Walibi Holland

Geschiedenis

Walibi Holland is a theme park in Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands.Attractions include the Speed of Sound, Condor, Xpress, Goliath and Robin Hood roller coasters.The adjacent associated event grounds has been the location of large music festivals.HistoryIn 1971, the park was opened under the name 'Flevohof'. It was an educational themepark themed after agriculture and farming. Having struggled to compete with more modern family attractions, Flevohof went bankrupt in 1993, and was subsequently purchased by the Walibi Group that autumn, who redeveloped the site as an amusement park. After a major winter-long programme of reconstruction the park reopened as Walibi Flevo on 7 May 1994, featuring the world's first Vekoma suspended looping coaster (SLC), El Condor. The park also adopted the wallaby mascot of its sister park, Walibi Wavre in Belgium. (The name 'Walibi', incidentally, is derived from the first two letters of three towns in Belgium put together to form a single word: Wavre - Limal - Bierges).The Walibi parks, including Bellewaerde in Belgium, were purchased by Premier Parks Inc. in 1998, who subsequently overhauled the Flevo park, removing the 'Walibi' branding and building 30 new attractions as part of its transformation into Six Flags Holland in 2000. Six Flags's nominal expansion into Europe saw a similar refurbishment of the Belgian Walibi theme park, which was renamed to Six Flags Belgium. Both parks benefiting from the group's rights to use Warner Brothers characters within them, leading to the creation of a Looney Tunes-themed area and a powered-launch coaster themed around popular comic figure Superman, later changed to the Xpress.

"Zoek je een spectaculair dagje uit voor het hele gezin? Kom dan HARDGAAN in Walibi Holland. Beleef samen een unieke rit in de achtbaan UNTAMED. Deze achtbaan van puur hout en staal gaat 5 keer ondersteboven én gooit je alle kanten op. Ongetemd en niet te stoppen!Stap in snelheidsduivel Xpress: Platform 13 of ga 6x over de kop in Speed of Sound. De grote waaghalzen mogen Lost Gravity en Goliath ook zeker niet overslaan!Oók de niet-achtbaanliefhebbers gaan een toffe dag tegemoet. Zij gaan op een spetterend avontuur in Crazy River, bewonderen het uitzicht vanaf het 45 meter hoge reuzenrad La Grande Roue of waaien lekker uit in Super Swing. Met meer dan 30 spectaculaire attracties is er genoeg te beleven voor het hele gezin."