Photo TR: Bill's SCANDI-navia was DANDI-navia TPR 2009 Tour!

[SharkTums]

This is such an under appreciated park. They did so many things perfectly right for a family visit. Can't wait to go back!

[gisco]

These parks look so cool. Looking forward to 2013 already!

[Nrthwnd]

I missed the "shooting bumper car" ride completely.

 

I think I would have missed it completely too Chuck, if I hadn't run into somebody else who had just been on it (it was called "Space Scooter" on the Hansa map {N5} here) and told me about it, heh heh.

[rollin_n_coastin]

We must get on the Taco bell ride!

 

Was this the bumpers ride where TPR members (us included) were the only ones actually bumping? It was such a boring affair until we all got in there to show them how it's done lol

 

I loved those massive bouncing hills.

Edited December 13, 2011 by rollin_n_coastin

[Nrthwnd]

^ I think that was a small group of us, Jason, there.

 

And I remember that if we 'bumped' anybody else not from TPR, it was frowned on, as this wasn't the way this attraction worked.... we eventually found out, lol.

 

But the really wierd part for me was watching these young locals tearing out the exit and then speed back in through the entry, and getting back into new cars before it started up again. I kept thinking "why don't the ride ops just let them stay there?" But I guess, ride ops protocol and all that. But apart from us, it really wasn't that crowded an attraction I remember, no real queue of any size was there at all.

 

And Chuck? In my photo of the two coasters together, the Space Scooter building was (pretty sure) that white bldg. directly above Nessie's loop.

[Nrthwnd]

Well, it had to happen some time. We knew it was coming, from previous reports and stuff.

 

Rain. And a bit of a ch-ch-ch-chill in the air this day, and the next, too. But we got every credit in the 2 parks we visited, and enjoyed our wet days in Denmark, and eventually, the rain let up and we were back to (mostly) dry days, woo! But first...

 

~ Sommerland Syd ~

 

Basically we were there for the credits - all two of them - and the rain didn't help out in the start of this day. But the park management were very nice to us, made sure we all enjoyed ourselves at the park, as best we could in this weather, and besides the coasters, some of us ventured (first) onto a rather "un-pc" boat attraction of the park's that was best left...um....un-described? I think I blocked it all out by now, LOL! But it was ...interesting.

 

And - I got my first and (so far) Only Invertigo coaster credit to my count, there! I actually enjoyed it, even with the rain hitting like little thumbtacks into our foreheads, heh heh. It was fun. And wet.

 

And then after here, we got back on our bus, dried out as best and as fast we could, and some even took a quick nap as we continued on to...

 

~ Legoland ~

 

This was a really fun park, and although it was mainly set up for smaller thrill seekers and their families, there was enough stuff around for us 'bigger kids', lol.

 

The park also had my first (what's it called again?) "Arm ride" in their new attraction, Power Builder. Neat concept with you choosing how intence or how many 'inversions' you want for your "experience"; it's all put on a card, you get strapped in with a ride buddy, the card's inserted into the mechanism's main drive ... and it pretty much does all the new Harry Potter's Journey stuff - but not moving on a track, heh heh. And upside-down, too!

 

We had a great fun group meal at the park's main dining place (chicken nuggets and do-it-yourself sundaes!), then got back out exploring and riding in the park under our protective and varied rain ponchos, and waterproof coats. Some of the group even got into a "challenge" at the Falck Fire Brigade attraction, which involved pumping and spraying a lot of water... which I felt was totally redundant, under the current weather conditions, ha ha.

 

Oh yes - and they sell Lego there too. And I believe it is here where The Sword was found. Huzzah! (More on that, next report.)

At Sommerland Syd - this is on the shore of the boat ride. See the wet table? And the waterdrops in the water? Yes - we got rain. Nice landscaping, too.

This - is (here we go) Kaemperutschbanen. A small coaster. And not too bad, most of us felt.

Here's my first and so far only invertigo coaster I've ever ridden - Tornado - fun ride, even in the rain!

