br />
topic of discounting is that the time has come to<br />
augment our current pricing and discounting<br />
with yield management systems, or dynamic<br />
pricing.<br />
Airlines, hotels, car rental companies, cruise<br />
lines, and even major sporting events are now<br />
and have been using dynamic pricing as ways<br />
to maximize sales during periods when they<br />
need or want to push or control their product<br />
sales.<br />
The time is now for dynamic pricing and yield<br />
management to come to the leisure industry.<br />
This type of offset to park discounting will come<br />
at a time of a maturing industry. A time when<br />
parks have raised prices to a point of discernible<br />
concern. A time when, as stated earlier,<br />
discounting has run rampant.<br />
The parks that take the lead and begin deeply<br />
exploring the yield management / dynamic pricing<br />
approach to pricing will see demonstrable<br />
growth in attendance and profitability. Why?<br />
First, it will allow parks to retrieve control of the<br />
discounting process from the market. It will also<br />
allow the parks who have allowed their margins<br />
and profitability to shrink due to the high use and<br />
cost of discounting through the years to gain<br />
back the control of getting visitors to their facilities<br />
when and how they want them. It will work. It<br />
has worked in the industries I mentioned earlier.<br />
It will take some internal ingenuity, just as it did<br />
when changing from pay-as-you-go to pay-oneprice.<br />
Industry conditions are good. The evolution to<br />
the web, the advent of social media, the markets’<br />
conditioning for the need for programs like this<br />
all make for a perfect time for the institution of a<br />
concept of this nature.<br />
It will take nurturing, as well as trial and error, to<br />
finally hone the program to an individual park’s<br />
requirements.<br />
But, once instituted, it will improve performance,<br />
attendance, in-park spend, and profitability.<br />
At ITPS, we have been studying this concept for<br />
several years. We believe its time has come. ■<br />
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PARQUE DE ATRACCIONES<br />
Text & Photos:<br />
Wolfgang Payer<br />
In July 2010 Parque de Atracciones de Madrid put<br />
the third highest Star Flyer from Funtime into<br />
operation. Following the Prater tower at 177 metres<br />
and the 90 metre ride at Tivoli, the version at Madrid<br />
has an 80 metre height. The special feature of this<br />
Star Flyer is the spectacular and up until now the<br />
largest dome construction with a weight of over nine<br />
tons. The outside diameter with the four UFO<br />
designed structure is 14.5 metres and has a height<br />
of 7.5 metres. The large UFO at the peak has a diameter<br />
of 9 metres, and the three smaller each at 3.6<br />
metres. The elevation traction is located on the<br />
ground in the case of this model and is equipped<br />
with 12 double seats. The Spanish park guests not<br />
only have a great view over the park on this Star<br />
Flyer, but right to Madrid.<br />
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FUN CITY – BREAN LEISURE PARK<br />
For the Cadell brothers taking it<br />
easy isn’t an option. The owners<br />
of "Fun City” at Brean Leisure<br />
<strong>Park</strong>, UK, are very hands on with<br />
their amusement park. The closed<br />
season saw the park expand<br />
by 3600 m 2 with the relocation<br />
and addition of several attractions,<br />
many of which were<br />
constructed or refurbished<br />
in-house.<br />
Text & Photos: Marcus Gaines<br />
The committed brothers,<br />
David (l.) and Richard Cadell (r.)<br />
Text & Photos:<br />
Marcus Gaines<br />
The flagship attraction of the expansion is the indoor<br />
coaster "Astro Storm”. The Zierer "Four<br />
Man Bob” coaster opened in July ready for the<br />
school holidays. Previously located at Pleasure<br />
Beach Blackpool as "Space Invader 2”, it closed in<br />
2008 just four years after it was refurbished by KumbaK<br />
Coasters. "Astro Storm” is located in the<br />
expanded area, where like the rest of Fun City, the<br />
ground is covered with green rather than black<br />
tarmac, giving a colourful look to the park. The<br />
facade of the newly constructed ride building is<br />
currently a banner, but the intention is to build a 3D<br />
