Lighting Systems
Illuminating Thrills
The possibilities are limitless with KCL Engineering’s custom lighting solutions. The company offers a myriad of options when it comes to lighting your attractions. The difference is that KCL is not married to specific LED lighting providers and they engineer a custom system that meets your vision each and every time. In addition to lighting single rides they can link multiple attractions or an entire park together to offer an immersive light show unlike anything your guests have ever seen before.
Roller Coaster
The Monster roller coaster at Adventureland Park garnered worldwide attention when it debuted with KCL’s LED system. The roller coaster, which stands 131 feet tall and has 5 inversions, stood out at night thanks to a lighting package that featured lights both on the ground and the track structure. Following The Monster’s light package came other world class coaster KCL lighting packages ranging from Hangtime at Knotts Berry Farm to Adrenaline Peak at Oaks Park to the world record breaking TMNT Shellraiser at the American Dream’s Nickelodeon Universe. KCL’s unique lighting design concept allows parks to utilize custom lighting schemes for interactive shows or have the lights follow the train around the course!
Ferris Wheel
Lighting a Ferris wheel is no easy feat, it needs to be balanced and offer an engaging, illuminated canvas to park-goers. The KCL team came up with a system to retrofit a 90-foot Chance Giant Wheel at Adventureland Park. The LED’s are not only practical, they are was extremely programmable; allowing the park to integrate many different custom designs on the lights. In fact, when the Cubs won the World Series in 2016, the KCL team was able to “Fly the W” on the Ferris Wheel so that Iowans up and down Interstate 80 could celebrate the world series win.
Vertical Rides
Vertical amusement rides are some of the hardest to light because most offer little usable surface area. KCL overcame this challenge by utilizing an LED upshine spotlight on an S&S Space Shot. Despite the tower’s 185-foot height, the lights, arranged at the bottom of the ride, have beams that bathe the top of the tower in light and offer custom illumination along the ride’s steel surface. The iconic Skycoaster® lattice structure begs to be illuminated with KCL’s technology. The graceful structures dazzle at night like never before!
The LED systems allow for a multitude of color combinations.
