48-416: The Singapore Cable Car is a gondola lift in Singapore , providing an aerial link from Mount Faber (Faber Peak Singapore) on Singapore Island to the resort island of Sentosa across the Keppel Harbour . Opened on 15 February 1974, it was the second aerial ropeway system in the world to span a harbour , after Port Vell Aerial Tramway in Barcelona, which opened already in 1931. However, it
96-480: A trading card game , anime television series , films , manga , home entertainment products, merchandise, and other ventures. It was established through a joint investment by the three companies holding the copyright and trademark of Pokémon — Nintendo , Game Freak , and Creatures —to focus in the multimedia franchise which became too big to be managed only by them. It was founded in April 1998 originally to operate
144-516: A cost of S$ 30,000 each. 6 more of these popular cabins were added in December 2000, giving the system a total of 81 cabins today. For a week from 16 March 2004, as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations, the system conducted its 'Surviving the Sky' Challenge in which 34 two-person teams (2 teams withdrew at the last minute) from around Asia attempted to survive the longest in the cable car for 24 hours
192-457: A day. A S$ 36 million rebuild of the entire system as a modern monocable detachable gondola started on 14 September 2009, and it re-opened on 21 July 2010. All the cabins were now metallic black cars with chrome trimming (the current design). There are 67 bigger cabins, including World's First 7* VIP Glass-Bottomed Cabin. The two cables were raised by 30 m to facilitate the bigger cabins, to stand 120 m above sea level. Seating capacity
240-417: A haul rope which continuously moves and circulates around two terminal stations. In contrast, an aerial tramway operates solely with fixed grips and simply shuttles back and forth between two end terminals. The capacity, cost, and functionality of a gondola lift will differ dramatically depending on the combination of cables used for support and haulage and the type of grip (detachable or fixed). Because of
288-763: A ski resort was at the Wildcat Mountain Ski Area . It was a two-person gondola built in 1957 and serviced skiers until 1999. The lift was later demolished in 2004. The lift and its cabins were manufactured by a former Italian lift company: Carlevaro-Savio. One of the longest gondola rides in the world, Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen , is in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland and connects Grindelwald with Männlichen . In recent years, gondola lifts are finding increased usage in urban environments. Cable cars used for urban transit include
336-537: A total of six stations; three per line. The monocable detachable-grip gondola lift system has three stations, namely Mount Faber Station at the peak of Mount Faber , the HarbourFront Station (former Jardine Steps Station) at HarbourFront and the Sentosa Station at Imbiah, Sentosa. Two supporting towers are located between each pair of stations. This distance between Mount Faber Station and
384-421: Is a means of cable transport and type of aerial lift which is supported and propelled by cables from above. It consists of a loop of steel wire rope that is strung between two stations, sometimes over intermediate supporting towers. The cable is driven by a bullwheel in a terminal, which is typically connected to an engine or electric motor . It is often considered a continuous system since it features
432-418: Is handled by different companies contracted in spin-offs and by Game Freak in mainline titles. The company is solely responsible for publishing and licensing mobile Pokémon titles, unlike console titles where it has help from Nintendo. In 1998, Nintendo, Creatures, and Game Freak established The Pokémon Center Company ( ポケモンセンター株式会社 , Pokemon Sentā Kabushiki gaisha ) in order to effectively manage
480-549: Is not the first aerial ropeway system to span the sea. For instance, Awashima Kaijō Ropeway in Japan, built in 1964, goes over a short strait to an island. The system is a major tourist attraction, as it provides a panoramic view of the central business district. In 2020, a round-trip ticket cost SGD35 for adults and SGD25 for children. The Singapore government came up with the idea of a cable car to Sentosa from Mount Faber in 1968 as part of its masterplan for tourism projects in
528-411: Is particularly common in mountainous mining concerns, and directly employed; the weight of loaded down-going containers pulling the returning empties back up the slope. Gravity can also be used indirectly, where running water is available; a waterwheel is powered by gravity acting on water, and is used to power the cable. Conventional systems where a single cable provides both support and propulsion of
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#1732779832149576-563: The Americas . Nintendo Australia is responsible for some licensing and marketing of Pokémon products in Australia and New Zealand because The Pokémon Company does not have an Australian branch. Since 2001, nearly all Pokémon products are represented as "©Pokémon" in the copyright acknowledgments with the original three owners of "©Nintendo", "© GAME FREAK inc. " and "© Creatures Inc. " The three companies also have ownership of all of
624-1041: The Metrocable in Medellín , Colombia and the TransMiCable in Bogotá , Colombia ; Aerovia in Guayaquil , Ecuador ; Portland Aerial Tram in Portland, Oregon , United States ; Roosevelt Island Tramway in New York City, New York, United States; Metrocable in Caracas , Venezuela ; Trolcable in Mérida , Venezuela; Cable Aéreo in Manizales , Colombia; Mi Teleférico in La Paz , Bolivia ; Mexicable in
672-516: The Pokémon Trading Card Game, and the official Pokémon website on the territories outside Asia, including America and Europe . Since 2001, The Pokémon Company has handled publication of all Pokémon video games in Japan, while Nintendo handles distribution and worldwide co-publication with The Pokémon Company International. Both companies work together in localization, production, QA, and other aspects, while development
720-543: The Pokémon -related trademarks in Japan while Nintendo is the sole owner of Pokémon -related trademarks in other countries. Licensed toys are made by third- and second-party companies such as Tomy and Jazwares . In October 2001, 4Kids Entertainment acquired a 3% stake in The Pokémon Company for an undisclosed sum. They liquidated this stake 4 years later for US$ 960,000. In 2006, Pokémon Korea, Inc.
