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Coaster premiere: Biggest/Tallest portable Wild Mouse ever! Track length: ~600m Height: 27m Speed: 60 km/h (~45 mph) Layout (computer graphic by MACK): http://www.wildemaus-xxl.de/vorderansicht.jpg Wilde Maus XXL Other rides: Wildwasser - Meyer & Steiger Atlantis Rafting - J.Vorlop Riesenrad - 60m/Steiger Sky Dance - Nülken Airwolf - Eberhard Transformer - Schmidt Frisbee - Robrahn Shaker - C.Wilhelm Dom Dancer - Rüth Take Off - Rüth Hip Hop Jumper - Greier Wellenflug - Barthel Viva Mexico - Nülken Tropicana - Urbigkeit Love Dream - J.Rasch Action - Ohlrogge Münchener Rutsch'n - Stey Stardust(AS) - Vespermann-Hartkopf Bumper 1(AS) - Harder Super Scooter - Rene Rasch Source: sh-kirmes.de

Stockholm, capital city of sweden, is a major tourist and especially cruise-ship destination. On my second day in the city there were 4 cruise -ships in town and most destinations were overcrowding with tourists. I opted for a book in one of the cities nice parks and was happy I visited the Vaasa Museet and Gröna Lund on my first day in town. All alcoholic beverages are very expensive in sweden. Even if beer is available everywhere half a liter costs about €6-8 or USD 8-10 in restaurants, €4-6 or USD 6-8 in supermarkets. Gröna Lund packs a lot on a very small space. This means no sore feet after a day in the park - but also that on a slower day it's already quite crowded compared to other parks. I'd not recommend visiting Gröna Lund in the high season after Midsommar. Another fact that the Break Dancer and Extreme were very crowded all day long - lines all day well over 30 minutes! I skipped those as I can ride those easily at a carnival in germany without lines. Next to those you'll also find a Waveswinger, a Flying Carpet, a Monster, a Coffeecup-Ride plus a good pack of kiddie- and family-rides. The coasters: Jetline: Classic Zierer/BHS/Schwarzkopf goodness which still packs a punch, after the wide loop around the park the second part of the coaster reminds me alot of the portable Alpina-Bahn starting with the signature near-vertical "Schwarzkopf"-Dive Twister: Best woodie on this trip, not very tall but sporting a quirky twisting layout with great pops of ejector-air Vilda Musen: Gerstelauer Bobsled coaster offering alot of fun, nice airtime-moments and some serious Gs for a family-coaster, capacity might get low on high-capacity days Kvasten: At Gröna Lund even the Vekoma Inverted is good fun Insane: The big ZacSpin version a little more to my liking, offering far more spins than the smaller version Welcome to sweden. Sunny day taking the ferry from Turku. Cavernous subway stations in Stockholm deep under the city. Beautiful harbour views...(-; Historical 17th-century battleship Vaasa, nicely restored and a good tip spending the morning before heading to Gröna Lund which is right next door. Another morning tip - only a few subway stations from the city center - is getting a birdseye view of Stockholm from Ericsson Globen. Mhhhmmm....Could this be credit? Indoor bumper cars, in sweden of course Volvo bumper cars...(-; Indoor Breakdancer - skipped this due to very long lines. But nice to watch and will get my Dancer rides on upcomming carnivals. Insane looming out onto the water, great location for this coaster. Speaking of great location... The second Monster on this tour...mounted on a swimming ponton this time This Monster made by Wieland in 2000. Classic and quirky ghosthouse. Extreme the other ride with insane lines all day - so this I also skipped for an upcomming carnival. Good Bobsled coaster Vilda Musen. Twister impressions - best woodie on this trip! Kvasten impressions - seldom found enjoyable Vekoma coaster Oh My! - Jetline station deserted! Jetline train marooned on the lift hill. Ride most likely closed for the whole day - What a let-down! At last they put up some pictures to cheer up all potential Jetline riders. Walking around the kiddie section of Gröna Lund... Family show. Entertainment! Dancing girls! No one believed it would happen but shortly after 8pm Jetline was running again. I saw the testrun from Twister and was onto the first train! Powerful Schwarzkopf dive! Last ride of the day was of course Jetline... Coming up next: Liseberg with more Schwarzkopf goodness and a brand-new Gerstelauer ride!

