Dreamworld's new thrill ride for 2014 revealed

With work underway, the layout of the construction site and foundations indicate that Dreamworld’s new thrill ride for September 2014 will be a Gerstlauer Sky Fly, the first of its kind in Australia.

While Dreamworld have only announced that a thrill ride is coming and that it will be six storeys tall, it's clear that Dreamworld will open a Gerstlauer Sky Fly this September.

The foundations in place at the ride’s construction site is a clear indication that the new ride is a Gerstlauer Sky Fly. Though there are countless flat rides built from a single central column, there is only one current ride on the market that matches the square shape with four sets of two bolts.

Dreamworld’s own in-park and online hype for the attraction has heavily features the phrase “putting a whole new spin happiness”. This on its own doesn’t do much to narrow down our options, but a new spin is certainly the best way to describe an attraction whose riders are given the ability to control their own spin motion with lever-activated wings on each seat.

Recent Facebook posts by the theme park have revealed that the new attraction will be six storeys tall. At 22 metres, the Sky Fly is a match. You can see all the stats and figures for Dreamworld’s new ride in our ride database.

Dreamworld’s Sky Fly will be the fourth of its kind in the world. Since Gerstlauer first developed the attraction as a tamer version of the faster and more intense Sky Roller it has been installed at Legoland Deutschland, Nigloland in France and at the indoor amusement park Nickelodeon Universe at Malls of America in Minnesota, USA. The ride will be the ninth in Dreamworld’s ever-growing Big Thrill Rides collection.

Dreamworld's Big 9 Thrill Rides for 2014:

1. Wipeout (1993)
2. Tower of Terror (1997)
3. Giant Drop (1998)
4. Cyclone (2001)
5. The Claw (2004)
6. Mick Doohan's Motocoaster (2006)
7. Buzzsaw (2011)
8. Pandamonium (2012)
9. Unnamed Sky Fly (2014)

Gerstlauer is a German ride manufacturer that was an off-shoot of the famed Schwarzkopf GmbH, who built the first modern vertical looping roller coaster. In 2013 they made waves in Australia with Adventure World’s critically-acclaimed Abyss roller coaster.

Dreamworld’s Sky Fly is on track for a September 2014 opening.

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