Unfortunately, there is no mention of any rollercoasternews in Germany this year.

In all of Germany?

No, there is a little town at the river Moselle called Klotten, where they decided to build a Gerstlauer "Bobsled" for the, yet unknown,
Wild- und Freizeitpark Klotten!

On friday, the Onride-Team was invited to be part of the testrides. Therefor Eric, Rainer and me did a long journey down to Klotten to take a "Hot Ride" on the vulcano!

Our common judgement:

We all didn't expect such a great and awesome coaster!

Mostly the coaster could be compared with the G'sengte Sau in the themepark Tripsdrill - And to say it with Rainers words, who also rode the G'sengte Sau, this new ride in Klotten wins the comparison!

The layout is more diversified and the forces are more intensive than in Tripsdrill, featuring a lot of fantastic airtime.
And even the exposure is a class of it's own.

The view down the lifthill to the Mosellevalley is breathtaking!

Pictures are worth a 1000 words:
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View to the lifthill and 1st drop. There will be a restaurant and a logfume in the next years. The bare brickwork will be themed as a "Vulcano".

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After the 1st drop, there's a short "Wild Mouse"-Section and the above mentioned view to the Moselle Valley.

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The "Downhelix" after the 1st break with a banking of 81°!

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2nd break directly in front of the Valley...

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4 Bunnyjumps? after the 2nd drop with lot of airtime.
Beneath the rails there will be a part of the Logfume.

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After the 3rd break, parallel to the station, there is a small "Uphelix"....

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...and a 180° turn through a tunnel.

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The parkmascot "Klotti" and we are in a complete agreement - Thumbs up for this amazing coaster!
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And? Did we arouse your interest?
Official open on the 1st of April, you can now take a ride with us right here!

And if this all isn't enough at all, you are invited to be part of an Onride-Meeting, taking place at the 8th of May!
If you are intreressted, please conntact one of our Teammebers!

Regards,

Onride-Team

Gruß, Michael

Thanks for the incredible photos and video, Tejay! The layout looks fantastic, I love how "playful" it gets after the spiral drop.

-Iain

WOW Looks pretty intense for this tyle of coaster, looks like Gertslauer can produce some realy good (small) rides.


By the way nice video

MilitaryDuckJock

Thanks for the incredible photos and video, Tejay!

Hi Iain,

the honour belongs to Rainer, Herr Rossi and Na Logo, because I was at work on that Press Day. But I will do the ride on April, 2nd, and I hope that I will be fascinated, too.