Photo TR: Oktober Trip Germany

Hey all,

This is my story of the Germany mini trip we did in october. If you want a more detailed report you have to watch these topics of Hansrubens and Groteslurf.

http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=57144

http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=55537&start=90

I will just show the stuff I found funny and tell about my thoughts of the trip.

Day 1:

Fort Fun and the German Autobahn

After getting up real early Hans picked me up to drive to the south. Because there would be our rendevoux with the Belgiums. Meeting them would mean the start of a game we would play till the end of the trip. Car Tetris. The rules are simple, take 5 adults. Preferably large ones and try to stuff them in 1 average sized european car. You will get bonus points for telling each other to sit still and not to sit on the gear shift. You win the game by getting out of the car on your destination and have a lot of space for yourself.

Just kidding, it was just a small discomfort which made the trip more memorable.

Before I continue this report I want you all to look in your music library or on the internet and put on cocaine in my Brain from Dillinger. This was our themesong during the trip and it will make reading this tripreport so much funnier.

First park Fort Fun

This is a small Park but nice. It has a Zierer double 8 coaster, a Vekoma Corkscrew and a weird custom Vekoma Junior called Devil's Mine. Several small rides and an excellent mountain coaster.

Most of the rides in the park are meuh. You have to make 'm nice yourself. But the Devil's mine is a wonderful exception. The waiting row is a funhouse with some nice effects and you have to do this coaster just for that. The coaster itself is not that powerful (its a junior) but you get a nice bit of air on the first drop. Dont forget to check ou the terrain log flume.

The second ride that is amazing in this park is the mountain coaster. The park is worth going to just for this ride only. You will get pulled up the mountain which takes a long time. About 3 to 3,5 minutes before you are at the top. And it is not a slow lifthill. And then you have to get the whole end back snaking through the woods at high speed. This ride gets an 11 out of 10 from me.

The plan was to hit another park before the evening but several roadblocks and traffic jams made us go straight to our hotel in Hamburg. We did go to the Red Light district in the evening but is was very touristy and not as good as other cities.

More in part two.

Fort Fun entrance

Benny got in the Halloween mood at the start of the trip

Hiking up to the star attraction

lower part of the lifthill

halfway up the mountain

those poor buffalo's

Classic

Day 2: Hansa Park

Just above Hamburg at the East Sea lies Hansa Park. Themed after the Hansen pact. A trade pact between several northern european cities. This is a nice clean park. Not very big, but with good rides and some surpizes. Most known ride is Fluch von Novgorod. (Curse of Novgorod). This Gerstlauer Eurofighter is partly indoor and excellently themed. Which more eurofighter have; think mystery mine and Saw: the Ride. The surprize at the end is a nice touch. This park also houses the longest Vekoma Junior Coaster and Nessie, an old schwarzkopf looping coaster. As a bonus they have a wild mouse with a jugband. Other rides that are a must in this park is their weird bayern curve. Is it a coaster? is it a flat ride? What is it? Their oversized logflume splash down thingy. The wooden oldtimer fairground rides. Spanische Klocken, weird ride, beautiful to look at. Racing slides. But the best ride is the spinning, rubberraft wildwaterride. It is long it is spinny it is great fun. And you can loose your batteries in it.

entrance

overview, glocke, power tower, wild water ride in the back

beautiful ride, low capacity

entrance Fluch von Novgorod

Can I get this ride in my backyard

upside downy

The theming of this park is really good

western part of the park

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I like these kind of details

It shows the park really does their best in theming

Feed up

Mystery solved; I know why there are lighthouses on land in Germany, Robin!

Heavy traffic

WOW! Great pics...Fluch von Novgorod looks amazing! The entrance to the park however is beautiful....can't wait for more pics!

-Zach

Great to see your report so far, EB! This must mean that you've fixed or replaced your computer!

Great to see your report so far, EB! This must mean that you've fixed or replaced your computer!

Yup, replaced. I have to salvage some documents from the other computer. But luckily these pictures were still on my camera.

Awesome EB.

Love the tetris comparison.

And you can indeed loose your batteries on the spinning raftride

I love your take on making trip reports. Keep 'm coming.

---Hans

Day 3

Heide Park and...

This day would be entirely for Heide Park. It was my first visit there and it looked like the park would be large enough to fill an entire day. But, alas, colossos was down. Some small rides didn't want to go and a flume was out.

Colossos was a bummer but the day would become a great day because colossos was down.

First up we came through the area where they were building Kraken. So I will have to go back next year, it looked like a fair amount of ground the ride will cover. So Heide Park is on my to do list for 2011.

Next up was the refurbished look out tower, wich is now a gyro drop. Insane ride, nice view. Then we did the Mack bobsled. It is a excellent long bobsled and now my #100 coaster .

After doing all the other rides in the park and the other coasters, vekoma slc, vekoma loop, intamin accelerator, mack powered and zierer force one the log flume did open and we could do all the rides we wanted. It not busy in the park and 3 of us, (the most hardcore themepark enthusiasts (hansrubens, groteslurf and me)) went to serengetipark. The park we missed on the first day.

Serengeti

is a safari park with a nice collection of animals. So I played tourguide, look there that is a.. and there a ... etc.

