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SMALL INTERNATIONAL PARKS & ATTRACTIONS
ADVENTURE ISLAND (UK)
Park News - (7/11/10) A new photo trip report from Adventure Island showing off the Rage coaster as well as a POV video of the ride in action has been posted to Theme Park Review.
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
ADVENTURE WONDERLAND (UK)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
ADVENTURE WORLD (Australia)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
AQUALANDIA (Italy)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
BAYERNPARK (Germany)
2011 - Launched Maurer Coaster - Confirmed - (4/30/10) Mauer confirmed that a new launched coaster is on the way to Germany’s Bayernpark in 2011 that will feature a launch as well as having the most inversions in Germany.
BEIJING SHIJINGSHAN Amusement Park (China)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
BELANTIS (Germany)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
BELLEWAERDE PARK (Belgium)
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
2011 - New Coaster - Rumor - (6/5/10) I’ve heard a new rumor claiming that Bellewaerde may get some kind of new Vekoma made spinning coaster for the 2011 season. Anyone know more?
BETO CARRERO WORLD (Brazil)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
CAMELOT (UK)
Park News - (7/27/10) Theme Park Review has posted a trip report from Camelot which includes a POV video of Knightmare.
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
CHIMELONG PARADISE (China)
Park News - (8/27/09) Good coverage from Chimelong Paradise today, thanks to Theme Park Review, who have posted three new POV coaster videos for Dive Coaster, 10 Inversion Coaster and the Motorbike Launch Coaster.
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
CONNY LAND (Switzerland)
 Park News - (9/2/10) Working through many delays, Conny Land has finally opened Cobra, their PAX shuttle coaster. You can find pictures of it posted to Trips-N-Pics.
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
DENNLYS PARC (France)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
DIDILAND (France)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
DREAMLAND (Margate, UK)
2012 - Reopen Park - (4/20/10) According to this news report the restoration of Dreamland is hoping that they may be able to reopen the park by Summer 2012.
DRIEVLIET (The Netherlands)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
DUINRELL (The Netherlands)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
FIABILANDIA (Italy)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
FORT FUN (Germany)
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
EREIZEIT PARK PLOHN (Germany)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
GOLD REEF CITY (South Africa)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
GULLIVERSLAND (UK)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
HELLENDOORN (The Netherlands)
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
HOPI HARI (Brazil)
Late 2010/2011 - Evolution - (8/24/10) Hopi Hari (Brazil) has reopened a ride that left the park years ago… the Evolution. The ride it’s grand opening day last weekend.
ISLA MAGICA (Spain)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
JANFUSUN FANCYWORLD (Taiwan)
Park News - (8/11/10) The park has been having trouble keeping their staff working inside the Horrorwood haunt attraction. According to this article, guests have begun attacking the ‘ghosts’ working inside the attraction when they become too frightened. Zombies are being mercilessly slapped, a guest wacked another monster in the ‘private parts’ with her umbrella, and a female Scareactor has complained that the guests are touching her... hip. Of course I say if they’re brave enough to attack... they’re not scared enough. Time to crank this sucker up to 11 I think.
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
KOLMARDEN (Sweden)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
LE PAL (France)
2011 - Mack Spinning Coaster - Confirmed - (4/14/10) While there isn’t much to see yet, a construction update from Le Pal for the new Mack Spinning Coaster has been posted to AMEWorld near the bottom of the page. They also include a picture showing off the artwork posted in the park confirming that the project is for 2011.
(12/28/09) RCDB has confirmed that Le Pal will add a Mack Spinning Coaster to the park for the 2011 season. This may be a slightly expanded version of the Sierra Sidewinder layout used at Knott’s Berry Farm.
LOUDOUN CASTLE (Scottland)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
LOTTE WORLD (South Korea) -
2011 - Foam Play Area - (8/27/10) Lotte World is building the world’s biggest indoor soft foam play area that will be 10,000 sqft and feature different storybook themes.
