Disney’s Animal Kingdom



Theme Park:Disney's Animal Kingdom (since 1998)
Part of the Resort
Walt Disney World Resort
Address:Bay Lake
FL 34747
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com
Operated by:Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Gorilla Falls Exploration TrailDisney’s Animal Kingdom is one of the four major theme parks of the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. The animal and theme park mainly focuses on wild life experiences and edutainment. Since 1998, the park has been delighting the public with a solid selection of family-friendly rides, shows and highly immersive themed areas. Especially Pandora – the World of Avatar is a place you should not miss when in Orlando. 

 
 
 

Highlights of the Animal and Theme Park

 




Avatar Flight of Passage

 

Avatar Flight of Passage

A very immersive flight experience

 


Dinosaurs

 

Dinosaur

One of the best dark rides ever created

 


 

Expedition Everest

Beware of the Yeti

 


A Celebration of Festival of the Lion King

 

Festival of the Lion King

I just can’t wait to be king

 


Kilimanjaro Safari

 

Kilimanjaro Safaris

The great safari ride

 


Na'vi River Journey

 

Na’vi River Journey

A very immersive boat ride

 


Of dragons and dinosaurs

The new additions of Holiday Park

Dino Splash

In 2020, Holiday Park gave its popular rapid river Donnerfluss a new life. The new dinosaur theme fits the ride perfectly and the figures create a quite immersive environment. You feel like going onto an adventure when queueing for the ride. Unfortunately, the old reference to the mighty Thunder River (the first ever installation of a rapids ride, which was located in the long gone Six Flags Astroworld) is gone and replaced by the generic ride name Dino Splash to be in line with other water attractions at the various Plopsa parks. 

Holiday Indoor

Since 2018, Holiday Park is home to a large indoor area of the same size as the Plopsa Indoor theme parks. The area is very well themed and is home to a bunch of rides, play areas, a stage and a restaurant. Its main attractions are a carousel, the flat ride Mias Elfenflug and the roller coaster Tabalugas Achterbahn. The rides are all themed to various TV shows of Studio 100.  

Tabalugas Achterbahn

Tabalugas Achterbahn is the newest roller coaster at Holiday Park. The ride is located at the righthand corner of Holiday Indoor. While the station of the ride is well themed, the indoor section features just a bunch of figures of the popular German TV show in a night sky environment. Nevertheless, the ride is a very solid family coaster. 

Miscellaneous

Holiday Park’s wonderful water ski show sadly is no more. The area to the back of the park is now closed to make room for a future addition. At the same time, the area around the Lighthouse tower improved a lot. The water play area Super Wings Wasserspielplatz is the newest addition next to the Beach Rescue jet ski ride by Zierer and the cute Fischerboote by Metallbau Emmeln.

Pictures Holiday Park

 


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Festival Toutatis

Toutatis

The launched roller coaster Toutatis in one of the most interesting theme park novelties this year. Located beyond the park’s bobsleigh coaster Trace du Hourra, the Intamin LSM launch coaster is the main attraction of the Festival Toutatis themed area.

The ride begins with a small dip out of the station. We are then launched into a cutback element filled with hangtime. Already in a good mood, we then enter the main launch section via a fast switch track. While experiencing a very nice airtime on our way towards the large top hat, we do not gain enough speed to clear the element. Now going backwards, we then hit the launch section again, which catapults is out of our seat while passing the airtime hill. We then stall on the vertical spike; knowing that the next launch will actually be stronger. With great speed we experience insane airtime on the hill and race towards the top hat, which we clear without any troubles.

Unfortunately, the next drop is hardly trimmed and takes away a bit of the dynamics of the ride. Once back at the ground, we regain the flow and race through a sharp lefthand curve followed by a Zero-G stall before hitting a bunch of airtime hills and turnarounds. A highly inclined righthand curve then guides us next to the top hat, which we pass in a tight lefthand turn directing us into a very fast barrel roll over the queue line. Shortly thereafter a curve and two bunny hops guide us into the final brake run.

Toutatis is without wanting to exaggerate the best roller coaster in France and the best roller coaster, I’ve experienced so far. Although, it could be an overall better ride without the trim on the top hat, the ride itself is a highly dynamic one. The triple launch features one of the most insane airtime hills and the fast-paced section after the top hat is just nuts. Well done, Parc Astérix!

Pictures Parc Astérix


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