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  1. Christian

    Hossoland | Poland | Theme Park | 2025

    If this mud pit opens in spring 2024 my mind will be blown away.
  2. Christian

    All filler - no killer. Well rounded parks with poor headline attractions.

    I will get hate for this. Europa Park - Coaster wise there is nothing really good and nothing I would necessarily want to go back for. The best attraction here is Piraten in Batavia, followed by Wodan and Eurosat. The park is absolutely lovely but there are countless parks with much better...
  3. Christian

    Lost Island Theme Park | Iowa | 2022 (Kanonen relocation)

    They are theming it to a tropical desert
  4. Christian

    Small News From The Theme Park Industry

    Liseberg has announced their biggest Christmas investment ever. In total they will spend 10 million sek (about 1 million usd) to create a Santa Village. A large focus will be on pixies, with costumed actors that do various things around the village. The small stage will be converted into a...
  5. Christian

    YAY Merlin!

    The Lego family (Christiansen) together with a couple investments funds bought Merlin in 2019. I think that has a lot to do with the changes we are seeing. Even if the management is the same, I expect the new owners have given more investments and put more pressure on quality.
  6. Christian

    To what extent does location matter for a park to be successful?

    I studied a term of anthropogeography at uni, with a focus on transport and logistics. That is a branch of geography that studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment. Basically how location of things interact with...
  7. Christian

    Liseberg | Luna | Vekoma Family Boomerang | 2023

    Flumeride 2.0 could happen. Personally, I am not for the idea but I am not saying it wont happen. Though these sticks could be anything. I would take this with a grain of salt. The parking garage will open because it is finished and the owners will quicker be able to get a return of investment...
  8. Christian

    Small News From The Theme Park Industry

    The more RMC, the better. Sadly, It won't be
  9. Christian

    Small News From The Theme Park Industry

    A bit too late to announce an rmc now. Wonder what it'll be
  10. Christian

    Roller Coaster TV Programs and Other Related Videos

    If you want a good laugh watch this. It's basically a commercial for SFMM but produced by someone who even admits that thrills rides isn't his thing. I respect the honesty. Count how many mistakes he makes. Personally , I couldn't keep taking it seriously after he said this about Colossus...
  11. Christian

    Hershey Park | Wildcat's Revenge | RMC Wildcat | 2023

    Agreed! That looks hideous. The exposed front axle looks like this stupid blue fire clone train but with a cat glued on
  12. Christian

    Liseberg | Luna | Vekoma Family Boomerang | 2023

    Great post! Yeah this is the zoning plan that was approved on 16-11-2020. World of Volvo (furthest down) is already well underway in construction. The Liseberg expansion itself is very far in the the future, probably 10+ years away. Because they have zoned the land doesn't mean that they...
  13. Christian

    Top 10(ish): 2024 Edition - page 124

    If there is a midnight deadline then here is mine. First time I ever sort out a top 10 list. Most of these are interchangeable depending on which day you ask me. All are 10/10. 1. Flying Aces, Ferrari World, Intamin 2. Wildfire, Kolmården, RMC 3. Zadra, Energylandia, RMC 4. Taron...
  14. Christian

    Dollywood | Big Bear Mountain | Vekoma Family Launched Coaster | 2023

    That's what I was thinking, Mini Togo Track
  15. Christian

    Small News From The Theme Park Industry

    The original article gave "image" and "morality" as the excuse for starting to plan for cuts. The argument was that, people across the road might be struggling to pay their large electrical bills and they look out and see Liseberg shining like a beacon of light, when the park is actually closed...
  16. Christian

    Small News From The Theme Park Industry

    It will be the first time in the park's 100 year history when it will go completely dark. That will be exiting to see. Financially, I still think it's a weird decision. Liseberg has a fixed price electricity contract and will anyways be getting 0.5 SEK for every kWh they consume as compensation...
  17. Christian

    Small News From The Theme Park Industry

    Liseberg has today been demanded by the Gothenburg City Council (their owner) to cut their power consumption by 5%. They have published a three scenario process in case further cuts will be necessary. Today we are on scenario 1. Let's hope that's also where we will stay. Liseberg's three...
  18. Christian

    Serious incident at Silver Dollar City

    Passenger train derailments where the carriage falls from the boogie are very rare nowadays. Passenger trains are built and balanced differently on modern trains. For a wagon to derail it usually is a track problem or collision. To me this looks like the centre of gravity of that train is way...
  19. Christian

    Wholesale virtual queueing; what are your thoughts?

    Europe Park also has a Liseberg style system, although it doesn't take as many bookings as Liseberg's. In my opinion EP virtual queue system is a worse one. While at Liseberg you can usually not book more than 2 hours away, at EP you can. Therefore it always fills up and secondly you will need...
  20. Christian

    Hossoland | Poland | Theme Park | 2025

    I also think that is a monorail, there is also another monorail on the left side of the map. But isn't there also a kiddie on the lawn, separate from the monorail?
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