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| Manufacturer | Intamin | ||||||||
| Product | Wooden Coaster (Prefabricated Track) | ||||||||
| Builder | Ingenieur-Holzbau Cordes | ||||||||
| Designer / calculations | Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH | ||||||||
| Type | Wooden | ||||||||
| Riders per train | 30 | ||||||||
| Hourly capacity | 1149 | ||||||||
| Propulsion | Chain lift hill | ||||||||
| Height | 36 metres | ||||||||
| Drop | 30 metres | ||||||||
| Top speed | 90 km/h | ||||||||
| Length | 1070 metres | ||||||||
| Inversions | 0 | ||||||||
| Drop angle | 70° | ||||||||
| Duration | 2:08 | ||||||||
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Balder is a prefabricated wooden roller coaster at Liseberg in Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden. A major international poll voted it the best wooden coaster in 2003 and 2005, mainly because of the high amount of airtime throughout the ride.
History
The addition of Balder was announced in late 2001.[1]
Balder was closed for most of 2022 to allow it to undergo a refurbishment.[2] It reopened in October 2022.[3]
Theme
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The ride is themed around the Scandinavian god of justice of the same name. Balder is the son of the gods Frigg and Odin. He could only be killed by a mistletoe arrow shot by his brother, the blind archer Hoder.
Design
Unlike "traditional" wooden roller coasters, Balder was prefabricated in a factory. Instead of trackers cutting, shaping and laying down the track, each piece of track was cut by using a laser. This means it was manufactured to a higher degree of precision than can be achieved by hand. The track snaps together easily and is made out of layers of wood that are tightly bonded together instead of nailed together by hand like a traditional wooden roller coaster. This makes the ride much smoother and speeds up construction (thus costing less as less man-hours are needed to construct the ride.
Trains
2 trains with 5 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows, for a total of 30 riders per train.
References
- ↑ Liseberg Plans Woodie (Wayback Archive)
- ↑ "Houten achtbaan Balder blijft maanden gesloten voor renovatie in Liseberg". https://themeparkfreaks.eu/2022/02/houten-achtbaan-balder-blijft-maanden-gesloten-voor-renovatie-in-liseberg/.
- ↑ "Zweeds pretpark viert feest: houten achtbaan weer open na renovatie". Looopings. 2022-10-05. https://www.looopings.nl/weblog/20900/Zweeds-pretpark-viert-feest-houten-achtbaan-weer-open-na-renovatie.html. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
External links
- Balder on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
| Steepest wooden roller coaster April 2003 - June 2006 | ||
| Preceded by Classic Coaster |
Steepest wooden roller coaster April 2003 - June 2006 |
Succeeded by El Toro |
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