Travelling Sleep Shot #2 - on the way to...

Legoland! And my 353rd Coaster too! (This was a birthday #s thing.) Stacey, Terry (my roomie on this tour, hi Terry!), Jon, and moi! All wet geeks. On the Timber Ride.

LEGOTOP view #1 - mostly of the amazing buildings and vehicles and peoples (oh my!) they create out of you-know-what.

LEGOTOP view #2 - this shows the Peugeot Driving School (reservations a must!) below, along with... (music up) "It was an itsy - bitsy - teeny - weeny - yellow mini-rail...on beam-y?" (o;

And once more (view #3), from LEGOTOP - more Lego! More mini-rail! More rain!

Falck Fire Brigade attraction themeing inside queue - all made of Lego!... Really!

And - they're off - like a herdful of turtles in a bowlful of (wet) milk! Pumping and pumping and....

And then - spraying and spraying and - I forget who won - but they were all "soaked with desire to win". (o: Bye bye Sommerland Syd and Legoland!

[Nrthwnd]

Oh well. What can you do, hmm? All things considered (RAIN), I think we did pretty good in the next two parks we visited in a day. And even though it got wetter and wetter in the afternoon, eventually things dried off a bit for our trip to the second park. But there, it got mighty chilly (for some). Mighty high up too, lol. But first:

 

~ Farup Sommerland ~

 

Definitely a "green" park in every sense of the word! Forests of trees hiding most of the park itself, and for a few of us, it looked like we would 'miss finding' the Spinning Mouse (Flagermusen) and the Vekoma Jr. (Mine Expressen) for all the trees surrounding them both. But I know we did find them, ride them, count them, get soaked on them, lol.

 

The wooden coaster, Falken, proved to be the testing ground for the group's new onride challenge Pass The Sword, which is basically starting a sword (in our case, a nice foam one from Legoland) at the front of the train and once we go over the first hill, it just keeps getting passed down the train and then back up to the front, etc. It was fun, sometimes a bit scary (for dropping the sword, OMG!) and well worth doing again - which we did, later on.

 

And then Lynet, a zippy Gerstlauer launched coaster with a couple of lovely airtime hills and a few very "sexy curves" in it, heh heh. I really liked this one, even with the rain coming down blah blah blah.

 

The raft rapids ride was appropriately 'drenching' lol; the log flume ride was nice and 'refreshing (I even got it's souvenir wristband - Traestammerne, yay!); the 4-D movie was.... nice and dry; and our group meal at Restaurant Loen was great (pizza, and pasta buffet with beer!) and even drier, hee hee!

 

And the rain - but not the chill - finally lightened up for awhile (but not completely) when we got to our second park for the day...

 

~ Tivoli Friheden ~

 

An in-city park, it wasn't too hard to get around. We got our four coaster credits - just barely for most of us, although I am still not too sure if we all got a turn on the park's totally original and totally freeky inverted steel, Cobra. It had past maintenance problems (not to mention the layout had a wierd twist and turn element that was pretty jerky and intense) and we knew coming to this park it might not be operating. But it was for a time, and I got my ride/credit on it (and once was enough, thankyou!).

 

There was a great dark ride there, called Elses Hotel with some great cheesy gory scenes in it; some good flats to ride and get dizzy on; another group meal at Pizza-Karrussellen; but before the meal and after the flats had been ridden, a group of us had signed on to do

 

Sky Tower - now for those who don't know, this is called a SCAD Tower some places. Whatever the case, each small group of us got harnessed up, helmets on, and proceeded up a teeny little 'elevator lift' up the side of this thing.. and found ourselves over (gulp) 50 meters up above the ground - with a light rain and a chill BLOWING through us all, LOL.

 

We then individually, got hooked to something that then swung us out over.... nothing but a fine mesh steel net below us.

 

And then - the thing holding you up - let go - and you dropped freefall - butt first - - 50 meters - to that suspended net below.

