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May I suggest you take a longer glance? Because you're missing some key details. 1) The city's current swimming pool costs €6 as well. That's why the deal mentions €6. You're suggesting a 300% increase? 2) Without the city's investment, Plopsa probably won't build a swimming pool. They would probably still build a waterpark, yes, but not a swimming pool. The deal is about a regular old swimming pool for lane swimming. For schools and stuff. 3) The city would pay ~600,000 euro annually for this deal, which is a bargain considering they currently pay 1.6 million for an outdated complex in need of an 8.5 million renovation.

Sounds like you haven't seen Plopsaland's waterpark yet?

The park has presented its proposal for a new waterpark to the city of Hassloch. The city has been debating whether they should renovate the existing public swimming pool, or build a new one. Plopsa's proposal is of course for a new one, as part of a waterpark at Holiday Park. edit: To clarify, this is about Plopsa including a "normal swimming pool" in its waterpark. Plopsa / Holiday Park: - would pay for the construction - Plopsa would operate it - includes all future costs and renovations - would build on its own property the city of Hassloch: - would pay €900,000 every year for the next 25 years - €120,000 annually from the 26th year - locals would only pay €6 for a day at the entire waterpark (compared to €25) - there would also be free parking for locals - locals would always have access, even when the park is full for other guests - income from tickets sold to locals would fully go to the city - the city mentions 40,000 locals visited the current swimming pool in 2014 - if the same number of people would visit the new pool, the city would receive €224,000 from tickets - this reduces the annual investment from 900,000 to €676,000 - from the 26th year they would be making a profit of €104,000 a year - the city currently has an annual loss of 1.6 million on the existing swimming pool - a major renovation would cost at least 8.5 million some other facts: - the indoor park would be open year-round - the outdoor area from April to September - indoor park includes wave pool and slides, as well as a 25m competition pool, and a smaller pool for kids - outdoor park includes a water playground, and a second heated 25m competition pool - some areas themed to Maja, Heidi, Wickie, etc. - construction would take 28 months Plopsa also confirmed there are plans for an indoor themepark and a hotel, both with a year-round opening in mind. source: Holly-Info

Even though this new "park" is just a museum and not an actual theme park, wine-themed rides aren't anything new: Tripsdrill has its own winery, and has a wine museum (with tasting) and a wine-themed ride. PortAventura's Furius Baco is themed to a wine-maker who is looking for people to test his "grape-picking invention". Baco is Spanish for Bacchus, the Roman god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine. Nigloland is in the middle of the Champagne-region and promotes a number of local vineyards on its website: Vineyards as seen from the park's ferris wheel: Holiday Park is located in the Riesling-region. Nothing wine-themed here, but there is "Germany's largest wine barrel" on display: And I guess Ratatouille at the Walt Disney Studios kind of qualifies too, no?

April 29: May 18: May 28: photos: Skyfans

Embedded for convenience: I still love that second camelback, which squeezes itself through the lifthill structure.

Finally some new pictures, taken yesterday by a Dutch enthusiast: photos: Bryan Geraards

Episode 3 today, with a visit to Mack:

Seems like they're done with the footers... photos: JoelA34, Coasterfriends.de

The park has started advertising the new water park on its website: http://www.europapark.de/en/services-info/worth-knowing/new-2018-water-adventure-resort And some new artwork... Hotel: Waterpark:

Some new information and even a video of the Peter Pan refurb: source: Disneyland Paris

The proud parents: Steve van den Kerkhof (Plopsa CEO) and Clair Hain (GCI co-founder) The first passengers: For the wall enthusiasts: photos: Plopsaland

Well, it's no Cedar Point. Still, there are 7 coasters (including the Super Splash), and on a busy day that's probably 4 to 5 hours of your day already. As for non-coaster thrills, there's a really big log flume, a 60m wave swinger and a Disk'o Coaster. But that's about it. Everything else is for kids and families.

Looks like that additional support on the "speed bump" wasn't such a good idea. Dutch enthusiasts are reporting you now get a rather violent sideways jolt when going over the hill. Some even spent the rest of the day with a headache. And it doesn't look very healthy for the trains either... Another video, and in slow-motion:

The hills are alive... First test run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NB7xRu3o9w Official POV:

Some new waterpark plans & facts: - Scandinavian theme - 12 000 m² indoor area - 2 500 m² outdoor area - construction to start this Fall - 140 million euro (indoor waterpark + hotel) - largest investment in the history of the park source: Badische Zeitung

It took a while, but construction has finally started and the park is now set to open in 2018. Most, if not all of the park will be indoor. Time Warner press release: More details from Miral: New artwork: Older artwork: Construction photos: © Time Warner © Time Warner © TravellerCzech photos: Miral & TravellerCzech

Opening Saturday at noon... photos: Heide Park & Heide-Park-World

New for 2017: a 10-loop coaster The photos used in the announcement photo, as well as on billboards in the park, are of an Intamin 10-looper, more specifically the ride at Cinecitta. There have been rumors that park is in trouble, so maybe they're selling that coaster? There is also one of those rides in storage at Hopi Hari in Brazil. However... the park's website mentions the new coaster will be "from the creators" of the park's Bluefire-clone. So it might be a Mack. Confusing. Where's the Gutterflower bat signal? Announcement on the park's website: And in the park itself there's a big sign near the Screaming Squirrel: photo: R Jasper

Without the wood, it would look too much like a Norwegian sleigh. Without the artwork, it would look "wild west". Did you see the artwork (posted many months ago) of what it should look like when completed? I thought that looked pretty good... Anyway, some more construction photos: photos: Plopsaland

A first glimpse of the trains... photo: Plopsaland

Well, it's here. A complete, and pretty high-quality POV of Pirates of the Caribbean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TIklXtMDGk

Episode 2 of the making-of, with a visit to JoraVision:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2B5jwr3YiY

Some scenes from Pirates of the Caribbean: First you pass a restaurant... ...sometime later a wild Jack Sparrow appears... ...and then this happens: