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OCTOBER 2015<br />
KEEP UPDATED WITH<br />
OUR LATEST RELEASES<br />
01<br />
NEW RIDES<br />
COMPACT SPINNING 3 LOOPS<br />
DRIFT RACE<br />
6 TO 8 CAR RACER “PATENT PENDING”<br />
2015 GOALS<br />
#200 TOWERS DELIVERED<br />
FRANTIC<br />
MOST EXCITING RIDES OF THE YEAR<br />
FIND US ONLINE AT WWW.<strong>SBF</strong>RIDES.COM & WWW.<strong>VISA</strong>RIDES.IT
WANT MORE OF A GOOD THING?<br />
COMPACT SPINNING COASTER<br />
We are proud to exhibit this new version<br />
of our Spinning Coaster at the<br />
IAAPA Expo in Orlando this<br />
November. The success of the<br />
Compact Spinning Coaster has<br />
led to the 3 Loops Coaster for those<br />
operators looking for a bigger, bolder<br />
and even more exciting version of this<br />
great original ride.<br />
Among the many types of rides offered<br />
by <strong>SBF</strong>-<strong>VISA</strong> Group, the family coasters<br />
have been, for several years now, at<br />
the forefront of the industry. They have<br />
proved themselves to be the most<br />
popular rides. So popular, in fact, that the<br />
Group has dedicated a department solely<br />
to the development and production<br />
of these rides. On average, we must<br />
produce a new family coaster every 15-<br />
20 days to meet the increasing demand<br />
for our products.<br />
It is not hard to explain this success:<br />
the family coaster is a type of ride that<br />
gives the thrill of speed, up and down<br />
movements and cornering. However, we<br />
are able to do this without excessively<br />
scaring the riders.<br />
SOME NUMBERS<br />
FIRST SPINNING UNIT<br />
EXHIBITED AT IAAPA 2013<br />
55 SPINNING UNITS ALREADY<br />
DELIVERED<br />
20 NEW SPINNING UNITS<br />
ON ORDER<br />
100 VARIOUS COASTERS<br />
DELIVERED SINCE 2013<br />
<strong>SBF</strong>-<strong>VISA</strong> models, above all, have been<br />
designed to be the solution to many<br />
concerns. We are able to address<br />
issues with footprint, layout, ease of<br />
assembly, and transport. The coasters<br />
are ideal for the needs of amusement<br />
parks, shopping centers/malls, FECs,<br />
and travelling showmen alike. Another<br />
key element in their success is that all<br />
these coasters have a self-supporting<br />
base and consequently do not require<br />
foundations.<br />
“In small spaces, our family coasters are<br />
able to thrill both kids and adults. They<br />
do not create any physical problems and<br />
stimulate that small adrenaline rush that<br />
makes us feel good.” “Regarding costs<br />
then, they are more competitive than<br />
classic rides, above all when analyzing<br />
the hourly capacity, and the fact that<br />
they are not selective in terms of users.”<br />
lt is also worth noting that <strong>SBF</strong>-<strong>VISA</strong><br />
offers a very wide variety of coaster styles<br />
and sizes, from which the customer can<br />
choose. The track can be made simple<br />
or in a figure-eight. We can also offer a<br />
variable length and height. The cars can<br />
be themed as the classic caterpillar,<br />
dragon, shark, planes, mine wagons,<br />
motor cars, trucks, etc. In addition to the<br />
traditional versions, we offer the above<br />
mentioned in the spinning action version.<br />
Most importantly, our main focus is to<br />
deliver high quality for a good price.
ORLANDO: READY, SET… GO!<br />
REAL DRIFT<br />
MOTION<br />
SHOOT!<br />
DRIFT RACE<br />
6 TO 8 CAR RACER<br />
“PATENT PENDING”<br />
<strong>SBF</strong>-Visa Group is very pleased to display its rides at the IAAPA Attractions Expo in<br />
Orlando, where the company’s exhibiting space will measure no less than 800sqm<br />
indoors plus another 600sqm outdoors.<br />
The event will see the world première of the ride called Drift Race: a family and<br />
interactive ride, patent pending, where passengers, 2 per each of the 6 cars, need<br />
to drive and shoot at the same time, working in complicity with their companion.<br />
To be more specific, one of the riders will drive the car and simulate drifting, while the other will<br />
shoot at targets attached to the car in front, trying to score as many points as possible. A word<br />
of caution: each vehicle is shooter and target at the same time! The driver will need to know how<br />
to swerve the car enough so that the following shooter does not hit it, but at the same time drive<br />
calmly enough to allow his/her companion to hit the target car in front. Only so can they score<br />
higher and higher, and obtain the victory at the end of the race.<br />
A product designed for everybody, Drift Race is suitable both for indoor and outdoor parks.<br />
Thanks to Fun City Oasis for being the first to purchase this new ride,<br />
That will be soon installed in one of various locations operated by this big leisure Group.
