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Face Book · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject:

Day Eight: Bon Bon Land and Hansa Park.

Today’s update will be a little briefer since I have to cover two parks, it’s kind of late, and the internet wi-fi is REALLY expensive in this hotel! :o

Bon Bon Land – This is one of the weirdest, screwed up parks ever! But I mean that in a good way. This park might as well be called the “bodily function park” in that just about every bodily function is covered. Let me explain. The park is themed with these bizarre cartoon animal characters, each one of them that seems to represent different things that your body does. From the peeing grasshopper to the farting dog, the vomiting bird and the crapping seagull. It’s all there! The photos will explain more. Needless to say, it made for some entertaining photos! We met up with some members of http://www.themeparkdenmark.dk/ again and they helped make the day even better.

As for the coasters, the premiere attraction is a Gerstlauer 95 degree drop coaster. I have to be honest, after riding both of these I really hope those rumors for Dollywood getting one does not come true. While they are ‘fun’ they aren’t very comfortable and they ‘feel’ more like a portable ride than a permanent fixture.

The other coaster is the “Dog Fart Coaster.” Now we had been hearing about this coaster for a long time, and we originally just thought it was some funny translation. No, were wrong, it REALLY is the “Dog Fart Coaster!” You ride in a train themed like a dog, and when the train travels through the ‘dog house’ you can hear the fart noise, and when you come out of the dog house you see the figuring of the dog crapping on the ground.

No, I am NOT making this up!!!! There seriously is a speaker in the dog house where the fart comes from, and there even is poop on the ground! This should give you a clear idea of the sense of humor in this park.

And if that isn’t weird enough, now comes the ‘self operated rides’ including a roller coaster and a pirate ship ride! These were everywhere in the park! And what do we mean by ‘self operated?’ Simple, there are no ride ops, these rides are on the honor system and you operate them yourself!

The coaster was interesting, and it’s not really a ‘coaster’, certainly not a ‘credit’ for us, but it was a lot of fun! They also had a self-operated zip-line ride, I mean, a full sized zipline that probably was 100 feet long and about 30 feet off the ground! This wasn’t like your coin operated supermarket rides, these were REAL rides without any ride op at all! Seriously, it was REALLY cool!

We left around 12:30 so we could catch a ferry into Germany and make it to Hansa Park.

This was to be a ‘bonus park’ on the trip and it turns out we had plenty of time to do both parks in one day, especially since there were no crowds at either one.

We had no idea what to expect from Hansa and we came out really liking it a lot! It was also a weird, screwed up park, again in a good way, and this time because of all it’s bizarre rides.

As for coasters, they had a pretty good custom layout Schwarzkopf with a single loop and a CRAZY moment of airtime! They also had a custom layout Roller Skater and a Wild Mouse. But that’s where the ‘normal’ stuff stops.

The new ride of the this year was the “Starflyer”, or at least that’s it’s common name. Basically, it’s a chairswing ride that is 150 feet tall and goes 40 MPH!!! Yes, once again, I am NOT making this up! This ride was seriously cool! It craps all over the Screamin’ Swings! I mean, you feel REALLY high up, and it goes REALLY fast. And all you are sitting in is what looks like your common chairswing, nothing much different about it. It scared the crap out of all of us, but we LOVED it!

Hansa also had some of those ‘bouncy things’ that we encountered at Farup a few days ago. We probably spent more time here, again, than on the rest of the rides! You could really get bouncing good on these too. We bounced Joey and got ‘girls on trampoline’ footage. What more do you need? Taiko Really Happy

The other bizarre ride was the “Metro Liner.” The only way to describe this is a double-bayern curve. I have no idea who makes it or where this ride comes from, but it’s really cool!

We took a spin, literally, on the spinning rapids ride. The same type that was installed at Astroworld and SFA a few years ago but this one was much longer and spun MUCH more!!! Elissa rode, and I’m not sure she was pleased with that decision! Taiko Really Happy

Anyway, we’re off to Heide Park tomorrow and more Intamin steel, I mean, WOOD coasters! Taiko Really Happy

Onto some photos from today!

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject:

WOW Starflyer looks AWESOME, wow, IDK who makes that ride but it looks kinda fun. WOW looks like you guys are having a great time, the 'bodily function animals' HAHA thats great! Europe is great!

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:34 pm Post subject:

Nice TR Again!
But you are doing a lot of parks in so little time! Do you see all of the park or just some waiting lines? Wink

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the great Trip Reports! The Scandi parks look amazing. Can't wait to go in 2007.

I believe the Metroliner is a Schwarzkopf Bayern Curve 2. I still prefer the original.

Jonathan

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject:

I went on the Star Flyer at Prater Park in spring 2004. Its a really fun ride.. But that one you guys went to looks like it has 2 people seats.. The Prater one is only solo seats.

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject:

http://www.flatrides.com/Ride%20Index%20Pages/metroliner.html

It's not Schwartzies! He gave input on the design, but it's manufactured by BHS.

Bayern Kurve 2 was never manufactured.

(Edit=Typo)

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject:

There's another at Prater in Vienna, they got the first from FunTime Industries (Makers of the Spring Shot Slingshot Ride).

Old Town in Kissimmee was supposed to get one or is still getting one, haven't heard much lately about it, since they already bought the large SpringShot model from them right before IAAPA 2001.

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject:

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:45 pm Post subject:

Quick question for those who were at Walibi World on Saturday.

What is that techno song that plays on the space shot? I've been trying to track down a name on that forever, but I've never gotten an answer.

Steve-

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