Walygator Parc Discussion Thread

[dad57]

 

Enjoy !!!!!

[Sir Clinksalot]

Hopefully they will do some kind of landscaping under the ride. Looks like they may have started some on the turn around after the station to the lift.

[dad57]

I hope too

The entire track must "normally" be paint in black and the support in yellow

The actual thema is "dump"

[coastercrutchfield]

I hope that they get the rest painted and landscaped. It kind of looks ugly right now and I would probably puke if I saw those colors in real life. It's a great ride though and would look awesome if it had a great theme and paint job.

[dad57]

[John Peck]

They got the station and station track painted before it opened. If they're on daily operations, I doubt you'll see any new paint until fall/spring.

[Nosferatu]

My guess is they they had to choose between opening it now, or finishing all the other stuff, and they wanted to get it open asap. Probably (hopefully) it will be finished in the off-season!

[Rider117]

I went there yesterday, the park was 1 train op for all the coasters that day which made for long waits. Monster had a 45 minute wait with one train running, it was running good. I still like Raptor better though, maybe cause it doesn't look like a construction zone like Monster does.

[Ed]

I think it's excellent they've opened it up already for the summer without fiddling around with some fancy landscaping. Get people interested in the ride and get more people into the park!

[rcg19]

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[Noxegon]

My guess is they they had to choose between opening it now, or finishing all the other stuff, and they wanted to get it open asap. Probably (hopefully) it will be finished in the off-season!

 

I spoke to the park manager when I was there - he spotted me taking photos and wondered why - and that's what he told me. The plan is for the whole ride to be painted in a black and yellow scheme.

[dad57]

Raptor Monster brothers

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlypPJnEJBk

[thrillrider]

Haha....that was great.

 

Thank's for posting that.

[Calicoasters]

Having an MCBR doesn't seem to change the ride performance at all!

[robinschroder]

I was at Walygator Parc briefly on Thursday morning and took a few rides on The Monster. It's a good ride - not quite as good as Katun @ Mirabilandia - and pretty much as I remember Raptor being. The other train was being worked on in the transfer area but even with just one train in operation, the queue was always less than 20 minutes long. Here are lots of pictures for the TPR park index!

Park entrance

The Monster's logo

The Monster's sign

Entrance to the queue

Safety warnings

You just zip straight through here...!

[OldJJman]

I seriously think that there are more people in that first picture, than were at Walygator when we went there with TPR a couple of years ago. The place was absolutely deserted!!

 

(Of course the same could be said of Expoland when we rode Orochi later that same year. There *might* have been 10 other people in the park when about 6-7 of us ran out there!)

[davisal771]

Nice pictures! I especially liked the one with the flowers and the coaster in the loop! Awesome! The coaster doesn't look that bad paint wise, it could just use a different color. Hey, it could be all rusting and nasty.

[Synkope]

What are these colors for a ride named like this? They should have painted all the track before assembly. Some parts seem to be filthy. Anyway, there's a new B&M in Europe.

[dad57]

Red one looks pretty good

 

 

Spine

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BDG]

Is this the Walygator thread now ?

 

Check out the current state of the park:

 

http://www.looopings.nl/weblog/1243/Groeten-uit-Walygator-Parc.html

 

I have never seen such a filthy park. Crumbling scenery, broken glass, rotting wood, closed rides, malfunctioning rides, etc.

[Airtime&Gravity]

^That is disgusting, no park should be left to rot like that, especially if it still open. If you aren't going to maintain the theming, just remove it, and also, it might be beneficial to purchase some paint every now and then.

 

Judging by the photos, I'm guessing the owners are the type who go "It's still functional, so we're not do anything about it damn it."

[SharkTums]

LOL! To be honest, it doesn't look *that* much different than it did four years ago! The place is a dump, I don't know what they're doing!

 

We're stopping for a VERY quick stop on the TPR Europe Trip this summer and I'll be curious to see in person if it looks that bad.

[cfc]

Has Tang Or (the topple tower) ever worked?

[SharkTums]

^Was it even still there in the update? It was hard to see it in the picture. It's still listed on the park's website.

[Dragon Khan]

What a mess since this was Walibi Smurf in the first years; i still have the "Big Bang Schtroumpf" media kit with the park's revolutionary concept; incidentally, Anaconda (which was not THAT bad at the time !) was my first woodie ever. The brothers who bought the park some years ago are actually travelling showmen who wanted to settle down with some of their rides. On French forums, they are heavily criticized as very bad park managers but the French should be grateful they brought Monster, as it was the first significant (i mean good) coaster in their country (ok, OK Corral had a Looping star at a time....) Monster was also supposed to be painted, then this was postponed and honestly, seeing the state the park is in currently, I don't see them survive a very long time... I DO NOT wish them bad luck, of course, but if they fail at keeping the park decently open, the only good thing would be a NEW relocation of this Raptor clone, closer to where I live. Any Belgian park will do Bellewaerde has been in need of a coaster for ages, Plopsaland is getting a new coaster in 2013, Bobbejaanland maybe ? (they still need a thrill coaster) or why not even relocate it at Walibi Holland to replace the infamous SLC prototype "El Condor" ? or even Toverland would be a good new home to it if they want a steelie...