frontage with asteroids and sparkling ride logo. The<br />
station area has been well themed and those with<br />
keen eyes will spot parts of the old "Space Invader<br />
2” queue tunnels cut up and incorporated into the<br />
station walls. Coaster experts might even spot the<br />
old control panel from the parks Pinfari looping<br />
coaster "Shockwave”.<br />
The ride itself begins with a custom produced<br />
video, which explains that guests are going on an<br />
adventure tour into space. Climbing the lift hill,<br />
another video reveals an asteroid storm is in the<br />
visitor’s path, at which point the video loses signal<br />
and the car drops off the lifthill into total darkness.<br />
The wonderfully smooth ride is undertaken nearly<br />
entirely in the dark. There are tunnelled sections<br />
with lighting effects and air sprays that add a<br />
brilliant and unusual element to the ride.<br />
The park’s superb Ghost Train "Terror Castle” is<br />
constantly being tweaked following the Cadell’s<br />
annual shopping spree at the IAAPA Attractions<br />
Expo. Intentions are that "Astro Storm” will be the<br />
same, an ever evolving experience with new effects<br />
added each season. It’s already been decided that<br />
the air sprays aren’t strong enough, and that air<br />
canons would be better. An additional and longer<br />
tunnel with lighting is also being created, as the<br />
Cadells feel too much of the ride is in complete<br />
darkness.<br />
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Meanwhile the front of the park is now home to a<br />
"Congo Adventure Golf Course” from Castle Golf<br />
(USA). The Cadells went to IAAPA 2010 to learn how<br />
to make concrete rocks, and came home having<br />
bought a crazy golf course. To make room for the<br />
course, the parks "Caterpillar Coaster” was relocated<br />
to the expanded area, but not before being<br />
refurbished and repainted in-house. The Reverchon<br />
"Magic Mouse” also had to be moved.<br />
Additionally, a mirror maze was purchased from<br />
Ocean Beach <strong>Park</strong>, South Shields, and re-themed<br />
as the "Sea Maze”. Rounding off the new attractions<br />
are the Crazy Boats, a set of bumper boats. David<br />
Cadell designed and constructed the ride structure:<br />
"We couldn’t find one we liked, so we built it<br />
ourselves.” The boats were supplied by J&J<br />
Amusements, and feature water squirters. For a<br />
park where attention to detail is key, keeping the<br />
water clean and clear is crucial, so a filter system<br />
was installed, which will eventually form a waterfall<br />
over the ride’s signage.<br />
Another thing that keeps them busy is that<br />
the Cadells own the IP rights for British kids<br />
TV favourite "Sooty and Sweep”. During the<br />
winter, Richard Cadell wrote a new TV<br />
series, which was almost entirely filmed at<br />
Fun City. If the new series proves to be<br />
successful then plans for a Sooty themed area may<br />
move forward. Adding to their workload, they<br />
designed Sooty themed vending machines, and<br />
had them constructed in China, half of which have<br />
already been sold from the first<br />
production run.<br />
The Cadells recently agreed to the<br />
sale of their KMG "Speed "ride,<br />
which was advertised for sale in the<br />
KPR, leading to a lot of interest.<br />
With no chance to take it easy,<br />
negotiations are now underway<br />
with KMG for a replacement ride<br />
for 2012. David Cadell reveals<br />
"I wouldn't hesitate to use KPR<br />
again for future sales”. As for going<br />
back to KMG: "we believe that their<br />
building quality, reliability, and<br />
after sales services are second to<br />
none within the industry.” ■<br />
The new attraction<br />
since the 2011 season is an<br />
indoor coaster from Zierer<br />
A KMG-Propeller<br />
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CORRECTION: RAINBOW MAGICLAND<br />
In our past October edition (KPR No.171) we<br />
presented an in depth report about the new Rainbow<br />
MagicLand in Italy, and in the process the<br />
individual attractions there. On page 70 the ride<br />
"L’Isola Volante” could be seen in photo and print.<br />
However, it is not correct that the construction came<br />
from Intamin as was written – it was supplied by<br />
Vekoma from the Netherlands, which names this<br />
