TRIPSDRILL
Germany
2008 - Mammut - (4/30/08) More pictures of Tripsdrill’s new Mammut can be seen at Freizeitpark-Welt.de.
(4/28/08) Tripsdrill has opened Mammut and you can find a review at Lifthill.net.
(4/10/08) As you can see in this video, testing of Tripsdrill’s new Mammut is under way and the ride is currently looking to open around April 28th or 29th if possible.
(10/11/07) We’ve got a few new details about Mammut at Tripsdrill today from Lifthill.net. While Stengle did the design and the trains will come from Gerstlauer, the Germany company Ing.-Holzbau Cordes GmbH & Co. KG are the ones who will construct the actual coaster structure and track. This same group was also involved with the construction of Colossos (Heide-Park), Balder (Lisberg) and El Toro (Six Flags Great Adventure)… all three of Intamin’s existing pre-fabricated track coasters. As you can see from the trend of keeping this ride entirely “Made in Germany” all of the wood for the coaster will also come from within the country.
(10/9/07) Screamscape sources have confirmed to us that Tripsdrill will be building a new wooden coaster for 2008 called Mammut, in reference to both the mighty Redwood Tree (which is called Mammutbaum in German) as well as the prehistoric Mammoth. The big surprise here though is that this will be a Gerstlauer wooden coaster, designing both the ride as well as providing the trains. The new wooden coaster will be the largest single investment in the park’s history as they clear the site for it between Rauhe Klinge castle and the Washtub Raft Ride. The coaster will be themed like a sawmill, where the trains will be designed to look like huge saws shooting through a lumber mill, passing by other large circular saws, though ravines and tunnels. The coaster will stand 30 meters tall (98.5 feet) and be 860 meters long (2,821.5 feet), and will include some “dark ride” sections. Credit for the structural calculations for the coaster goes to the renounced Werner Stengle.
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