- Mission Ridge’s replacement of the Liberator Express with a bubble chair from Europe is pushed back to 2020.
- Dagmar in Ontario plans to replace its Rendezvous triple with a quad as soon as next summer.
- The scheduled foreclosure auction of Granite Gorge is cancelled.
- Ghost Town in the Sky, a shuttered chairlift-accessed amusement park in North Carolina, goes back up for sale.
- The Indy Pass now includes more North American resorts than both the Ikon and Epic passes.
- Boyne Resorts announces a $60 million private debt offering with proceeds to be used for organic growth including “high-impact initiatives” over the next two to three years.
- Alpine Media raises $2 million more to install digital screens on more chairlifts.
- Mont Orignal plans a second lift as backup for the world’s first detachable six pack.
- A Doppelmayr gondola which was delivered to Parral, Mexico in 2016 but never installed may finally get put together.
- Despite rumors to the contrary, Disney says there is no Skyliner opening date yet.
- The State of California concludes 25-40 mph winds likely caused a grip and communications line to become entangled on the Bayside Skyride at SeaWorld in February.
- The United States Department of Justice argues the Hermitage Club’s reorganization plan is being illegally marketed to creditors and members.
- Millennium Partners may have abandoned its Boston Seaport Gondola idea.
- A chairlift at the Ohio State Fair will sport all new carriers this year due to concerns about the condition of the originals.
- Leitner’s fourth 3S system goes into operation in Voss, Norway.
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The dagmar announcement is quite interesting. I am wondering who will build the new Rendezvous quad.
I am assuming either it will be an LPOA, a Skytrac, or a used BM Lifts quad.
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I know I’m late to the party here, but I still cannot understand why they would replace the Liberator Express (or any lift) with a 32 year old DS grip lift.
There’s a very good reason these lifts are mostly being replaced in Europe. They have bad economics compared with newer lifts.
Actively deciding to purchase one does not make sense to me – even if the purchase cost was very little. Within a few years this will surely work out to be more expensive than purchasing a newer lift.
And if you look at the initial costs, they have to pay for transportation from Austria, and installation. Installation is a similar cost regardless of the lift’s age.
Chairs and bubbles that old will be in poor condition – so much so you would normally replace and scrap them (they’re obviously not doing that).
Am I missing something?
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Maybe it’s getting a complete overhaul prior to shipping?
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A complete overhaul how exactly? Overhauling a lift like this would basically mean replacing parts, which would be expensive, in which case what’s the point in buying this lift in the first place? As far as I know they are replacing the electronics, and that is it.
And it would do little to change the maintenance-intensive requirements of such a device.
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More towers going up at Steamboat for the new Gondola. Looking good.
https://www.steamboat.com/the-mountain/live-cams/christie-cam
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