type of attraction "Sky Shuttle”. Please note this<br />
information.<br />
■<br />
CORRECTION + ADDENDUM: LEGOLAND FLORIDA<br />
Unfortunately a crucial<br />
mistake was made in<br />
our park portrait about the<br />
new Legoland Florida in<br />
our last January edition on<br />
page 65. The profits in the<br />
fiscal year 2010 did not<br />
amount of 1,250 US dollars,<br />
but more precisely 1,249<br />
billion Dollars. Please be<br />
so kind as to note the<br />
difference, for which we<br />
apologise.<br />
In the meantime it has<br />
become known that the<br />
company has no need to<br />
execute any annual inspections on its attractions as<br />
is mandatory in Europe. This exception is possibly<br />
due to a 23 year old statute in Florida that the<br />
Disney Company could achieve at that time. The<br />
statute only requires parks with less than a 1,000<br />
number of employees to undertake a government<br />
controlled inspection, whilst a large park is allowed,<br />
or rather must have its own engineers to carry out<br />
inspections. The safety of the 24 ride attractions<br />
was assured by Legoland’s spokeswoman Jackie<br />
Wallace: "Within our industry, it is common practice<br />
for theme parks to govern themselves as far as ride<br />
inspections go”.<br />
In addition to Disney and Merlin, Universal (with<br />
Universal Orlando and Wet ’n Wild) and SeaWorld<br />
<strong>Park</strong>s & Entertainment (with SeaWorld Orlando and<br />
Busch Gardens Tampa) also takes advantage of<br />
this exception.<br />
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TAKEOVER: FORT FUN<br />
Text:<br />
Photos:<br />
Frank Lanfer<br />
Stefan Scheer, Fort Fun<br />
Quite surprisingly Abenteuerland Fort Fun in<br />
Bestwig has a new owner, since the family<br />
park founded in 1967 located in Sauerland in the<br />
middle of Germany, became a part of the CdA-<br />
Group (Grévin & Cie) in 2002. Two German parks<br />
were in the French Compagnie des Alpes<br />
portfolio, a company that is 42% state-controlled:<br />
whilst the Panorama <strong>Park</strong> was already sold in<br />
2008 and rebuilt into a wildlife park, the remaining<br />
Fort Fun changed owners on the 23 rd December<br />
2011.<br />
And with this step, the 28 year old Matthäus<br />
Ziegler, who manages the One World Holding<br />
GmbH & Co. KG together with his mother, intends<br />
to do big things. The company that stems from<br />
the fabrication of spirits, decided to go in a new<br />
direction in 2009. The distillery was sold without<br />
further ado with a lookout for a new investment in<br />
the form of a theme park in Germany. Initially<br />
Spreepark in Berlin was being considered, however<br />
the building regulations and the individual<br />
operations there would have hindered future<br />
development. Then the press announced (also<br />
KPR) that the Ziegler family wanted to take over<br />
the quite small park Geiselwind in Bavaria, with<br />
plans to extend massively. At the same time,<br />
negotiations were still being undertaken with the<br />
CdA-Group in Paris, which finally came to an<br />
amicable conclusion. An agreement has been<br />
made about non-disclosure of the sale price, but<br />
it appears that it is under the demanded amount<br />
from CdA.<br />
Only a few days after the signing of the contract,<br />
busy constructions steps were being undertaken<br />
at the park – after all, the new Fort Fun is to open<br />
in time for the start of the 2012 season. Until then<br />
a new administration building is to be built for 26<br />
million Euro, the Wild West theme area is be<br />
completely renovated and refurbished according<br />
to the latest environmental criteria, the no<br />
longer modern overnight accommodation will be<br />
reworked, new gastronomy outlets will be built,<br />
and two new kiddie rides will be erected. The<br />
internal 6-year-plan includes an annual investment<br />
amount of a similar magnitude. With the<br />
exception of smaller attractions, there will<br />
basically be no purchases made "off the rack”<br />
said Ziegler, and he also pointed out that all<br />
contracts have already been signed up to and<br />
including 2013. And so a large attraction for over<br />
10 million Euro will be erected next year that is<br />
unique worldwide. Ziegler:”We will make an<br />
international theme park for the whole family out<br />
