Liseberg Discussion Thread

[lond]

And a bonus:

I found some public documents at the city planning office about the expansion of Liseberg:

First step

/// Marcus

Edited August 28, 2019 by lond

[A.J.]

Wow, that's significant. That mega coaster on top of the building looks like it will be really good.

[dcxs]

Kinda hard to see where the station would fit for the mega (giga?!) coaster

 

Edit: So I did some digging myself, the plans are public. Seems like the large "office buildings" will be part of another future expansion including "hotel, water park and amusement park". Including coaster layout, this is far from final probably, but still very exciting

[lond]

Big news today: The new CEO is Andreas Andersen!!!

 

/// Marcus

[A.J.]

Just to help everyone out, can you give us a source? Like a press release or something, even if it's only in Swedish?

[Garet]

^Will this do? http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/goteborgsstad/pressreleases/liseberg-rekryterar-tillbaka-andreas-andersen-till-vd-posten-2922215

[A.J.]

Yeah, that's great.

 

So he announced he was leaving, and then Liseberg basically convinced him to stay. Interesting how it all works...

[Canobie Coaster]

I completely missed the potential hyper plans. If that ride comes to fruition, this park may have a top 3 that can match Cedar Point's!

[Nrthwnd]

^^ Money, money, money...... possibly?

[dcxs]

This makes me so happy! The reason given for the departure was partly that Andreas wanted to live closer to his family in Denmark, now he has been given greater flexibility.

 

Also an RMC t-rex would be perfect for the next mega coaster!

[lond]

Yesterday evening the board of Liseberg gave the go-ahead to start the build of the hotel project..

 

https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/liseberg/pressreleases/groent-ljus-foer-lisebergs-hotellprojekt-2923830 (swedish)

 

So now they finally can start building the hotel..

 

/// Marcus

[lond]

Yesterday evening was the premiere of Halloween on Liseberg.

Probably due to rain during the day the crowd was quiet moderate and I was able to do all the haunted attractions and ride all roller coasters in the park without almost any cues

 

The new haunted attraction Skogen was really good.

 

 

On to the photos:

Kållerado without the water

Hmm, I don't think that this is the correct way to install downpipes.....

 

/// Marcus

[cfc]

Thanks for the look at Liseberg Halloween! I'd like to visit the European parks in the fall sometime and check out other Halloween events.

[lond]

Finally got time to go to Liseberg last Saturday with my camera and tripod....

Unfortunately it was quite crowded and then it started to rain......

 

 

And soon it's time for Christmas...

 

/// Marcus

[lond]

With to much other stuff to do, I still got the time to visit Liseberg. But I didn't got time until now to post the photos...

 

The workers at Liseberg has done a amazing job to transform the park from Halloween mode to Christmas mode in under 2 weeks time.

 

 

And now the staff are able to rest until the summer season with the opening of Underlandet.

 

/// Marcus

[lond]

Due to the situation with COVID-19, Liseberg will delay the season opening to 2020-05-16.

The date can change, if the situation changes.

 

/// Marcus

[lond]

Liseberg has release a new drone flight video:

 

 

/// Marcus

[lond]

At the moment there is no set date when Liseberg is going to open this summer, but it has been communicated that all

musical performances until midsummer eve is canceled..

 

The maintenance and certification of all attraction is done so they are ready to spring in to action when Liseberg get the go ahead from the authorities.

 

The construction of the new hotel continues.

 

The new hotel

Some rearrangement of rides is ongoing

 

Ans some panoramic views of the park from the dates I have passed by Liseberg:

 

2020-02-02

 

2020-03-21

 

2020-04-19

 

2020-04-26

 

2020-05-10

 

/// Marcus

[SharkTums]

^Thanks for the update, hope they get to open up soon.

[lond]

Today the Swedish interior minister informed that there will be no easing of the "maximum 50 people"-rule that restricts amusement parks in Sweden to open this summer... This means that Liseberg, Skara sommarland & Gröna Lund aren't allowed to open anytime soon

 

Liseberg hope to be allowed to open at halloween......

 

/// Marcus

[SharkTums]

That's a bummer.

[lond]

Due to CoVid-19 Liseberg is not allowed to open the park

 

But they are releasing onride videos from the big four, so everyone can take a virtual ride at home..

 

 

 

 

 

/// Marcus

[Nrthwnd]

^ POV On-Ride Videos are the next best thing, to actually riding these things.

 

So THANK YOU Marcus, for sharing these great videos from Liseberg!

Speaking of Liseberg....

My autograph on Balder, 2014.

[lond]

Liseberg has released a teaser for Underlandet:

 

I was also outside Liseberg and tested my new camera:

 

The construction of the new hotel is progressing

New view of the park

A lot of cars and park visitors is missing in this photo :(

Because of the CoVid-19 regulations in Sweden the big amusement parks are not allowed to open, so the small traveling ride operator Axels Tivoli booked the big gravel field Heden in central Gothenburg and operated some rides this summer....

They are also suffering this season, due to all the small "farmers markets" they usually attends is also on hold due to CoVid-19..

 

But they had no rollercoaster in their ride lineup, so my coaster count this year is still ZERO

 

/// Marcus

[dcxs]

Thanks for the update Nice to see that the hotel is under construction, unfortunately it looks like the water park will take a while