![]() The ride was originally installed in 2001, but opened in 2002 along with the Winjas. The Mini Paratower in the middle of the Winjas spinning coaster in Wuze Town. It originally came from Flamingo Land, a sister park at the time.This picture appears courtesy of Interlink. This Paratower operates at Pleasure Island Theme Park in Cleethorpe, UK. The gondolas can also spin around gently during the ride. The last surviving model was sold as a Mini Paratower in 2001 that was designed to be shorter in order to fit inside the indoor Wuze Town complex at Phantasialand (Bruhl, Germany). The first installation was eventually sold to Circus World, a now defunct amusement park in Haines City, FL and a further model opened that year as the Big Yoyo at Walibi Wavre. Interestingly, it was meant to be a portable ride, but it was not used for long on the German circuit. 6 gondolas are suspended to cables around a large 108 feet tower and the gondolas go up and down in a gentle motion. It was a new take on the family parachute ride that was invented in the early 1900’s at Coney Island, NY. This Vekoma Superloop returned to the Belgium fair circuit in 2011.ġ981 saw Vekoma design their version of a classic attraction, the Paratower. The ride use 4 motors connected to drive tires on each side to move the wheel around.Īround 1979-1980, Vekoma built a number of “Super Loop” for the European market using a license from Larson International, inventor of the ride. This one is one of the 4 side support ones. La Grande Roue was installed at La Ronde in 1984, alongside the Boomerang and the Astronef. That was the name Walibi Wavre was known as at the time. ![]() La Grande Roue photographed at Six Flags Belgium in 2001. A large 165 feet tall ferris wheel was also installed toward the front of the park in 1979. More Ferris Wheels followed, like for example at Walibi Wavre (Wavre, Belgium) when Tornado was not the only ride that Eddy Meeus bought from Vekoma. The first ever attraction that Vekoma ever produced was a portable Ferris Wheel in 1967.
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