of Abenteuerland, step by step.”<br />
Ziegler is also enthusiastic about the topographic<br />
location of the park:” We have a height difference<br />
of more than 200 metres within the 75 hectare<br />
sized park grounds. This is unique in Europe.”<br />
The estimation of future park visitor numbers is<br />
being made cautiously.<br />
An approximately 400,000 figure was generated<br />
over the past few years, and the new owner will<br />
be happy to increase this number step by step.<br />
All in all a positive process, because with the<br />
owner changeover of Fort Fun, a step has been<br />
taken contrary to the general trend: instead of individually<br />
operated theme parks being increasing<br />
purchased by large companies and private<br />
equities, a "private” company has stepped in<br />
here with a personally committed Manager.<br />
Matthäus Ziegler emphasised: "Naturally we are<br />
also profit orientated, but this is not a pure<br />
investment business.” The One World Group, in<br />
which there are also "parts” from Heimo (more<br />
precisely Jörg Mordelt from the planning group<br />
located in Berlin), is in 100% ownership of<br />
Christine Ziegler and her son Matthäus. ■<br />
Up until now only a few<br />
attractions had played with the<br />
topography at Fort Fun, but this<br />
will change very soon<br />
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PREVIEW<br />
A calendar of events can be found here for the month of<br />
February in alphabetical order. Additional information about<br />
individual events is listed below.<br />
■<br />
■ GB Clapham 10.02.-19.02.<br />
■ GB Ipswich, Suffolk 10.02.-26.02.<br />
■ GB Kings Lynn, Norf 14.02.-28.02.<br />
■ GB Leeds, W.Yorks 09.02.-19.02.<br />
■ GB Newcastle 10.02.-19.02.<br />
■ GB Newton Abbott 09.02.-04.03.<br />
■ NL Amsterdam-Noord 25.02.-05.03.<br />
■ NL Apeldoorn 18.02.-26.02.<br />
■ NL Roermond 17.02.-21.02.<br />
■ NL Valkenswaard 18.02.-21.02.<br />
9. FEBRUARY (THURSDAY)<br />
GB Leeds, W.Yorks<br />
■ Great St Valentines Fair<br />
until 19.02.<br />
GB Newton Abbott<br />
■ Mega Rides Family Event<br />
until 04.03.<br />
Open from Thursday to Sunday<br />
10. FEBRUARY (FRIDAY)<br />
A■ Alzey 17.02.-20.02.<br />
■ Augsburg 16.02.-21.02.<br />
B■ Bochum-Stahlhausen 28.01.-05.02.<br />
■ Bottrop 16.02.-20.02.<br />
D■ Darmstadt 17.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Dortmund 16.02.-20.02.<br />
■ Duisburg-Serm 16.02.-20.02.<br />
F■ Fürth 16.02.-21.02.<br />
G■ Ganderkesee 18.02.-20.02.<br />
H■ Hagen-Boele 16.02.-19.02.<br />
■ Hanau 17.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Heidelberg 18.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Heilbronn/Neckar 25.02.-27.02.<br />
K■ Kaiserslautern 18.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Köln 19.02.-21.02.<br />
L■ Landau/Pfalz 18.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Leonberg 10.02.-14.02.<br />
■ Leverkusen-Opladen 16.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Ludwigshafen/Rhein 16.02.-21.02.<br />
M■ Mainz 18.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Mannheim 16.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Mönchengladbach 16.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Mönchengladbach-Rheydt<br />
16.02.-21.02.<br />
S■ Steinheim 18.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Stuttgart 17.02.-21.02.<br />
V■ Versmold 24.02.-26.02.<br />
■ Voerde 16.02.-20.02.<br />
W■ Weil der Stadt 18.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Wiesbaden 16.02.-21.02.<br />
■ Worms 16.02.-21.02.<br />
Z■ Zirndorf 17.02.-21.02.<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
■ A Mödling 18.02.-21.02.<br />
■ B Aalst=Alost 10.02.-26.02.<br />
■ B Blankenberge 18.02.-26.02.<br />
■ B Geraardsbergen 25.02.-07.03.<br />
■ B Nivelles=Nijvel 18.02.-29.02.<br />
■ B Oostende=Ostende 17.02.-27.02.<br />
■ B Sint-Truiden 17.02.-27.02.<br />
■ B Tienen=Tirlemont 18.02.-26.02.<br />
■ B Vilvoorde=Vilvorde 17.02.-26.02.<br />
■ CH Biel 24.02.-11.03.<br />
■ CH Grenchen 16.02.-21.02.<br />
■ CH Winterthur 24.02.-27.02.<br />
■ CZ Praha=Prag 25.02.-15.04.<br />
■ ES Palma de Mallorca 24.02.-15.04.<br />
■ F Aix-en-Provence 04.02.-11.03.<br />
■ F Albi 18.02.-26.02.<br />
■ F Alençon 28.01.-19.02.<br />
■ F Avignon 18.02.-18.03.<br />
■ F Besançon 20.01.-04.03.<br />
■ F Bordeaux 24.02.-25.03.<br />
■ F Calais 14.01.-05.02.<br />
■ F Carcassonne 25.02.-18.03.<br />
