Photo TR: Parc Asterix

[Swimace]

It's raining outside and I'm trying to avoid any form of schoolwork, so I decided to make a Photo TR from my visit to Parc Asterix a couple of years ago.

 

I took these pictures with a camera that was pretty old at the time, and it was actually damaged from hiking in the Alps a few days earlier so these pictures were the best I could do at the time (I know they're not the best quality ever). With that said, I had a really fun visit to this really nice park. Unfortunatly, I only got three credits during my visit because the weather was really bad, but I would love to go back and visit the park again sometime. I spent the whole time trying to fit in coasters between the Thundertorms, so I didn't get many pictures once the weather started to pick up (there's only a couple of Zeus, sorry!)

 

All in all I only got on the three biggest coasters, the dark ride, and a boat ride. Even so, I had a really good visit and I would recommend this park to anybody visiting France. Sorry for not having too many pictures or very high quality pictures, but between a broken camera and bad weather it was sort of the best I could do at the time

Thanks for reading!

This is the park's entrance/exit area. At the end of the street you can see Asterix sitting on top of a giant rock. The park is based on a popular french comic and set during the time of the roman empire. Since I'm not familiar with the comics, I'm sure there are a lot of subtle touches I wasn't picking up on.

The park was really nicely landscaped and the rides just sort of flowed together.

The bobsled took up a TON of space. This certainly was not a compact coaster. You practically had to take a hike to get from the entrance of the ride to the station.

There was a lot of rockwork that they built around this thing. The ride looked really great and had plenty of twisty moments.

The ride had a really cool station with a portion of the queue underneath that is themed like a dark cave.

This has to be one of the coolest looking rides I've ever seen, and it was a lot of fun. It wasn't very thrilling, but it was a nice for both families and coaster fans

The Caveman themed bobsled!!

 

 

(notice the two trains on the lift at the same time. They were running four trains total)

Recently voted the worst coaster in the world AGAIN on Mitch Hawkers Poll. Congrats!

It's the world famous Goudurix!! The line for this death machine was really long because they were only running one train and I barely made it on before all of the coasters were shut down again

Goudurix from across the water. Notice the storm clouds gathering around the park.

 

By the way: Goudurix is actually the French term for "not as bad as people say". It was worse than it's American cousin, Ninja, but it really wasn't too horrible

We ducked in this dark ride to get out of the rain. Like everything else here, this was themed to the story of the comics, so I really had no idea what was going on for most of the ride.

 

However, this dark ride features a nice surprise launch and an small airtime hill, so it knows how to speak my language.

After taking shelter from the storm for a while we rode this boat ride while waiting for the big rides to re-open. This ride was sort of nice I guess. Whatever.

This thing was sick. Within a couple minutes of me getting off it was shut down again because of the weather so we decided to move on

This was the main draw for the park, and I rode it in a hurry because they weather was crazy. I only have a couple of pictures because the storm was threatening to come and I was not wasting any time getting through the park! This ride gave AMAZING airtime and some pretty strong laterals as well. I rode in the back seat and I really wish I coud have gotten more than one ride.

Asterix sitting ontop of his rock

[Groteslurf]

Nice TR.

 

It's been already 2 years since I've last been there. It's a nice park with several excellent attractions but the park is always so terribly crowded.

If only they would implement an express pass system.

[steel]

No Vol D'Icare? That's the only thing I've ridden at Parc Asterix.

[Swimace]

^Yeah, I missed a few credits that day because of the weather. I couldn't hang around after Trace Du Hourra because I had to get into Paris to catch a train. I want to go back and be a credit whore on the smaller coaster!

[steel]

^Yeah, I missed a few credits that day because of the weather. I couldn't hang around after Trace Du Hourra because I had to get into Paris to catch a train. I want to go back and be a credit whore on the smaller coaster!

Yeah, I'd like to get back there some time.