Walibi Belgium | Mecalodon | Gerstlauer Family Coaster | 2025

[M91]

Dock World will open with the park in less than 48 hours.

And the park confirms in the comments that Mecalodon will be open as well !

 

[KristofWB]

The Walibi Belgium staff had the first ride of Mecalodon today. I've seen a story on Instagram and the station of the coaster looks sooooo amazing!











Pictures: Walibi Belgium

 

[Matt N]

This looks like quite an intriguing step up for Gerstlauer’s family coasters!

They’ve never done a family coaster with an LSM launch before, anyway. It looks like a cool ride!

 

[Niles]

We have the POV

 

[Hixee]

Well that looks rather good, doesn't it?

 

[Slamming Coastercore]

It looks fantastic! I feel like Walibi Belgium has now firmly established itself as the best regional park in Europe. For the parks that are on a similar level, I struggle to think of any that are better. It's top of my list at the very least.

 

[Efteldingus]

The thing looks absolutely brilliant. When I first saw the early renderings I wasn't too sure as I thought the placement of the ride was a bit odd. But now with all of the theming (and the water!) in place, it's really come alive incredibly well.
They've definitely become one of the top dogs of the European theme park industry over the last decade. The future sure looks bright for this place.

 

[M91]

Some technical issues but I'm almost on

 

[M91]

Honestly very impressed. Even in 5th row some nice whips and airtime. Overall a fantastic addition to the park line-up!!

Edit: end of my day at the park, rode Mecalodon 5 times. It definitely gets better as the day goes on. First ride of the day it slowed down quite a lot before each launch section, this was less noticeable later on.

I rode it at the front and back, and i much prefer it at the back. There are a lot of moments on the coaster where if you're sitting at the front, you sometimes awkwardly hang there waiting for the rest of the train to push you.

But it's truly excellent. Especially for a family coaster. It's quite long and the diverse elements are great. Operations were really quick. Bravo Walibi Belgium !!

 

[Georgie-M]

It's kind of incredible how far this park has come in only a decade. Before Pulsar was announced, it had seen basically no investment since the Six Flags era outside of a failed prototype that barely lasted a year. To go from that to a lineup this solid is fantastic to see, and I cannot wait to see where the part goes next.

 

[davidm]

So this is weird, a pirate-metal band I like (as does @peep) - Alestorm - do a thing where they hide a plectrum somewhere and post it on their instagram-sories for people to find (they usually do this prior to that day's gig when on tour).

Anyway, today they posted this;



My worlds have collided!