“FRANTIC”<br />
NAMED ONE OF<br />
THE MOST EXCITING<br />
RIDES OF THE YEAR<br />
TIME IS UP<br />
Quassy Amusement & Waterpark in Middlebury, CT earned<br />
some bragging rights this year. Their ride, FRANTIC, was named<br />
one of the 19 most exciting new theme park rides of the year by<br />
America Online (AOL ®). This spectacular family thrill ride made<br />
its debut for the 2015 season and <strong>SBF</strong>-Visa is proud to bring<br />
recocnition to their park with this ride.<br />
FRANTIC accommodates<br />
eight riders in a circular<br />
configuration with the seats<br />
suspended on a huge<br />
pendulum. The seats spin as<br />
the ride swings higher and<br />
higher before doing a series<br />
of 360-degree flips.<br />
“We’re certainly pleased to<br />
be listed among some of the<br />
top new attractions in the<br />
nation,” Quassy President Eric<br />
Anderson said of the accolade.<br />
“The announcement really<br />
took us by surprise.”<br />
Quassy purchased the attraction for its 2015 season after<br />
exploring a variety of options to add to its arsenal of thrill rides.<br />
Visa International of Italy, represented in the United States by<br />
Rides-4-U of Somerville, N.J., was selected as the vendor for this<br />
unique ride.<br />
“There’s nothing else like it in New England,” Anderson added.<br />
“FRANTIC has been extremely well-received by our guests,”<br />
noted George Frantzis II, a park owner. “’Awesome! – that’s the<br />
word I hear when guests relate to the ride experience.”<br />
The majority of the new theme park rides making the AOL lists<br />
are large roller coasters.<br />
QUASSY AND <strong>SBF</strong>-<strong>VISA</strong><br />
TO ANNOUNCE<br />
NEW ATTRACTION<br />
MIDDLEBURY, Conn. (USA)<br />
Time is up come 3:45 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the<br />
International Association of Amusement Parks and<br />
Attractions (IAAPA) Expo in Orlando, Fla., when Quassy and<br />
<strong>SBF</strong>/<strong>VISA</strong> Group announce a new major ride for the familyowned<br />
park for the 2016 season.<br />
Without letting the cat out of the bag, park officials have<br />
kept under wraps what the new attraction will be the only<br />
thing they have said is that the project has been in the<br />
works for months and will be an exciting addition at the<br />
lakeside property.<br />
IAAPA has scheduled an<br />
afternoon press conference<br />
at the <strong>SBF</strong>/<strong>VISA</strong> booth on<br />
the show floor at expo where<br />
Quassy officials will be joined<br />
by the supplier in making the<br />
exciting announcement.<br />
There has been much anticipation<br />
at Quassy Amusement &<br />
Waterpark here since a banner<br />
went up this past summer stating:<br />
“What’s Happening In 2016 At<br />
Quassy? Only Time Will Tell.”<br />
<strong>SBF</strong>/<strong>VISA</strong> Group is represented in the United States by<br />
Rides 4 U of Somerville, N.J.
COMPACT MOONRAKER 20<br />
A BRAND NEW SPINNING ATTRACTION<br />
Following up the huge success of this ride in the past and thanks to the trust<br />
of Alhokair Group, <strong>SBF</strong> Visa Group is proud to introduce a new version Of the<br />
Moonraker ride.<br />
Alhokair Group, key customer of <strong>SBF</strong> & Visa for many years, assigned it the<br />
task to manufacture a Compact version of this ride, featuring 20 seats.<br />
The Moonraker is a unique attraction in which riders sit on a big spinning<br />
platform which rises into the air.<br />
Main support is rotating as well as the gondola accommodating the<br />
passengers; at a certain time, After some revolutions, gondola starts<br />
lifting.<br />
The inclination is almost 90° and the gondola can reach a high rotation<br />
speed, while rotating Both clockwise and anticlockwise.<br />
Safety first on this ride as well: Moonraker is equipped with a lap bar<br />
with double safety mechanism, double safety sensors supervising bars<br />
opening and a safety belt with pneumatic lock.<br />
Designed for outdoor parks and, due to the compact footprint, also for indoor<br />
entertainment centers.
