Jardin D'Acclimatation | Unknown | €10m Gerstlauer family coaster | 2025

[JoshC.]

EDIT: Moved this post across to the topic @cookie posted as it was some good foreshadowing. Hixee

Don't think it's worth its own thread just yet, but Jardin d'Acclimatation will be replacing their oldest coaster sometime over the next few years:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid035jX1JeJp24xzVLxv8MjeDk7crUu6zEnJgBR7apr1sr3ob4kirUdWvv3Zoa4sbfcMl&id=100057343004007

The cred, Dragon Chinois, is pretty rubbish (and that's coming from a Soquet fanboy). It doesn't take up too much room from what I remember, but there's space around the area. Don't expect anything big, but could end up being something pretty neat.

 

[cookie]

Announced on the French TV program "66 Minutes", the small park Jardin D'Acclimatation located in central Paris will be adding a new coaster worth €10m in total investment in 2024. The coaster is set to replace the old Soquet coaster "Dragon Chinois" that's been operating at the park since 1987, but it's unknown if that'll close this year or the next. Concept art of the new coaster's station shows it'll keep the Asiatic theme, and the ride's throughput is projected to be about 600 guests per hour. No other details are known at this time.

Source:

Jardin d’Acclimatation investiert 10 Millionen Euro in neue Achterbahn bis 2024 und ersetzt Klassiker

Der französische Freizeitpark Jardin d'Acclimatation hat den Bau einer neuen Achterbahn bis zur Saison 2024 angekündigt. Ein Achterbahn-Klassiker soll für den Neubau weichen.<img src="https://vg07.met.vgwort.de/na/bfff1bb83c9c4f7da7bb74e75b6772bf" width="1" height="1" alt="">

www.parkerlebnis.de

 

[Hixee]

Moved across Josh's post from the Small News thread.

What's our guess? Something powered? Junior Vekoma?

 

[Knortie307]

something powerd i guess, like eftelings mack maybe

 

[peep]

Was that concept art made in RCT3? Looks like something I'd make.

Excited to see what they have planned though, their additions in recent years have been great.

 

[cookie]

So apparently a major update for this flew completely under the radar. It'll be a Gerstlauer family coaster—tentatively called "Dragon 2"—and it will include at least one section where the train travels backwards.

The total cost appears to have been lowered to €8.5 million. But for reference, Wakala at Bellewaerde only cost €7.5 million to build, so it could still be a sizable coaster for the park.

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[cookie]

Dragon 2 appears to have been delayed. The coaster is featured on the park's map for the 2024 season (the green triangle on the western end of the park), but only listed as "coming soon", and the temporary Fils du Dragon ("Son of the Dragon") Wacky Worm will remain in the park for the calendar year.

 

[cookie]

A lot of digging has happened on the site and what looks like footers have appeared, but don’t think any track or supports have arrived yet. For a park like Jardin d’acclimatation it’s a pretty huge project, though. Taken by me an hour ago:

 

[Hixee]

Moved to Construction.

 

[cookie]

The 2025 coaster now has a March completion date, according to signs posted upfront. Work has begun on the station building and the budget for the whole project has apparently ballooned to €12m.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1807391596511363566

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Lots of flat red track and supports squatting at Headquarters Gerstlauer, fairly certain it's for this;

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Yea station looks good. Just need to receive and build the coaster now;

https://www.facebook.com/themeparkmagic1/posts/987538836500874

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Coaster is received and being constructed;


Source

Park put together a nice reel to boot;

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838271974734274681

 

[cookie]

The park has released finalized details on the new coaster, confirming a top speed of 50 km/h, a length of 350 meters, a top height of 12 meters, and two trains carrying 16 passengers each. Opening is set for Spring 2025.

 

[NemesisRider]

Does anyone else think 350m seems rather short? Wakala at Bellewaerde has a nearly identical top speed, but claims to be around 660m long (nearly 90% longer). Wakala is a really solid little coaster, so disappointing to hear this might not be as substantial.

 

[noojas]

Does anyone else think 350m seems rather short? Wakala at Bellewaerde has a nearly identical top speed, but claims to be around 660m long (nearly 90% longer). Wakala is a really solid little coaster, so disappointing to hear this might not be as substantial.

This is probably going to be similiar in concept to something like Firlefranz, where you experience most of the track more than once in one cycle. Firlefranz is only 240m long but 550m of track are experienced. The coaster this is replacing was only 200m long so they probably didn't have a lot of space to work with.

 

[oriolat2]

This is probably going to be similiar in concept to something like Firlefranz, where you experience most of the track more than once in one cycle. Firlefranz is only 240m long but 550m of track are experienced. The coaster this is replacing was only 200m long so they probably didn't have a lot of space to work with.

Yeah, bir Firlefranz can do this because they just run 1 train. This will be interesting, since it will be able to run two.

Some kind of switch track trickery is sure to be used here, but I fail to see how. I love these Gerstlauers semit-shuttle coasters with multiple trains, like Mystic or Wakala.

 

[JoshC.]

Yeah, the space they had to work with was very small.

I'm excited to see exactly what the layout will look like, and then figuring out what they're doing exactly.

Thing is, even if it doesn't go round more than once, it's a massive upgrade on Dragon Chinois, which was more lift hill than anything else.

 

[Niles]

A member on Coasterfriends went to the site and did a great update: Source

For one thing the layout is completed and it's a funky one.


Here are some of the photos, it does look like a fab addition.




The turntable does make this very interesting.