 

 

I never thought I would do it, still having (I thought) that 'wee little problem' about heights and all? But since I had started touring with TPR in 2006, and doing drop towers, upsurge towers, shooting up and freefalling down was becoming easier for me to handle. But this - this was really something intensely different to do. And survive, heh heh. But I did. We all did. And even though they were back dated to 2005 .... WE GOT THE T-SHIRT too, woo hoo! (Which I then proceeded to 'alter' when I got it back home, lol.)

On the road, and through another rainy day, to... (I have no idea who these 3 silly persons are. )

Mmmm Lynet. A rainy day for riding, but a great ride in the rain.

Here's a few of Lynet's sexy surves. <3

Farup Sommerland's woodie - Falken - and where PASS THE SWORD in this tour, started up. Crazy wet coaster peeps.

You can never be too wet to enjoy a rapids ride, right Josh?

Another great group meal; nice and filling... and dry inside LOL.

Sadly, only two photos is all I got from Tivoli Friheden - Sad and Pathetic Us on the Dragen coaster, Take 1.

Sad and Pathetic Us, on the Dragen, Take 2. And smiling!

Here's my Sky (SCAD) Tower t-shirt circa.2005 - and my "supplies" to change all that, heh heh.

Ta-daah! The finished results! That '5' turned into a '9' easy! (o: Thanks Farup Sommerland and Tivoli Friheden for the day's visit, rain & chills and all!

[vuurvogel]

Very nice shirt. Looks like you guys had a lot of fun.

Liking scandinavia more and more.

[rollin_n_coastin]

Bill, this is pure awesome.

[cfc]

Falling into that soaking-wet net on the SCAD Tower was like being dropped into a swimming pool. The Elses Hotel was awe inspiring in its cheesiness--beware the ticked-off suburban housewife with the butcher knife!

 

Edited December 14, 2011 by cfc

[SharkTums]

^The noise and spray the net made every time one of you dropped into it was amazing!

 

BTW, you also captured the infamous pink dolphin balloon that lived in front of Jon for the rest of the bus trip!

[Hhappy]

At least we still have those skytower images..

 

Ready??

 

drop

[rollin_n_coastin]

^My heart skipped a few beats looking at those pics. Elissa is right, just when it seemed ok to try the tower out, the sound of someone else thumping into a wet net, with water spraying everywhere, chickened me out again. I think mostly everyone, except for a few of us, did it. It was so awesome to watch.

 

Cobra was one of the most interesting experiences ever. The train did stay on the tracks though

[Olov]

Ready??

I know I wasn't, that bastard...

[jonlocke]

BTW, you also captured the infamous pink dolphin balloon that lived in front of Jon for the rest of the bus trip!

 

I'm still having nightmares over that dolphin attacking me well I was sleeping.

[Nrthwnd]

^^^^ Hanno, you didn't see up close, what happened after I....uh.... dropped. I literally blissed out, right before I hit the net, and somehow the netting had scraped at that 'thing' at the end of my right elbow there? I lay a few extra seconds on the ground, once they lowered the net after it caught me - and a few of the guys saw the (by now) bleeding on my arm, and then some others thought I had passed out. But I was truely just enjoying the awe of what I had just done, really! So I can now point to your photos and say "See? It wasn't the net that hurt me! I was already hurt before The Drop, LOL!" And thanks for posting them, too!

 

It was all so exciting, hee hee hee.

 

^^^And I was sooooo glad to get back down to earth, Jason! Would I do it again? Sure. As long as I was doing it with a group like this one. Then I would feel a way more support, as this is an attration I do not want to do solo, lol.

 

 

So after that day was done, we got our night's sleep at the hotel, breakfasted, loaded luggage, and were then off to our next two parks, one of which had a new coaster we had all been posting about, on and on and on... and the rain had STOPPED, too. Woo!

