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Theme Park:Plopsa Indoor Coevorden (since 2010)
Address:Reindersdijk 57
7751 SH Dalen
http://www.plopsaindoorcoevorden.nl/de
Operated by:Studio 100

Plopsa Indoor Coevorden in Coevorden near the Dutch–German border is a 15000 m² indoor theme park, of which 5000 m² fall on the outdoor area of the park. The park, which opened in 2010, offers a successful selection of family-friendly rides, some playground equipment, a petting zoo, a little gastronomy and a small show programme, particularly appealing to smaller children.

Fun Fact: Plopsa Indoor Coevorden is the second indoor theme park in the Studio 100 group.

 
 
 

Highlight of the Theme Park

 





 

Wickiebaan

A fun family coaster

 



Plopsa for in between

Plopsa Indoor Coevorden

Plopsa Indoor Coevorden, built in 2010 near the German-Dutch border near Coevorden, is the second indoor theme park of the Studio 100 Group’s Plopsa leisure division. On an area of 15000 m², of which 10000 m² is indoor area, there are a number of family-friendly rides, playground equipment, a petting zoo, some catering and a larger stage; mainly designed for a younger audience.

Wickiebaan

The highlight of the park is the big family roller coaster Wickiebaan, a Force Two by Zierer, which was designed to match the new edition of the children’s series “Vicky the Viking”. The course of the track is not visible from the outside, as a large part of the roller coaster is located in a separated area of the hall, virtually a hall within a hall. However, this part is barely designed – it’s dark and there are some lights that represent a night sky.

Vuurtoren, De Woeste Zee and Anubis

All in all, the Wickiebaan is a great entry-level roller coaster for the little guests of the amusement park. Here you will certainly have to do some laps with your children. In addition to the Wickiebaan, the park impresses with its children’s free-fall tower Vuurtoren, as well as the Kontiki De Woeste Zee and the compact – although incredibly intense – Anubis rotating gondola swing.

Conclusion Plopsa Indoor Coevorden

You will certainly have a lot of fun here with smaller children, especially as the rides also offer an attractive ride cycle for adults. Nevertheless, the offer in the nicely designed hall and in the outside area is very manageable, so that everything important can be done in a very short amount of time and can be repeated quickly. After a good 30 minutes I was already on my way back towards the Belgian coast near De Panne, where a similar sized hall can be found in the main park of the group.

 

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# Hard Gaan

Hard Gaan in Walibi Holland

Slowly but surely one can say that Walibi has recovered from the Six Flags era. The re-branding of the brand in 2012 and the changes in the park that went along with it were long enough, but there were no novelties except for the reactivation of the roller coaster Speed of Sound and the truly ingenious design of the launch coaster Xpress: Platform 13. As successful as the restructuring of the park around the fictitious bands W.A.B. and The Skunx is, it seems that people in Holland prefer to go their own way and simply throw a lot of things overboard; because “Hard Gaan” and so on. There’s not much sense in that anymore, especially since they now serve a rather antisocial clientele. But what can you do when the biggest competitor serves all other target groups? As a first step to go fast, according to the literal translation, was to rob Speed of Sound of its soundtrack. Sure, the new track is good, but it takes away its history. The second step was taken this year with the opening of the roller coaster Lost Gravity.

Lost Gravity

The design of the queue is wacky, but partly very conservative and inevitably reminds of the roller coaster Dizz of the Belgian amusement park Bobbejaanland. A lot more would have been possible here, especially since the custom-made comic universe of Morvan, L’Hermenier and Wuye provided a lot more possibilities. The cars of Lost Gravity, on the other hand, are truly unusual. Similar to the Intamin Wing Coasters, they offer two seats with a corridor and two without, but also have a high front. The seating comfort is great and the design of the cars has very little, or more precisely, a negligible effect on ride comfort.

The ride begins with a right turn out of the station before it quickly climbs up via a chain lift. Without any rest the car immediately throws itself down the 32 height meters in an insane way; at least this is the case if one has taken a seat on the left side of the car. The extremely steep and widely twisted gradient is breathtaking without question, but at the right side it is almost boring compared to the left side, the radius is simply too narrow. With a lightning speed you pass over a ground level double-up, over whose hill you literally fly, before you find yourself on a top-hat element that is slightly tilted to the side; which you could also describe as a non-inverted banana roll, if you like. Somewhat contradictory to the previous layout is a huge camelback hill, which takes the passengers out of their seats again. At a breathtaking height, one now races through a wide turning curve, which in addition is also tilted outwards. So far, so good, and if Lost Gravity would end now, it would be a very short roller coaster, but also an extremely ingenious one. But instead of the final braking section there is a block brake followed by the second part of the ride.

After having reduced your speed, you now lean to the side and dive towards the ground again in a dive loop. A tight turn and a Zero-G roll are now carried out in a very tame way. The next turn will also be a turn where at least one of the acceleration vectors is zero. As a result, it is no longer possible to speak of a dynamic ride. You constantly brake and accelerate from new, which is equivalent to the accordion effect known from traffic jams. Over a hill you change direction again, cross another hilltop, pass a last pressure-laden valley, make a last turn and then find yourself in the final brake of the ride.

Lost Gravity is an excellent roller coaster for a little stop along the way, but nothing more. The first rumors were still about a revolving gondola roller coaster, this would have been hardly feasible with the first part of the ride, but ideal for the second. Either way, the first part is absolutely amazing, but the second one is wasted. The last curves are still a lot of fun and let you leave the ride with a little grin on your face, but the premiere of Mack Rides Big Dipper was not as convincing as it should be; at least there is enough potential for further installations.

Pictures Walibi Holland

Closing Words

Finally, I would like to appeal to human reason, which Dutch students probably no longer call their own. I assume that the student in question is striving for an equivalent to the German Abitur (as nowadays everyone does) and therefore should not be stupid – but how could one come up with the idea to sit on the seat and hold on loosely in a rafting ride with movable boats, like Rio Grande is? This is dangerous and should normally be rewarded immediately with exclusion from the park for a lifetime. If this boy would have fallen into the water and drowned, I would have neither been shocked nor worried about him; in fact, it was predictable. His buddies were similar, but in the postfactual age, you can’t let something arbitrary like rational rules distract you from your own horniness. Let’s all have a selfie! Yeah!

Walibi, you’d better think about Hard Gaan again, you might not be doing yourself any favours in the end.

 

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