Walibi Belgium Follies

Like a dandy highway man, Walibi Belgium has unashamedly stolen other park's attractions and somehow managed to put them all together to make an interesting park, just look what they've looted . . . .

. . . Disney's mine train – Calamity Mine is a heavily themed Vekoma mine coaster, the gravity powered thriller definitely has more oomph than the powered versions and its papier-mache facades add a lot to the thrill

. . . Universal's dark ride - Challenge of Tutankhamon is an astonishing dark ride, the intense scenes are quite frightening, the trackless element and multiple endings keep you guessing to where you're going to go, a true adventure ride

. . . Paramounts' 4D film – Spongebob Squarepants is shown in French or Dutch, this is the first installation I've seen which uses the new 5D theatre seating rather than the turbo motion seating used in the American versions

. . . Centre Parcs water park – Aqualibi is included in a day ticket to the theme park, you get an hour and 15minutes free of charge (and can pay to stay longer) the indoor park has a wave lagoon, a bubbling spa pool, two waterslides, a tube rafting slide and the rapids, which is just a long downhill concrete surface which everybody bundles down at once!

Also add to the mix some cookie cutters, Flashback the triple drop reversing log flume, Dalton Terror an Intamin drop tower, Vampire the brutal Vekoma SLC and Cobra one of the nicer Boomerangs

Turbine is the parks pimped out Schwarzkopf shuttle loop, from standing still in the loading station the lights go out and the train instantly catapulted into a very disorientating enclosed loop

Loup-Garou is a fantastic wooden coaster, the ride combines fast paced drops from a typical out n back coaster with long exhilarating turns from a twister coaster, there are a few jolts in the track but they don't distract too much from this very enjoyable ride

Although Walibi Belgium's relatively large collection of attractions is padded out with a lot of generic off-the-shelf rides, they are all themed and well presented, and complimented by the couple of truly one-off themed adventure rides

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