Volume 1, No. 5. April 6, 2001
It’s a bobsled!
Parc Asterix in Plailly, France, announces the arrival of La Trace du Hourra, March 31, 2001 (850 meters long, 31 meters high, 55 kmh, six trains carrying 14 people in seven cars). Delivered by Mack.
Foul weather dampened attendance to only about 2,000 people on Opening Day, but the majority of those headed straight for the cartoon-themed park’s newest "discovery." "It was funny to see everybody running right away to La Trace," said Nathalie Amelon, assistant public relations manager. Attendance quadrupled in the more summery weather of Sunday, she said, and the new ride continued as the most popular draw.
Translated into English as "The Hourra Route," the ride is themed as a newly discovered prehistoric grotto with cave drawings showing a tribe’s initiation ritual of riding down a crazy slide while shouting "hourra." Mack’s bobsled technology provides the means for the modern rite of passage, and the shouting transcends time.
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