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Yes they are kind of fluffy miniature pancakes, cooked on a special cast iron pan, and traditionally served with butter and powdered sugar.

Holy crap! I was there a few weeks ago and my friends/family weren't too excited to ride Batavia and Fjord Rafting. Now I'm really glad I convinced them at the time. Such a shame this happened, but I'm sure they will recover and come up with a great replacement ride.

Yeah I went in the first week of Wintertraum last year and decided I should make it a yearly ritual because it was amazingly quiet. All the rides were walk-ons, save for Taron. But even that ride had about a 5-10 minute wait, so I managed to ride it 17 times. Have to say, I was completely spaced out after that ... You should definitely try to get in some last rides on Taron way at the end of the day just before it closes, because it looks amazing at night, especially in front (its hard to get a front seat though, because everybody wants in on it and with an empty park, the ride ops get annoyed when literally everybody begs for front seat). Also personally, last year I thought the closing ceremony wasn't really worth it, but the special show at the Chiapas ride is totally worth seeing. Do take note though, they close Chiapas for the show because of all the fire effects, so don't forget to ride Chiapas before then (the show is at 5-ish if I remember correctly).

^ They do close it early each winter day, at about 5pm. But only because a few minutes later there is a winter show with projection mapping on Chiapas and what could best be described as a Stomp show performed by a fountain of flamethrowers that are mounted near the track of the ride. For real. @ OP, can confirm everything was a walk on because I was there the same day ^_^ If only we could have hung out Thanks for taking some nice pictures, since I was too awestruck by the Klugheim area at nighttime to take any myself! ...actually I can add one more picture from the launch section that turns hellish red when its dark My friends agreed that Taron is surprisingly awesome with ridiculous ejector air, gnarly launches and a crazy lineup of proper speed coaster elements. The line was so empty I managed to beat my record of most rides on a coaster in one day (17) and while lately I've been feeling coasters don't get to me anymore, Taron totally wrecked me after a couple of rides. At the end of the day I was still getting them feels each and everytime when the train hits the brakes at the end and you're kinda sitting there taking it all in. Phantasialand really is a great visit during wintertime, just like everyone in this thread is saying. U can ride Winjas, Black Mamba, Chiapas and all the other cool stuff with barely any lines, or no lines whatsoever! And the pizza, icecream, pulled turkey, waffles and pretty much any of the fresh food they make is amazeballs. Definitely one of my favorite parks to visit all year round.

Oooooooh yeaaaaaaaah Not sure yet whether I'll go in july or if i'll take a detour after Gamescom, but I'm definitely not going to wait on this one

Yeah I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Phantasialand actually wants to expand in areas other than the Themepark itself. Which is totally fine by me, I think the fact that they have so many limitations spacewise, just forces them to be much more creative than any other park. I wouldn't mind if they sacrifice a few of the old rides to create a really dense and amazingly detailed park.

Monday-friday? Are you saying you're planning more than 3 days there?

I'd call Vliegende Hollander a family thrill ride, it is more of a dark ride/splash combo than a thrillcoaster or anything. Pretty much all the coasters are doable for the not so thrilly riders (other than Python & Baron). Vogel Rok is pretty tame, the GP usually thinks its really fast and has inversions, but it has a really simple layout and doesn't do anything crazy other than go fairly fast in the dark. Joris en de Draak is probably the third most thrilling coaster, but a really fun one! And lol yeah, Baron might have a gnarly first drop, but its silky smooth and thus in a way less intense than Python....kinda Long story short: when I go to the Efteling with family, the kids do ride: Vogel Rok, Vliegende Hollander, Bob, Joris en de Draak. They usually skip Python and Baron.

I went from London to Alton Towers and back to Heathrow in a day once Its possible but it does require you to get up really early and you have to plan out every single detail to make it work. It's a hassle but it's also possible. I woke up in a B&B extra early and took the bus to Euston train station, from there I took a train (with tickets I bought early for a good discount, not that expensive at all) and went to Stoke on Trent. From there it's an hour with the bus. In the evening I did the whole thing over because it was the day before a TPR trip and everybody was meeting up at Heathrow.. Personally I thought it was totally doable, the trains were cheaper and more reliable timewise than what I'm used to at home. But you will be traveling for many hours so for some people it's probably too much of a hassle. In my case I really really needed to go Alton Towers and I had no options to wait till morning to return or anything like that. If you do, than staying overnight is certainly the more relaxed route as I was up and about from 6 till 23 o Clock I think... Worth it though IMHO ^_^

