PTR Random parks, Kirmes and DRAGONS!! (Tosselilla) finished

[Anonymous]

As some of you already know, I have recently been on a short trip to a bunch of smaller parks in northern Europe, with some German Fairs and some more well known parks thrown into the mix. Before the actual trip the whole family went on a weekend to Öland, which is the second largest island of Sweden and that is well known for it's nature (or something...), and it's the place where this trip report actually starts...

Index:
Day 0:
Family pre-trip with some extra credits...

Day 1:
Part Uno - One of the crappiest park in Sweden...
Part Due - Could this be worse??

Day 2:
Ichiban - Curses...
Niiban - Olympia Looping love!!

Day 3:
Blandness benchmark and BONUS!!
Kirmes time again!!

Day 4:
Massive GCI update, with DRAGONS!!

Day 5:
Back to the random crap again...
Friday the thirteenth strikes again!!

Day 6:
Riding with deaf mutes is awesome!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Ok here goes...

Day 0, or as it really should be day -1 and 0.
We all went on a short weekend drive to Öland which is located on the other side of Sweden from where we live. On the way there we visited our uncle at a "antique" engine show (which actually was the main reason why we went), and going to Öland was pretty natural since most of us hadn't been there before...
Luckily enough for me I knew that there was a few credits there that I haven't ridden at the time, so I had an excuse to leave my parents and get some new credits while they went on a rock pile (aka. old buildings) sightseeing

I expected the place to be a bit crappy by what I have herd of it before I got there, and the entrance fee seemed like a rip-off to what I knew was available, but that changed when we got in...

The main reason for this weekend trip was the motor show, they had a lot of stuff that made a great noise, most of the engines were 50+ years old, some a lot older than that.

The insanely long bridge between Mainland Sweden and Öland

First things first, before we went to the park we made a mandatory tourist stop at the southern lighthouse, Long Jan

But beware there was a lot of animals on the road

The old Swedish kings really know how to show off, like this wall that stretch right across the southern tip of Öland

Finally it's time for some new credits!!

Shame that I left my speedos at home

Welcome to Ölands Djur och Nöjespark!!

Blues Brothers??? WTF??

I spy a credit!!

But before that, here is a monkeys ass

and Flamingos

and a goat

This was new, a blue monkey...

Some other animal

Insert fart sound here...

Llamas!!

I couldn't get the full mugshot so here is half

Camel doing some neck exercises

See they are not only in Kenya

Teenage mutant ninja turtles!! or not...

Who needs Africa, when you can stay here by the savannah

Complete with Zebras

Strutsar

And other horned animals

Lemurs!!

Wiiii

Yo Human open the dooor!!

Another monkey

Some horned cow like thing

They have a lot of monkeys

Lynx says Nyaaa!!

Snooze

Did anyone say food??

They have even got tigers, no need for Kenya

Mirror mirror in the water...

It's the Coon!!

Hmm, strange type of tiger

More strange animals

Black bears

Chimpanzees

Hey come here

No not you

Did we walk through a time warp??

Oh Noes!!

It got my brother

It is coming!!

Finally some attractions

Easily the best ride in the park!!

Random stalls

First credit

Antenna POV

I know you love it

Did I say that this place was deserted today

Mmmm, another credit

Other stuff

Ok...

Be aware of sharks

Afrika expressen

I don't know if I trust this guy...

It have incredible themeing

Nice

Even more Monkeys

The Geopard does not approve

Monkey POV

Looks like a Pinfari, but we couldn't find any information, and asking any pf the ops was useless since none of them spoke Swedish or any other "normal" language...

Here we go

Crappy ghost train

Complete with dragon

Waltzer of DEATH, most awesome waltzer I have ever ridden, it spun like crazy when you got the balance right, and if that wasn't enough the ride op came out during the ride and spun you even more

Blues Brothers approves this ride!!

We went by the water park section to have a look

Booo, the Nautical Jets are down

Small flume ride

I approve of this themeing in the "Pirate section"

Warning a fat guy

By rides

Creepy...

Finish of with a few Awww pictures:

Bye Ölands Djur och Nöjespark for this time!!

