Photo TR - Lunapark

Hello everyone,

Here's a trip report of Lunapark in Prague, the Czech Republic, which I and my family (sister, parents and grandparents) made a short visit to on 17.4.2006.

First of all the park was quite hard to find. It was in the outskirts of the city, if I and my dad and sister hadn't been cruising with the tram the evening before, when we spotted the lighted 'Big Wheel', then it would've been much harder to know where it is, as it was said that it's in Stromovka Park, but really it's right beside it, and the Stromovka park is like 3 square miles big.

Anyway, we got there about 11 am, and left around 12.30am. The weather was alright, sunny and around 57F (14 degrees celcius) warm.

The park wasn't exactly empty, but still the queues were short and you got straight on the next ride/train.

The 'park' is really like a big fun fair, and you have to pay separately for each ride, which really confused me in the beginning, because there were no signs or texts or whatsoever in English.

When I walked into the park I walked to a big, central stall saying

'Kassa' which I understood means Cashier, and I saw the price 40Kc (~1.7$) and I showed with my fingers that I want ten 'tokens', because I saw them lying on the desk, and I payed.

Then I walked to the old S.D.C. Galaxi coaster 'Horska Draha' and noticed that there's a mini stall, next to the ride, I handed over 2 tokens (my sister was with me) to the old guy sitting in there, he said "Ne" which means no, shook his head and did a circle with his hands and pointed at the giant wheel and then pointed at the colorful tokens, which had an carving of a wheel on them, and then I realized what a big mistake I had made. I was annoyed.

Then I went back to the "wannabe main cashier" and tried to talk to the woman in English, if I could get my money back in exchange for the tokens, of course she couldn't understand anything, and when I shoved them to the desk she pushed them away, then I thought well whatever...

Then I walked back to the Galaxi coaster, paid its price 30Kc and rode it, it was ok, shaky, could've been worse for a 36 year old...

Then we ran to a small powered kiddie coaster, but when beside it, we saw it having a slow rollback, from the terrible height of 10 feet. Then we though WTF! and ran to Crazy Mouse.

After that it was Crazy Mouse's turn, it was a regular Reverchon spinning mouse coaster, alright, got some quite nice 'backwards airtime on the last hump'.

Then I got on my first Top Scan ever! It was actually good, the ride program was really long, like 3 minutes, it was well worth 70Kc.

After that I rode a small KMG Afterburner type of flatride, which was really good, great airtime, the ride lasted for long, but it did also spin like hell and got me feeling quite nauseous.

Quite soon after that we left the park, it was quite a quick visit, but I didn't really feel like riding more to be honest.

Other rides in the park include: 3 dark rides, a breakdance, smaller Huss Condor, 'Scrambled eggs'/Twister ride, River Rafting, Bungee - a big ejection-seat ride, lots of kiddie rides.

---

I will post more photos when I found the cable of the other camera, and other memorycards.

Me in a small playground (outside the park) and before you ask, it's not a walking stick, and I'm not crushing ants...

It's a spinning stick, with a footrest and some quite nice G's, especially if somebody helps you to get it spinning.

Onto the park.

Here's Jurassic Park, the older ground-breaking concept (of IOA's ride) which was only a temporare waterride.

The random and funny looking "Jumping three headed seamonsters under the command of the center gorilla" ride.

some kiddie rides.

...

...

The "where to put your excess flagpoles ride".

The Crazy Mouse and the Huss Condor ride, in the background.

Here is the 'Bungee' ride and the Afterburner type of ride... and the inflatable cock ride, in the background.

the S.D.C. Galaxi from 1973. I think Draha means 'train'.

lol I'm so mad at that park...

I was Prague in 2004... And didnt have a car or anything.. So I just walked around looking for the park.. But never found it. (Yet somehow I found Prater and Vidampark on my own...)

Anyways the place looks ghetto so I guess its not a 'big deal' that I couldnt find it.. But it would have been nice to have got the only coaster in the CR in my count...

^Yeah, it's a shame and it was indeed difficult to find it.

Also, I forgot to say that, I looked on a free newspaper, when I was in that city and saw an article about the park and I also saw the word "Booster" mentioned, and that's about all I understood. Well, before the trip there I read a tripreport on onride.de, from the end of March this year, about the park and also saw pictures of a Fabbri Booster there, but sadly it wasn't there when I visited.

A thing that I find a bit strange is why the park has only 1 coaster listed on rcdb.com, but I saw 3 of them, of course it could be so that the 2 coasters are owned by traveling showmen etc, and not permanent, which I don't hope as otherwise I would (have) get (got) an extra credit (the kiddie coaster was broke).

That looked like a really nice park there. With some actual better-looking flats, than I remember seeing in our ho-hum of a ....

And really, I don't think many of us in North America ever get to see photos of eastern European countries' parks and places with rides for people to enjoy. No where I remember, in eastern Europe.

Thanks for sharing the TR. Some great photos there.

(EDIT!!! Was that Horror Castle a ride or a walk-thru funhouse, etc.? Do you have another photo of it, full front facade showing? If not, that's cool. I am so curious now how it looked like, etc....)

^ I'm sorry, I don't have another photo of it. I'm quite sure it was a ride and on the facade there was other 'drawings' of mystical things and some of horror peeps like Frankenstein etc.

Here are some other photos of the park.

some yellow track of Crazy Mouse.

Crazy Mouse + the Top Scan, which had a 'dance-related name'(the park was full of them) which I can't remember now.

The ten annoying Big Wheel tokens lying on a red bench.

My first coaster of 2006, after an over half year long period without any rides.

the Kiddie coaster.

A big nice looking 'exhibition hall' building, the (Luna) Park is behind it.