News about Helix

Ten years after Helix opened, part of the ride experience became available far beyond Liseberg. The park released the launch coaster's futuristic soundtrack on streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music. Fans could now listen to 74 minutes of Helix music without being in Gothenburg.

Looopings reported that the album consists of fifteen instrumental dance tracks. Titles such as Instant Go, Invert, Re-Invented and Escape Gravity match the attraction's high-energy, technological identity. The music was produced by IMAscore, the German company known in the theme park world for distinctive attraction soundtracks.

For visitors and fans, the release is more than a playlist. Music helps fix a ride in memory, especially on a coaster like Helix where presentation, lighting and pace are part of the complete experience. By putting the soundtrack online, Liseberg extended the atmosphere of the ride beyond the queue and station. It gave fans a simple way to return to Helix even when they were far from the park.

In 2023, Helix became the technical centrepiece of a Theme Park Science video. Presenter Danny van der Weel travelled to Liseberg to explain how large coaster trains are brought safely to a stop. Helix was a fitting example: the fast Mack Rides coaster combines high speed with modern braking and control systems.

Looopings described a video that went further than a simple behind-the-scenes tour. Van der Weel joined the morning startup of the attraction, learned about the difference between mechanical and magnetic brakes, and watched technicians check restraints and wheels during daily inspections. The article also highlighted that Helix uses magnetic brakes, with large magnets working along the length of the train.

For fans, this story adds depth to the ride. Helix is usually discussed for its launches, inversions and pace, but the video showed the invisible engineering that makes those thrills repeatable. Every ride depends on inspections, physics and safety systems working together before visitors ever board the train.

Five years after Helix opened, Liseberg gave the coaster a fresh moment in the spotlight. The park had the launch coaster filmed by a professional drone following the train along the track. Looopings described footage that made the speed, length and flow of the 41-metre Mack Rides coaster visible in a particularly direct way.

The video followed an earlier drone film of Valkyria, but Helix clearly received its own showcase. The ride was once again presented as one of Mack's most intense coasters, with seven inversions, two launches and a top speed of 100 km/h. Michael Mack responded enthusiastically to the footage and underlined his pride in the attraction.

For visitors and fans, the story matters because drone footage explains a coaster differently from a standard onride video. It reveals how the train, track and terrain work together. For Helix, that reinforced its established identity: fast, technical and tightly woven into the hillside setting of Liseberg.

A few months after Helix opened, Liseberg was dealing with a less polished side of success. Looopings reported that the park had seen more disturbances, fights and crime during the season. A spokesperson connected that rise to the new launch coaster, explaining that Helix was drawing many young visitors to the park.

The problems described were not limited to busy days. Staff members were reportedly attacked on several occasions, large fights broke out in queues and police made arrests linked to entrance-ticket fraud. Visitors were also robbed of ride tickets. Liseberg said most incidents occurred in the preseason, when the park was mainly visited by local youth; the summer period was calmer thanks to more tourists from outside the area.

For Helix, the story is an unusual but relevant part of the early record. It shows how strongly the coaster affected attendance and atmosphere. The ride brought energy and attention to Liseberg, but also forced the park to deal with the pressures that can follow a major thrill investment.

A few weeks after Helix opened, Liseberg added a striking chapter to the story behind the ride. Managing director Andreas Andersen told Looopings that the coaster had not only been shaped by designers and engineers. At an early stage, a small group of dedicated coaster fans had been shown drawings and invited to comment on the layout.

According to Andersen, their feedback produced useful ideas, including suggestions for more spectacular elements. That detail matters to enthusiasts because it gives Helix a rare development story: the ride was partly informed by people who experience and compare coasters from a fan's point of view.

For regular visitors, the news did not change the ride experience, but it did make Helix more distinctive. The coaster became a project that openly acknowledged the knowledge of the fan community. That helped explain why Helix quickly became more than a major investment. It became a ride with a backstory enthusiasts could claim as part of their own world.

Just before Helix opened, Looopings framed the new coaster as a reason for thrill seekers to look north. Liseberg was not introducing a modest addition, but a headline attraction: a Mack Rides launch coaster of almost one and a half kilometres, with two launches, seven inversions and a top speed of 100 km/h.

For visitors, that changed the tone of the park's thrill line-up. Helix was built around momentum rather than a classic lift hill, using the slope of Liseberg and two bursts of acceleration to keep the ride moving. The reported 22 million euro investment underlined that this was meant to compete for attention well beyond Sweden.

As a moment in Helix history, the story captures the final stretch before opening. The coaster was already being sold as an international draw, the kind of ride that could make fans plan a dedicated trip to Gothenburg.