Indonesia's Indoor Coaster Boom

This is something that has only happened in the past few year or so but Indonesia is having quite an insane indoor coaster boom. One that Vekoma are massively benefiting off of. And one Zierer did well in too. I must admit I'm partly writing this so i can separate all the rides out in my head.

Indonesia has always had a fair few indoor coasters but things are getting out of hand

The culprit of this expansion is a brand called Transmart who are opening many many new shopping centers in Indonesia. They own the Trans Studio park in Bandung which built a Premier launched coaster in 2011 but have expanded massively since then. Their new parks use both the Kid City and Trans Studio Mini names kind of randomly.

This arguably started with Trans Studio in 2009 with a Zierer Force Two - https://rcdb.com/8772.htm

or a little later Kid City Tangerang which opened in 2014 with a Zierer Force One from Eifelpark in Germany https://rcdb.com/13795.htm

However I'm picking up the story with the Vekoma boom in 2015.

The first of these opened at Transmart Jakarta in 2015 under the park name Kid City and was relocated from South Africa from Chariots Entertainment Centre. This model is a short indoor coaster and was custom for Chariots Entertainment Centre. The new location for the ride includes a short outdoor section on the first major curve. It's worth remembering this layout for later but here is a POV of it at its new home.

The second one opened at a second Transmart park in Jakarta in 2016 and also under the Kid City name. This time its a relocated standard roller skater (We actually don't know where from yet, but working on it) it includes a turn outside the building just on the first drop this time

And then we have another relocated Vekoma roller skater at Transmart Balikpapan also from 2016. This time the park was under the Trans Studio Mini name. https://rcdb.com/13797.htm

This year opening in 2017 we have a few more. Transmart in Tegal has another traditional roller skater opening. again we believe relocated but cant prove where yet. (no link to the RCDB as i just sent it in today)

Now it starts to get odd. This again is a new for 2017 coaster. Another transmart park this time under the name Trans Studio Mini is opening in Rungkut. The weird thing is its a clone of the ride seen earlier at Transmart Jakarta that was moved from South Africa and built originally as a custom design there in the mid 2000s. So they bought a ride custom designed for elsewhere and then cloned it. Anyway its going up right now - https://rcdb.com/14758.htm

This year we also have Transmart Mataram also building this same layout from South Africa. https://rcdb.com/14756.htm

And again also for 2017 is Transmart Padang which once again uses this cloned 247m layout cloned from the South Africa ride. https://rcdb.com/14799.htm

On top of that the following malls show similar coasters in their concept art. All Transmart parks. All are under construction now but don't have actual coasters on site. (Contact me if you'd like evidence though)

Transmart Srondol

Transmart Buah

Transmart Kupang

Transmart Yogyakata

Transmart Grand Kawanua International City

Transmart Pekanbaru

Trans Studio Mall Samarinda

I also have been told from contacts in the industry that this is considerably less than half the planned trans mart coasters opening in Indonesia in the next few years. I cannot verify how true this is at the moment but I have no reason to believe this is false. Of those the clones of that South African coaster will be abundant.

I'll keep updating this thread as i find out more. but as you can imagine with all these clones its getting a little confusing.

Either way Indonesia is quickly becoming a cred whore paradise

This looks way better than Manhattan Express!

Fascinating, thanks for the update!

Are the 2 wooden mice and the Mr. Freeze type ride in Bandung still the only major-ish coasters of note in the country? Am I missing anything else major? They are ripe for another larger ride/park.

Did they hire Coaster Force to film this?

The culprit of this expansion is a brand called Transmart who are opening many many new shopping centers in Indonesia.

This could be us... but building malls is hard.

Fascinating, thanks for the update!

 

Are the 2 wooden mice and the Mr. Freeze type ride in Bandung still the only major-ish coasters of note in the country? Am I missing anything else major? They are ripe for another larger ride/park.

There's a zierer ESC at jungleland but it's been SBNO for ages due to issues with the footers. https://rcdb.com/11231.htm

The park should eventually open the ride though. You are right though there is a lack of big rides in Indonesia. One of the transmart parks mentioned in the up and coming list is quite a bit bigger than the others so perhaps they will get one there.

Are the 2 wooden mice and the Mr. Freeze type ride in Bandung still the only major-ish coasters of note in the country? Am I missing anything else major? They are ripe for another larger ride/park.

What about the Arrow Dynamics corkscrew coaster in Jakarta?

The Trans Studio Mini in Rungkut mentioned above opened this week.

They are certainly small parks with very small coasters but they are all +1's I suppose

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1407264&page=82

Can also add the following 3 new developments to the list as well

Transmart Pontianak

Transmart Banjarmasin

Transmart Tasikmalaya

The boom keeps going. 2 more Vekoma Roller Skaters have popped up.

Tran Studio Mini Yogyakata

Trans Studio Mini Bandung

Vekoma must be loving this.

Fascinating, thanks for the update!

 

Are the 2 wooden mice and the Mr. Freeze type ride in Bandung still the only major-ish coasters of note in the country? Am I missing anything else major? They are ripe for another larger ride/park.

As far as I know, yes. Indonesia looks like a country on the rise (with a large population; the main island of Java has over 140 million (!) people and is smaller in area than New Zealand's South Island)