Tampere was and still is the leading industry city of finnland. Located between two huge lake-systems which are seperated by a granite barrier there're multiple water-driven powerplants connecting these two systems. While the industry moved out to industrial areas outside the city center as the water-plants were re-made into powerplants the old 19th century industry buildings were remade into cool areas consisting of museums, galleries, bars, restaurant and not to forget the good Plevna brewery. Särkäniemmi is located on a granite peninsula on one of the lakes. The park is a 15-minute walk from the city center and also reachable by public transit by bus 6 - or in summer by the "Funbus" from the central station. The park feels a little unplanned as with the entry fee you also get entry to an art museum, a dolphin show, an aquarium and the 120 meter observation tower which offers great views over the city and surrounding lakes. Offering a good and seldom found flats with a Huss Troika and Take-Off, Zierer Waveswinger and Flying Carpet, Mondial Supernova. Also a highlight are the two wonderfully landscaped waterrides with the logflume and the rapid river, the later going through a cave hewn out of the granite rock with a waterfall at the end which switches off only seconds before the raft goes through it. The coasters: Tornado - Intamin Inverted Looping Coaster: From now on my favorite invert, smooth ride but far more punch than the B&M inverts, a highlight the heartline roll that goes through a cave hewn from granite swooshing right over the coasters station Jet Star: What a feat to ride this Schwarzkopf goodie again after my last ride about 15 years ago on a carnival, pulling high Gs in the helices and making real classic coaster sounds, boy how it rattles and bangs MotoGee: Zamperla launched motocoaster, never thought I'd say this: the Vekoma variant is better Trysky: Zamperla flying coaster doing quite okay, overall I'm not a fan of flying coasters - may it be this or the B&Ms Welcome to Tampere - home of the "Wrong Noodle Bar" 2 am in the night - it wont get any darker here in june Zamperla rides from the other side of the harbor basin Tornado! Tornado station below with heartline roll above Sign of excellence - but of course the Jet Star was built by Anton... Wieland delivered a classic Krinoline Pirate ship and Mondial Supernova, a ride I still remember from german carnivals Hurricane was running on a good automated program, but lacking the near-inversions carnival ops got out of these under manual control Zamperla MotoCoaster - got there, have the credit - but no need for a re-ride they even have a classic VW Käfer on display...(-: This is what I would call the "carnival area", here a view with Volare, Flying Carpet and Troika And on the opposing side we've this great Schwarzkopf classic... Like multiple-ride photos The Huss Take-Off on the right is seldom-found in parks, however from carnival experience I can say that the passenger compartments can spin faster. On the current program at Särkäniemmi it only produces moderate Gs... Some Schwarzkopf goodness Some views from the observation tower, admission included in park entry Coming up next: Gröna Lund - with a quirky woodie and Schwarzkopf/Zierer classic that nearly flunked out on me...

Finland is a relaxed laid-back place like all Scandinavian countries and days were already very long early june with already no complete darkness at night. Linnanmaki lies a little outside the city center but is easily reached by the tram-loop 3B/3T in about 20 minutes from the central station. I keep mostly with the manufacturer's names of rides here a the finnish names are mostly hard to memorize for anyone not finnish - think of something mostly consisting of i,ä,ü,u,o's with a sprinkled l,k's here and there...(-; The park lies atop a hill so expect a lot of climbing stairs or steep walkways. The flat collection is very good with something for all tastes like a Huss Enterprise, Top-Spin and Booster, a (Anton) Schwarzkopf Monster and the standards like monorail, ferriswheel and drop-tower. Food-options are mostly midrange from typical fastfood to pizza. All self-service restaurants serve beer. The coasters: Maurer-Söhne SkyWheel - best coaster of the park, totally insane concept, long upside-down lapbar-hangtime Vouristorata - the brakeman-woodie, honestly quite lame compared to Tivoli's Rutschebanen, sometimes feared the brakeman would brake so much we'd go backwards down again Mack Powered Coaster - standard powered coaster at the side of the hill, nice location but lacking punch even for this kind of coaster Mack e-Motion coaster - nice layout but low capacity Maurer-Söhne Spinning Coaster - doubles with the e-Motion coaster but spins quite less compared to other installations Premier Liquid Coaster - short coaster section but this one really soakes you all wet, on the left side the water flows quite freely into the car so you'll have a wet ass Intamin ZacSpin small - the small variant of the ZacSpin not really my kind of ride, liking the big variant a little better Zierer Force enclosed coaster - totally harmless, coaster- and effect-wise Welcome to Finnland From the central-station you can already see Linnanmaki in the background Before heading to the park I went to the 17th century fortress island Soumenlinna. Guess I saw Snape or Malfoy down this walkways...(-; On my way to Linnanmaki dropped by renowned finnish chocolate manufacturer Fazer for a sweet lunch break Nice view upon entering the park with ZacSpin, Enterprise and ferriswheel. Entry is free, ridebands and tickets available at the booths under the Enterprise Shoot/Drop-tower with classic caroussel and Vouristorata in the back SkyWheel absolutely cool. Can I have one for my garden??? Vouristorata with its always braking brakeman TopSpin was running very good for an automated program - with a 4-5 spin, lots of inverted hangtime and another 2-3 spin Spinner, Powered Coaster and rapids ride down below. Next to the watercoaster this was the only water ride, Linnanmaki missing out the classic log-flume. Ferris-Wheel with a kiddie Musikexpress themed as dragon-ride. Wild Huss Booster from the monorail Harmless enclosed Zierer coaster Getting intimate with the Enterprise Monoraaaaaaaail!!! Such a great ride! Mack e-Motion coaster getting emotions out of its riders Dry... ...wet... ...soaked! Now you know it'll get wild: After Ranger, Dancer, Top-Spin we proudly present: Booster! IMO even wilder than a Mondial Shaker The gondolas invert sideways while the compartments and mainplate spin right/left at different speeds, highly intense ride aplying high Gs Hidden behind the woodie a classic Anton Schwarzkopf Monster - we'll see all evolutions of Monsters on this tour. Always a good fun. Good hair-day today Is it Winona Ryder running the monorail??? (-; Coming up next: Särkäniemi in Tampere, Finnland featuring one of the best inverted looping coasters...

