Small News From The Theme Park Industry

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T-Express is no more.

As of April 27th, the fourth (and last) Intamin pre-fab will be renamed Monimo RUSH, as part of a new sponsorship with Samsung’s monimo app.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/comments/1sm7rsl/t_express_is_changing_its_name_to_monimo_rush

 

[Boodangy]

Gold Reef City’s Anaconda has received fresh new trains as part of a 24 million rand (~$1.45m) investment into the unique inverted coaster.

Do we know who made these?

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Do we know who made these?

Pretty sure it was an in-house job. Budget was minuscule and tbh it’s not even clear whether these are completely new trains or just heavily refurbished.

 

[Nicky Borrill]

Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but looks like James Sinclair, entrepreneur and social media business influencer, has purchased The Big Sheep in Devon. coaster and all.

Has some decent ideas to grow the business too.

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Pretty sure it was an in-house job. Budget was minuscule and tbh it’s not even clear whether these are completely new trains or just heavily refurbished.

I’m fairly confident they’re made by Sunkid. You can barely make out their logo on the technical plaque on the train chassis, and an identical-looking train (maybe even the same one) was featured in a Blooloop article about their German subsidiary from last year:

Sunkid Heege engineers the future of coaster replacement trains

Sunkid Heege’s CEO, Michael Kalsch, shares how the new SCT1201 vehicle brings operators lower weight, lower costs, and reduced maintenance

blooloop.com