■ F Châlons-sur-Marne 21.01.-12.02.<br />
■ F Chalon-sur-Saône 24.02.-04.03.<br />
■ F Chauny 25.02.-11.03.<br />
■ F Clermont-Ferrand 11.01.-11.03.<br />
■ F Gardanne 18.02.-11.03.<br />
■ F Granville 17.02.-26.02.<br />
■ F Lyon 10.12.-26.02.<br />
■ F Menton 14.01.-19.02.<br />
■ F Narbonne 04.02.-19.02.<br />
■ F Nîmes 25.02.-18.03.<br />
■ F Pont-Audemer 18.02.-04.03.<br />
■ F Pontivy 18.02.-11.03.<br />
■ F Quimper 28.01.-04.03.<br />
■ F Rochelle, la 25.02.-18.03.<br />
■ F Saint-Malo 21.01.-19.02.<br />
■ F Salon-de-Provence 28.01.-19.02.<br />
■ F Troyes 25.02.-18.03.<br />
■ F Vichy-Cusset 18.02.-18.03.<br />
10. DEZEMBER (THURSDAY)<br />
F Lyon<br />
■ Luna <strong>Park</strong> until 26.02.<br />
11. JANUAR (WEDNESDAY)<br />
F Clermont-Ferrand<br />
■ Luna <strong>Park</strong> until 11.03.<br />
14. JANUAR (SATURDAY)<br />
F Calais<br />
■ Foire d'Hiver until 05.02.<br />
F Menton<br />
■ Fête Foraine des Citrons<br />
until 19.02.<br />
20. JANUAR (FRIDAY)<br />
F Besançon<br />
■ Luna <strong>Park</strong> until 04.03.<br />
21. JANUAR (SATURDAY)<br />
F Châlons-sur-Marne<br />
■ Fête la Saint Glin-Glin<br />
until 12.02.<br />
F Saint-Malo<br />
■ Fête de la Sainte-Ouine<br />
until 19.02.<br />
28. JANUAR (SATURDAY)<br />
44793 Bochum-Stahlhausen<br />
■ Historischer Jahrmarkt<br />
until 05.02.<br />
Jeweils Saturday und Sunday<br />
Histor.Ges.Deutscher Schausteller<br />
F Alençon<br />
■ Fête de la Chandeleur<br />
until 19.02.<br />
F Quimper<br />
■ Luna <strong>Park</strong> until 04.03.<br />
F Salon-de-Provence<br />
■ Luna <strong>Park</strong> d'Hiver<br />
until 19.02.<br />
4. FEBRUARY (SATURDAY)<br />
F Aix-en-Provence<br />
■ Foire aux Manège de Carnaval<br />
until 11.03.<br />
F Narbonne<br />
■ Fête Foraine de Février<br />
until 19.02.<br />
71229 Leonberg<br />
■ Pferdemarkt until 14.02.<br />
Fa. Roschmann/Eislingen<br />
B Aalst=Alost<br />
■ Winterfoor & Carnaval until 26.02.<br />
GB Clapham, South London<br />
■ Half Term Fair until 19.02.<br />
GB Ipswich, Suffolk<br />
■ St. Valentines Fair until 26.02.<br />
GB Newcastle-Gateshead<br />
■ Team Valley Valentines Fair<br />
until 19.02.<br />
14. FEBRUARY (TUESDAY)<br />
GB Kings Lynn, Norf<br />
■ Mart Fair until 28.02.<br />
16. FEBRUARY (THURSDAY)<br />
41061 Mönchengladbach<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 21.02.<br />
41236 Mönchengladbach-Rheydt<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 21.02.<br />
44139 Dortmund<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 20.02.<br />
A.Kleuser/Dortmund<br />
Flash, Power Express, Breakdance, Fliegender<br />
Teppich, Simulator, Top Spin<br />
Participants: ca. 100<br />
46236 Bottrop<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 20.02.<br />
City<br />
Love Express, X-Factor, Phoenix, Breakdance,<br />
Big Spin, Shaker, Time Factory<br />
Participants: ca. 80<br />
46562 Voerde<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 20.02.<br />
47259 Duisburg-Serm<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 20.02.<br />
W.Söhngen/Duisburg<br />
51381 Leverkusen-Opladen<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 21.02.<br />
D.Enners/Leverkusen<br />
58099 Hagen-Boele<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 19.02.<br />
65029 Wiesbaden<br />
■ Fastnachtsmesse until 21.02.<br />
Am Rathausplatz von Friday until Monday<br />
Dachorg. Wiesbadener Karneval<br />
67012 Ludwigshafen/Rhein<br />
■ Fasnachtsmarkt until 21.02.<br />
LUKOM/Ludwigshafen<br />
67549 Worms<br />
■ Fastnachtsmarkt<br />
until 21.02.<br />
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68137 Mannheim<br />
■ Fasnachtsmarkt until 21.02.<br />
86156 Augsburg<br />
■ Faschingsmarkt until 21.02.<br />
90762 Fürth<br />
■ Faschingsrummel until 21.02.<br />
CH Grenchen<br />
■ Fasnacht until 21.02.<br />
17. FEBRUARY (FRIDAY)<br />
55232 Alzey<br />
■ Fastnachtsmarkt until 20.02.<br />
63450 Hanau<br />
■ Faschingsveranstaltung<br />
until 21.02.<br />
64283 Darmstadt<br />
■ Faschingstreiben until 21.02.<br />
70173 Stuttgart<br />
■ Innenstadt-Fasnacht until 21.02.<br />
90513 Zirndorf<br />
■ 5 tolle Tage until 21.02.<br />
B Oostende=Ostende<br />
■ Carnavalfoor until 27.02.<br />
B Sint-Truiden=St.Trond<br />
■ Carnavalkermis until 27.02.<br />
B Vilvoorde=Vilvorde<br />
■ Carnavalfoor until 26.02.<br />
F Granville<br />
■ Fête Foraine until 26.02.<br />
NL Roermond<br />
