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Great photographs from ROJApers there, so crystal clear!

Hi guys, So I am doing a little bit of a Netherlands and Germany theme park tour this summer, and I was currently a bit uncertain about Hansa Park. I'm in Hamburg for 3 days, one of which will be spent in Heide Park and at least one day in Hamburg itself. Current plans were: Efteling Toverland Heide Park [perhaps Hansa Park] Europa Park Tripsdrill I really don't know much about Hansa Park outside of their coaster collection, and was wondering what else there is in the park worth doing? I am very much into well themed parks, and would happily spend a day in a park which is just nice and pleasant rather than just hitting credits...but I wasn't sure whether there was much that unique to warrant a 1 hr 30 min trip out there. Fluch von Novgorod and Karnan (if open when I go there in early August?) are the main rides that might draw me there, but since I'm going to Tripsdrill later in my trip I wasn't sure if Novgorod would entice me enough to go to the park instead of spending another day in Hamburg city itself. Thanks for any advice!

Yeah I was thinking that. Did you know that Six Flags Magic Mountain was the only place you can ride the entire roster of Magic Mountain rides? A bit of a cheating one, but Efteling is the only place you can ride a Kumbak coaster plus....well, anything http://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&co=7608

You cannot ride a B&M Dive Coaster and a Gerstlauer Eurofighter in the same park (this, in part, is due to the distribution of Eurofighters and the avoidance of parks having more than one vertical drop)

Heide Park is the only park in which you can ride a Wing Rider and a Bobsled-style coaster, and also the only one with a Dive Coaster and a Bobsled. Cedar Point of course knocked down a Bobsled to build a Wing Rider!

I was having a bit of a procrastination from work looking at the ride selections at several parks I've yet to visit. I was having a look at which parks had the most B&M coasters (SF Great Adventure it turns out), and then I noticed that there are some roller-coaster combinations which seem to be rather rare. It turns out that there are no theme parks that have a stand-up rollercoaster and a B&M Dive Coaster. This made me think if there are any other combinations which are rare or non-existant. Here were a few I found: -The only park you can ride a Dive Coaster and a Floorless B&M coaster is Janfusun Fancyworld -The only park you will be able to ride a Dive Coaster and an indoor rollercoaster is Efteling (well, will be as of this summer) -The only park you can ride both a Vekoma SLC and a B&M Inverted coaster is La Ronde (there were a lot to search through, so I might have missed some...it's rare anyway) Any others people have found that are unique or rare...as you can clearly see I've barely made it outside of thinking about Dive Coasters!

Baron 1898 has been spotted testing after park closing: Source Stefan Schulte on Twitter. EDIT: I have found a copy on Youtube as well.. Source: Loopings.nl (Youtube)

Even with their limitations I imagine that those grown adults, if they're anything like myself, would find the robots and physical sets more impressive than a Pirates of the Caribbean filled with projection screens instead A balance of the two would be good really, big Kong animatronic being a must. Spiderman and Gringotts balances the physicality of the sets with the screens well, but I just liked the idea of animatronics for the sake of variety and a giant Kong

I am excited for the new ride, but definitely worried that this will be another overwhelmingly screen-based ride. OK, I do love Spiderman and Gringotts, but there's just so many of these rides now in those parks. It'd be nice to see some big animatronics...a giant Kong would be a must for me!

Shipped and now erected on site in its complete layout, so everything in that photo is presumably new.

I sincerely doubt this will be the 'best coaster ever' or the most extensively themed. But, it looks like it's going to be a fantastic way to round off the parks' selection of rides, and what theming there is looks incredible. RE: Nemesis, sure it's more themed overall, but personally I've found the ugly landscape (I know it's deliberate) just makes it less appealing aesthetically (the track kicks serious arse though). Black Mamba (which I know some people don't rate as highly as a track - though I loved it) is a much more themed roller-coaster than both Baron and Nemesis, but there really aren't many coasters as themed as that outside of your Disney and Universal parks. Once Baron's track is surrounded by trees and landscaping, as basic as it may be, it will look much more the part. My excitement for the ride is primarily based on it being an addition to my favourite park, thereby rounding off the coaster selection, the theming of the station, and the fact I love the sensation of Dive Coasters. It won't be the best thing ever, but not every ride has to be. Efteling is already a big park, and it doesn't need to make the massive statements that Black Mamaba and Nemesis needed to make in their hey-day, so any ride with this much effort put in is a bonus.

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That van is such a simple idea, but it's executed so well here!

Blimey, no time wasted putting together those last few pieces! This is really accelerating ahead.

This is the beginning of a good thing, and I hope more parks follow suit.

That looks fantastic...I didn't expect it to go up quite so suddenly!

It was the removal of the police cars in particular I'd read about, so thanks for explaining when they were removed! A shame to have such props removed.

/\ one thing you said there reminded me of something I've not found an answer for... I have read multiple times that there used to be more theming in the Batman The Ride clones nationwide...but why was a lot of the additional theming removed in the first place? I heard the same of Bizarro in GADV.

For all the flak Goudrix gets, from a video it looks fun. Rollercoaster/Manhatten Express is one of few rides that actually feels painful through the video alone.

Typhoon Lagoon in Walt Disney World - almost entirely because of the massive decorate wave-pool. Honestly when I go there I tend to spend the vast majority of my time in the pool.

Really not that many, but there are a few: Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts - USO (2014) Hogwarts Express - IOA/USO (2014) Seven Dwarves Mine Train - MK (2014) Chiapas - Phantasialand (2014) Wodan - Europa Park (2012) Hotel Tartuff - Phantasialand (2012) Expedition Everest - DAK (2006) Stitch's Great Escape (2004) Beyond that I'm a bit more hazy on what I rode and when exactly I rode it.

I really enjoyed it the one and only time I rode it, which was summer 2014, so I am not sure about that. The air time in the front row coming up to each brake run was incredible. Though I've ridden Gwazi it's not my least enjoyed ride at all. I am really not sure which is the 'worst' I've ridden, but a few supposedly good rides have made me feel sick, which makes them 'worst' in my mind.

What's wrong with rip ride? I do rather enjoy Mid-Course Brake Run: The Ride, so I'm surprised someone would find it their worst coaster.

Well that's just ridiculous. Regarding theming in general, I often find that a bad attempt at theming often looks worse and more messy than it would just to neatly landscape the rollercoaster.

Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park (also my first inverting coaster)