768-869: The Republic of the Congo , was over 75 kilometers (47 mi) in length. The Kristineberg-Boliden ropeway in Sweden had a length of 96 kilometers (60 mi). In Eritrea , the Italians built the Asmara-Massawa Cableway in 1936, which was 75 kilometers (47 mi) long. The Manizales - Mariquita Cableway (1922) in Colombia was 73 km long. Conveyors can be powered by a wide variety of forms of power sources: electric motors , internal combustion engines , steam engines , or gravity . Gravity
816-671: The State of Mexico , Mexico ; Teleférico de Santo Domingo ; Yenimahalle-Şentepe teleferik in Ankara , Turkey ; Maçka and Eyüp Gondolas in Istanbul ; the London cable car in London , England; Nizhny Novgorod Cableway , Russia. The Metrocable systems in Medellin and Caracas are fully integrated with the public transit network which provides passengers the ability to seamlessly transfer to
864-557: The Sulphur Mountain Gondola in Banff , Canada. This system has the advantage that the stationary cable's strength and properties can be tailored to each span, which reduces costs. They differ from aerial tramways , as these consist only of one or two usually larger cabins moving back and forth, rather than circulating. Bicable and tricable systems provide greater lateral stability compared with monocable systems, allowing
912-802: The Mediterranean, the historical Jounieh Bay and the pine forest at the 80% slope which this gondola lift goes over. Such a system is called pulse cabin and usually several cabins are loaded simultaneously. Open-air gondolas, or cabriolets as commonly called, are fairly uncommon and are quite primitive because they are exposed to the elements. Their cabins are usually hollow cylinders, open from chest height up, with floors and roof covers. They are usually used as village gondolas and for short distances. Examples are at Mont Tremblant Resort in Quebec , Canada, and at Blue Mountain Ski Resort (summer only, in
960-534: The Merlion station, with the Merlion station also providing a link with the Sentosa Express. The new S$ 78 million line has 51 eight-seater cabins and is able to move about 2,200 people per hour in one direction. Between 1 May 2023 and 30 September 2023, as part of the lead-up to its 50th anniversary, the system's operators (Mount Faber Leisure Group) collaborated with The Pokémon Company to redecorate
1008-636: The Mount Faber Line cabins with Poké Ball designs; the interiors also featuring Pokémon. On 20 March 2024, seven new chrome-finished spherical SkyOrb glass-bottomed cabins entered the Mount Faber Line fleet as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations. A serious incident occurred on the Singapore Cable Car system at about 6 p.m. on 29 January 1983, when the derrick of the Eniwetok , a Panamanian-registered oil rig , passed under
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#17327798321491056-806: The Pokémon Center stores in Japan before expanding to the entire franchise in October 2000 as it rebranded to its current name. The company is headquartered in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Roppongi , Minato, Tokyo . The company has separate subsidiaries that handle operations in different parts of the world, with the Pokémon Company International supporting the territories outside Asia and being responsible for brand management, licensing, marketing,
1104-485: The Pokémon Center stores in Japan. After the popularity of Pokémon Gold and Silver , they received many merchandising proposals from around the world. Companies were interested in working with the Pokémon brand. At that time, Tsunekazu Ishihara of Creatures was the person in charge of approving licensed products. Because of the sheer volume of products, Ishihara thought it was too much work for one person to handle. At
1152-674: The Pokémon Store and Pokémon Center stores, maintaining the Pokémon Stand vending machines and operating the Pokémon Center Online, as well as overseeing the design and manufacture of Japanese Pokémon Center brand merchandise. Yomiomi Uego is currently the president and CEO. In April 2022, The Pokémon Company International announced the acquisition of Millennium Print Group for an undisclosed sum. The printing company has already been producing and packing cards for
1200-480: The Pokémon Trading Card Game since 2015 after partnering up with The Pokémon Company. The move will not have a major effect on Millennium's day-to-day productions, with the company still operating as a separate entity; The Pokémon Company will instead be providing "investment and industry expertise" while assisting Millennium in expanding its capabilities and infrastructure. On June 1, 2022, it
1248-568: The aerial ropeway and struck the cable that stretched over the waterway between the Jardine Steps Station and the Sentosa Station. As a result, two cabins plunged 55 metres (180 ft) into the sea, killing seven people. The oil rig was being towed away from Keppel Wharf when it became entangled in the cable and caused it to snap. It also left 13 people trapped in four other cabins between Mount Faber and Sentosa. This