 

~ Djurs Sommerland -

 

A large park, with plenty of room for rides, thrills... and exercise! Truly one of the largest playgrounds/areas in a theme park I had ever seen. With trampolines, climbing triangles, and hula hoops and lots of neat stuff to hurt ourselves on and with, LOL!

 

Of course there were "a few coasters" too we got to enjoy early riding on. First up was Thor's Hammer, a Gerstlauer Bobsled that was really fun and had some great themeing to it, especially in the loading station. Then there was a children's coaster, Karlo's Taxi, which I think the majority of us whored out on, much to the consternation of childrfen in line with their attending parents, heh heh.

 

But in between these two, and ongoing ERT after we had ridden the bobseld.... was what I think was one of The Highlights of the tour for many of us, a new Intamin Mega-Lite...

 

Piraten

A beautiful coaster with a small footprint, but some great airtime hills, and enough speed and changes in direction to make it (for myself) a great ride. And the themeing.... "Arrrrrrrr - Ye cants go wrong thar with that olde 'embellishment' types of Pirate themeing, arrrrr." It was a great coaster. I loved it, and even went back, as several of us did, for re-rides with the gp, before we had to leave the park.

 

Besides the coasters there were some interestingly themed other attractions klike the Colorado River log flume, which had a few thrills (unexpected drops) of its own we found out; another Un-PC boat ride called..."Jungle Safari with Chico and The Poachers"...enough said, hmm?; Rio Grande raft ride, which at first had to shut down while we were in a long queue - then, loads of people just turned around (?) and left the queue, we moved up and just a few minutes later... FastPass-like ride entry! And the ride wasn't too bad either, heh heh; and a wave swinger ride (Wild West Karusellen) that was one of these with jets of water that shot up at you from the ground! And it went in reverse too, some of us found out, suprised!

 

Another group meal, which seated us in a small tight little "group corner"(had we been bad or something?) of the Western Saloon "Home of The Wild West Buffet" eatery. A snug sit for us all, but the food was great and there was plenty of it. And after a bit more time in the park (and those re-rides on Piraten, yes?), we got back on the bus, and headed to...

 

~ Karolinelund ~

 

An in-city park, which had three coasters of it's own for us to enjoy, as well as a few flats and another wonderfully cheesy dark ride. It seemed like we were really going to wear down the family coaster (Caterpiller) with the number of times the ride op had to keep running it with all of us re-riding it one or two times more, lol. There was an old Pinfari coaster there, clunky and a bit unsteady at times in those curving tracks (IMhO). And a Boomerang that was wasn't really running too much, until we "took over riding it" LOL.

 

A small small park, but lots of fun. And then, back on the bus, and to our second ferry crossing. This one was a bit longer - 3+ hours - with MORE Duty-Free Shopping to enjoy, as we were now leaving Denmark...and heading over to Sweden! (With a bit of Norway on the side, lol.)

 

Goteborg, here we come!

We arrive at Djurs Sommerland... parking lot. And it has Stopped - Raining! Woo hoo!

Waiting for early entry and ERT - and a bit of time 'for those who had to have an early smoke..." (o:

This is Lena. She was our Awesome Bus Driver for the first part of the Scandi Tour. And a coaster freek, too! We got her on a couple, I remember. Thanks for the great transport service, Lena!

First ERT up - Thors Hammer time! Great themeing and landscaping around all the track.

And ARRRsome ERT on Piraten in back. With me and my "ARRRRR of Approval" in front. My first Mega-Lite, and I loved it! (But I gotta stop saying ARRRRRR.)

My "Jungle Safari with Chico and The Paochers" Ride Group - Olov, Tim, Jason, Josh and Jon. Whatta safari team we were, guys! (But it's still a cheesy long wierd title for a boat ride.)

Our little group in our little eating corner of the Western Saloon eatery. Thank goodness there were windows! Snug, snug, snug.

Part of the playground area at DS, with my 2008 tour roomie Ron, showing us how trampoline-ing is REALLY done. Go Ron!

