Germany 2014 Photo TR

Chuck, yes BGW is a beautiful Park aswell.

Europa do seem to like their spitting things: Toad by Arthur, frogs on post in fantasy village, puffins by the splash battle, monster at the entrance of the haunted house and I'm sure there are others.

No pictures of raclette!?!? Your TR is dead to me!

;-( I'm so sorry.

I walked past it and took a photo but went elsewhere for food. I do have a photo and will post it later if that will help?

Haha

No pictures of raclette!?!? Your TR is dead to me!

Elissa: Does this help?

Wow, that looks amazing! Thanks for taking so many awesome pictures! More places for me to add to the bucket list. Looking forward to part 4

So, the 4th and final day of our mini Germany trip took us approximately and hour and a half north to Cleebronn and to Erlebnispark Tripsdrill.

Tripsdrill is a rather small but beautifully landscaped park nestled in the middle of a large vine growing region.

The park does not have a huge amount of attractions and last year opened their brand new big investment, a Gerstlauer Infinity coaster of the same ilk as The Smiler at Alton Towers (without the creepy backstory and annoying soundtrack).

Ok, on to the photos:

We made it to Tripsdrill!

Upon entering, you are greeted at the top of a small hill, this strange parachute ride.

The park really seems to like these tracked rotating barrel rides as they are everywhere. We had to try out out so we did that nearer the end of the day. As expected, the spinning made me rather dizzy so yes, I am not a fan.

This is the parks smallest coaster which is the double figure 8 Tivoli.

Yes, beautiful looking park

oooh, big twisty ride. This is Karacho the recently new Infinity coaster from Gerstlauer.

Wheee!, From this angle it looks like a smaller version of Takabisha.

This ride also uses lap bar only restraints and I much prefer them to the OTSR versions. The ride experience is so much more open.

Hi Larry!

The ride seemed to be located within a large construction site as development around this area was not 100% finished. The exit path was totally temporary too.

I enjoyed the ride but not as much as I had expected. I would rate it on par with the Smiler. Three favourite parts: Launch, Lapbar only seating and the dive loop into a tunnel near the end of the ride.

This photo is taken inside the queueline area through a net. This is an indoor barrel roll just before the launch.

As the cars enter the station, the LED effects on the backs of each one all light up. The cars are really nicely detailed and look great.

Something or other in the queueline.

Aforementioned cars.

A quick look over at our next destination.

More Karacho

Loop de loop

The dive loop into a mist filled tunnel just before the final corkscrew and break run was a fantastic element.

Yay, a new woodie. This is Mammut. Mammut is the quietest wooden coaster I have ever not heard! You can hardly hear it running and that's even when you are stood directly under it in the queueline.

First drop.

The ride is pretty good. It seems to bounce along the track and is not rough. Just a good family wooden coaster.

I think this is the entrance. The ride also has a really cool preshow just before the lift inside a woodshop.

Take the tunnel!

Queue theming

Guy who rollerskated the ride a while back.

Nicely themed trains. The front row of each car also records and onride video too.

Next up is G'Sengte Sau. This is a Gerstlauer bob sleigh and the layout is identical to Cobra at Paulton's Park

I found the ride to be quite brutal and nothing special part from the theming as the building surrounding it looks superb. It also intertwines with the log flume.

Final helix into the break run. This apparently was also Gerstlauer's first ever coaster.

The log flume has really nice bathtub themed boats complete with showers!

Ready....and...

Splooosh!

Yep, very nice

Fountains

fountains and loopy coaster thing.

More track based spinny rides

I like their TEA cup ride in a giant COFFEE grinder building

On the far side of the park, there are these shooting boats. All the water guns are themed as watering cans, piles of books, wine bottles etc!

Tripsdrill is also home to one of these odd tilting/freefall towers. I was told of these by Elissa when we visited BonBon Land on the recent Scandi tour and it was nice to get to ride another.

Fun house with indoor and outdoor sections.

Tilting droptower again

G'Sengte Sau and Log Flume

Tivoli - Rasender Tausenfussler

Mushroom themed Wave Swinger (Why are they always themed to mushrooms or turtles?)

The little monorail ride hwere tilts from side to side as it travels along which is a nice touch.

These crazy bikes are all slightly different. Some you pedal backwards and others have the wheels on slightly off centre. Not easy!

