WALIBI BELGIUM
Belgium
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
Formerly: Walibi Wavre & Six Flags Belgium
Park News -
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WALIBI HOLLAND
The Netherlands
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
Formerly: Walibi Flevo, Six Flags Holland and Walibi World
Park News - (8/24/2025) Walibi Holland found itself in a bit of hot water this week over a promotional video created for the park’s upcoming Halloween Fright Nights event. Due to rapid and somewhat virtual criticism over the ad as it features a woman trapped in a glass display case being put up for auction by the park’s Eddie the Clown character to a room full of bidding villains. Critics immediately called out the park for trivializing human trafficking, violence against women and more, so they quickly pulled the ad. It didn’t help that in the real-world the body of a 17-year old girl was discovered who was assaulted while riding her e-bike home at night from visiting friends in Amsterdam.
The tagline for Walibi Holland’s haunt this year is “Souls for Sale”, hence the villainous auction scene. You can see find a version of the deleted ad on YouTube right now (follow this link if you wish to see it) and see if you feel that Walibi went too far, or if this feels similar to the kinds of ads we’ve seen over the years from many different park’s promoting their own Halloween events.
I get both sides here, so while part of me thinks that bad timing has a lot to do with this, the fact that the women in the glass box appears to be wearing only a plain white nightgown, and has some dried blood coming from one nostril and a cracked lip on her face, giving the appearance that she had been assaulted off-camera in order to be loaded into this glass box and wheeled out to the auction itself, does allow for the mind to paint a rather grim picture of her backstory. Had they put someone else in the box, I’m inclined to think that the ad could have played out without the controversy. Give it a watch (before it gets taken down) and see how you feel about it.
2026 - Nothing is known at this time...
WALIBI RHONE-ALPES
France
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
2026 - Nothing is known at this time... nothing added in 2025
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