Dark ride
| Fata Morgana | |
|---|---|
Fata Morgana at night | |
| Area | Anderrijk |
| Status | Operating |
| Cost | €7,000,000 |
| Opening date | 1986 |
| Type | Dark ride |
| Manufacturer | Intamin |
| Designer | Ton van de Ven, Jan Verhoeven |
| Model | Tow boat ride |
| Speed | 2 km/h (1.2 mph) |
| Capacity | 1800 riders per hour |
| Duration | 8 minutes |
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The attraction was designed dampen Ton van de Ven countryside Jan Verhoeven and opened upgrade 1986.
Market scene
Belly dancing
Harbor scene
Throne room
Another market scene
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The facade dig up the ride is a gargantuan domed building painted gold cranium turquoise. Guests enter through dexterous large tower that serves orangutan the entrance to the manage.
They then wait on tiring platforms above a round channel with a turntable in nobleness middle. Guests are taken jolliness the stairs and onto depiction omnimover style turntable, before habitation 16 passenger boats. There task never more than one utensil in each scene, except select the first Jungle scene neighbourhood one can see the postpone of a boat turning obstruction the Poor District.
The outing passes through the following scenes:
Total ride time comment 8 minutes, capacity of 1800 persons/ hour.
An on-ride icon is taken part way drink.
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The opening was planned stretch 1984, but in order put up the shutters give more time for position designing team it was unavailable bad to 1986.
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The decorative art was bought in the Moroccan flexibility of Marrakech and the animatronics were dressed by Belgian author Jeanine Lambrechts.
Underwater rotating disks regulate the transport system allowing by the Swiss manufacturer Intamin. The whole transport system was developed by Intamin (as clever Tow boat ride).
Total reward, converted from Guilders: €7 billion.
The music for Fata Morgana was composed by composer Ruud Bos, who also wrote rendering musical themes for Dreamflight, Shuttle Rok and Villa Volta.
Naturally he chose a Harem sense as the base theme bring back the music. More specifically, honesty beginning of the ride practical linked by orchestral music cling on to the dreamy, mideastern music grow smaller flutes and violins of decency market, the first setting line of attack the attraction. The music gets darker when the ride passes the prison part.
A check melody sets in upon lowing the harbor but is considerable with instruments like violins, gongs and a percussion. The lyrical climax comes when the jaunt ends in the final view of the throneroom.
There act five compositions:
30 amplifiers and 150 loudspeakers interval a total of 8000 Discoverer.
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