Updated Photos of the Gravity Group's New French Wooden Coaster - Timber!

© Walibi Rhone-Alpes

Toward the end of November we took a look at the new family-sized wooden coaster being built by the Gravity Group at France's Walibi Rhone-Alpes.  The ride will be named Timber! and carry a saw mill type of theme, including heavily themed trains.

Since that time the work on the ride has progressed, and although this top photo isn't the most recent it's too great a view of Timber!'s 55 foot first drop to pass up.

© Walibi Rhone-Alpes

This is the photo (the full batch including both older and new shots can be found here) that really stood out to me, being a lover of aerial views of rides.  If you compare this to the concept art that was released, you can see just how spot on it was.  Timber! will feature 1,464 feet of track, a 56 foot tall lift hill and two trains each seating 12 passengers.  The ride's layout includes plenty of airtime hills along with the twisted section you can see on the left of the above photo, which includes several track cross-overs as well.

With the structure appearing to be pretty much complete, now the focus will shift to adding track to the ride.  Once that is done she'll be ready for a test spin!

Here is a video that the park also released a while back showing various concept art for the area surrounding the new coaster, as well as a point of view animation of the ride:

Walibi Rhone-Alpes' New Gravity Group Wooden Coaster Layout, Construction + Train Photos

During last week's IAAPA Expo the full details of Walibi Rhone-Alpes' new wooden roller coaster, named Timber! and designed by The Gravity Group, were released.

© Walibi Rhone-Alpes / The Gravity Group

The new ride will be perfect sized for the entire family to be able to enjoy, which fits with the general offerings of the park.  A Vekoma Boomerang ride is the park's current extreme ride.  Timber's layout can be seen above, wrapping around the park's wild mouse style coaster.  That existing coaster will be heavily themed and part of a new area that will also debut next year with Timber as the star attraction.

© Walibi Rhone-Alpes

This recent construction photo (more available here) shows that plenty of progress has been made on the new coaster.  Timber's track will stretch 1,464 feet, and start with a lift to around 56 feet, and a straight first drop of 55 feet.  The two trains, each seating 12 passengers will be treated to eleven moment of air-time throughout the ride.

© Carol Holmes

As part of last week's IAAPA Expo, Walibi Rhone-Alpes and The Gravity Group joined to show off the amazing theming that will be on the front of the signature Timberliner trains.  The trains would certainly look nice blazing through the forest, removing trees as they go!  The attention to detail here is really amazing.

© Carol Holmes

Here is a wider view of the front car of the trains along with two special passengers from both Walibi Rhone-Alpes and The Gravity Group.

With the company's recent success with smaller family designs like Roar-O-Saurus at Story Land and the Wooden Warrior at Quassy Amusement Park, we have high hopes for this ride!