Alpen Blitz (Rotunda Amusement Park)

Alpen Blitz

Rotunda Amusement Park
Location	Folkestone, Kent, England, UK
Status	Defunct
Operated	1987 to 1987 or later

Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach
Location	Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
Operated	1984 to 1986

Emmo van der Veen (Netherlands)
Location	Travelling, Netherlands

Statistics

Manufacturer

Schwarzkopf

Product

Alpenblitz II

Designer / calculations

Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH

Type

Steel

Riders per train

40

Hourly capacity

1200

Propulsion

Continually Powered

Area

40.5 metres × 24.5 metres

Height

5 metres

Length

210 metres

Inversions

0

Alpen Blitz was a sit-down powered roller coaster built by German manufacturer Schwarzkopf that was previously located at Rotunda Amusement Park in Folkestone, Kent, England, UK.

Train

Single train with 10 cars. In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows, for a total of 40 riders per train.

Former

Coasters

Alpen Blitz Cyclone High Hazel Mini Mine Coaster Magic Mouse Mini Dragon Runaway Coaster Super Figure Eight

Attractions

Bayern Rutsch'n Beach Polyp Bounty Castle Dracula Century 2000 Formula 1 Dodgems Gallopers Helter Skelter Jets Laser Dome Log Flume Paratrooper Speedway Trabant Tri-Star Waltzer

(1971–1974)

(1978–1979)

(1980–1992)

(1992–2003)

Present

Coasters

Big Apple Family Star Roller Coaster Whirlwind

Former

Coasters

Alpen Blitz Disney Rollercoaster Looping Star Runaway Train Scenic Railway Toboggan

Attractions

Cake Walk Calyspo Caterpillar Condor Dive Bomber Dodgems

(unknown)

Dodgems

(1972–1974)

Dodgems

(1981)

Drag Cars Dream Dancer Drive-In Dodgems Evolution Flipper Formula One Freefall Ghost Train Giant Wheel

(2017)

Giant Wheel

(2016)

Golden Gallopers It's Bad Jetfire Jets Lightning Swirl Log Flume Love Train Mat Moonrocket Orbiter Rock 'n' Roll Waltzer Rock-O-Plane Satellite Scream Machine Shake-It Sizzler Ski Jump Sky Diver Sky Flyer Sky Wheels Snake Slides Space Race Space Shuttle NASA Super Trooper Supreme Waltzer Tornado Twister Typhoon UFO Ultimate Waltzer Viking Waltzer

(1963–1971)

Waltzer

(1996–1997)

Waltzer

(unknown)

Water Chute XLR8