When Tivoli Gardens amusement park opens its doors for the season on Thursday, it will be debuting three new rides for its guests.
The park has been extended by 600sqm to make room for what Tivoli calls ‘Det Muntre Hjørne’ (The Cheerful Corner), which is devoted to the famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1545-1601).
In his time, Brahe drew up precise records of more than 1,000 stars, including the constellation Aquila, which is the name given to one of the three new rides. The biggest of the three new additions, the Aquila is definitely for daredevils. At an advance tour of the new attractions, The Copenhagen Post climbed into the Aquila to see if it would deliver its promised thrills.
The ride seats four people together in a large eagle and provides centrifugal forces of up to 4G, although to this writer, it didn't feel like it was going very fast. What I did feel was when the eagles were turned upside down and spun around. The aim of the ride is to make the guests feel giddy, and in that measured it definitely delivered. Riders shouldn't be surprised if they feel their stomachs turning along with their heads after stumbling off of the eagle’s back. All in all, it is a fun ride but it is definitely not for sissies. A word of advice: do NOT eat before getting on this ride.
After the journey, though, you can enjoy an ice cream in the new shop Drunken Moose, which has opened just next to the Aquila. Here they offer a delicious variety of ice cream flavours from liquorice to vanilla with mango syrup along with a paradise of sprinkles.
The two other rides are a bit more child-friendly and are called ‘Drop Tower’ and ‘Den Lille Drage’ (the little dragon).
The last time Tivoli got a new ride was in 2009, when the historic amusement park added ‘Vertigo’ to give people a head spinning experience, so Tivoli is very pleased with its new offerings.
“We are very proud of the corner and I think it looks really good,” Tivoli’s publicity manager, Torben Plank, said. Plank also revealed that in 2014, guests can look forward to a refurbishing of the beloved old roller coaster, Rutschebanen, in honour of the ride's 100th anniversary.
