Skyborne Drop Tower
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| Name | Skyborne Drop Tower |
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| Category | Thrill Ride |
| Type | Drop Tower |
| Park Area | Udara |
| First Year | 2022 |
| Riders | 12 |
| Dispatch Rate | INFO NEEDED |
| Ride Duration | 75 seconds |
| About the Ride Info Box | |
Skyborne Drop Tower is a ride located in Udara. It opened with the park in 2022.
Skyborne is themed as the laboratories and library of the Udara Society. The attraction's queue features murals telling the story of the Udaran floating city, its destruction during Volkanu's first emergence and the Udaran's attempts at reaching for the sky with towers and experimental flying machines, interspersed with blueprints for flying machines, a photo-opportunity with a Udara glider, and bookshelves containing what survived from the fall or has been written since. Entering an observatory for the pre-show, First Librarian Duwi welcomes guests to take part as volunteers in a levitation experiment with a machine attached to Skyborne's tower, noting how much trouble they've had with sustaining levitation for more then a few seconds, but fully confident it'll work out this time. However, as with any drop tower experience, what goes up must come down.
Skyborne Library
The spines of Skyborne's library contain titles tied to characters and places throughout the park, puns on pre-existing fictional works, and references to attractions found at the Lost Island Waterpark.
Row 1:
- Memoirs of My Time with Yuta
- The Science of Gears and Cogs
- Ode to Awaati
- Inside this Earthen Home
- Curiosas, Creaturists and Keepers: Unraveling Yutan Society
- Ten Years at Sea: An Awa Odyssey
- The Girl with the Muran Tattoo
- Night Fire: Surviving the Explosion
- Playing with Fire: Inside Muran Acrobatics
- Far and Above
- Lord of the Fire Rings
- Building a Rocket Thruster
- Yara's Complete Herbal
- The Art of Temple Spinning
- Mine Your Own Business: Profitable Extraction Techniques
- Earth's Pull: How Gravity Affects Flight
- The Selfless Totara
- Cloud Reading and What it Means
- Lighter then Air: A Study of Zephyrnomics
- How to Fly
- The Binding of Volkanu
- Makala's Adventures in Lost Island
- The Lava Monsters Series
- In the Time Before
- The Moon Also Rises
- Mura Ai Eok: Fire Within Us
- Strange Trip: Our Journey Around the Sun
- Quest for the Golden Idol
- Master and Commander of the Sea Swell
- Legends of the Pekivas
- Matugani: Serpent Wisdom
- The Exploration of the Kailahi River
- Scientific Formulas for Aerial Propulsions
Row 2:
- One Thousand and One Udaran Nights
- The Princess of the Sea
- Great Awa Expectations
- An Expedition to Namua
- Spice Up Your Life! Cooking with Yamil
- Murapow Weeki Ut Ni - Volcano: No Way Out
- Studies of the Galaxies
- Origins
- Discovery of Whalebone Beach
- The All Seeing Eye of Alzanu
- Tamariki: Myth and Mystery
- Touch the Stars
- Otterbiography
- War and Peace: A History of the Mura and Awa
- Paradise Lost Island
- Avanced Arcycling
- And Then There Were None... The Dangers of a Dying Ecosystem
- The Hitchhikers Guide to Lost Island
- Udara Modu: Fall with Grace
- Kino Pasu en Lamoragi: Follow Me to Paradise
- Inside the Volcano
- Auroto Imi Ingata: Listen Observe Preserve
- The Destiny of Tika
- Hutinka | Keepers of Air
- Hutinka | Keepers of Water
- Hutinka | Keepers of Fire
- Hutinka | Keepers of Earth
- Optimal Conditions: How Weather Affects Flight
- What is Thrust?
- One Flew Over the Avarium
- Mermaids: Fact or Fiction?
- A Game of Muran Thrones
- The Casual Botanist
- All Quiet on the Yutan Front
- The Complete Journals of Ocean Maiden Nika
- Gone with the Udara Wind
Row 3:
- All Tamariki Great and Small
- Floating Into Thin Air
- Forest Vengeance: A Poisonous Plants Guidebook
- The Jade Rapids Expedition
- The Importance of Wind Direction
- Toki! Toki! Toki! - Coins! Coins! Coins!
- Eo Auk Tanahio - Our Lost World
- Pride and Prejudice in the Mura Clan
- The Unexpected Adventures of Tuki
- The Fiery Truth: Chronicles of Mura
- One Last Flight
- Alchemy for Aeronauts
- The Essential Forest Wisdom by Yara the Keeper
- The Southern Yuta
- Cosmogemy in the Modern Era
- Mamu Golapa, Papu Udo - Grandmother Tree, Grandfather Sky
- Skywatchers Handbook
- An Island Without Us
- Popular Aeronautics
- Turbulence in Flight
- Exploring Space
- Science of Parachutes
- Travels Through the Five Realms
- A Walk with Yuba
- Understanding the Tamariki Language
- The Island of Blue Whales
- The Mystery Behind Makatu
- An Idiot's Guide to Windicators
- Essays on the Enchanted Totara Forest
- Into the Deep Unknown: A Pearl Diver's Story
- As the Hawk Soars: The Trail System of Lost Island
- Where the Wild Yuta Are
- The Yikyik of Pengali Ruin
- The Saga of the Yuta Earth Guild
- Sacred Texts of the Awa Nomads
- Wind, Sand and Stars
- Origin of the Cosmos
- Discovering Pengali Ruin
- Bardo's Songs of Rebellion
- The Lost City of Udara: A History of the Air Society
Bottom Row:
- Keeto En Eok - Kingdom To Ourselves
- The Complete Works of High Tinker Nopuko
- Pak's Travels
- Lessons from Neelu
- What Do Tamariki Eat? And Other Questions
- Memoirs of Vayla the Apprentice
- What Causes Wind Sheer?
- The Secret History of the Akua Maze
- Windstrument Melodies for Beginners
- Kummaho Ia Awa - The Far Side of the Sea
- Birds in Flight: How Do They Do It?
- West with the Awan Night
- Epic of Matugani
- Volkanu Returns: The Probability of a Second Binding
- True Stories of the Tamikoa Grotto
- Born High: A History of the Skyborne
- A Guide to Alternative Movement by Professor Lumina
- Mathematics of Flight
- Footprints in the Sand
- Mastering the Waves
- The Dreadful Eeki Eeki
- Building a Flying Machine
- A Yuti Lumari - The Enchanted Forest
- Reading the Night Sky
- Around the World in a Tea Daze: A Herbalists Guide
- Lord of the Skies
- Longitude and Latitude Coordinates
- Putting on Airs : Dating Advice for the Skyborne
- Passage to Lost Soul Falls
- The Golden Years: A Treasure Crusade Novel
- Rokava's Fall
- Under the Luho Tree
- Ocean Treasures: Sustainable Pearl Collection
- The Speardancer's Song
- Yutan Shifting Sands
- Call of the Wind
- Ummi Ummis: Secret Recipes of the Tamariki
- Tamariki Tales
- Wings or Propellers
Trivia
- Skyborne is an prototype S&S drop tower that once operated as Turbo Drop at Buffalo Bill's Resort and Casino in Primm, Nevada. This history is alluded to in the pre-show's description of the ride experience being a test of a new prototype.
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