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| Manufacturer | Bolliger & Mabillard | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Product | Dive Coaster | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Type | Steel - Floorless - Diving | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Riders per train | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hourly capacity | 1000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Propulsion | Chain lift hill | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 30 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Drop | 37.5 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed | 90 km/h | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 501 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Inversions | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2:10 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Baron 1898 is a steel floorless diving roller coaster located at Efteling in Kaatsheuvel, North Brabant, Netherlands. Opened on 1 July 2015, it is a Dive Coaster installation from Bolliger & Mabillard.
History
It was confirmed in a newspaper interview with park CEO Fons Jurgens that Efteling would open a new Bolliger & Mabillard Dive Coaster in 2015. On 15 October 2014, Efteling announced that the name would be Baron 1898.
On June 30, 2015, Baron 1898 opened to preview ticket holders and the press. The following day, the roller coaster opened to the public.[1]
Design
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Baron 1898 has a single-rider queue. At the front of the queue, riders are given a ticket that specifies the row in which they will sit. A pre-show is then played before boarding.
Trains
3 trains with 3 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 6 across in a single row, for a total of 18 riders per train.
Location
The coaster is located in the "Ruigrijk" (roughly translating to "Thrillrealm") area of the park.
Theme
Baron 1898 is themed to a nineteenth-century gold mine. The story of the ride tells about Baron Gustave Hooghmoed, who struck gold in a cave, and decided to build his mine there. Nobody wanted to go down into the mine however, because it is haunted by "Witte Wieven" (a ghost-like creature in Dutch folk-lore). The Baron now "hires" guests to dig the gold up for him, using the elevator to get down into the mines (a broken elevator with a test seat is located next to the queue). The Witte Wieven tries to sabotage the elevator by snapping the cable, making the guests plummet into the mines. (so, canonically, the guests basically die)
Images
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The coaster's concept art -
The drop of the coaster -
View of the loading station -
The coaster's immelman -
The coaster's zero-g-roll -
The coaster's bunny hill
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References
- ↑ "New Efteling dive coaster Baron 1898 opens to the public". Efteling. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
External links
- Baron 1898 on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
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