Last week was ruled by Troy, the new woody in Toverland. The pre-opening was on last Friday before my vacation but unfortunately I was too late to get a day off so couldn’t be there. The next day we had the opportunity to check it out. We had six year old Teun with us and for him one time in Troy was more than enough so after one ride we stayed a short while to check out the surrounding area and then went on to explore the rest of Toverland.
Sunday we went back for the official opening and a proper dose of Troy goodness. We set out very early with the explicit goal of arriving in Toverland before everyone else. We arrived at 9:30 and archieved our goal – the only guy to beat us was Jos (or one of his men) who was doing some last fixups to the garden in Troy. It had suffered some damage the day before as the lush hills in that part of the park are very enticing for kids to climb and play on.
After being greeted by the friendly marketing lady (forgot her name) we met Joep who turned out to be a Toverland employee on a day off. We had to wait to 10 for the park to open and then we made our way in. A large crowd had already gathered but we were able to bypass them and enter the park in peace thanks to our season passes. Exactly at 10 we were inside Toverland and took a few moments to take pictures and shoot footage of the people storming into the park. Then we slowly made our way to Troy.
Turned out Troy would open at 11 so we went on a small quest to get something to drink and then returned to wait for the official opening. At the opening I finally saw Caroline of Toverland in real life as we listened carefully to everything she and her brother had to say. Unfortunately the weather gradually became worse and worse and at some point it even started raining… After the speech the Troy theme song was performed and after some unexpected fireworks Troy was officially open. At this point the weather had luckely cleared up and now we were even enjoying some nice blue patches and sunshine. The sun would be shining pretty much for the rest of the day.
After getting some decent footage of the drumband and lingering in the Troy area for a while we finally made our way back to the coaster again.
– Nice people in the park
– Plenty of Troy action
– Footage