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Cool - looks like the shields will open and close to allow entry and exit...

must have some good airtime in the back...

If you have to go in the heat of the holidays try single rider lines on Blue Fire and Wodan as EP manages them with high effeciency. As said get to the back of the park first - you can do that by boarding the Monorail over the main entrance and exit at the Spain station from which it is a short walk to iceland and its two coasters. As crowds kicked in I wlaked over doing Atlantica and then going to the front via Austria - ride the Powered Coaster - and then hit France with Silver Star. Walk from France to Greek and hit Poseidon at lunch time were crowds drop. At about 3pm when the major crowds hit the rides again go to lunch - if you like self-service hit the Bavarian Beer Garden, if full service Balthasar Castle. On my visists I also found that the Matterhorn Blitz had quite doable lines in the evening. Plan for last rides in Iceland - coasters operate up until closing time but many visitors head back to the entrance early. And if you like beer order the Erdinger Urweisse - a wheat beer with traditional "in bottle fermentation".

^I thought the same thing. Maybe some some conversion error from old 18-24 fps celluloid to 30 fps digital video?

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The water in the fish pond looked cleaner than on most Chinese log flumes I have seen so far.. If I remember correct the second park has some non-knock-off coasters. I take in China are some parks I call "blueprint parks" with original coasters and flats which can be studied to be turned into knock-offs.

I think it can more be a kind of "input overload" for small kids. Saw some kids at WDW who were crying for unable to decide what to do next - and when a Micky Mouse walked up it only got worse. I remember similar warnings mostly for Fantasyland rides in my old German park map.

Thats why I love Liseberg - if possible they always run all trains they have.

Great find! They have a video from Blackpool featuring a coaster with single round cars and seating like on a rafting - never seen that before - next to some other crazy rides.- This is still active here - built in the 1920s - refurbished in the 1950s. The Margate video features one of these...

After watching the video my immediate thought also was "Oh, a Legoland Dragen".

And the Wild Mouse - Goofy's Sky School - from Mack has even less steep dips than the standard Mack variant. You should try those on a German carnival...

^I was thinking about the first drop not the lift. Like the holding brake of a Diver...

Location of the new coaster. Might be only a placeholder but looks rather small in the map... Source: Efteling Twitter Location of the new Diver

According to Hansa's newsletter and also reported on parkerlebnis.de the coaster will feature a vertical lift as well as a vertical first drop. Maybe with a holding brake and effects inside the tower...

At most German parks prices are quite reasonable - specially the independent parks like Hansa, Europa and Phantasia which also offer good quality. Mainly I think because here you are allowed to bring food and drink and if they would be too expensive costumers will not buy it and bring along their own stuff. Many parks even offer complete BBQ areas you can use if your bring your own coal and meat.

While watching the recent Helix interview on Youtube found the following clip in the right hand pane: Announcer (A) - Werner Stengel (WS) A: Three minutes of thrill, screaming and speed madness: The roller coaster - one of the major attractions at Oktoberfest. And here is the man who makes people screaming: Werner Stengel, called the "Rollercoaster Guru". The engineer has designed over 500 rollercoaster worldwide. WS: Riding a coaster is an event and daring. A rider will have an experience inside a coaster that he will not have in everyday life. This what makes a ride thrilling. Everday life is likely boring and a coaster ride is never boring. But one thing is certain: Even if I am afraid I will sure and safely return to the station and it was an experience. A: The Wiesn is his empire. All coasters here were desgined by him plus many of the other rides here. At the beginning there was a masterpiece: Germany's first steel rollercoaster. WS: I got myself papers from NASA on what forces Astronauts have to take, I looked at pilots what forces they have to withstand and then said to myself I have to reduce these forces as on a coaster the whole population ages 10-80 rides. And slowly I got there, learned by myself. A: The rollercoaster's origin is believed to be in Russia were manmade snowhills were used to slide down. In the US the gravity driven cars in a mine are also a predecessor. In the mid-19th century the commercial coasters open. Not seldem rides end with broken bones and spin-traumata. Security check on his Olympia-Looping. That no one needs to get hospitalized is also thanks to Werner Stengel. He revolutionized security standards for coasters worldwide. WS: We bent the steel better, the whole ride much smoother. We did the OTSR to keep the rider in the correct position. In the past loops were built circular and no normal person can withstand that, you get injured. The invention was to build the loop like a spiral thus beeing healthy for everyone. A: This first "new Loop" can be found on the coaster "Revolution" in California. No matter on what continent riders board a coaster it is more than likely it was planned by Werner Stengel and his company. All ideas are developed here: At Werner Stengel's engineering office in Munich. Since five years he is retired but is still considered the creative supervisor. Currently coasters are developed here for Asian markets. WS: The coaster must be so interesting that riders will say: "I want to ride it again!". If the return the next year: "There you have to go!". There are rides were costumers after ride say: "Old stuff, not worth it!" Thats also our job: Making coasters attractive. A: And the coasters are still the most popular attractions on the Oktoberfest. But he is still thinking about to increase the thrill and "scream-level" for future coasters. WS: I dream about to design an interactive coaster which is not moving so fast but having laser-guns to shot targets or other trains. Poeple want to have interactive fun

For our English speaking audience:

Parque de Attraciones, Madrid Parque Warner, Madrid Hansa-Park, Sierksdorf

^Patience is one thing but being at a park I always calculate the entry cost against the cost of an Olympia-Looping or Alpina-Bahn ride at the carnival and if I am not getting enough coaster rides inside a park based on this calculation I go home feeling kind of cheated off my money...

^Well at least the kid has not puked over you. Already had that "experience" years ago inside a HUSS Frisbee. Overall your TR makes me want to re-visit the California parks - but will have to wait some time as US-Northeast, US-SFOG/SFOT and Canada are planned for me before re-visiting, likely 10 years down the road...

Generally I agree with Mack here. After riding Blue Fire multiple times the last inversion there really whirls one out of the seat so the lapbar has to tight to keep you safely in. While I will ride Helix in June I assume the rides are similar in this respect. On the other hand however I have experienced ride attendants at parks and carnivals - not at Europa Park - who not only check the restraints with reasonable force but force them down by ramming their whole bodyweight into the motion making the restraint constrict so tight around your chest or lap that it hurt and/or made breathing hard. I have not witnessed this at Liseberg other coasters but this is always possible and might result in such a "tip" which is well-meant but is also inciting possible dangerous behaviour. This said I always try to close the restraints properly myself so the ride attendant has only to check for my correct application of the restraint system.

^Can only second that. US parks often gets crowded one to two hours after opening, do not know why guests come in so late. Also have park entry, parking and Fastpass if wanted pre-printed online so you do not have to waste time buying / picking up tickets on site.

Did not notice that so far. Any single rider entrances that are hard to find?

Thanks for the TR. I will be there first week of June and hope for some lighter crowds - but judging from their website if weather is fine Smiler nearly always has at least a 60 minute wait while the other coaster go at 10-25 minutes.If so would only do it once and ride the other more often...

As they have it still on their website I hope it is only a temporary outage. But only a second priority coaster for my visit. Looking like a nice park - and having a TopSpin and Frisbee side by side will keep my occupied some time... How was the program of the TopSpin?