1296-586: The cabins are often called monocable gondola lifts. Gondola lifts which feature one stationary cable (known as the 'support' rope), and one haul rope are known as bicable gondola lifts, while lifts that feature two support ropes and one haul rope are known as tricable gondola lifts. Famous examples of bicable gondola lifts include the Ngong Ping 360 in Hong Kong , the Singapore Cable Car , and
1344-726: The cable by means of spring–loaded grips. These grips allow the cabin to be detached from the moving cable and slowed in the terminals, to allow passengers to board and disembark. Doors are almost always automatic and controlled by a lever on the roof or on the undercarriage that is pushed up or down. Cabins are driven through the terminals either by rotating tires , or by a chain system. To be accelerated to and decelerated from line speed, cabins are driven along by progressively swifter (or slower) rotating tires until they reach line or terminal speed. On older installations, gondolas are accelerated manually by an operator. Gondola lifts can have intermediate stops that allow for uploading and downloading on
1392-463: The country. Four years later in 1972, construction on the S$ 5.8 million system commenced, and it was officially opened on 15 February 1974 by then Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee . At opening, the system had 43 cabins which required cabin attendants to manually open and close the doors. The number of cabins was increased to 51 in 1976. An episode of the popular American TV show Hawaii Five-O
1440-439: The first tower is about 300 metres (980 ft); from the first tower to the HarbourFront Station is 400 metres (1,300 ft); from the HarbourFront Station to the second tower is 500 metres (1,600 ft), and from the second tower to the Sentosa Station is 450 metres (1,480 ft) long. The height of the track rope is as follows: The Mount Faber system consists of 67 cabins, suspended at least 60 metres (197 ft) above
1488-521: The future, TransLink in Metro Vancouver has proposed to build a gondola up Burnaby Mountain to Simon Fraser University in an announcement in September 2010. The project was sidelined in 2014, but was revived in 2017. In late 2012, a widespread aerial gondola system was proposed for Austin, Texas , in an effort to expand mass transit options in the rapidly growing city. The proposal
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1536-667: The headquarters is planned to move in January 2025 to another high-rise building in Bellevue where it will occupy sixteen stories. The Pokémon Company International's office in the United Kingdom is located in London . Some Australian operations are controlled by Nintendo Australia . Pokémon Center Co., Ltd. was established in August 2011 to manage the Pokémon Center brand and stores in Japan. Its operations include operating
1584-633: The lift. Examples of a lift with three stops instead of the standard two are the Village Gondola, the Excalibur Gondolas at Whistler Blackcomb and the Skyride at Alton Towers . In other systems the cable is slowed intermittently to allow passengers to disembark and embark the cabins at stations, and to allow people in the cars along the route to take photographs , such as Lebanon 's Téléférique which offers an exceptional view to
1632-546: The local metro lines, whereas the network in La Paz, the largest in the world, forms the backbone of the city's public transit system itself. Disney Skyliner is a gondola-lift service, which opened on September 29, 2019, at Walt Disney World in central Florida. The system uses multiple lines and has five stations, and it connects Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios with one another and with several Disney-owned and -operated resort hotels. In terms of urban gondola systems for
1680-684: The proliferation of such systems in the Alps , the Italian : Cabinovia and French : Télécabine are also used in English-language texts. The systems may also be referred to as cable cars . The Kohlerer-Bahn opened on June 29, 1908, in Bolzano , South Tyrol , the first modern aerial enclosed cable car solely for passenger service. In some systems the passenger cabins, which can hold between two and fifteen people, are connected to
1728-547: The same time, in order for the franchise to continue, Ishihara wished to further expand the franchise with long-term goals, such as continuing the anime series, and releasing a movie every year. It was then decided that a new organization was needed in order to gather together all the strands of brand management. This led the three companies to turn The Pokémon Center Company into The Pokémon Company in order to further expand its scope, responsibilities, and areas of business. According to Satoru Iwata , establishing The Pokémon Company
1776-425: The sea. Each cabin can carry a maximum of 8 adult passengers, while the whole system can support 2000 passengers per hour either way. Travelling at a speed of 5 metres per second (16 ft/s), it takes about 15 minutes for a continuous ride from Mount Faber to Sentosa. In addition, there are 27 red overhead wire markers mounted on a telephone rope just above the cableway. Gondola lift A gondola lift