???? - Lotte World II - (3/30/09) According to this article the Office of the Prime Minister finally gave them the green light to proceed with the plans for the massive Lotte World II skyscraper tower.
(12/22/08) The Lotte Group has received the final permission needed to go ahead and build a second Lotte World theme park in Shincheon-dong, Seoul that will be built inside a massive 112-story tall skyscraper that will become the tallest building in the world (taller than the 509 meter Taipai 101 building) when finished in about 2013-2014. Right now they are simply calling the new indoor theme park, Lotte World 2.
M&D’s (near Glasgow, Scotland)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
MAERCHENPARK NEUSIEDLERSEE (Austria)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
MINITALIA LEOLANDIA PARK (Italy)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
MIRAGICA (Molfetta, Italy)
Formerly Called: La Terra Die Giganti
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
MOVIELAND STUDIOS (Italy)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
NAGASHIMA SPALAND (Japan)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
NIGLOLAND (France)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
2012 - New Coaster - (7/23/09) According to an e-mail I received, Nigloland is expected to add a fairly large new attraction (coaster) in 2012. It seems the local news followed one of the park owners on trip to Djurs Sommerland to check out Piraten when this was revealed.
NURBURGRING (Germany)
2011 - RINGºRACER - (8/23/10) I’ve been told that the RingRacer coaster now now had it’s opening delayed until sometime in 2011.
(11/17/09) Some good current pictures of Ring Racer as well as the RingWerk attraction area can be seen at Lifthill.net.
(11/1/09) Problems opening RingºRacer have pushed the full speed grand openieng back until 2010.
(8/28/09) Something bad happened to RingºRacer. According to the twitter feed from Jon Noble, a respected F1 commentator from AutoSport, something bad did happen. “Just found out the Nurburgring rollercoaster exploded recently - after a pressure tank problem - damaging a nearby hotel.”
(7/20/09) During some kind of preview event earlier this week at Nurburgring, they were giving off some preview tours of the park site and apparently a few rides on RingºRacer as well which you can see in the YouTube video below. However from what I’ve been told from my sources, the ride is only making test runs at 140kph as they work to break in the launch system and move it towards the record breaking 217kph speed that was promised.
(6/22/09) Also, in case you were wondering the official park site lists the RingºRacer as hitting 217kph (135mph) in 2.5 seconds, which will take the coaster speed record away from Kingda Ka’s 128mph current record. (Fun Fact – Kingda Ka also takes 3.5 seconds to get to full speed… RingºRacer will get you launched at a faster speed in nearly 30% less time, which of course will increase the amount of force you will experience on your body during that ultra intense launch experience. Anyone who has been on the older Hypersonic that used to be at Kings Dominion will understand just what that might feel like as it used to lauch riders to only 80mph in 1.8 seconds using a more primitive version of the launch system that RingºRacer will use.
The RingºRacer speed record may be short lived however as the new Intamin launched coaster going into Ferrari World in the UAE is rumored to possibly reach 250kph… or 155mph. Time will tell…
PARC DU BOCASSE (France)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
PARQUE DE ATRACCIONES (Madrid)
Parques Reunidos
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
PLAYCENTER SAO PAULO (Brazil)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
PLEASUREWOOD HILLS (UK)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
POWERPARK (Finland)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
2012 - Waterpark - Rumor - (5/3/10) The English translation is a little rough, but I believe a message sent in is trying to tell me that PowerPark (Finland) is building a new waterpark section to the park. The construction is said to begin this summer and could take about 2 years to finish, so we’re looking at a 2012 opening. The overall size of the expansion is said to as big as 4 hectares and (9.8 acres) will include themed structures and a new restaurant as well.
RATANGA JUNCTION (Cape Town, South Africa)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
SARKANNIEMI Amusementpark (Tampere, Finland)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
SCHWABEN PARK (Germany)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
SKARA SOMMARLAND (Sweden)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
SKYLINE PARK (Germany)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
SOMMERLAND SYD (Denmark)
2011/2012 - New Attraction, Possible Coaster - Rumor - (8/16/10) I’m not entirely sure what may have happened but I’m told that Sommerland Syd may have opted to not buy the Black Hole from Alton Towers in favor of something else. Anyone know more?