Karolinelund Entrance - and there IS the park's name up there, somewhere. Darned sunlight, lol.

The park's Big Map. The park was pretty small, so we found everything we needed to ride, w/o it.

Boomerang! What more is there to say? (o:

Looping TL59! (They were really original with these coaster names, hmm?)

And of course a name for the ghost train ride I can't begin to pronounce: Spogelsestog - with our guest riders for today, Marc and Ryan! Hey guys! Enjoy the cheesy Danish gore? Thanks Djurs Sommerland & Karolinelund for a great day!

And after that, here some of us are, waiting for our second ferry crossing - Denmark to Sweden. And on to our Goteborg hotel for a good night's sleep, and then bussing on...to Norway!

[Nrthwnd]

So after a niiiiice night's sleep in Goteborg, we left our looooovely rooms for our bus ride up to another country! Yes, it's Time For Norway and for me, a repeat visit to a park that worked at "working you out", heh heh....

 

~ Tusenfryd ~

 

This was a reunion visit for a few of us on this tour. For myself, this park was part of the 2006 add-on we did with the first TPR UK Tour. And it rained most of the day we were there, but it was an awesome park with a really good selection of coasters and other rides and attractions. However, time has gone by, and I did have two little disappointments with this tour's visit to Tusenfryd.

 

#1 - No Haunted House Walk-thru. The building was still there, and even still on the (then) current park map, but the thing had been shut down and I guess it was just heading for a tear-down, eventually. Sad, because although a bit 'tame' by some other walk--thrus I had andf have been thru on my other tours, this was a neat little scare or three with a live actor too, and I am sorry I didn't get to experience that again.

 

#2 - No Norse Legend Theatre Show. The Dragons mouth (Is that what it was? I forget, sorry.) is still there, as it (again) is on the park map. But they closed that production down, and now the space is only open for company event get-togethers and group meets, etc. Sad, because it was a neat "How Norway Got Put Together by Norse Gods" production, with a motion seating base looking like a Norse ship, some fairly good animatronics and some pretty good special effects in projections and sound. Smoke and watersprays of course included, too LOL! So I was sorry to see that I couldn't do that again.

 

And what I also found again, is that Tusenfryd still had this bizarre way of making me think "Fuji-Q of Scandinavia" with some of its loading practices, especially rides like Superplash and SpeedMonster took - for - ever. So, no wonder the lines were long and long and .... There was a new GI-Normous frisbee (or maybe it was one of those new 'Giant Discovery' rides?) called SpinSpider debuting the time we were there, but the loading and unloading was interminable, IMhO. And since I had practically been on one or two similar ones (but much smaller of course) in other tours - not worth the long queueing, personally.

 

Their woodie, ThunderCoaster was still awesome, even without the rain pelting you left - right and lower than you want it, LOL! Awesome coaster and we got some ERT on it, too! SpeedMonster was still a great zippy launch, but once was enough for me. I had done it a couple of times on the 2006 add-on, and now after riding Blue Fire in Europa? Meh. It's still fun, SM is.

 

And of course THIS is the home park to The Most Awesome Coaster Ever - Teeny Weeny! It runs in a vague rectangle, the cars are actually quite spacious compared to other (ahem) children's coasters, and if you are TPR Lucky, "maybe" the ride op will send you around and around and .... on 10+ ride cycles??? (burp indeed) It was fun reliving that little coastering nightmare too, heh heh.

 

And finally - this is The Workout Park for You if you like your thrills and a good invigorating (hah) walk/climb/HIKE uphill and downhill and everything in between for those tired overweight...feet, lol. Man, even after another great group meal in one of the park's main restaurants (Buffet again - Yay!) I am totally certain this meal was easily walked off by the time we re-boarded our bus, and got back to Goteborg, lol. Which was great! (o:

 

And between the next morning's breakfast and meeting up for our 'stroll to Liseberg' I did a quick little "street culture tour" safely within distance of figuring out how to get back to the &^%$@# hotel in time for the meet-up, heh heh.