Hannover Schützenfest carnival coming up. Riding the Olympia Looping outside Hamburg this time plus a classic Zyklon credit called "Berg & Tal".

Waldameer looks 150% better than Conneaut Lake - a small park, but one I could enjoy for a day!

Sorry to say but me this looks like a park that is going to shut down soon. Except for the coaster I can find no rides for me - except for the Roundup if it would be around. So its two spins on the coaster, a Coke or beer at the lake and then heading on. They should try to get some used carnival rides to attract more people. Here we've a safari park Serengeti with a ride section consisting only of used carnival rides - they've a flying carpet, a condor, a Top-Spin, etc - and its a nice day out with younger kids who still dont do to newest thrill-rides. Plus they've a petting zoo with small furry and funny animals.

Rutschebanen - this time at Bakken

Nighttime ride on the Rutschebanen at Tivoli Copenhagen - last row, way to go!

Nicely landscaped park. But: Are they really serious about needing a ride partner on that one coaster? Sounds quite coocoo to me. Did singles get for example a food/drink voucher as compensation. I guess I'd say something that would get me kicked from the park....lol.

Lol....never had problems with my glasses on a coaster...hate it when ride attendants make me taking mine off. At Liseberg they even let me wear them on Upsvinget! Way to go!

Lisebergbanan - Anton's favorite coaster

At ringracer you see what nightmare air-compressed launch systems are, I'd also steer well clear of it as park-owner.

^^ In car accidents poeple who brace with there arms out have more injuries to arms and hands as even at 15 mph the forces are so great your bones just snap. Better not clinging to rails or bars in case an impact is comming up. ^ I'd doubt many wheelies who are - barely - able to transfer to the train would be able to climb down due to their weakened legs. But agree that using hands would help. Likely each rider will be led down by an attendant which could also grasp the stump of a forearm.

I think SF behaves inconsistent here. They allow on many coasters that disabled from wheelchairs use their coasters. Even if those need to transfer from wheelie to coaster by themselves I guess many wouldnt be able to climb the stairs down in case of a lifthill failure. Next to that any restraint should hold the body in place if you hold on or not, at 5 Gs it would mean you'd be able to pull 500 kg if weighing 100 kg - thats just rediculous.

It was down all day. No one thought it was going to open. But after 8pm the Groena Lund engineers had it running: Jetline!

The "Espada" bumpercars are still running on older rides here.

Jet Star and Tornado at Saerkaeniemi in Tampere.

Except for many coasters I think park needs... - a log flume - Zierer Waveswinger - a Huss flat - ferris wheel - drop tower - Monoraaaaail! - and at last good pizza

Ukko - Maurer Soehne SkyWheel - at Linnanmaki. Cool stuff, especially the extreme lapbar hangtime!

This makes me hope to see a carnival version of the Eurofighter someday....

If it wouldn't be for maybe 1000 copyright violations with Disney I'd love to see Itchy and Scratchy Land built.... World would be complete with the infamous "Dilbert's Flying Cubicle" ride....

Especially the Zierer Waveswinger looks like you only need to flip the powerswitch...

Positive: Schwarzkopf Thriller in its original carnival layout - 6.2G Negative: Intamin/Cordes prefab woodie Colossos at Heide-Park

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