[2011] Walibi-Parks: W.A.B. vs The SkunX
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KristofWB
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To get people informed about the new Walibi-style and new characters, Walibi has made an exclusive comic about Walibi and his brother Squad discovering the magic world of Shimmeria. The comic is in 7 episodes and the first 6 are already online and can be viewed in English. Comics were made in Hong-Kong!
http://www.walibi.com/themusicbattle/en/comics/episode-01
http://www.walibi.com/themusicbattle/en/comics/episode-01
Lofty
CF Legend
I've already had a look at a few of them. My god. They're excellent. So much work has been put into the graphic and animation side of things. I have to admit, I am very impressed with what Walibi are doing..
I know this is mainly about Walibi Belgium. But, over at Walibi Holland, they're doing quite a lot of work also, here's just a few images;
All of these were taken from the Walibi Holland Facebook Page.
I know this is mainly about Walibi Belgium. But, over at Walibi Holland, they're doing quite a lot of work also, here's just a few images;
All of these were taken from the Walibi Holland Facebook Page.
KristofWB
Hyper Poster
-lofty- said:
It doesn't matter which park this is about. There is more information about Walibi Belgium since its my homepark.
A picture of the theming for the Speed of Sound station in Walibi Holland:
In Walibi Belgium, the SpongeBob SquarePants 4D Theater is getting a brand new look for the new W.A.B. 4D Theatre, starring the Rokken' Roll movie:
Pictures by http://www.ameworld.net
Martyn B
CF Legend
-lofty- said:Yeah, they're the new Vekoma trains. They're on several other Vekoma coasters too.
That's at Genting Highland. A quote from RCDB:
Are they going to make their mind up on their new trains?
http://rcdb.com/1093.htm?p=20127
http://rcdb.com/2951.htm?p=26443
KristofWB
Hyper Poster
Martyn B said:
The whole Music Battle was secretly planned the past 3 years and has to bring the Walibi parks in Belgium, Holland and France back to life. The Walibi Group that was created in 1989 is gone and after Six Flags and StarParks, they are now called the Walibi Studios. Besides the themeparks, they also want to focus on music, which was already clear, but in the near future, they also want to create TV-shows and movies around the Music Battle, WAB, SkunX and Shimmeria. The French parks already signed a deal with French kids TV-channel Gully to air the WAB and SkunX music videos, Belgium and Holland signed a deal with Nickelodeon/MTV to air the videos and later on TV-shows and movie. Both videoclips already aired on the Disney Resort TV Channel in Paris and such.
At the press-event in January, Walibi announced that all 4 Walibi parks (plus Walibi Sinibad in Morocco, that will open later) will be completely themed into the whole Music Battle Concept, the following 5 years. This already happened by replacing the former Walibi mascots with the new ones in Belgium, France and Holland and removing 2 of the 3 comicbookfigures and SpongeBob SquarePants from Walibi Belgium. Lucky Luke will remain one more season in Walibi Belgium and the Lucky Luke City area (with Calamity Mine and Dalton Terror) will soon be re-themed. I suppose it will be themed into this happy, cheerfull planet where the WAB-members come from; Shimmeria! I'm not sure about this, but I slightly remember it has been said that all Walibi-parks will be split up in two parts: W.A.B side and The SkunX side.
I think it's gonna be pretty exciting the following 5 years to see how those parks will develope.
KristofWB
Hyper Poster
The new entrance from Walibi Belgium is almost ready. It does look like Fanta-paradise, but I actually like it...
And the brand new TV-commercial aired on various Belgian TV-channels. Walibi Belgium has also announced they are giving away 50.000 free tickets in a cooperation with Carrefour, a Belgian chain of supermarkets. They have also done this kind of action with GB (the name from Carrefour before 2000), which ment for Walibi Belgium the best season in history.
Anyway, the TV-spot:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2qoqpGFqsk[/youtube]
And the brand new TV-commercial aired on various Belgian TV-channels. Walibi Belgium has also announced they are giving away 50.000 free tickets in a cooperation with Carrefour, a Belgian chain of supermarkets. They have also done this kind of action with GB (the name from Carrefour before 2000), which ment for Walibi Belgium the best season in history.
Anyway, the TV-spot:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2qoqpGFqsk[/youtube]
KristofWB
Hyper Poster
Supermarket-chain Carrefour is completely into Walibi since this week. Walibi and Carrefour are giving away 50.000 tickets, by collecting card-games and stickers to stick into this special Walibi comicbook. Walibi already had this sort of campagn with Carrefour in 1991 and this turned out to be the best season for Walibi in its history. Police patrols with helicopters had to be used to keep the traffic under control. Walibi is everywhere in Carrefour. Pictures of WAB and The SkunX are all over the store, stickers at the entrance and...the next TV-commercial
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieuu6Bp7pDE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieuu6Bp7pDE[/youtube]
nadroJ
CF Legend
This is one of the smartest and best revamps I've ever seen for a park, I'll be very surprised if it fails. The only thing that gets me about it is the age group they're aiming for? It's not exactly families but it's a bit young for teenagers, can't quite put my finger on it.
Oh well, good on them, the Walibi parks have the potential to be amazing and I'd very much like to see that potential fulfilled.
Oh well, good on them, the Walibi parks have the potential to be amazing and I'd very much like to see that potential fulfilled.