 

[Ian]

Why is the park so dead in August?

 

[Anonymous]

My guess would be that it's too little tourist in the area, which this park need since there isn't enough people living there to fully support a park this size (which can be seen in the operating dates for the park, middle of May to last of August, only Liseberg and Gröna Lund are open longer in the year).
The reason why there is so little tourist there could be due to the fact that it's the end/close to the end of the vacation periods for the parents and the weather haven't been that great in August.
Could also be that we went there for a couple of hours just when they opened for the day

 

[Snoo]

BOOBS!!!

 

[ECG]

WOW!
So bad that it's good!
I don't know really where to begin...
Camel humps just look sad.
Tiger train is

ing awesome!
Mammoth on rooftop? WTF!?!
Monkey/leopard coaster cars <3
Huge shark to scare little ones on kiddie boat ride. LOL!
Nautical Jets - WANT!!
Creepy hot dog guy is creepy...
Bunnies = LUNCH
Nom!

 

[furie]

Wow, it's like Knowesly Safari Park, only done in an odd Viking manner, rather than Scouse! :lol:

I do love all the random fibre glass "theming" LOL!

Bunnies FTW though!

 

[Anonymous]

^^^ More of that later

^^ LOL

^ I discovered that there are several parks like those in Sweden...

 

[Anonymous]

Here comes the first park of the first day of the real trip to Europe. On this day we had planned to do 2 parks before we arrived at our hotel in southern Sweden that evening. So this was a pretty quick stop, mainly since we didn't really dare to ride anything apart from the coaster they had. I mean most of the rides at these small places are rented from Axels Tivoli, which is a company that runs most of the traveling attractions here in Sweden (same company that ran the rides on the random fair that I visited in northern Sweden a couple of years ago). I mean most of the press about this company usually features deaths, electrocutions and other injuries...
They have some killer Waltzers though

It's more of the same as the day before, crappy rides and more animals...

Welcome to FUN CITY!!

They have a free bus going between the local camp grounds and the park, it even goes to Ullared <3

I don't know really, they were setting it up when we got there and still weren't finished when we left...

WTF??

Obligatory obstacle course

Some attractions looks stationary

While others just look plonked down the same morning

Mini Golf...

More camels

I spy coaster

I have ridden a bungy ball, but this looks insane

It were supposedly to launch you from 0-200 in 3 seconds, but I don't think that the physics really supported that...

Only coaster in the park

It's called Ragnarök, which is the end of the earth

Fortunately for us, it was pretty decent, I would even rank it over the Reverchon equivalence

They had some floating hamster balls

Which this girl was pretty crappy at, I don't think that she stood up for more than a few seconds

It didn't open until later, but I don't think that I would have ridden it then

The Pig says Nöff

No Edgar here

Hmmm, do these goats play don't touch the ground??

Oh, deer, no it rains...

This one have the most awesome antlers I have ever seen

These are the real deer

Circus tent??

Obligatory water park

More water park with random dude at the top

Western area

Warning they might shoot of your hand

That was it really

W00t!! Hidden alpine slide

Completely self operated

First you have to drag your sled to the top of the hill

Until you can see the underwear of the man

And then you just go like crazy, it was completely insane, and would most likely not work in North America or the UK...

This place sounded like an awesome Trance Club, but it's only a Bull Riding machine

More random rides

Swinging ship again, with "haunted" walk through

Coaster again

Bye bye Fun City, I won't be back in a hurry...

Tomorrow it's time for the next place with Axels Tivoli

 

[Ploddish]

I'm trying to comprehend that sideways bungee ball thing. What on earth... 0-200 in 3 seconds? That's 120mph! Who makes them, anyway?

 

[Anonymous]

^ That speed is, as I said in the report, very over estimated. According to the info found on the Manufacturer page I would assume that the top speed it more like 50 mph or something, it's physically impossible to reach 120 mph in that short stretch with the forces they have posted, especially with bungees alone...