With a month or 3 to go, I'm guessing they want to open it at the start of the peak season in july? I hope they can manage to do so, but with those two coasters, river quest and all that theming, I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of delays creep up.... In any case, as soon as we hear an opening date, I'm hauling ass to Brühl

^Same goes for the general theming of the park. With Platform 13 and Lost Gravity they are going for pretty much random theming compared to old stuff like Robin Hood that's still around from earlier.. Thanks for the cool report! The new coaster actually looks better in these pics than the ones I saw before, I'm definitely gonna check it out myself in the next few months. I wonder how the GP is gonna respond to it and where it's gonna rank in terms of popularity.

Just when you think Phantasialand can't be more amazeballs, they just keep surprising you with more stuff. The way they rethemed River Quest and just shoved a new coaster through it, genius. I've been this year already but I really hope they open the new area this year. Cant. Handle. The. Anticipation.

I went to the park a few weeks ago and man, Taron really looks amazing in person. It looks huge and imposing, somehow slapped into this tiny area. It also shows a lot more of the track and stuff compared to other rides at the park. Unless they are still going to add more theming to hide stuff... Btw Raik going under the lift of the updated River Quest is looking great to me, in general Klugheim is amazeballs in person, can't wait to go back once it opens

Man this coaster looks so awesome! I wonder what the color palette is gonna be once they add more non-rock theming? Is it gonna be really dark and black or is it gonna have a mini village around the station and stuff? I think there was an announcement at some point about them wanting to use any new land they can get their hands on for a waterpark/hotel/conference stuff. And that they want all new attractions to have the level of theming of Chiapas, so I guess they are gonna keep cannibalizing older attractions and areas in the future. Which is fine by me, makes it a really jampacked and unique park .

^ Hopefully they'll pull through this time and keep the theming for more than a few years for once. IMHO this time they've actually gone for the right target audience... But yeah nice TR man. I haven't ridden Turbine yet so I'm starting to get a little excited seeing more of it.

Seeing as this thread is growing quite fast I'd like to throw in what I'm working on.. like a few others Ive included a slider since, well, they're everywhere >_< Please don't take the navigation content too seriously as I'm trying out some things to get a bit of a cleaner look. Since a drop down menu is requested that leaves some questions as to what to do with the entire navigation. Tried to slightly modernize the page whilst keeping the park index and original look in mind without messing up the easy and clear lay-out that the frontpage has right now. I was reading some of the other feedback while I was making this so I'm already thinking about changing a bunch of stuff xD But at the moment I've chosen for a two column lay-out to try and keep it easy to use and I gave the TPR updates two dedicated spots. They could be switched with the announcements, considering priority and scrolling. In any case, before I start blabbering too much, just check it out below and if you have any first impressions/feedback to share that would be great! In the meantime I'll work on it some more and see if maybe I can make a widescreen and/or non scrolling variant as I usually wouldn't just go for the first version I worked out but try out several things. I really hope i didn't put this out too early but I felt like I was gonna drop behind if I didn't ask for impressions.

Awesome! I love me a nice design challenge every once in a while ^_^ I'm getting right on this as soon as I have some extra free time.

New video with a tidbit of behind the scenes talk and even onride footage ^_^ Man i wish I could go.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8EpdwtmVSE

Awesomeness, I love to see TR's with secret spots and whatnot. Thanks for the tips, especially since I'm going to Europa Park for a couple of days next sunday. Hoping to spot some new stuff since it will be my 2nd visit and I'll be able to take a bit more time to look around this time, which is something I often miss when I go to a big park.. Thanks for putting in the effort guys ^_^

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Holy slag! I was wondering the other day about EGF and had no idea it is back in action Thanks for the report Hanno! Can't believe I don't have this credit yet, I feel like going there right now!

I dont think its all water, the water around scorpios is darker and actually has a water texture, the blue under boosterbike and under troy is lighter and no texture, so I'm guessing its just to make it look better ^^ btw, i don't want to get ahead of myself here, but in the video you can see that booster bike has some theming with a colosseumlike structure at one end. I really hope they will (re)theme boosterbike, because it really doesnt fit in with the rest of the outdoor area, especially with the new attractions. Although i don't know how they would make the bikes work in this theming..

Whoo!! submitted! Had the same thing though, with the returning to the empty registration thing but getting the paypal confirmation stuff Do the registrations get through if the return to merchant doesnt entirely work?