■ Carnavalskermis until 21.02.<br />
18. FEBRUARY (SATURDAY)<br />
27777 Ganderkesee<br />
■ Faschingsmarkt until 20.02.<br />
32838 Steinheim<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 21.02.<br />
55120 Mainz<br />
■ Fastnachtsmesse until 21.02.<br />
67653 Kaiserslautern<br />
■ Fastnachtsmarkt until 21.02.<br />
69117 Heidelberg<br />
■ Altstadtfasching until 21.02.<br />
71263 Weil der Stadt<br />
■ Fasnacht until 21.02.<br />
76829 Landau/Pfalz<br />
■ Fasching until 21.02.<br />
A Mödling<br />
■ Fasching until 21.02.<br />
B Blankenberge<br />
■ Carnavalfoor until 26.02.<br />
B Nivelles=Nijvel<br />
■ Foire du Carnaval until 29.02.<br />
B Tienen=Tirlemont<br />
■ Carnavalfoor until 26.02.<br />
F Albi<br />
■ Fête du Carnaval until 26.02.<br />
F Avignon<br />
■ Kermesse de Février until 18.03.<br />
F Gardanne<br />
■ Foire de la St. Valentin until 11.03.<br />
F Pont-Audemer<br />
■ Foire des Jours Gras until 04.03.<br />
F Pontivy<br />
■ Fête Foraine until 11.03.<br />
F Vichy-Cusset-Bellerive<br />
■ Luna <strong>Park</strong> until 18.03.<br />
NL Apeldoorn<br />
■ Voorjaarskermis Americahal<br />
until 26.02.<br />
NL Valkenswaard<br />
■ Carnavalskermis until 21.02.<br />
19. FEBRUARY (SUNDAY)<br />
50667 Köln<br />
■ Karnevalskirmes until 21.02.<br />
24. FEBRUARY (FRIDAY)<br />
33775 Versmold<br />
■ Sankt-Petri-Markt, Sünne Peider<br />
until 26.02.<br />
City<br />
Breakdance, Phoenix, Nostalgie-Riesenrad,<br />
Konga, Jump Street, Musik-Shop, Salto Mortale,<br />
Remmi Demmi<br />
Participants: ca. 200<br />
CH Biel<br />
■ Fasnachtschilbi until 11.03.<br />
CH Winterthur<br />
■ Fasnacht until 27.02.<br />
ES Palma de Mallorca<br />
■ Fira del Ram until 15.04.<br />
F Bordeaux<br />
■ Foire aux Plaisirs until 25.03.<br />
F Chalon-sur-Saône<br />
■ Fête du Carnaval until 04.03.<br />
25. FEBRUARY (SATURDAY)<br />
74072 Heilbronn/Neckar<br />
■ Pferdemarkt until 27.02.<br />
B Geraardsbergen<br />
■ Winterfoor until 07.03.<br />
CZ Praha=Prag=Praag<br />
■ Matejská Pout until 15.04.<br />
F Carcassonne<br />
■ Fête Foraine d'Hiver<br />
until 18.03.<br />
F Chauny<br />
■ Foire de Mars until 11.03.<br />
F Nîmes<br />
■ Fête Foraine until 18.03.<br />
F Rochelle, la<br />
■ Fête Foraine d'Hiver<br />
until 18.03.<br />
F Troyes<br />
■ Foire de Mars until 18.03.<br />
NL Amsterdam-Noord<br />
■ Kermis until 05.03.<br />
No responsibility for accuracy!<br />
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BOMBER MARK 2<br />
Booster 50 Mtr – Fabbri 2006<br />
Model - Trailer mounted<br />
Price: Offers invited<br />
MOBY’S – WATER COASTER<br />
12.5 m high<br />
galvanised<br />
access tower<br />
leading to 3<br />
water slides,<br />
conveyor boat<br />
return with<br />
fibreglass shutes.<br />
<strong>Park</strong> model,<br />
can be seen<br />
on site.<br />
Price:<br />
offers invited.<br />
Contact: M & D Group • 00 44 / 1698 / 333 777<br />
jensenc@scotlandsthemepark.com<br />
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Tel. + 49 (0)177/5500762<br />
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The list of attractions incl. Flume, Roller Coaster,<br />
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All equipment is well maintained and in good condition.<br />
The park is being offered for sale for reasons of retirement.<br />
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Karussells der Spitzenklasse<br />
R. VÖLZ<br />
Industriestr. 3<br />
44577 Castrop-Rauxel<br />
Tel. 0 23 67/83 37<br />
Fax 0 23 67/17 67<br />
Nach wie vor liefern wir:<br />
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GROUND TO LET – AVAILABLE<br />
In this column, available ground to let for attractions, and available attractions are listed free of charge, for the running season. Organisers please note: The said event<br />
must be announced previously in the “Kirmes & <strong>Park</strong> Revue”. Tel: + 49 (0) 8441 402226 Fax: + 49 (0) 8441 71846 E-Mail: ralf.schmitt@gemiverlag.de<br />
AVAILABLE<br />
• Twister available from the 2 nd Sun. in May to<br />
the 4 th Sun. in June, 3 rd Sun. in Aug.t, as well as<br />
from the 2 nd Sun. in Sept. to the 1 st Sun. in Oct. Tel.:<br />
+ 49 (0)170-2333387<br />
• Breakdance still has available dates.<br />
Tel.: +49 (0)171-5266995<br />
• Half-Metre Bratwurst Special (4.50 x 2.50 m)<br />
still has available dates. Tel.: + 49 (0)178-2024455<br />
• Water-Walkingballs (12 x 8 m) still has available<br />
