BoldMove and E&S Rides launch Spinfinity Coaster - genuine cross-generational experience
Combining the best of dark rides and coasters into a unique family attraction
Brussels, 6th June 2024 - BoldMove Nation is excited to announce its debut in the exciting world of family coasters. The new Spinfinity Coaster offers a cross-generational experience with a firm positioning between kiddy and scary thrill coasters. It emerges as a natural transition from BoldMove's dark ride expertise, marked by high-quality theming and storytelling in 360 degree universes.
Spinfinity Coaster is the result of a close collaboration between the creative ride experts of BoldMove and the technical engineers of E&S Rides. The teams have all aspects of the process in hand, carefully balancing track layout, movements, media and theming to obtain the right level of sophistication.
Best of both worlds - immersivity and excitement
Spinfinity Coaster unites the best of two worlds: the immersive experiences of a themed dark ride with the thrilling movements of a coaster. BoldMove 's CEO & Captain of Creative Minds Benoit Cornet pioneered interactive theatres and media dark rides for 25 years, recently topped by the multiple awarded Champi'Folies interactive family dark ride in Le PAL, France. "We like to spice up the classical attraction formulas by using a bold recipe that mixes proven ingredients in a special way together, adding a creative topping to finish it off. This way we give our customers a very unique and new flavour without taking any risks. With the Spinfinity Coaster we apply multi-layered dark ride theming and storytelling principles into a new breed of attractions."
Based on BoldMove's creative ride concepts, the E&S team handles all technical and engineering aspects of Spinfinity Coaster. The seasoned team brings over 10 years of ride engineering expertise, applied in projects for Compagnie des Alpes, Looping Group, and a Paris-based park with a mouse. They work with the finest European manufacturers, guaranteeing the highest attention to detail and safety requirements. The E&S creative engineering approach was recently nominated for product innovation.
The compact and dense design of the Spinfinity Coaster allows for an easy integration in existing park areas or empty buildings. Its efficiently designed structure does not require heavy infrastructural works and enables a fast and smooth construction. Operation and maintenance are restricted to an absolute minimum to avoid downtime and entertain over 500 visitors per hour during high season. As a family friendly attraction, vehicles will easily fill up with family members or friends teaming up.
Themed to the teeth - 360 degree experience
Spinfinity Coaster features smartly themed vehicles where riders are facing each other and thus fully share experiences, in the moment and with each other. They can enjoy a unique mix of coaster thrill effects with boomerang and shuttle movements, alongside an indoor themed media experience with multiple scenarios each time the train passes by. This encourages repeatability as each ride experience will be different and entails surprising elements. The Spinfinity Coaster experience starts with an amazingly themed outdoor area and loading station, that makes waiting worthwhile and builds up the expectations.
Thrilled to the bone - first onboard hologram
Visitors embarking the Spinfinity Coaster will get surprised and thrilled throughout the entire ride. They will see, feel and experience sensations triggered by special twists, spins and turns, as well as stunning media projections. Even the vehicles come to live with special hologram projections, whilst special effects are fully aligned with the thrill experience from start till end. Extensive theming starts at the loading station and continues throughout the ride so the visitors get fully immersed into the story up to the very end. To fit each venue and visitor preferences, a bespoke theme can be developed by BoldMove's creative team for outdoor, vehicle and indoor media content. The ride is ideally suited to accommodate a preshow and shop with merchandising.
Sébastien Challard, co-Founder of E&S Rides, comments: “Combining our engineering skills with BoldMove’s creativity resulted very naturally in an unequalled family coaster with surprising twists and turns. We are very proud of the result, it’s a real pleasure to share our passion and reinforce each other."
"We are truly excited with this next logical step in our roadmap to creating happy worlds. It marks another important milestone and opens tremendous opportunities for regional parks to offer their visitors unique ride experiences. We look forward to an exciting and successful venture with our partner E&S Rides !" concludes Benoit Cornet.
About BoldMove Nation
Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, BoldMove is built on the dark ride legacy of industry visionary Benoit Cornet. He pioneered the first interactive theatres and built award winning dark rides in Phantasialand, Walibi Belgium, Legoland and many parks worldwide. This culminated in the innovative media dark ride concept Smash & Reload with proprietary TooMush IP. A successful first installation occurred in the French park Le PAL with Champi’Folies, built into a previous 4D cinema. The attraction received multiple European industry awards and IAAPA Brass Ring for best new product in Orlando.
The team develops fresh approaches for cross-generational experiences by creating 360 degree happy worlds. Alongside a range of innovative dark ride concepts and modules, BoldMove's offer includes the new Spinfinity Coaster, which combines the best of dark ride and coaster worlds, Raptor Expedition AR Walkthrough and WaterSlider VR.
More on www.boldmove-nation.com
About E&S Rides
E&S Rides is a French engineering company offering rides and services for the amusement industry. Based in Fontainebleau, the team provides engineering services and consulting. E&S Rides ensures comprehensive quality monitoring from design to manufacturing & commissioning. All of this is carried out in compliance with the EN 13814 standard to provide a complete, safe and reliable solution. E&S Rides is primarily driven by its passion for the leisure industry, dedicated to serving clients like Compagnie des Alpes (Walibi Belgium), Looping Group and regional parks across Europe. The E&S team recently received nominations for their innovative Magnetic Braking system that was installed during a coaster refurblishment in Kingoland, France.
The recent collaboration with BoldMove resulted in the new Spinfinity Coaster, which E&S engineers entirely designed from engineering and construction perspective.
More on www.es-rides.com