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40th anniversary plansHoliday Park
Now part of the Plopsa family, Germany’s Holiday Park celebrates its 40th season with six new attractions and a host of fresh characters courtesy of new owner Studio 100.
Maja’s Blumenturm (Flower Tower) is a new family
tower ride featuring Maja the Bee, while Flip der Grashüpfer is a pony-trekking style ride featuring the grasshopper from the same TV series. Both will launch in the summer. In the meantime Holiday Park guests can enjoy a new jumping frog ride, a Tabaluga-themed ride and a driving school featuring existing park mascot Holly the parrot. Also new for 2011 are some dancing fountains,
plus meet-and-greet opportunities with Maja, Wickie the Viking and Tabaluga. Studio 100 is also retheming the park’s 70-metre Ride Trade tower ride as Anubis Free Fall Tower based around its teen TV drama The House Anubis. New live entertainment experiences include a colourful journey to South America called
LEFT: Dancing fountains RIGHT: Maja the Bee ride Lol Atol at Drievliet
New this season at Familypark Drievliet in the Netherlands is Lol Atol, a themed area based around a coral island. Designed by Jora Vision, it’s the latest area to be given a new look as the Faij family’s facility near The Hague makes the transition from amusement park to theme park. Featured rides include Kwal (Jelly-Fish), a Huss
Enterprise; Draaikolk (Vortex), a Huss Breakdance; Nautilus, a KMG Fireball; and Glijbaan Brigade, a wet/dry slide complex. A new attraction, due to open in mid-May, will be Vliegende Vissen (Flying Fishes), a beautifully decorated jet ride by Zamperla. Drievliet’s 2011 season continues until October 30.
www.drievliet.nl Storm Surge strikes Thorpe Park
Guests at Thorpe Park near London have a new water ride experience for 2011. Storm Surge is 20-metre-tall rafting ride from WhiteWater that passengers can enjoy in normal clothes as they rush down a red, yellow and blue spiral channel. The attraction formerly
appeared at Cypress Gardens in Florida, with same name, but was shipped to its “sister park” in the UK as operator Merlin Entertainments transforms the venue into Legoland Florida. Thorpe Park’s other water rides include a
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Mack log flume, Intamin rapids and Hopkins shoot- the-chute.
www.thorpepark.com
Jora Vision’s design for Vliegende Vissen
Amazonia, the Jim Pond water stunt show and Summer Nights, a seasonal show and firework finale featuring the stars of Anubis. To celebrate the 40th anniversary, the park is
offering guests a special online price of €22. Holiday Park is based in Hassloch.
www.holidaypark.de.
Maja meets Plopsa
Studio 100 is introducing new rides and attraction this season at its parks in Belgium featuring Wickie the Viking and Maja the Bee, characters it acquired two years ago when it bought the German company EM
Entertainment. At the original
Plopsaland De Panne on the coast near the French border, 11 new attractions will feature as part of an indoor 5,00 square-metre indoor section called Majaland. The selection will include five mechanical rides and six play attractions, among them a drop tower, boat ride, playground, ball pool, giant slide and suspension bridge. Located near the entrance to the park,
Wickie coaster at Plopso Coo
Majaland will allow the park to increase capacity and open year-round (it already opens at Christmas). Studio 100 is investing €8 million in the enterprise. At Plopsa Coo near Liége, Wickie will be
immortalised in the form of a spinning coaster from Gerstlauer bearing her name Wickie and Maja are also due to star this
season at Holiday Park in Germany, which Studio 100 acquired over the winter (see story elsewhere on this page).
LEFT: The ride in its days at Cypress Gardens ABOVE: The ride at Thorpe Park
www.plopsa.be MAY 2011
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