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Park News - (3/31/2025) Fans of Germany’s Holiday Park are in for a bit of a surprise this season, as the park will be changing its name to Plopsaland Deutschland in late June 2025. According to Themeparks-EU, this is part of a €100 million investment into the park that will see new attractions, themed areas and characters added to the park throughout the season.
    Plopsa, the theme park division of Studio 100, purchased Holiday Park way back in late 2010, so it is interesting that after nearly 15 years they have finally decided to change the park’s name to the Plopsa brand. Given that most of the other parks and attractions under their ownership feature the Plopsa name already, Holiday Park sort of stood out with their own branding all this time.
    According to ThemeParks-EU, there will be a number of new additions this season, staring with the opening of the Blinky Bill Zone in April 2025, themed to the brand’s Australian Koala character. The land is also said to feature three new family-friendly attractions.
    In Summer 2025 look for the park to open an all new indoor attraction themed to The Smurfs, along with hosting a number of themed festivals featuring characters from the Plopsa universe. In the fall of 2025, they say that the park will be ready to open a new family coaster from Gerstaluer, themed to the animated film “100% Wolf”.
    As previously confirmed, the park is also working on a launched Extreme Spinning Coaster from Mack Rides coaster that will feature theming from the Tomorrowland festival. It is expected to be similar to the popular Ride To Happiness that the chain already opened at Plopsaland De Panne in 2021.
 
    (3/23/2024) Plopsa Parks will invest €80 million into Holiday Park over the next several years. The capital will be used to fund a series of upgrades and new attractions, including a new water park as well as new themed attractions and new themed lands. Blooloop reports that the proposed waterpark project will take up about half of the proposed investment funds though a timeline for it was not given. Details on some other attractions however have been listed below in order of when they are expected to open.

2025 - New Attraction in “Greenville” - (7/16/2024) A third attraction was confirmed to be coming to complete the new Greenville section of the park, which started with the addition of two rides in 2024: Blinky’s Soapboxes and the Greenville Bus. I believe this attraction was intended for 2024 but ended up being delayed a year, as the park also has other attractions on the way for 2025, making this a big year.

2025 - 100% Wolf - (5/2024) Look for a new family shuttle coaster called “100% Wolf” to arrive in the park inside a new themed area. This new family coaster will thrill with a track layout that is said to be built almost entirely over the lake, out to a spike track that will cause the train to roll backwards through the entire route back to the station. The new shuttle coaster is actually from Gerstlauer and will feature a 760m long track.

2025 - Smurfs Ride - (9/27/2024) A new Smurfs themed dark ride is now in the works for Holiday Park. According to an update posted by Blooloop, Jora Vision is leading the design on the project for Plopsa (owner of Holiday Park) and shared a look at four scenes they have planned for the new Smurfs dark ride which will serve as a replacement to the park’s Burg Falkenstein dark coaster in 2025.
    Thus far the castle interior of the former attraction has been demolished, leaving not only the outer structure of the castle intact, but also leaving the former ride track as well which will be used to create the new Smurfs attraction.
    From the sound of things guests will enter the castle, which will now serve as Gargamel’s lair, where they find a spell book on display with instructions to create an army of “Flora Monstera” creatures that could destroy the Smurf’s village. To bring the new ride to life, various vendors have been tapped to create the 3D scenery as well as over 40 different animatronic Smurf figures that will feature animated LED screens for eyes.
    Follow the link to see some of the concept art and read up on the rest of the details for this fun sounding new dark ride!
 
    (3/23/2024) Holiday Park has confirmed that they are planning to open “a new indoor attraction” themed to The Smurfs characters in the Spring of 2025, along with a new themed area. Work on the site is said to have already started, with more details to come later this year.

2026 - Xtreme Spinning Coaster - Planning - (5/14/2024) According to a post on Reddit a few hours ago, an interview with the CEO and of the Plopsa parks confirmed that not only will the new Tomorrowland themed coaster coming to Holiday Park be a Mack Extreme Spinning Coaster, but that “It will be more compact but not shorter in terms of length. It will require less ground space, and will therefore be more compact and intense and a bit more spectacular.”
    He also confirms the location of the coaster as being “along and over the lake”. There will also be a new restaurant with a view of the lake, that will eventually have a view of the new coaster as well when it opens in 2026.
 
    (3/29/2024) According to a report by Loopings, and as Screamscape suspected based on the original teaser, the new “Tomorrowland” themed coaster coming to Holiday Park from Mack Rides is indeed expected to be an experience comparable to the popular “Ride To Happiness by Tomorrowland” xtreme spinning coaster at Plopsaland De Panne. They also confirm that the new coaster will be ready to open for the 2026 season.
    Apparently Plopsa’s Director, Carl Lenaerts, confirmed in an interview that the Holiday Park project could be “a Tomorrowland coaster that will be approximately a copy of the one we have here in De Panne”. The original coaster is already considered one of the most extreme and popular roller coasters in all of Europa by many enthusiasts, featuring two launches, five inversions and cars that feature an on-board audio system that also freely spin throughout the ride experience, so that two new rides are ever quite the same.
 
    (3/23/2024) Holiday Park has confirmed that they are planning to add a “spectacular major attraction” for the 2026 season, in a partnership with the Tomorrowland music festival. If this sounds familiar, remember that Plopsaland De Panne opened the “The Ride To Happiness by Tomorrowland” themed spinning launched coaster from Mack Rides in 2021 that has been extremely popular with guests. So it isn’t beyond reason to think that something similar could be brought to Holiday Park.

2028 - Plopsaqua Haßloch / Waterpark - Planning - (3/12025) A number of future projects are coming to the new Plopsaland Deutschland park, and this will include the addition of an official waterpark named “Plopsaqua Haßloch“ that is currently expected by 2028.
 
    (3/23/2024) A new waterpark is in the works with a budget or around €40 million. No timeline has been given at this time however as to when it might open. 
 
    (12/23/21) Holiday Park has announced an intention to look into the possibility of building their own water park complex as a way to turn the park into a multi-day destination.