I'm pretty sure this is "the border" between Sweden (driving from) and Norway (driving to). Woo hoo Country Credit! No wait )o: I already got this from the 2006 add-on! Oh well. No rain Woo hoo! (it did back then)

See the park there, all nestled in those (gulp) hiking hills? Top of ThunderCoaster at left there. And that's the loop of SpeedMonster going 'around' the entry/exit escalators up into the park. And that's all ya got, for people-moving LOL. Hiking hiking from there on...

Loopen. I did not ride it. I had the credit. It was an artsy fartsy shot for me, lol. Oh, and there's the Haunted House walk-thru on the right there. {Disappointment #1.}

Another great (Buffet!) TPR Group Meal. Yeah, chow down guys. We got lots more 'walking" to do here, lol.

We got a Walk-Back to where the engines and such of SpeedMonster made it all happen. Scary place; lots of huge machinery; and loud noise; pretty amazing for a coaster! Thanks for a great day, Tusenfryd! (And then - we got going back to Goteborg, another night's sleep, breakfast, My Street Culture Tour, and then - <3 LISEBERG!)

Goteborg Morning Street Cultural Tour = GMSCT Shot #1 - What swings look like in Goteborg! (I needed the restup first for my 'walk' ahead of me, lol). And a great idea of using used tires (I hope) for swings! InGREENious!

GMSCT Shot #2 - there was moving water, and a lot of spoons in this sculpture. And when the water fell - bell chime sounds suddenly happened, to just stand and enjoy listening to. Great stuff.

GMSCT Shot #3 - I think this was supposed to be "Egyptian"-like. In one of Goteborg's street walkways. Just - there. Standing. Interesting.

GMSCT Shot #4 - And I DID find myself very close to Liseberg's Front Gate (our hotel was that close!), so one of these was definitely used to find my nice comfy hotel with the old-fashioned elevator, lol.

And finally Cultural Shot #5 - with our lovely model for today, Lou! {Hi Lou!} Lou is demo-ing the latest in smoking luxuries, your own semi-private Hotel Lobby Smoking Closet - doorless! And it makes neat tornado/cyclone-like smoke tunnels, when the smoke is sent to the centre of The Table. Cool! But I am still glad I quit, several years ago, lol.

[gisco]

The only way that I would do a SCAD tower is with a group like TPR. I like the look on your face as you start to fall. What is that you are saying?

[Nrthwnd]

^ Somebody told me afterwards (I guess someone who did it after me), that I looked so ultra-serious/concentrating and trying to remain calm while staring at that hook, about to let me go, lol. I didn't know my hands were holding onto the straps so tight, either. It was such an intense you-are-there moment there, so high up.

 

And "apparently" it was reported, that instead of what I thought I was yelling/screaming as some kind of Tarzan yell or war cry - was actually...

 

Mommeeeeeee!

 

 

Also, it had been raining all day, there was still some drizzle coming down and it was getting c-c-c-cold with some wind up there. I think at first, we couldn't do it immediately when we arrived, because the wind was stronger than they would allow it to be done. So we came back later after riding the coasters etc. And it had calmed down... a bit, ha ha.

[Nrthwnd]

.. and after finding my way back to our hotel, and all all meeting up in the lobby, we were then off (by foot) to one of my fave parks, with a lot of great stuff in it, coasters too!

 

~ Liseberg ~

 

This is one of those parks that has a lot going for it, as far as the number of attractions it has, the variety for all age/thrill levels, and the experience that it has to grow and change somewhat, while keeping it's past successes alive and thriving. Landscaping and great architecture, too!

 

It's home to one of the nicest non-looping Schwarzkopf coasters you could ever ride round and round on the side of a hill; the most amazing haunted house walk-through (Gasten); Sagoslottet - a slow moving suspended dark ride through scenes of various (and sometimes wierd) fairy tales; a pretty WET flume ride - three drops - WET - built by Arrow - did I say you got W - E - T?...

