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Oktoberfest Hannover (2014)

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The Oktoberfest in Hanover is the smallest funfair of the three funfairs of the city. While it mostly is just a showground for the showman of the region, it sometimes also features a bunch of interesting rides. Fans of Schwarzkopf rides should definately come to Hanover once in their lifetime, as you can ride the only Buggy Swing ever built: Heiße Räder.

 

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Lower Saxony

Magnus Colossus and other accidents

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Doubtful changes in Terra Mítica

When the Benidorm-based Aqualandia-Mundomar Group released the Terra Mitica theme park from its transitional society in 2012, hopes were high that the actually solid and rather less visited theme park with its wooden roller coaster Magnus Colossus, visible from afar, would be filled with new life. One year later the park’s offer was reduced to a minimum by combining some of the theme areas to form the brand new theme park Iberia Park. For the time being you could visit the park for free and pay for the rides via token, but this strategy was changed the following year, so that besides Terra Mitica you could visit a second full-price amusement park, without a roller coaster, but with a bigger spa area than the park next door.

While the amusement park was always well maintained by the transitional society and shone like no other Spanish amusement park because of all the new paint, the park is now quite run down and the paint has actually worn off in many places. The maintenance on the roller coasters in general leaves a lot to be desired, so a ride on Magnus Colossus with missing side padding for the knees is pretty brute, so it’s no wonder for me that the restraint of the Intamin ZacSpins Inferno failed in July this year.

A hint that the roller coaster is not in operation at the moment is missing on the park’s website, of course. Only from the final brake of the wooden roller coaster Magnus Colossus you can see the three cars in the station. Of course there are no signs of any work around the ride.

Magnus Colossus

During my last visit in 2011 I could only test the rearmost car for Magnus Colossus, one ride was enough for the rest of the accompanying group, and so I was only able to experience the strange phenomenon of the constant and quite painful interplay between bar and backrest. Admittedly it was also the reason for a second visit, because I was missing a final opinion about this wooden roller coaster. As it turned out, a ride in the last car is still not recommendable, but further to the front you at least saved yourself the swinging, but not the permanent hitting of the knees against the existing or not existing side paddings. With a length of more than 1100m this is by far not comfortable and even Lightwater Valleys Ultimate is a soft ride. If you still think that Bandit from Movie Park Germany is a horrible, even unrideable wooden roller coaster, you are welcome to experience your holiday including a visit to the park at the Costa Blanca.

Apart from the general disintegration of the rides and the elimination of several thematic areas, there are actually no major changes. In general, however, the Terra Mitica amusement park is only a shadow of its former self, so a visit is not advisable.

Pictures Terra Mítica

Closing Words

Fortunately, since my report in 2014, things have changed again. The Iberia Park only existed until 2016, after that the park was once again complete. It was a crazy idea from the beginning, which didn’t really work for anyone and probably cost a lot of visitors. With the opening of the Grand Luxor Hotel, from which you have a wonderful view down to the city of Benidorm, a resort was also created, so that one should not yet give up hope and actually pay the park a visit one more time.

 

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Terra Mítica

Black snakes can also be found in Sauerland

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Preface

I didn’t intend to drive back to the Fort Fun Abenteuerland via Hesse so soon, but the revised roller coaster Speed Snake was a good reason to do so. In order to avoid the expensive 25€ ride photo this time, I drove through the village Niederwetter out of protest always well below the posted speed limit; to be honest, one doesn’t deserve anything other than artificially caused traffic jams, thanks to the unclear signposting, alleged traffic safety or not. Shortly after surviving the Hessian part of the Sauerland, one passes through the much more beautiful North Rhine-Westphalia, passing a single speed camera at a place where it actually makes sense. Funnily enough, the state on its border with Hesse makes fun of its neighbour, because you could be flashed.

Fort Fun Abenteuerland

Arrived at the park, Sheriff Fuzzy showed us the way to the parking lot and welcomed us shortly after with even more flattering sayings in the park. For some people a little bit annoying, but for most of us quite entertaining. Later in the day he draws the visitors into the shows and performs in them, where he gained cult status some years ago.

Retracking Speed Snake

Beside him, the new Mascot and the unfortunately still closed Funny Fux Bau there is another novelty this year, as the Vekoma Whirlwind Speed Snake has undergone a retracking. It would be wrong to say that the ride would have needed such a treatment, after all it still performed quite well, but it makes sense if you want to use the ride for the next 20 years. The money used for this could have been saved outside of the unfinished repainting of the ride. The ride has definitely changed for the worse, what used to go round and round is now driving strangely angular. This gives a oddly interesting and exciting ride in the corkscrews, but during the course of the ride you get to know the restraints, although quite gently.

Closing Words

Although the visit at Fort Fun was only a rather trivial meeting compared to the previous day at the Holiday Park, it saved me a few hours of travel time back to Hamburg. The novelties of the Fort Fun Abenteuerland are at least pointing quite consistently in the right direction and so a test of the Funny Fux Bau would have been certainly interesting.

 

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Fort Fun Abenteuerland