A.Chandra

1. Rainbow's End
New Zealand's No.1 theme park

2. Introduction
• Rainbows End is the largest theme
park in Auckland, New Zealand. It
opened in 1982 and is still
remaining and has about 20 rides.
There two areas in the park. One for
older ones and one for younger kids.

3. History of rides
1982- Park opens with 5 attractions which were the Bumper Boats, Mini Golf, Can Am Cars, Mirage Cars and video
games.
1983- Cinema 180, Pirate Ship, Maze and the indoor play area open.
1984- Log Flume and Dodgems open
1985- Kiddies Cars and Space Shuttle Zim Zam Zoo Playground open
1986- Coca-Cola Corkscrew Coaster opens
1992- Motion Master opens
1993- Family Karts replace the Mirage Cars
1995- Gold Rush opens
1996- Car wash Convoy opens
1997- Cadbury Land Castle open with Dragons Flight rollercoaster and Carousel
1998- Log Flume set on fire by arsonists in June. The ride got reconstructed and rethemed before reopening as the
Enchanted Forrest Log Flume
2001- Fear Fall opens
2004- Power Surge and Jumpin Star open
2009- Invader opens
2012- The Cadbury Land Castle got renamed to Castle land and is closed down for construction at the moment and
is adding three new rides and a new area to it. Dragons Flight got removed from Castle Land.

4. Current Rides

5. The Invader
The ride that gets the breakfast out of you
• This ride was opened in 2009 and is
currently Rainbows End's newest ride.
This ride is rated in the top three
attractions at overseas theme parks.
Passengers sit on a huge disk that
faces over the edge. You will be
spinned and transported along the 80
metre track. The ride can reach up to
15 meters high. Passengers will
experience the G-force while on this
ride but you must be at least 120 cm
tall to go on this thrilling ride.

7. Power Serge
• This ride opened in 2004 and is still
a popular attraction. It's just like a
Ferris wheel but when your seated
you first start in a star formation
with your feet touching the ground.
While the ride takes off you get
hoisted 18 meters up in the air but it
doesn't just do that, the seats move
aggressively making the different
ride components spin both on
horizontal and vertical axes.
Passengers need to be 130 cm or
taller to go on this ride.

9. Corkscrew Coaster
• This Corkscrew Coaster coaster
ride opened in April 18th 1986.
It's New Zealand's only corkscrew
roller coaster that takes you up
more than 90 feet in the air, then
it sends you shooting down
towards the ground into a
complete loop, round a corner at a
really sharp speed and then into a
double corkscrew.

11. Log flume
• The log flume was opened in
1984. This ride take you inside a
little waterfall that leads you into a
cave with all sort of things. This
ride has two minor drops and one
huge one at the end. This ride
have been reconstructed as
some goons had set it on fire.

13. Goldrush
• The Goldrush opened in
1995. It's an exciting
rollercoaster-like ride through
an actual abandoned
goldmine. This ride has
falling beams, cave-ins,
explosions and out-of-control
mine karts (so awesome)

15. Motion Master
• The motion master opened in
1992. It has two rows of 12
seated riders watching a
large screen with 3D
glasses. The chairs are
controlled and move in time
to the action that's in the
movie. The Motion Master
plays 70mm movies
specially imported from
North America with six-track
DTS stereo sound.

16. Fearfall
• This ride was opened in
2001 on 20th October. It
takes you eighteen stories
high and takes two cars with
each containing four seats. It
takes you up, pauses for a
few seconds and at any
times drops you down at
speeds of 80km/h. Then you
stops you falling by a
patented magnetic braking
system that brings you
gently to the ground.

18. Bumper boats
• The bumper boats were one of
first rides that were there when
Rainbow's End first opened.
There are about 15 bumper boats
in a variety of colours. to choose
from. Passengers get 5 minutes to
ride the boat during that time can
get revenge on people, bump
them and get them wet. The pool
that the boats are used in
contains 750,000 litres of water.

20. Scorpion/Family Karts
• These two kinds of karts were made
for two different kind of levels one is
older kids which is more aggressive
like and one is for the younger kids.
• The Scorpion Karts are single seater
racing karts that are fun for older
kids and it gives taste of an actual
go-kart race.
• The Family Karts are a two seater
karts that gives an opportunity for
younger kids to drive a kart with the
help of their parent or guardian.

22. Dodgems
• The undercover
Dodgems are one of
the popular attractions
at rainbows end and a
ride where you can
show off your driving
skills and also bump
people.

24. Pirate Ship
• The pirate ship ride was
opened in 1983. To get the
best ride sit at the front or
back and put raise your
hands up as it moves
back and fourth up in the
air.

26. ⭕
Cinema 180
A 12 minute movie is
watched by visitors standing
inside a dome in front a a
screen providing a 180
degrees of viewing pleasure.
The dome itself took eleven
hours to build with a crew of
fourteen men and a crane.

27. Castle Land
• Castle Land is an play area that s made
for kids. This place was opened in 1997
and was called Cadbury Land Castle as it
is shown in this image here and then got
changed to Castle Land this year.
Rainbow's End have currently shut this
place down due to the change of name
and they have decided to take dragon's
flight out and add three new rides plus a
play area. The rides that are still there are
Space Shuttles, The Car Wash Convoy, The
Jumpin Star, The Bouncy Castle and The
Carousel.

29. Accidents
• On 10 February 1990 Thomas Wayne Hemi, at 19 years of age, fell from a bungy jump at the park. The
jump master, Jason John Collett, failed to secure the bungy cord to his feet. Thomas initially survived
the fall, but died from his injuries. Jason was later found guilty of manslaughter after evidence was
presented that both men had smoked cannabis before the jump. He was granted mercy - on
recommendation from the jury - and was sentenced to 200 hours of community service.
• On 21 June 1998 at 3:30pm a fire struck the Log Flume ride. Over 75% of the ride was destroyed and
two arsonists were arrested. After that, the Log Flume was reconstructed and re-themed to The
Enchanted Forest Log Flume.
• On 2 February 2008, Michael Ross Stuart, a 21 year old park worker died while carrying out
maintenance work on a ferris wheel, located in the Cadbury Land Dream Castle attraction. The worker
became trapped between one of the carriages and the frame of the ride, and had to be cut free by
firefighters, but died at the while getting free. The accident, which occurred before the park opened for
the day, caused the park to be closed down for two days.
• On 10 November 2012, A woman got trapped on the log flume ride. Firefighters were called to the
theme park to free the woman and had to cut up parts of the ride to get her free. It wasn't certain how
the woman became trapped. She was taken by ambulance to Middlemore Hospital with minor injuries.

30. Sources
www.google.co.nz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow's_End_(theme_park)
http://images.google.com/
http://rainbowsend.co.nz/ride-information
http://rainbowsend.co.nz
And of course my brain

31. Conclusion
• I think Rainbow's End is an amazing theme
park and New Zealand is lucky to have it. I've
learnt a lot about this theme park like the kind
of rides there were etc. I hope you've learnt a
lot as well.