Gröna Lund

[Loefet]

I were in the vicinity of Stockholm this weekend so I did a short trip to Gröna Lund to ride their new Vekoma SFC, Kvasten. This was also an opportunity to meet with one of my cousins.

Even if we were there on a Saturday, the park wasn't as crowded as usually and later that day the park emptied pretty early, due to Eurovision Song Contest finals, etc.

 

Kvasten:

Pretty good coaster suited to the whole family, smooth and mildly thrilling. To bad that the swing dampers are to hard, if they weren't some bad lateral jolts would be avoided.

 

Jetline:

Almost the same coaster as Knightmare, only the part between the top of the lift-hill to the first MCBR differs. It was running great later in the evening and the queue were short all day.

 

Vilda Musen:

A Gerstlauer bobsled coaster that runs inside the structure of Jetline. It gives a lot of near misses between the two. Pretty good ride but less airtime then the other ones.

 

Now on to the Pictures.

 

Entrance.

 

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First up, Kvasten.

 

There it goes, nice seats anyway.

 

Up the lift-hill.

 

Almost a little air-time in the back.

 

Twisty.

 

More Turns.

 

Through the theming.

 

Wiiii!

 

Into the Helix.

 

Pulling some G's.

 

The first drop of Kvasten goes under the big turn of Jetline.

 

Now onto Jetline.

 

The "backside" of Jetline.

 

Curved lift-hill.

 

More curved lift-hill action.

 

Down the first drop.

 

Into the tunnel.

 

And out again, to bad that inside there is some backbreaking G-forces.

 

BIG TURN.

 

Up to the first MCBR, running close to the S&S tower and Vilda Musen.

 

Down the Psycho-drop.

 

POWER!! 4.5 G here I come.

 

And then there is Helixes.

 

Lots of them...

 

Here you can see how Jetline and Vilda Musen intervenes with each other.

 

First Drop.

 

Mouse turns.

 

Hair-time.

 

Another turn.

 

Into the final bit.

 

Last bit into the station.

 

Last Credit.

 

80 meter tall Intamin drop tower, yummy.

 

S&S combo tower, two rides into one.

 

Dodgems, like the Tusenfryd ones, but with rubber wheels > not fun.

 

The ride with one of the longest queues. Indoor Huss Brakedance with RnB/Hiphop music, Good ride, shame about the music.

 

Now onto some FORCES.

 

Jetline

 

The only bad part of the day was that the Russian Que-jumping Mafia were there, they were jumping lines, queued for each other, etc. and they were everywhere.

[bulldogmom]

Great pics, especially of Kvasten. It looks really cool, especially w/the theming. That indoor breakdance thing sounds like a fun ride.

[Timpowes]

Great pictures. Seems like you had bad luck with Popexpressen then ('bout the music). When I was there, we had like, loads of different kinds of music. We even had SlipKnot once. O.O Too bad I don't like them.

'Neways, can't wait til I get there.