 

We started the day with a Welcome Reception (!) inside Balder's layout, where we had soda and beers (!!!) and snacks awaiitng us, some souvenirs of the park and of course Balder itself, as gifts, and (yes!) we got to do to Balder, what I had gotten to do a few years before, on that 2006 add-on! That being, taking a nail and driving it into the lovely framework that supports this wonderful amazing wooden coaster! And then date it and sign your name to it too... Awesome! So I got to add the day's date to where my signature was from '06 and then after photo-taking and lots of geek chat, we started our ERT with many rides on Balder itself, along with it's steely younger sibling Kanonen, next to it.

 

And later on, we got the opportunity to enjoy a hosted tour (by one of it's actors) through the actors' walkways and 'backstage' of one of The Best Theme Park Walk-Throughs - Ever: Gasten Hotel. Doing that, and then going into the Hotel later on, only made the backstage tour ever more cool to remember.

 

Another nice group meal in on of the park's main restaurants, recently renovated and opening that summer; more time on flat rides and some shop buying; getting up into the (still standing then) Liseberg Tower for some great park shots...

 

And finally, at 10pm when the park closed - Night ERT on Balder for one - full - hour.

 

 

Then back to the hotel, sleep, breakfast and then off and away, from a wonderful day at Liseberg!

But before we head to Liseberg - here's me, Big Mike and one of the "I'm a valuable BIG MIKE reader" buttons, Robin (he's 3 pix down) made up and gave out to some of us back in 2006 - at Liseberg - in front of Balder! Hi Mike, and Thanks again Robin!

Now in Liseberg - within Balder - at our Welcoming Reception - With beer (o:

Here I am! From 2006, and now 2009. The Park's Mascot's Ears are part of the Welcome Pack, lol!

Hi Robin! (at left) And there the rest of them all go, hammering into the poor thing. Amazing it still runs so wooonderfully well, heh heh.

Nailing Balder Group Shot #1 - Mostly UK, with a traitor or two in there, somewhere. (hi Andrew)

Nailing Balder Group Shot #2 - Bigger Group - More Nails. More Beer.

Woo Hoo! My Coaster Count Project continues with... Coaster # 3-6-9. (I like the number '3' and all it's combinations, lol.) "RaBalder" (original title, hmm?) replaced "CircusExpressen" which I got credit for, back in 2006. Kool!

Group meal with Tim, me, my tour roomie Terry, and Stacey, who's probably wondering when the 'cool beans' we're going to stop taking photos, so she can EAT!

Heading up the escalator to the Lisberg (observation) Tower. And it looks like "somebody" got too close to some radiation, hmm?

Tower Shot #1 - Some nice Schwarzkopf love down there, with the Uppswinger beside it. Mmmmmm Lisebergbanan (name of coaster).

Tower Shot #2 - Showing our group meal restaurant at left; various flats, dance/entertainment areas, shops and lovely landscaping; and a shadow of what is now no more - a drop tower now in it's former place.

Tower Shot #3 - Mmmmm Balder we love ye. (And little Kanonen there, too!) Bye Bye and Thanks again for another great day, Liseberg! Missing you since....2009 lol!

Edited December 18, 2011 by Nrthwnd

[vuurvogel]

Any park that let you smash their coaster with a hammer is awesome

[simon8899]

I'll do a Scandi City Tour comming June - and this wets my appetite....

[cfc]

The only way that I would do a SCAD tower is with a group like TPR.

 

Same here. I doubt I would've done it if Rich hadn't talked me into it.

[rollin_n_coastin]

Ah, Liseberg. Where bunnies can be as exciting as Hefner's. Lisebergbanan started that awesome trend of "Broms!".

 

^Rich almost got me with his psychological warfare. Almost.

Edited December 17, 2011 by rollin_n_coastin

[cfc]

^Rich almost got me with his psychological warfare. Almost.

 

Until you put on the broms?