1824-507: The sportsmen and officials who were there for the Southeast Asian Games in 1990. The system's cabins were replaced in 1994 at a cost of over S$ 11 million. The new cabins now numbered 80, and effectively doubled the system's capacity to 1400 passengers per hour in either direction from 700 passengers previously. The upgrade took 25 days to complete, during which time the system suspended operations. A year later in 1995,
1872-512: The system to operate in higher cross-winds. The National Ski Areas Association reports 0.138 fatalities per 100 million miles transported compared to 1.23 for cars. The Pok%C3%A9mon Company The Pokémon Company ( 株式会社ポケモン , Kabushiki Gaisha Pokemon , TPC ) is a Japanese company responsible for brand management , production, publishing , marketing , and licensing of the Pokémon franchise , which consists of video games ,
1920-528: The system welcomed its 20 millionth rider, and quickly reached its 25 millionth visitor just two years later in 1997. The stations at Mount Faber and Sentosa were also upgraded in the same year, while Lego presented to Singapore the world's only life-size cable car cabin made entirely of Lego, based on the Singapore cable car's design. In November 1999, the Singapore cable car system achieved another world's first when it added glass-bottomed cabins at
1968-694: The winter it is converted to a six person high-speed chairlift.) in Ontario , Canada, The Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah, Mountain Creek , and the new Village Cabriolet at Winter Park Resort in Colorado. Open-air gondolas can also come in a style similar to that of pulse gondolas, like the Village Gondola at Panorama Ski Resort , British Columbia . The first gondola built in the United States for
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2016-519: Was also increased to eight passengers per cabin from six. There are also new flip-up seats and a new music system. The Sentosa Line, an intra-island cable car was opened on 14 July 2015 and is 890 metres in length, and the older line is now called the Mount Faber Line. The lines are not physically linked up, so all visitors must walk 3 to 5 minutes from the original Sentosa station to the Imbiah Lookout station. The new line links Siloso Point to
2064-487: Was filmed on the system in the late 1970s, while the world's first mass weddings on the cable cars were conducted in the late 1970s. There was a major breakdown on 27 March 1977, when eyewitnesses heard screams coming from a stranded cable car. In 1988, the system celebrated its 10 millionth rider. It played host to contestants from the Miss World Pageant when it was held in Singapore in 1989, as well as
2112-694: Was founded to manage the company's operations in South Korea. Its headquarters is located in Seoul . In 2009, Pokémon USA and Pokémon UK merged to become The Pokémon Company International, which handles American and European Pokémon operations under the administration of Kenji Okubo. The company's office in the United States is located in Bellevue, Washington , at the Lincoln Square complex;
2160-522: Was hurt but a member of the staff in another cable car was trapped for several hours. On 27 July 2022, 18 people were left stranded in cable cars between Sentosa and Mount Faber due to system error. The Singapore Cable Car system consists of two independent lines: Mount Faber Line, which provides services between Mount Faber and Sentosa stations across Singapore main island and Sentosa island; and Sentosa Line, which provides services between Siloso Point and Merlion stations on Sentosa Island. The system has
2208-409: Was one of his first projects at Nintendo. Managing the Pokémon Center stores is still a pillar for the company. In total, there are stores in 11 locations: Sapporo , Tohoku ( Sendai ), Tokyo , Skytree Town (Oshiage), Tokyo-Bay ( Chiba ), Yokohama , Nagoya , Kyoto , Osaka , Hiroshima and Fukuoka . The United States branch (Pokémon USA, Inc.) opened in 2001 to handle licensing overseas in
2256-652: Was rejected by the local transit agency in 2017. A proposed gondola system in Montreal was ultimately rejected by the Old Port of Montreal . A ropeway conveyor or material ropeway is essentially a subtype of gondola lift, from which containers for goods rather than passenger cars are suspended. Ropeway conveyors are typically found around large mining concerns, and can be of considerable length. The COMILOG Cableway , which ran from Moanda in Gabon to Mbinda in
2304-531: Was the first incident involving death or injury since the cable car system opened in February 1974. This disaster caused the entire system to shut down for almost seven months. In 2010, 20 passengers found themselves trapped in their cabins for 15 minutes after lightning triggered sensors which brought the cable cars to a sudden halt. In 2014, construction was underway on a new intra-island cableway on Sentosa when an empty car became dislodged and crashed. No one
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