More info about the attraction can be found at: http://www.technicalpark.com/formula_one.htm

 

[Anonymous]

We decided to check in to the hotel before we headed for the last park for the day, which was only a few kilometers away.
Malmö Folkets park is no way near to what the other inner city parks in northern Europe, especially when you compare it to the likes of Liseberg, Gröna Lund, Tivoli Gardens or Linnanmäki. I wouldn't even stretch it as far to compare it to Tivoli Friheden or Karolinelund, since even those are better than this place. Most of the attractions are again from Axels Tivoli which again means that they are potential death traps, which my brother found out on one of the rides. Still it had a killer Waltzer <3

Picture time...

Welcome to Malmö Folkets Park

This Observation wheel was put up with little fuss compared to the one in Gothenburg

YAY another Fabbri Spinning mouse

This one was the smaller model

My brother hit some of the bushes on one of the turns

Na Na Na Na Na Na BATMAN!!!

Feels really safe.... :roll:

Wheel through the trees

Mini drop tower

Wave Swinger

Third credit for the day

One of several Wacky Worms in Sweden

At the end of this year I will only have 4 of these left to do

What does that sign say...

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that the new wheel in Gothenburg is taller then this...

Artsy photo of a dangerous ride

Before we left to get another MAX credit we stopped by for some BJ

Bye bye I won't miss you either

Some artsy fountain

Main entrance or is it the main exit???

Awww


That's it for the first day, tomorrow it's time for a great 3:rd visit at an awesome park

 

[Anonymous]

The second day we started on the journey through Denmark into Germany, this took longer than we first anticipated which caused us to arrive a little late, even though it didn't matter. Anyway, we arrived shortly after opening at Hansa Park loaded with fresh non-Swedish wine gums <3 from the ferry. The only reason why we went there was to experience Fluch von Novgorod that have been completed since the last time we were there...

I think that several people agree with me that FvN is a really great coaster, even without all the themeing, but now with everything finally put together it's a whole new beast
The remodeled hill into the station is another great improvement for us guys at least

I spy a former Legoland

Recently with a complete facelift of the whole entrance

In case anyone want to know the date we were there

Missed the perfect picture by a few seconds

The main reason we were here

The Duck says Kvack!

Really great curves

They claim that this section is modeled after a knot, but it won't work...

Sideways air, mmmmmmmm....

Wiiiiiii

New entrance

New sign

Swamp with animatronic guy

Extreme airtime

Hello!!

Looks much nicer than last time

Lovely solar flair

One of several queue lights

With added bricks

And Doors

ZOOOooo...oooOOOM!!

The whole thing looks great

More queue

He looks really great

In case you wonder where we were heading

The queue were pretty long on the day we were there

Great worn look

Several nice touches

Soon there

Welcome to the Hansa office

Really cool animated picture

The other frame

Just LOL!!

More animations

Here is a guy that is hanging around

Choose your row

Great atmosphere in the station

The station building have a really nice look

No German park is complete with a swinging ship

One of the most boring elevator, together with a Star Flyer

Water ride + Bell

DOOONG!!

Part of the park

One really great looking Wild Mouse

These guys have been given some TLC

Didn't bother with it since the queue were a bit too long

We did give this one a go though

I love Schwarzkopf's

Om nom nom!!

One of the better roller-skaters, but we skipped this one as well

Nessie <3

Swoosh

No way near as rough as it looks

Just need to add some finishing touches to the tower

This bit feels a bit unnecessary really

This area looks way better than the rest of the park

The Two towers

Hmm, I guess that Heidi must be around here somewhere

They really need to fix this bit of the park, it's a real eyesore

Mmmmm

Complete FvN

Some water ride I have only seen from the tower

I can see our car from here

On the way out we got blocked by the parade

Stereotypical native Americans

Magic moving Tipi

Stereotype Vikings

Looks like a fish out of water

Nessie action

Is this the manager or just some random guy on the parade??

Nessie says good bye for this time.

So we left a bit early, but there is a good reason for that....

 

[nadroJ]

Hansa Park <3

I love trip reports like this, little random credit runs always let you discover strange little parks you otherwise would never think of going to really.

