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News & Rumors
HOPI HARI Brazil
2026 - Starflyer - (2/3/2026) Hopi Hari has announced that the park will be dismantling La Tour Eiffel, the park’s Intamin Giant Drop tower ride, known for a fatal accident that happened back in 2012. The plan for the park is to replace the attraction with a new Starflyer style tower swing ride made by “AK Rides” that will be 40 meters tall. Look for the new ride to open in sometime in late 2026. Previously the park was going to attempt to reopen La Tour Eiffel in 2025, while renaming it as Le Voyage, but they were still waiting on the government to grant them permission to reopen the ride, as it has sat closed ever since the accident in 2012. Based on this latest update, clearly they were not going to get permission to reopen the ride, so now they are going to remove it once and for all.
(1/18/2025) The park still has the closed Intamin Giant Drop, themed as the Eiffel Tower, listed as Coming Soon as Le Voyage. According to what I’ve read, the park has been waiting for the government to release the ride back to them to operate
(4/15/2023) I wasn’t quite expecting this bit of news, but it has been confirmed on the Hopi Hari website that there are plans in place to reopen the former Le Tour Eiffel, an Intamin Giant Drop themed to look like Paris’ Eiffel Tower, as Le Voyage sometime in 2024. The ride originally closed down back in 2012 following a fatal accident that took place, with the resulting fallout from this incident almost causing the park to close down for good. I’m not sure what changes may be made to the ride before it reopens however and I don’t see any details on the park website other than the ride being listed under the new name, with the description translating to, “A 23-story elevator - Coming Soon”
2027/2028 - Montezum Hybrid - (2/3/2026) In an interview officials from Hopi Hari confirmed that they will begin to replace track on Montezum starting in late 2026, adding sections of new Hybrid style steel track in sections to replace some of the roughest parts of the ride first. The plan is also to get new trains and upgrade the ride’s control system hardware. It isn’t know yet who will be providing the new hybrid style track for Montezum, RMC with their 208 Retrak system or if it will use GCI’s Titan Track. We probably won’t find out more until they close Montezum in late 2026 to begin to work on it.
(4/15/2023) I’m told that whole Hopi Hari is planning to get back on track and have new additions each year going forward once again, a long-term plan for the park is to transform their current Montezum wooden coaster (RCCA) into a modern Hybrid track style coaster.
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