The other half of the park is a somewhat ghetto amusement park with old fairground rides, and some really special rides. The rides were good. But I did not think the log flume was very healthy. The water was Brown, smelly and foamy. The whole park was like a swamp, with water everywhere and the local residents took quite the interest in us. Luckily for Groteslurf and me, hansrubens had put on his YELLOW europe trip shirt, so we where left alone.

The coasters where Ok and surprising. There was a zierer double 8 and a mysterious Fairground coaster wich was really good.

But the best ride of the day was a trip on the swamp boat. A nice big engine roaring through a very bad remake of Disney's Jungle cruise. But the boat was absolutely great and being attacked by a very slow moving, but really large king kong made this ride one you will never see in a large mainstream park. The only ride I could compare it to would be Magma 2 in movieland studios italy. Only they have better special effects.

It was a great day.

something is not right in this picture

Kraken will extend this Bay of the Skull pirates theme area next year

Nice theming for the drop tower

everything is better with Lego

Safari time

Did you do something different to your hair?

Nice of you to notice

I found your contacts

Having a bath is best with your friends

Please open your window, we are very nice, you won't feel much

Like a real safari we took a lot of pictures

Hope he has insurance

Trunk this

The creatures liked hans a lot, do not wear yellow in a swamp

nice little coaster

Here we go

Best ride of the trip

powered by this

Short onride from Die! Wilde Maus

The Last Day

This would be our busiest day. With 3 parks and 1 surprize ride.

First up was Stuckenbrock Hollywood unde Safari Park. This Ghetto park was really fun. A good large Safari Park wich I found really weird. They put Black Bears in the same enclosure with Onagers (wild donkeys) and camels. A boatload of white lions and tigers, probably inbred, because the male female ratio was all out of proportion. And some randomly put to together antelopes. Species I mean, this was not a frankenstein park.

The rides looked not well maintained and we feared the first ride we did broke down with us on it because the drop tower stayed up for a long time before it finally fell. So first the coasters, before they broke down. Another zierer double 8 and a Vekoma Corkscrew. This coaster recently changed name to flying tiger and was repainted. It had repainted old school trains and we feared it would be a Vekoma Death machine. But to our surprize this was the smoothest coaster on the entire trip. Yay, old school vekoma.

The park also contained a small zoo, with some poor lonely animals. The only exhibit that looked good was the new cheetah pen. And these cats put on a good show trying to catch us.

The other big ride this park has is a log flume with rubber boats. Some kind of water coaster year 0 style thing. It was still down for the day, but the guy working on it said it would open soon so we waited and hoped it would open because we had to go, to maintain our schema. It opened and next we knew we were stampeded by a hoard of russian kids. French crush is nothing compared with a russian stampede. They were all over the station and the operator had to yell and push them to get control back of his station. The ride itself was awesomely strange. The lift hills were very slow but the downhill part was so fast it had brakes on it, otherwise you would be launched out of the tube.

Onto the next park. Oh no, we had a bonus ride. A mountain coaster in the middle of Bottrop. This one was not as good as the one at Fort Fun, but it was OK. The views where nice and we even spotted a USO, which we think was a viewing tower.

Next park CentrO, little did we know we visited it on one of the last days of its existence. Yay, we have that credit. It had a good spinning coaster we apparently almost broke, because after our ride the operator said that we could not ride again with four adults in one car. Being of center these cars span even more and the coaster has some close encounters with the supports. We lend ourselfs to some german kids who could not ride unless accompanied by an adult. (yes, this also works the other way around. It is not only us who lend kids to ride kiddie coasters, you can lend yourself to kids who want to ride adult coasters )

Next up Movie Park Germany for our Halloween closure.

We did not do many rides because all of us had all the credits. We just did the fun ones. The drop tower, Mack mouse coaster, vekoma junior suspended, the raft ride (I still needed that credit) and Bandit. I let myself go on, because somebody convinced me it would be less painful because it was retracked. How wrong he was. Bandit is still the worst coaster in the world in my opinion. Wooden Torture machine that it is.

After that we did the haunted mazes and took in the Halloween atmosphere. It was a good end to a memorable trip.

Thanks guys for taking me with you!

Hollywood

Old School

Vekoma smoothness

Caged animals are more dangerous

lonely white rhino

white is a theme here

It may be gilded, but it is still a cage

Lovely animals

USO

Nice dora croc

moviepark germany

smoke anyone?

ahhh

very nice girl this, even with the make up

Loved the reports EB. Hopefully you'll be on next year's trip too.

I'm happy you liked my "home park" Hansa-Park. The Fluch is great and the Schwarzkopf with lapbars a real classic - even ran with two trains in the afternoon on a sunny day two weeks ago....

On the Bayerncurve: It was formerly named "Metroliner" and was built by BHS - Bavarian Steelworks - after designs by Schwarzkopf. I count it as a powered coaster.

P.S.: Did you do the "Fliegender Hai" Ranger? And the "Sturmvogel" - which underside you pictured - is an old Schwarzkopf Zwunka.

Sad you hit Heidepark with Colossos down - it's by far, far, far their best coaster. For me the best woodie...