Also, more bunnies =]

 

[ECG]

I was wondering what they were going to do with those scarecrows after they removed from inside the station. Glad they put them to good use.
So how was the coaster with the new tracking & themeing?

 

[Anonymous]

The ride is exactly the same as last year, except for the hill into the station which is a lot gentler on both the forces and gentlemen area parts
The themeing on the other hand have been improved a lot with several animatronics, 3d projectors, normal projectors, water, sounds, etc. So to sum that up a lot better in the themeing area with many interesting surprises along the way, even though it lost a bit after 2-3 goes.
The only thing I would complain about is that the spoken lines in the story of the themeing was a bit hard to hear clearly...

 

[Anonymous]

After Hansa Park we headed for one other most anticipated stops of this trip, Hamburger SommerDom. Hamburg host this large fair 3 times every year, spring, summer and winter, and they keep it running for one month each time, so there is plenty of time to visit it, and I would think that's the reason why there was so little people there when we were there, sure we didn't go on a weekend but still. The only new credit for us there was the Wilde Maus, but the main attraction was of course Olympia Looping <3

Olympia Looping is easily the best transportable coaster out there, super smooth, fast and have lot's of nice forces to give you an experience that rival a lot of modern day looper's all over the world. Sure the restraints are a bit whack, but you can easily get used to them when you figure out how to strap yourself in them. The other great thing about this coaster it the way the run it. I mean 5-8 ops are checking the restraints how many parks do that?? even when running with a single train they hauled ass re-loading the train keeping the queue to a minimum.

W00t, we are almost there

Kirmes no.1 here we come!!

I spy with my little eye something that is pure awesomeness

Soon my precious

First things first

Only credit of the day

Mmmmmmünch

They had a lot of attractions running

But it was pretty empty

Sweet, bumper cycle

Random fun house

What is that!!

AWESOME, transportable go-carts

They were a blast to drive, completely lethal, but awesome

It was a bit tight, so overtaking was tricky

Frisbee

Empty bumper cars

Something that was constructed during WW2

They have of course a giant ass wheel

Soon...

Giant window mace

See what I mean

Half way there to Olympia Looping

Dracula ride

One of two Waltzer

Big Flume ride

Illusion House

Star Flyer

We already got this credit so we didn't bother

It's a standard Spinning Mouse

Fun, but no Olympia Looping

More stuff

Deadly Top Spin

Some other Huss contraption

Ghost Ride

Inverting Breakdance

There are even stuff for the smallest riders

And those who want to gamble

Another Waltzer

Zoooooom

These are everywhere, but the themeing on this one is something else...

BOOOBIES!!!

Ghos temple

Getting closer

Another thing that isn't for the faint-hearted

Before Olympia Looping I went on the slides

Just to get some nice images

Almost there

Pure pornography

These slides were great fun

What leaving already??

Random Fair shot

Simulator

Hai there

Pleasure is born here

Almost there

Back seats are awesome

Gaining a bit more altitude for the finale

It's always nice to grey out

Final helix

More random shots

No fair is complete without a berserk Break Dance

Star Flyer doing it's thing

And if you tire of the rides you could always get a beer

Didn't we just leave this place...

I guess you have to be really small to enjoy this one...

Other snacks

Half meter bratwursts, mmmmmmm...

the sex

If normal food isn't your thing...

Themed beer area

Fun house

Must have been really funny, since this guy LOLed pretty hard

More Airwolf

And beer

Did I say that they had beer at this place

Enter here

Sexy loops

Wave Swinger

Before I finis this segment, here are a few panoramas and HDR of Olympia Looping:

Olympia Looping says Good Bye!!

Could this be the Dom bit??

Onto the next place!!

 

[furie]

Obviously jealous of you getting on Olympia Looping. However, those go-karts look seriously great fun too

 

[Dave]

Such an amazing fair, really want to experience Olympia Loopen!

Btw, that concrete WW2 Tower is this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower

 

[Anonymous]

^^ This time it was only re-rides since I rode it 4 years earlier on the same date, I have loved it ever since

^ Great stuff, that's was a lot better than the info we found that day...