Here at the geek house, 2006 has been officially declared as the “coaster season” so me and my brother bought season passes for three parks (so far) which together enable us to visit and park for free an unlimited times in about a dozen parks in Europe including:
- De Efteling
- Walibi World
- Walibi Belgium
- Walibi Rhône Alpes
- Walibi Lorraine
- Movie Park Germany
- Bellewaerde
- Bobbejaanland
- Port Aventura
I’m mostly interrested in coasters (as some of the newer thrill rides are a little too thrilling for me at the moment). Me and my brother are planning on getting as much coaster action as we can this season and I’m planning to post a detailed report on each and every park and coaster we visit. So far, we have been at least eight times to De Efteling, 3 times to Walibi World and 1 time to Bobbejaanland. Next weekend we’re going to Movie Park Germany and probably to one of the other parks I mentioned. We are also seriously planning to visit Europa Park, Port Aventura and Alton Towers as well as some smaller parks here in the neighbourhood including Toverland with the world’s first motor bike coaster “Booster Bike” (by Vekoma of course) and of course the somewhat infamous Disneyland Resort Paris (man is it hard to get a decent url for this place; try googling for it, you’ll see).
Just for kicks I listed all the coasters we’ve visited so far and it’s already a pretty nice list. Just for my personal ego-trip I’m including it with links to the Roller Coaster Database below:
- Goliath/Mega Coaster (Intamin)
- Xpress/LSM (Vekoma)
- Robin Hood/Wooden (Vekoma)
- La Via Volta/Boomerang (Vekoma)
- Typhoon/Euro-Fighter (Gerstlauer)
- El Condor/Suspended (Vekoma)
- Flying Dutchman Gold Mine (Mack)
- Dream Catcher (Vekoma)
- Python (Vekoma)
- Vogel Rok (Vekoma)
- Pegasus (Intamin)
- Revolution (Vekoma)
- De Bob (Intamin)
- Okidoki (Vekoma)
- Wok’s Waanzin (Zierer)
- Bob Express (Mack)
Update 22-06-2006:
- Rocket Rider Rollercoaster (Vekoma)
- Werewolf/Loup-Garou (Vekoma)
- MP Xpress (Vekoma)
- Cop Car Chase (Intamin)
- Bandit (Roller Coaster Corporation of America)
- Temple of the Nighthawk (Vekoma)
- Colorado Adventure (Vekoma)
- Black Mamba (Bolliger & Mabillard)
- Calamity Mine (Vekoma)
Update 29-06-2006:
Last weekend we went to Phantasialand (again) and also did the Winjas this time.
There’s another bunch of coasters that I’ve been on in my younger years but I’m not counting those as it has been almost a decade since I’ve been on one of those things. I’m only counting those that I’ve visited since April 2006, the start of this year’s season.
Update 25-07-06:
Well our vacation is over and it’s back to work. We did not make it to most of the further parks due to bad planning on our side. However, we did manage to pick up some more coasters… Nothing really spectacular but still – coasters:
- Vampire (Vekoma)
- Booster Bike(Vekoma)
- Boomerang (Vekoma)
- Mad Manor (Mack)
- Speedy Bob (Mack)