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Most likely when they realized what it woud cost to build. As awesome as it looked, I doubt it would have payed itself back. I'm a little bummed that there's no theming at all on the towers, the concept art showed at least some.

There is a local guy (or girl) who post a video every weekend of this. They have been pretty boring, but recently the slides started rising, and it's well worth a look. Here's the latest one: I really love the colors of the Tornado, and that OctoKraken racer looks insane, it will easily be the best mat slide Whitewater has ever done.

That looks really good!

That looks brilliant!

This is going to be one amazing addition to the park.

This is possibly going to be the best flume in the world.

And it is beautiful! Source

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Some new pictures from their Facebook. And here's a video. Testing video This ride will not be for everyone, that's for sure.

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I hate steel structures for wooden coasters, but this inversion looks insanely cool!

I'm not really a big fan of the King Cobra itself, but the rest of the slides on the big tower looks cool!

Saw this a few days ago. Looks awesome, the ride actually has the biggest drop of any water coaster. It was only a matter of time for them to build one with LIM technology. Just look at how Proslide has completely exploded with orders for these lately, and also the biggest strength Whitewater has is being able to design, engineer and build complete water parks, so this was needed for them to be able to supply every ride possible. I would be very surprised if we didn't see them build a big 6-man version in the near future.

This. As disgusted as some may be by the advertising, doing the stuff written here is even more disgusting. So you don't se how how people could get upset about it? When it comes to commercial it needs to be 100% idiot proof. The messages needs to be clear from the start, you can't leave anything for people to interpret as they want, like they done here. Especially not things that are as sensitive as this, after all this is Sweden. The thing I'm most annoyed by is the park. They all live in this country and they know how it work, they should have predicted the shitstorm coming. The fact that the CEO wrote on his blog that before running it they were not sure if it would be received as planned should have been enough to decide not to do it. There are so many other ways to do great commercials. Well, not really. When you have done a commercial that people get offended by, then it's not really silly.

Watch the park's social media. And yes, when you get you're own TV debate for this kind of stuff, it is extremely hurtful. I have not even met one person that is not upset about this.

I don't know if anybody here (except for the Swedes) has seen it, but Liseberg has been really hurt lately from an insane advertising campaign they decided to run. Read more here Basically what it does is that there is a poster with a crying child that says "Some kids are forced to go to Mallorca this summer", and down in the corner it says "Liseberg, happy kids guaranteed" What I'm most upset about is that when the poverty is getting bigger thanks to the economy, and a lot of children won't be able to go to Liseberg, they decide to run a campaign that basically says that it is a pity for children who "has to go on a sunny vacation". The media around this has been HUGE. It has been on the news, in articles and even a prime time TV debate. People working at Liseberg has even received death threats. Liseberg defends itself with "the message has been taken out of context" and "we thought people would laugh". They also claimed that they have tried it on people before running the campaign and that no one thought of poverty. Personally I think it's really bad taste that they decided to run this, and I really don't understand how they could not see what was going to come at them, after this campaign. A funny thing is that it shocked the tourist sector in Crete, with the Association of Hoteliers in Chania complaining directly to the Swedish ambassador in Athens. The president of the Association M. Giannoulis commented to local media Flashnews “I understand that this company wants to attract customer, but not with such methods.” The Association sent a complain letter to Swedish embassy in Athens, to Foreign and Tourism Ministry and hope that Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni will solve the issue. Kefalogianni is due to visit Sweden on Thursday in an effort to stimulate the flow of Swedish tourists to Greece. I can understand the way that they have thought when coming up with this idea, but not the way they decided to do it. Anyway, I won't write more about this matters, but the campaign has really hurt the park, and they have for sure lost a lot of customers by this. The CEO of Liseberg has posted a well written letter about the subject on his blogg, you can find it here (google translation needed) Andreas blogg

That's a really high quality family ride they got there!

The new Krakenracer looks awesome! Source

The CEO of Djurs is quite the coaster fan, and has ridden a lot of coasters. The ride was inspired by Jet Rescue (the ride itself), Furius Baco (the pre show) Goliath Walibi (the last turn) and the colors from Cheetah Hunt.

It looks like any other new B&M ride. The setting is awesome though, and I would love to ride it.

I'm very interested in this concept as well, and I really wish for one to be built here in the Nordic countries.

Eclipse looks great! Can't wait to try it out.

I love Gerstlauer wild mouse coasters, and the surroundings looks cool for this one.

Nice pics! Really like the look of Chiapas.

Although it don't quite reach giant frisbee measures, this one looks bigger (and more awesome) than your average frisbee. Really can't wait for some night pictures with that awesome looking light package! Facebook