Sunkid Promotes Summer World

The Sunkid Summer World has inspired people around the world for years. It doesn’t matter whether a single piece or a comprehensive, customised playing world is set up: there are no limits to the wishes and ideas of customers ...

A Bike Park for All Age Groups

The right choice of partners, suppliers, and products helps create an optimised and diverse summer offering. The St. Corona family arena has developed its bike activity offering further in the last few years with the help of Allegra Tourismus & Trails AG, specialising in the planning of bike parks, and Sunkid with the tried and tested implementation of various attractions.

The Wexl Trails in the Erlebnisarena St. Corona (AT) are a project where all factors have come together perfectly. Sunkid has already supported the Erlebnisarena facility in finding ideas for summer and winter use alike for many years, delivering various products that are in operation as learning aids as well as adding a fun factor year-round.

There have been high investments in developing the summer offering, turning two small children’s trails and a Moving Carpet into a popular year-round destination for families, and in particular for bikers.

“When we started developing the Wexl Trails in St. Corona, we had a bag full of ideas. Allegra’s advice has helped us greatly in sorting these ideas into a clear system and in applying priorities with the right impulses,” says Karl Morgenbesser, managing director of the Erlebnisarena St. Corona/Wexltrails.

Sunkid’s Moving Carpet in the children’s skiing land has seen use for a few winters already. Now it also serves as a climbing aid in the mini bike park in summer. A second Moving Carpet has been added since, giving the bikers a choice of which one to ride.

The mini bike park is the ideal addition to the trails, where parents who want to introduce their children to trail biking don’t need to fear any great risks. After all, these routes are less steep than those in the trail park, and particularly good for beginners (aged 3 and up) and slightly advanced children. Of course, they are also open to teens and adults aiming to collect their first trail experience on their mountain bikes.

Both the children’s skiing land and the mini bike park have found the Moving Carpet to be an ideal climbing aid.

Rides on the bike park trails can be made even more exciting and diverse for children by adding some Sunny Stuff figures. For example, the entrance can be decorated with customised toucans or a large entrance arch. Trails may be lined with Sunny Stuff figures that stimulate playful learning in the children while adding some extra fun.

Toucans serve as great orientation aids for the finish area of the bike park, where parents are usually cheering for their children or taking a break together with them. Sunkid’s Wood’n’Fun products find use here as well, e.g. in the form of benches, various deck chairs, and pieces of playing equipment that are great for a restorative break before setting out with renewed energy again.

Sunkid is already looking forward to continued successful cooperation with renowned partners in order to optimally meet the respective customer wishes.

A Big Bang in Podersdorf am See

It’s finally been time this month for the family experience world in the Podersdorfer Strandbad, planned and implemented by Sunkid’s partner Almholz, to open the gates to its 18,000 m² facility.

As reported in September 2020 already, Styrian company Almholz joined forces with the Podersdorf tourism association and the municipality to launch a gigantic and unique experience world.

The PODOplay experience world, designed to suit the entire family, opened its gates on 22 May 20221, to the joy of those in charge of it, cordially welcoming its many guests.

“This experience world will be unique in Austria with its size, breathtaking backdrop, and unmistakable equipment. It surely is one of the most attractive projects we have tackled in our company’s long history,” Wolfgang Wild, managing director at Almholz, rejoices.

It is hardly surprising that the two largest attractions – the pair of blue-and-white spoonbills and the 7-metres-tall water lily with its blue slide – were targeted first by children playing and climbing on them. “Every large installation has been planned and implemented for Podersdorf specifically. They are unique to this one facility,” Michaela Wohlfart, Podersdorf’s mayor, tells us enthusiastically.

While the children play to their hearts’ content in the wooden structures, adults can cross the longest consecutive motor skills climbing route to be found in Austria. Guests, expected mostly from Styria and the Burgenland region, can then recover their breath on the deck chairs and seats in the Strandbad, resting and enjoying a snack to fuel up again.

In addition to serving as playing equipment, the wooden structures also form impressive and unmistakable photo motives. The facility planners have considered the backdrop as well. The motor skills route, for example, is aligned for an uninterrupted view of the famous Podersdorf lighthouse.

The total costs for the entire facility amount to two million euros. Mayor Michaela Wohlfart and the tourism association expect that this great investment will bring more than an additional 100,000 visitors to Podersdorf from March to November, while also animating day guests to spend the night in town to enjoy the entire experience world in full. Podersdorf’s mayor is convinced that “In difficult times like this year’s, the municipality is called upon more than ever to create framework conditions and infrastructure for a good placement for the future!”.

Further projects are planned already to keep the “fresh wind”, as this one’s motto was, blowing. The outdoor sports offer is to be developed even further.

Sunrider

Get on and start riding by using your own muscles: Physical activity is the key and fun is guaranteed.

A wild mustang to gallop, a hopping rabbit or even a caterpillar for a fun ride: there are practically no limits to the individual theming of this attraction. Operation is child's play, intuitive and, above all, extremely entertaining. Because by pulling and pushing the hand levers, the vehicle moves forwards or backwards on the rails - depending on the impulse given to the vehicle by the rider.

Fun for yourself or in competition

The principle corresponds to a rail cart drive and therefore requires physical activity and some coordination. Whether you enjoy the fantastic ride on your own or compete against the parallel tracks is up to you.

Attractive and purely mechanic

The Sunrider is also a great gain for the park operator. The approximately 20m long and straight tracks are set up parallel - i.e. at least two, but of course more are also possible - on an even terrain. Since no power connection is required and the attraction is designed according to the EN 1176 standard for public playgrounds, it can be operated inexpensively and without supervision by the park operator. Battery-powered coin operation is optionally available, as are customer-specific themes and individual rail lengths.

The Sunrider is already in operation with a caterpillar theme at Erlebnispark Steinau (DE) and has been generating excitement among guests since its opening. Two more projects are planned for summer 2021 in Germany and Denmark.

Sunrider, consisting of

2 rail sections including supports for dowelling
rail vehicles on wheels with lever drive and one seat; 1 vehicle per rail section
standard theming of the vehicles
single colour paint (choice of colours on request)
oprional: battery coin operation, customised vehicles, modified rail length

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