SPIN AND...<br />
DANCE PARTY RIDE<br />
Every company has its aces, in other words, the<br />
attractions that are more successful than had<br />
been originally anticipated. In the case of the<br />
<strong>SBF</strong>-<strong>VISA</strong> Group, we have been very fortunate.<br />
The deck seems to have been stacked in our<br />
favor with many such aces. One of these most<br />
certainly has been our ever popular Dance Party.<br />
A major ride attraction, throughout its 15 year<br />
history, has seen more than 150 units placed<br />
into operation. The Dance Party maintains the<br />
joy of thrill seekers from all around the globe.<br />
YOU FEEL BETTER<br />
SOME NUMBERS<br />
FIRST UNIT<br />
MANUFACTURED IN 1999<br />
150 DANCE PARTY<br />
ALREADY DELIVERED<br />
10 NEW DANCE PARTY<br />
ON ORDER<br />
8 DIFFERENT MODELS<br />
AVAILABLE<br />
lt all began in 1999, with a 40 seat gondola and<br />
a footprint that measured nearly 17x14x11m.<br />
This giant sized swing offered an exceptional<br />
excitement to riders on a circular gondola<br />
supported by a moving column. The force<br />
transmitted by the two electromechanical drive<br />
units causes the column to swing to an angle of<br />
90°. The gondola rotates at 15 revolutions per<br />
minute, while at the same time reaching 15m in<br />
height.<br />
The success of this very first unit has led to<br />
the development of other versions. Many are<br />
smaller in dimensions, but identical in their<br />
ability to deliver a tremendous visual impact.<br />
This allows exceptional thrill level to operators<br />
regardless of their budget or available space.<br />
From facilities large or small, we have been able<br />
to provide a suitable model to amusements<br />
parks, FEC’s, and travelling shows. Virtually<br />
anyone who wants to take advantage of the<br />
success of the Dance Party can find a suitable<br />
model.<br />
Today there are several versions of the Dance<br />
Party. Each one aimed at the needs and budgets<br />
of the potential buyers. We can manufacture<br />
large or small, with indoor or outdoor operations.<br />
For example: there is the Compact version<br />
featuring 8 seats and a 120° or full 360° swing<br />
rotation; the Midi version with 12 seats and a<br />
120° or full 360° swing rotation; the extra large<br />
version of the Dance Party with 24 seats, (a<br />
whopping 33m in height) that features a 90°,<br />
120°, or full 360° pendulum rotation. There is<br />
also a 40 seat version with a 90° arm swing,<br />
and a 24 seat model (19m & 27m) with a 90°<br />
arm swing and a 32 seat model with a 120° arm<br />
swing. Some models can be designed so that<br />
the passengers face inward or outward.<br />
These units can be trailer mounted for those<br />
operators wishing to take the Dance Party on<br />
the road.
200 TOWERS SOLD!<br />
Now<br />
considered a classis, the<br />
Drop Tower is a spectacular ride that<br />
has earned its reputation as a crowd favorite<br />
at Amusement parks, FEC’s, and traveling<br />
shows.<br />
But not all venues are capable of installing<br />
Drop Towers that soar 30 meters or more<br />
skyward. It may be that space is limited,<br />
budgets are tight, or such extreme attractions<br />
just do not suit their guests. So, <strong>SBF</strong>/Visa<br />
has developed a full range of Drop Towers to<br />
meet those needs.<br />
From 6 meter towers to those rising 70<br />
meters or more there is a tower for nearly<br />
every application and budget, making the<br />
excitement of the Drop Tower available to all.<br />
The designers at <strong>SBF</strong>/Visa have taken the<br />
thrills of their towers to the next level with their<br />
Drop ‘N Twist towers. These models feature a<br />
rotating gondola that offer a spectacular 360<br />
panoramic view throughout their ride. These<br />
exciting towers may possibly be considered<br />
two attractions in one – an observation tower<br />
and a drop tower at the same time.<br />
“We would<br />
like to thank all of our<br />
customers for continuing to place<br />
trust in us and<br />
especially those parks, traveling showmen, and<br />
indoor centers who have chosen our drop<br />
towers, helping us to reach this important<br />
milestone.”<br />
The milestone referred to in this statement<br />
by Tomasso Frison, <strong>SBF</strong>/Visa Sales Group<br />
Manager, is the sale of their 200th tower<br />
that has occurred in a short 15 year time<br />
span. It does not stop there, as Drop<br />
Towers have become an ever increasingly<br />
important part of the rides offered by the<br />
group<br />
<strong>SBF</strong>/Visa is proud to have to produced<br />
some of the world’s most exciting Drop<br />
Tower installations that feature years of<br />
research into design, safety, and production<br />
quality.<br />
<strong>SBF</strong>/Visa offers a full range of towers with custom<br />
free fall movements, hydraulic or pneumatic<br />
systems; or free fall motion with magnetic brakes.
SKATE 360°<br />
EXCITEMENT IN 6 SEATS<br />
Do you have a<br />
small empty space?<br />
Too close to the wall?<br />
Then you need a new exciting<br />
ride for your park or your FEC!<br />
The Skate 360° is the perfect ride<br />
for you!!! It delivers everything<br />
you want in an extreme ride, but it<br />
is compact and easily<br />
placed anywhere.<br />
90°-120°-360° programs...<br />
The pictures say it all!!!<br />
graphic by Ninety9 - Vicenza - Italy<br />
GROUP<br />
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email: sbf@sbfrides.com<br />
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