The park also has a winery showing all the past presses and providing samples too. Your park entry ticket also nets you a small Tripsdrill glass to take home as a souvenir.

Small kiddie log flume

I really liked these small box car style cars that look like they are unguided but actually are.

Thanks for looking. That's it. Hope you enjoyed a brief look at three of Germany's theme parks. Would recommend all three!

Neil

No pictures of raclette!?!? Your TR is dead to me!

 

Elissa: Does this help?

 

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Yummmmm!!! MUCH BETTER!!! You are forgiven for now.

Tripsdrill looks beautiful! I would love to check it out someday. Great report!

Tripsdrill is a very cool park, full of all sorts of little details and surprises (for example, there are a number of animatronic scenes, one of which you have to climb a ladder to trigger).

The restaurant there is very good, too. Great pictures, Neil.

Awesome trip report Neil. I hope to get to these parks at some point in the future. Glad you and Jason had a good time, I hope you stopped in his path to take photos many times!

Awesome trip report Neil. I hope to get to these parks at some point in the future. Glad you and Jason had a good time, I hope you stopped in his path to take photos many times!

Of course!

I had never heard of Tripsdrill before but it looks like a great park with beautiful landscaping and theming and some pretty cool and interesting rides.

Nice! It seems that everyone really likes the dive loop on karacho. By the way, did the hill after the loop provide any air? It's kind of hard to judge from POVs but it almost looks like it does nothing.

Awesome trip report Neil. I hope to get to these parks at some point in the future. Glad you and Jason had a good time, I hope you stopped in his path to take photos many times!

I can assure you Lee,that happened many times! Shame you couldn't join us

Neil,you captured the weekend and the parks very well in your photos!

Amazing photos of Karacho I always think Tripsdrill is kind of like the Europa Park for Gerstlauer.

Nice! It seems that everyone really likes the dive loop on karacho.

Haven't experienced a Gerstlauer dive loop yet but I think it gives some strong airtime during the upward twist, kind of like how RMC put unexpected airtime on the twists.

Fantastic photos! I think my brain would go into sensory overload if I was to visit Europa Park. That is one absolutely beautiful park.

I also really like the look of Tripsdrill, which also is very photogenic. Karacho looks like one of the better custom Gerstlauer coasters.

Enjoying your TR Neil. We're hoping to get to Europe (and Germany especially), but gotta save those pennies - your TR is definitely helping.

Amazing photos of Karacho I always think Tripsdrill is kind of like the Europa Park for Gerstlauer.

 

Nice! It seems that everyone really likes the dive loop on karacho.

Haven't experienced a Gerstlauer dive loop yet but I think it gives some strong airtime during the upward twist, kind of like how RMC put unexpected airtime on the twists.

That's what I assumed. Especially with lapbars (although saw looks like the one that throws you into the twist the fastest)

About the Tea Cups, the ride is called the Kaffeetassen-Fahrt, or "Coffee Mug Ride".

Such an amazing, beautiful park. These pictures really make me wanna go to Germany, NOW! Thank you for this! Looks like you had an excellent time.

Great TR! thank you so much for sharing. Who makes that family tilt drop tower? It looks cool and is themed wonderfully.

Great TR! thank you so much for sharing. Who makes that family tilt drop tower? It looks cool and is themed wonderfully.

As far as I am aware, the drop tower is by ABC Rides. Looking at their list of installations (http://www.abc-engineering.ch/cms/upload/download/Reference%20list%20abc%20rides%202012.pdf), there are 3 of them in total: BonBon Land, Tripsdrill and Fraispertuis City.

They are fun and worth riding if you get the chance. I've been lucky to ride two of them in the same year!

^It's always fun to see and hear people's reactions on Tripsdrill's drop ride.

That's a very pretty park, great report!

Great TR! thank you so much for sharing. Who makes that family tilt drop tower? It looks cool and is themed wonderfully.

 

As far as I am aware, the drop tower is by ABC Rides. Looking at their list of installations (http://www.abc-engineering.ch/cms/upload/download/Reference%20list%20abc%20rides%202012.pdf), there are 3 of them in total: BonBon Land, Tripsdrill and Fraispertuis City.

It is very surprising that more of them were not sold. I very unique and fun ride.