dates, also for city festivals.<br />
Tel.: + 49 (0) 157-83034461<br />
• Simulator still has available dates.<br />
Tel.: + 49 (0) 177-3606597<br />
• Ferris Wheel (38 m) available on the 1 st Sunday<br />
in June (Southern Germany), 1 st to 5 th Sundays<br />
in October, as well as the 1 st and 2 nd Sundays<br />
in November. Tel.: + 49 (0) 178-5166437<br />
• Water attraction (42 x 20 m) still available<br />
on the 2 nd and 3 rd Sun. in May, as well as the 2 nd ,<br />
3 rd , and 4 th Sun. in Sept.. Tel: + 49 (0)177-7639744<br />
• Miami still available from the 1 st to 4 th Sundays<br />
in April, from the 2 nd Sunday in May to the 4 th Sunday<br />
in June, the 3 rd Sunday in August, the 4 th Sunday<br />
in september, as well as from the 3rd Sunday<br />
in October. Tel.: + 49 (0) 170-2333387<br />
• Almhütte and Almhüttendorf (variable sizes)<br />
still have available dates. Tel.: + 49 (0) 171-5266995<br />
• Simulator still has available dates.<br />
Tel.: + 49 (0) 157-83034461<br />
• Funhouse still has available dates.<br />
Tel.: + 49 (0) 178-8362951<br />
• Freefall Tower (20 m) available on the 2 nd<br />
and 3 rd Sunday in May, 2 nd to 4 th Sundays in June,<br />
4 th Sunday in September, and 2 nd Sunday<br />
in October. Tel.: + 49 (0) 170-2333387<br />
• Mouse Spectacle (10 x 4,50 m) available<br />
on the 2 nd , 3 rd , and 4 th Sundays in June.<br />
Tel.: + 49 (0) 178-2024455<br />
• Bungee-Trampoline (4-p attraction) still<br />
has available dates.<br />
Tel.: + 49 (0) 157-83034461<br />
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vom 11. Mai bis 20. Mai 2012<br />
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Telefon 02351/98 58 555, Mobil 0171/419 65 45, Fax 02351/618 90<br />
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• 01069 Dresden, Wiener Platz 4<br />
• 01097 Dresden-Neustadt, Schlesischer Platz 1<br />
• 01109 Dresden, Wilhelmine-Reichard-Ring 1<br />
• 04109 Leipzig, Hbf, Willy-Brand-Platz 5<br />
• 06112 Halle, Hbf, Bahnhofplatz 1<br />
• 06844 Dessau, Fritz-Hesse-Str. 7<br />
• 10117 Berlin-Friedrichstr., Georgenstr. 14-18<br />
• 10178 Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Dircksenstraße<br />
• 10243 Berlin, Am Ostbahnhof<br />
• 10623 Berlin, Fernbahnhof Zoo<br />
• 10829 Berlin-Südkreuz/West, Neumannstr.<br />
• 12439 Berlin-Schöneweide, M.-Brückner-Str. 42<br />
• 12521 Berlin, Flughafen-Schönefeld, Terminal D E G<br />
• 12681 Berlin, Boxberger Str. 3-9 / Haus 3 / Halle 2 West<br />
• 13405 Berlin, Flughafen Tegel, Haupthalle, Bon Voyage<br />
• 18055 Rostock, Konrad-Adenauer- Platz<br />
✘ 20099 Hamburg, Hbf., Glockengiesserwall<br />
• 20354 Hamburg, Bahnhof Dammtor, Theodor-Heuss-Platz<br />
• 21337 Lüneburg, Bahnhofstr.<br />
✘ 22765 Hamburg, Paul-Nevermann-Platz<br />
• 23558 Lübeck, Am Bahnhof<br />
• 24114 Kiel, Sophienblatt 27-29<br />
• 25337 Elmshorn, Otto-Hahn-Straße 15<br />
• 25813 Husum, Poggenburgstr. 12<br />
• 26122 Oldenburg, Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 26125 Oldenburg, Wilhelmshavener Heerstr. 32<br />
• 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
• 26789 Leer, Bahnhofsplatz<br />
• 27472 Cuxhaven, Bahnhof Haus 1<br />
• 27570 Bremerhaven, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 73<br />
• 27749 Delmenhorst, Wittekindstr. 10/ZOB<br />
✘ 28195 Bremen, Bahnhofsplatz 15<br />
• 28199 Bremen, im Flughafen, Flughafenallee 20<br />
• 29221 Celle, Im Bahnhof, Bahnhofsplatz<br />
• 29525 Uelzen, Am Bahnhof<br />
• 30159 Hannover, Ernst-August-Platz 1<br />
• 30669 Hannover, Flughafen, Terminal A<br />
• 31582 Nienburg, Bahnhofstraße<br />
• 32052 Herford, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
✘ 32423 Minden, Bundesbahnhof 12<br />
• 33102 Paderborn, Bahnhofstr. 29<br />
• 33330 Gütersloh, Willy-Brandt-Platz-2<br />
• 33602 Bielefeld, Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 34117 Kassel, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
• 34131 Kassel, Wilhelmshöher Allee 253<br />
• 35037 Marburg, Bahnhofstr. 33<br />
• 35390 Gießen, Bahnhofstr. 102<br />
• 37073 Goettingen, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
• 38102 Braunschweig, Berliner Platz 1<br />
✘ 39104 Magdeburg, Bahnhofstr. 68<br />
• 40210 Düsseldorf, Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 41460 Neuss, Presse & Buch im Bhf., Theodor-Heuss-Platz<br />
• 42103 Wuppertal, Döppersberg 37<br />
• 42277 Wuppertal, Berliner Platz 15<br />
