Posts: 2 Points on hand: 20.00 Points. Six months later, the ride opened to the general public on 1 November 2013. [15] Natalie Bonjolo of Today Tonight stated she didn't "know whether to laugh or cry" at the end of Abyss, describing the ride as unbelievable. In addition to several inversions, the Abyss reaches a top speed of 85 kilometres per hour (53 mph) along the two-minute, 630-metre-long (2,070 ft) ride. [9] The park expected double-digit attendance growth following the addition of the ride. It's also eerily quiet and smooth. [13][16], Abyss has been well received. 13 posts • Page 1 of 1. [8], Adventure World's CEO Mark Shaw stated the addition of the Abyss was an attempt to elevate the park "from adventure park to theme park". Six months later, the ride opened to the general public on 1 November 2013. New for this season is the exciting 'Dinosaur Island', taking guests on a journey back in time to the age of the dinosaurs! Featuring a 630m-long (2,066ft) custom-designed layout, Abyss includes such elements as a 30m (100ft) vertical lift and signature Euro-Fighter beyond vertical first drop, zero-g-roll, rollover loop, cobra roll, inline loop and a camelback. Mon Apr 06, 2015 4:32 am. November 1, … “We chose Abyss after extensively researching the available rides and found that the Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter was the best option to provide a thrilling ride with tight twists and turns on a relatively small footprint,” Shaw tells Park World. An themed archway with ravens overhead acts as the entrance to the attraction, while a foreboding soundtrack creates an ominous mood in the queue line. Abyss is a steel roller coaster located at the Adventure World amusement park in Perth, Western Australia.The $12-million attraction was announced in April 2013, and construction began the following month.
'Dinosaur Island' is a temporary attraction and will close on Tuesday 31st March, 2015. Launched on Halloween to kick-start the park’s Fright Nights weekend, Abyss at Adventure World in Perth is Australia’s first Euro-Fighter coaster from Gerstlauer.
Since the $12 million Abyss ride opened at Perth's theme park in November, it has attracted more than 60,000 riders. Riders are arranged 4 across in 2 rows for a total of 8 riders per train. An air-time hill, where riders experience the feeling of weightlessness, and a right turn leads into the mid-course brake run. © 2020 - Park World Online - Theme Park, Amusement Park and Attractions Industry News. [19] Local MP Joe Francis described the ride as an "amazing piece of mechanical engineering".
This, a 15-month contract to completion time frame and rainy weather during construction presented a challenge to the team from Adventure World and Gerstlauer, but one which they tackled with finesse. A quick drop follows, before the train rounds a series of left turns into the first inversion, an inline twist. The Abyss is a Euro-Fighter, a roller coaster model from Gerstlauer that features a "beyond-vertical" first drop which exceeds 90 degrees.
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[10][11] Adventure World previously operated the Anton Schwarzkopf-designed Turbo Mountain, before its closure and removal in 2009. [15], The ride begins at the station inside the show building.
Please visit the website for specific trading days, hours & ticketing info. Hats off to Adventure World(or Gazza) for picking Gerstlauer to design a decent ride.
Abyss is a steel roller coaster located at the Adventure World amusement park in Perth, Western Australia.The $12-million attraction was announced in April 2013, and construction began the following month. Other Adventure World highlights include the fully-themed 'Abyss' experience. He described the ride as better than Superman Escape at Warner Bros. Movie World, stating Adventure World "certainly lifted the bar for roller coasters in Australia". The train exits the brake run with a left turn into a dive loop.