Drayton Manor Theme Park
The coaster train has a hip restraint (instead of the usual over the shoulder restraint) and Big Boy seats that are capable of safely holding larger riders. Pandemonium is a swinging inverter ride manufactured by Fabbri and opened in 2004 at a cost of £1,000,000. Maelstrom is a gyro swing ride from Intamin AG with 32 outward-facing seats on a circular gondola. It covers 280 acres (1.1 km2) of land, and is visited by over one million people annually.In 2006, the park received two awards: Best UK Attraction awarded by Group Leisure and UK Attraction of the Year awarded by Coach Tourism. It replaced the Klondike Gold Mine (previously the Python) that used to be in the area in previous years.
Riders experience 4g as they decelerate after falling 54 m in 4 seconds. G Force is a steel roller coaster designed by German company Maurer Söhne and opened in 2005. Drayton Manor opened to the public on 16 October 1949 as an inland pleasure resort and has since grown substantially in size.
Whilst swinging the ship ends up swinging till it s almost vertical, therefore you re looking straight up at the sky and straight down at the water. With the opening of the 2009 season on 21 March, Drayton Manor opened a 4D cinema Colin Bryan has recently confirmed more additions for 2009 on an interview on Drayton Manor Plus - including an Art Deco Style entrance for the cinema and changes to Food & Drink places in the park. It has three different forms of seating: one is the normal sit down; another is stand-up position (the world s only stand-up tower drop until 2005 when the Hurakan Condor opened in Port Aventura) and the last one is a stand-up floorless (which was introduced in 2002 and is known as the Fifth Element ).
It holds the title of world s first charitable ride and accepts donations on site. Shockwave is a stand-up roller coaster that was built in 1994 by Intamin AG. Drayton Manor Family Theme Park Zoo: All year round Drayton Manor Theme Park is a theme park in the grounds of the former Drayton Manor, near Tamworth in Staffordshire, England. Drayton Manor is a large theme park with a mixture of scenic and white knuckle rides.
The ride was created as part of a two year £4 million project in 1993/1994 to build Splash Canyon with Shockwave. Apocalypse is a free-fall tower ride 54 metres (177 ft) high, built by Intamin AG in 1999, and opened in 2000. Meeting rooms to cater for business events and conferences will also feature in the hotel’s broad offer in complimenting Drayton’s existing banqueting and dining facilities. Drayton Manor Theme Park at the Open Directory Project .
In 2009, Drayton Manor celebrates its 60th birthday. Rides in the park include Stormforce 10 (funding RNLI), Shockwave, Europe s only stand-up roller coaster, Apocalypse, a Freefall Tower with a choice of sit-down, stand-up or floorless ride positions, Pirate Adventure, a dark ride loosely based on Disney s Pirates of the Caribbean which takes riders through a dark journey of a pirate s life, The Haunting, a walkthrough attraction that incorporates a haunted swing, Excalibur, a boat ride attraction with medieval scenes, Splash Canyon, a river rapids, G-force, a steel roller coaster with three inversions, Pandemonium, a double inverted swing and Maelstrom, a gyro swing. Stormforce 10 is a water ride that recreates the story of a lifeboat rescue, launched in association with the RNLI. It contains over 100 species from all over the world. The park holds many events throughout the year including fundraising for Birminghams childrens hospital and musical projects including Nach Nach live by R33ce.com. In 2005, Drayton Manor had an official press release. Plans for expansion of the park have been submitted to Lichfield District Council. In February 2009 revised plans for a hotel at Drayton Manor were submitted to Lichfield District Council.
The ride has been voted Britain’s scariest ride . G Force is the second X-Car coaster to be built after the prototype in Skyline Park, in Germany, called Sky Wheel.
The park is split up into five differently themed areas: Drayton Manor is also home to a 15-acre (61,000 m2) zoo. The ride swings up to a maximum height of 22.5 m at an angle of 95 to 120 degrees while simultaneously revolving at 5 rpm. The Bounty is a rocking pirate ship that swings backwards and forwards making you feel weightless in the process.
Planning permission for the hotel was granted in 2007 though the applicants felt that the scheme could benefit from further improvements without increasing the site area required. The 150 bedroom hotel will primarily meet the demand from park visitors as the theme park is attracting families from all over the UK, particularly since the arrival of Thomas Land. Bedroom design will be innovative in allowing double rooms to be enlarged to family rooms.
