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Fun Factory
IE Park/IE Park international complete installations and design work at Lahore shopping mall.
IE Park has announced the opening of a large number of rides within a new indoor park at the Emporium Mall, Lahore, Pakistan, the design for which was completed by sister company IE Park International. The Fun Factory park in Johar Town was opened in September and is already enjoying great success at what is the largest mall in Pakistan. Additional attractions include a nine screen multiplex cinema, the largest in the country, and the country’s largest food court with seating for up to 3,000 people.
The venue is owned by the Nishat Group of companies, a leading business organisation in Pakistan with a presence in many major sectors including textiles, cement, banking, insurance, power generation, hotels, agriculture, dairy and paper products. It is considered to be on a par with multi-nationals operating locally in terms of the quality of its products and its management expertise.
The Fun Factory is now Pakistan’s largest amusement park and is made up of a circus themed children’s play area situated close to the food court on the second level of the building, a fantasy themed children’s area and a ‘dark city’ teen area on the third level.
With the design of all three areas being carried out by IE Park International, a total of 14 rides have been supplied to the project by IE Park. In the children’s area, the company has supplied a Convoy with five adult cabriolet model cars which can accommodate up to four adults each, a Beach Safari 2.0
with six arms and 24 seats incorporating the new jump system, and a 20- seat Mini Fantasy Swing.
For the teen area, the company has provided a mine themed Micro8 roller coaster with 14 seats, 10 adult Sports 1 bumper cars, a Mini Impactor 120° with eight seats, a 10-seat Butterfly and a 24-seat Rocking Polyp. Additionally, IE Park has installed a 12m high Star Dancer with four helicopters and four gondolas to provide a total of 32 seats in the roof garden area, along with a classic 7m diameter Carousel on Level One of the building.