(4/22/10) It’s only a rumor right now but we’ve heard that Sommerland Syd (Denmark) is very interested in obtaining Alton Tower’s former Black Hole coaster which has been completely furbished by Gerstlauer and was seen set up during a recent facility tour.
SPACE WORLD (Japan)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
STEINWASEN PARK (Germany)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
TERRA ENCANTADA (Brazil)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
TIBIDABO (Barcelona, Spain)
Breaking News - (7/21/10) The latest update on the accident in Tibidabo clears things up a bit. They say that the rider section of the Pendulum ride did not break free, as originally reported, but instead the entire structure fell over around 7pm when part of the supporting structure gave way in mid ride. The ride was closed earlier in the same day (around 3pm) when operators reported hearing a “strange noise”, but after a brief inspection and test rides and finding nothing wrong, they reopened it. I’ve also been sent a video link that shows off the ride in action. You can see just how much the tower wobbles at 0:35 and 2:55 in the video.
(7/18/10) Tibidabo was the site of a horrific accident that left one 15 year old girl dead and injured two others when the rider section of the park’s El Pendulo (The Pendulum) ride snapped free from the ride and crash landed on the nearby Golden Mine flume ride. You can find the official report along with some good video showing off the ride in action as well as the aftermath here.
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
TIVOLI FRIHEDEN (Arhus, Denmark)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
TOBU ZOOLOGICAL PARK (Japan)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
WALYGATOR PARC (France)
Formerly known as Walibi Lorraine and Walibi Schtroumpf (Walibi Smurf)
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
2011 - Dark Coaster / Kiddie Area - (12/28/09) One of our readers tell us that Walygator Parc will add a new kiddie area as well as an indoor coaster for the 2011 season. It is thought that they will likely use the used Wild Mouse coaster from Expoland for this project.
(11/20/09) Due to a bit of a language issue that needed some translation, I can now confirm the report about the Expoland mouse going to Waligator Parc as coming from the Waly.biz forum group. They even have a picture showing off a decorative piece from the top of the Mouse’s lift hill laying amongst all the pieces of Orochi on site. According to one post (roughly translated from French) the “Wild Mousse from expoland is relocated in Walygator Parc. The coaster are in theatre "Il theatro" for season 2011.” So there you have it…
(11/19/09) The wild mouse from Expoland (Japan) has been sighted at Waligator Parc after apparently being sold to them by Fab.lu. I would assume that this could be for either 2010 or 2011.
WET ‘N’ WILD WATER WORLD (Australia)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
WIENER PRATER (Vienna, Austria)
2011 - Nothing to report at this time.
WORLD JOYLAND (Changzhou, Jiangsu, China)
2011 - New Park - (8/31/10) I’ve never heard of this new park in China before myself, but it’s called World Joyland, and is said to be under construction for a 2011 opening in Changzhou, Jiangsu. According to RCDB, the park will open with three coasters, a Maurer X-Coaster, a B&M Flyer and an unknown steel project. While there is apparently a website about the park is here, I’m not sure what it says or why the guy from the first Assassin’s Creed video game appears to be involved. You can actually find a ton of concept artwork for the park posted at this website however, which shows off a lot of the park’s unique themed lands.
ZOOSAFARI FASANOLANDIA (Italy)
???? - Gerstlauter EuroFighter - Possibly Delayed - (4/27/10) While Zoosafari Fasanolandia was supposed to be adding a new Gerstlauer EuroFighter coaster for 2010, a reader who went by the park this week tells us that there was no sign of construction for the new coaster yet in the park. They had signs up promoting it as coming this year, somewhere near the back of the park between the drop tower and Rapids, but no sign of it yet. Sounds like this one could be delayed…
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