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Garmendale at the Sate Conference Beaulieu – May 2017

We have just come back from the Themed Entertainment Association SATE Conference that was held at Beaulieu - The home of the National Motor Museum. The annual SATE Conference was...

Garmendale at the Deal Show with the TEA – 27-29 March 2017 – Dubai World Trade Center, UAE

After the success of the visit to the Deal Show in 2016, Garmendale will again be returning for the Deal show in 2017. This time Zoe Shelmerdine, Garmendale's Sales Director will...

The Vampire Ride Evacuation Platform Installation

In our previous blog post we showed the evacuation platform being manufactured in our workshops. This has now been installed and the images below show this platform during this installation process....

The QuadStar Aerial Roundabout Ride – Part Six – The Ride Car in the raw

With the flexibility of the QuadStar and the QuadTrack systems, we are able to fit a ride car that can look completely different from one build to the next so...

The QuadStar Aerial Roundabout Ride – Part Five – The Ride Arms

With the Centre Column being joined to the Ride Stand, which is in turn rooted to the ground, the ride lifts the passengers into the air on its 4.2 metre...

The QuadStar Aerial Roundabout Ride – Part Four – Kiosk and fencing

This could easily be seen as a the less glamorous side of a theme park ride build, but it's still a vital part of the overall operation and ride safety...

Zoe Shelmerdine Joins the Board of The Themed Entertainment Association

The TEA Team in Lapland   We are proud to announce that our Sales Director Zoe Shelmerdine has joined the Europe & Middle East Division Board of the Themed Entertainment Association. The...

Featured in FunWorld and InterPark

At  the launch of our new Dark Ride System - The QuadTrack at EAS in Barcelona, we had lots of press visits (which is always exciting) and the coverage has now...

The QuadStar Aerial Roundabout Ride – Part One – Preview

With all the focus being on the creation and launch of the QuadTrack Tracked Dark Ride system for Santa Park and the subsequent launch at EAS in Barcelona, we have...

Driving to the Arctic Circle – A theme park ride in construction – Part 8

After the Launch of the Santa Park Sleigh Ride at the European Attractions Show in Barcelona, the final hard yards start now with the full ride system being delivered to...

The big unveiling – A theme park ride in construction – Part 7

Today at the European Attractions Show (EAS) in Barcelona, we unveiled the completed sleigh and can now reveal that the project we have been talking about for the last few...

We’re off to EAS Barcelona

All the planning is complete, the cases are packed and the new dark ride is boxed and ready. We are off to the European Attractions Show (EAS) in Barcelona. We...

Access to control boards and more – A theme park ride in construction – Part 6

In the last post, we talked a lot about the little engineering details that we focus on. Well in this weeks instalment, we have a beautiful example of this in...

Deal 2016 review

We are just back from a great trip to Dubai for the Deal Show 2016. It's our first time at the show and we took a small stand, which was very...