• 42283 Wuppertal, Winklerstraße 2<br />
• 42859 Remscheid, Bahnhofsplatz 12<br />
• 44137 Dortmund, Koenigswall 15<br />
• 44629 Herne, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz<br />
• 44649 Herne, Heinz-Rühmann-Platz<br />
• 44787 Bochum, Buddenbergplatz, Süd-Ausgang<br />
✘ 45127 Essen, Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 45468 Mülheim, Dieter-aus-dem-Siepen-Platz 3<br />
• 45657 Recklinghausen, Große Pferdekamp Str.<br />
• 45879 Gelsenkirchen, Im Bahnhof<br />
• 46045 Oberhausen, Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 46395 Bocholt, Hindenburg Str. 1<br />
• 46446 Emmerich, im Bahnhof<br />
• 46535 Dinslaken, im Bahnhof<br />
• 47051 Duisburg, Mercatorstr. 17<br />
• 48143 Münster, Berliner Platz<br />
• 48431 Rheine, Hauptbahnhof 1<br />
• 49074 Osnabrück, Im Bahnhof<br />
• 49356 Diepholz, Am Bahnhof<br />
• 50667 Köln, Bahnhof 1<br />
50667 Köln, Trankgasse 11<br />
• 50679 Köln-Deutz, Otto-Platz 7<br />
• 52064 Aachen, Bahnhofsplatz 2a<br />
• 52351 Düren, Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 53111 Bonn, Am Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 53173 Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Moltkestr. 43<br />
• 53879 Euskirchen, Bahnhofstraße<br />
• 54292 Trier, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
• 55116 Mainz, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
• 55543 Bad Kreuznach, Europaplatz<br />
• 56068 Koblenz, Bahnhofsplatz 2<br />
• 57072 Siegen, Am Bahnhof 16<br />
• 58089 Hagen, Berliner Platz 3<br />
• 58239 Schwerte, Bahnhofstraße 35<br />
• 58452 Witten, Bergerstr. 35<br />
• 58644 Iserlohn, Bahnhofsplatz 2<br />
• 58762 Altena, Bahnhofstr. 26<br />
• 59065 Hamm, Willy-Brandt-Platz 1<br />
• 59227 Ahlen, Bahnhofsplatz<br />
✘ 59423 Unna, Bahnhofstr. 74<br />
• 59494 Soest, Bahnhofstr. 2<br />
✘ 60051 Frankfurt, Im Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 60594 Frankfurt, Diesterwegplatz 51<br />
• 61169 Friedberg, Hanauer Str. 44<br />
• 63450 Hanau, Im Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 63739 Aschaffenburg, Ludwigstr. 2, Hbf.<br />
• 64293 Darmstadt, Platz der Deutschen Einheit<br />
• 65190 Wiesbaden, Bahnhofsplatz 2<br />
• 65428 Rüsselsheim, Im Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 66111 Saarbrücken, Im Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 66424 Homburg, Im Bahnhof<br />
• 66538 Neunkirchen, Bahnhofstraße<br />
• 67434 Neustadt, Bahnhofsplatz 4<br />
• 67547 Worms, Hauptbahnhof<br />
✘ 67547 Worms, Bahnhofstr. 11<br />
• 67655 Kaiserslautern, Bahnhofstraße 1<br />
✘ 68161 Mannheim, Bahnhofsplatz 17<br />
✘ 69115 Heidelberg 1, Willy-Brandt-Platz 5<br />
✘ 70173 Stuttgart, Arnulf-Klett-Platz 2<br />
• 70174 Stuttgart-Mitte, Th.-Heuss-Passagen<br />
• 70372 Stuttgart/Bad Cannstatt, Bahnhofstr. 30<br />
✘ 71032 Böblingen, Talstr. 18<br />
• 71638 Ludwigsburg, Bahnhof 14-18<br />
• 72072 Tübingen, Europaplatz 17<br />
• 72764 Reutlingen, Bahnhofstr. 3<br />
• 74321 Bietigheim, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
• 75175 Pforzheim, Bahnhofsplatz<br />
✘ 76137 Karlsruhe, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
• 76227 Karlsruhe, Hauptbahnstraße 1<br />
• 76646 Bruchsal, Bahnhofsplatz 12<br />
• 79098 Freiburg, Bismarckallee 3<br />
✘ 80335 München, Hauptbahnhof, Arnulfstr. 3<br />
✘ 81667 München, Orleansplatz 10<br />
• 86150 Augsburg, Viktoriastraße 1<br />
• 86154 Augsburg, Ulmer Str. 53<br />
• 87435 Kempten, Bahnhofplatz<br />
• 87509 Immenstadt, Bahnhofstr. 39<br />
• 87527 Sonthofen, Bahnhofstraße<br />
• 87561 Oberstdorf, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
• 87700 Memmingen, Bahnhofstr. 3<br />
• 89073 Ulm, Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 89312 Günzburg, Bahnhofsplatz 5<br />
✘ 90411 Nürnberg, Flughafenstraße 100<br />
✘ 90443 Nürnberg, Im Hauptbahnhof<br />
• 91207 Lauf, Bahnhofsplatz 1<br />
• 92224 Amberg, Kaiser-Ludwig-Ring 5<br />
• 92637 Weiden, Bahnhofstr. 28<br />
• 94032 Passau, Bahnhofsplatz 29<br />
• 94315 Straubing, Bahnhofsplatz 13<br />
• 95028 Hof, Bahnhofsplatz 12<br />
• 95444 Bayreuth, Bahnhofstr. 20<br />
• 95615 Marktredwitz, Bahnhofsplatz 7<br />
• 96052 Bamberg, Ludwigstraße 6<br />
• 96450 Coburg, Lossaustr. 4<br />
✘ 97070 Würzburg, Bahnhofstr. 4<br />
• 97424 Schweinfurt, Im Bahnhof<br />
• 99084 Erfurt, Willy-Brandt-Platz 12<br />
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