viking86

Hoppy Sanchez Mexican Lager from Æger Brewery. It was quite decent!

So much easier to browse the forums on the mobile now, I love it! Great work!

I can definitely recommend the Safari Sky Ride! Not only do you get great views of the animals as you glide in complete silence over their heads without disturbing them, but you also get some spectacular views of both Wildfire and the surrounding scenery! Also prepare for plenty of walking at Kolmården because the park is huge!

I just got back from holidays with friends in Germany, and since Heide Park was close to where we were staying, me and a friend decided to make a day trip out to the park. I thought that Heide Park mostly was a very beautiful park, though some areas could need a little touching up. Since it was a weekday the crowds were fairly light. It was also a very hot day, which was definitely taking a toll on my energy level throughout the day. But I had fun in what I would consider a fairly good park. Our first ride of the day was Krake. This ride had a 20-30 min wait, and since the line for the front row was long we went for the backrow. The ride is short, but very fun! Particularly the drop was a lot more powerful than I expected. I was also lucky to have a large amount of space between me and the restraint, so I was completely floating down the entire drop. I would definitely have liked a longer ride, but what it did it did very well! Next up was Big Loop. The ride was a walk-on so we hopped directly into the front seat. In terms of ride comfort I thought this ride was surprisingly ok. As we were in the front, we were pretty much halfway down the drop before we started accelerating, so that wasn't much to talk about. But those loops pulls some serious G's! Overall I thought it was pretty fun and something I wouldn't mind riding again. We made our way around to the other side of the lake. Walking by the closed Colossos was a little bit of a bummer, but at least I was prepared for it. Continouing down the path, we made our way to Rita... errr, Desert Race! This ride looks so out of place and the theming is very half-assed. The ride was also a walk-on, so we hopped into the second row of the first car. Like all Intamin launched coasters, the launch is very good, but the rest of the ride left a lot to be desired. Don't get me wrong, it was fun, but even after 11 years the area around the ride itself still has an unfinished feel and it just made the whole thing a very forgettable experience. I didn't get any pictures of Desert Race. After taking a spin on the log flume to cool down a little and then getting some snack, we made our way across the park again and up the hill where several of the parks major rides are located. We first went on Bobbahn. I have never ridden a Bobsled coaster, but it was very fun. Only downside was the restraint digging into my stomach as we were sitting two people in the same car which made it a bit tight, riding solo would probably have been more comfortable. But it was a very fun ride with a very impressive looking station building. At the very top of the hill is Scream, the parks Intamin drop tower. With the seats being so close to the tower, the vehicle produced a serious blast of wind when it reaches the bottom of the tower. I can ride pretty much any rollercoaster and be fairly relaxed, but these drop towers always make me nervous, which I kinda like. Since the area around the park is flat, you also get a fantastic view from the top of the tower. The drop was fantastic, and the brakes seemed to kick in very late. I love these rides! Next up was the Flug der Dämonen, which was my first wingrider. Unfortunately I did not have a great experience on it. I think maybe it was the heat getting to me, and standing in the uncovered queue line in the scorching sun definitely didn't help, because I found every inversion to be extremely disorienting and dizzying to the point where it was not pleasant for me. I only rode it once so I'm not going to make any conclusion that it's not a good ride or anything like that, this was simply my personal experience on this particular day. I must also mention that it's a great looking ride with very good scenery around it. I was also surprised at the terrain elevation changes around the ride, I thought it was built on flat ground. We saved the worst for last and went for a ride on Limit, the parks Vekoma SLC. As expected I didn't like it at all, and I don't think there is much more to say about this ride. We also got a ride on the rapids ride and had a burger meal before leaving the park. As the heat was really getting to us, we didn't ride anything more than once. I'll end the trip report with a picture of the monorail. Thanks for reading!

Limit @ Heide Park. Hated it!

Two week vacation starting TODAY! F**KING YES!!!

Don't forget to give Lisebergbanan some love as well, it's a great ride! (and a capacity monster)

Saw a spider in my bedroom. Went to get some paper towels to squish it with. Came back and the spider is now nowhere to be seen...

Awesome to see the first drop going up! Definitely very excited to ride this thing!

Two more days at work and then I'm off for vacation for two weeks!

Oh ffs... why is this even being reported in the news???

Good thing I haven't planned anything around Liseberg so far, I'll probably do a late summer/early autumn trip to check out Valkyria! (and the rest of what is one of my absolute favorite parks... )

^^&^I know it has been done also on Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park.

Those are some awesome pictures! It must have been quite an experience to bee inside the building with the coaster running. Thanks for sharing!

I'd say your original "quiet" plan sounds like my definition of a very busy year lol... I still only have Heide Park in 12 days on my definitive to-do list this year. There is a good chance of a visit to Liseberg later this year, love that park so much! A weekend trip to Poland for Legendia/Energylandia would be great also.

I'm not sure if I would like to go there, but I really want to see some onride videos of these abonimations in action.

Well, I wouldn't call it weather, but since the topic was brought up... And yes, the winters are terrible due to the short days! Dark when you go to work, dark when you go home from work. It just seems to drain a lot of the energy out of you...

^Yeah, you have to travel a lot further north for that. But just for fun I had a look at the weather data, and the official numbers for today are saying sunrise at 4:51 AM and sunset at 10:20 PM. According to the data the longest day will be on June 21st. This day we will have sunrise at 04:09 AM and sunset at 11:11 PM, meaning just over 19 hours of daylight. But it never gets completely dark this time if year. And just for fun, if I look at the darkest day of the year this past winter, which was December 21st, we had sunrise at 9:44 AM and sunset at 3:29 PM.

Only 9 PM???

Good to see Disneyland Paris bouncing back for their 25th anniversary last year, after their 2016 attendance took a huge hit due to the terrorist attack in 2015, which caused a general decline of tourism in the area.

Continuing down the American path, I was unfortunately far from impressed by this Bad Hops Contract Double IPA from Ska Brewing, definitely not buying this one again... Then I much preferred Sierra Nevada's Torpedo Extra IPA, although I liked their Celebration Fresh Hop IPA better.

Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh Hop IPA. New to me, but absolutely not bad at all, I quite liked this one.

I'm guessing it'll be a first for many riders. I remember the first time I rode Fahrenheit, the vertical lift freaked me out as it does the same kind of thing. Also, for what it's worth, I thought the drop on this was better than some of the other beyond-vertical drops I've been on. It really does give you a sense of falling. Vertical lifts are a bit freaky! When I went to Hansa Park last year the only part of Kärnan where I just could not get myself to let go of the restraint was the lift hill. The entire rest of the ride was hands up!

I don't see how anyone could possibly find this picture creepy in any way! Although I feel that Elsa is not quite getting the attention she deserves...

When Thursday is public holiday...