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Visit the new themed areas in Six
Flags Belgium.
Go to France and ride the 2001 wooden coaster, Loup Garou.
The other big
addition can be found in 'Thousand and One Nights': let's have fun in Cobra, a
Boomerang coaster, and Palais dus Génie, a Mad House.
Other new
themed areas are Bugs Bunny Land (for the children), Italy and Caraibes.
Other big rides in the park are: Turbine, Vampire and Dalton Terror.
You want
water, go into Radja River, Flashback, or pay a visit to Aqualibi.
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Calamity
Mine is less exciting than Werewolf and even Tornado.
What's
more, this mine train is not even that original. So why, you might
ask, this 4th placing?
Well, simply
because it is possible to achieve high standards all the while
remaining traditional.
Calamity Mine
has done very well in terms of creating a theme and designing a path
for the train: beautiful décor, humps, descents, bends and modest
speeds when compared to other roller coasters, but they follow each
other rapidly, making the ride a lot of fun. It may be difficult to
make a roller coaster aficionado tremble, but it is even more
difficult to satisfy the whole family.
That is
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3 trains with 5 cars per train. |
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Each car has three rows of two riders with
the exception of the first with only one row. This makes 26
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Vampire
Again
another Vekoma creation, Vampire is an inverted roller coaster, which means
the tracks are above your head, leaving your legs dangling in mid-air.
The
661.5 meter ride with a classical design includes a good 30 meter descent
and five inversions: it all happens very fast (at times close to 90 km/h),
besides the inversions there are also many bends...and you laugh a lot.
However,
we do have one reservation about this ride, and it could apply to all
inverted coasters, and that is that only the two people at the front can see
and anticipate what is going to happen. For the others, it is a two-minute
ride filled with chaos but they do leave slightly frustrated at not having "understood
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2 trains with 10 cars per train. Riders are arranged
2 across in a single row for a total of 20 riders per train. |
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Coccinelle
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The younger ones enjoy this ride.
It is a small, but nice kiddie coaster. |
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Cobra
Last
but not least, first prize for "Best Roller Coaster at Six Flags Belgium"
goes to Cobra.
Like
Werewolf, it is another 2001 Vekoma product, but it is much less accessible
than the wooden coaster.
And that is because
Cobra, another shuttle coaster, elicits sensations that only true adrenaline
lovers would appreciate.
When
you first get on the train you think you are immediately surprised since,
contrary to your expectations, you go backwards instead of forwards.
The
train keeps rising and rising until it stops at a height of 38 metres. And
there you know you are going to do down which does nothing to reassure you:
the descent is at 80 km/h you pass the spot where you got on without
stopping and a series of spirals and loopings follow one after another.
After all that, Cobra takes you back up to 38 meters on a ramp that is
symmetrical to the first. Once at the top you hurtle down, but this time
you're going backwards! And all the looping and spirals described above are
done backwards as well. This is the most testing moment of the whole
affair...as much for the heart as for your zygomaticss.
Well, you can now unfasten your seatbelts.
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