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Energylandia (Poland): New Coasters

It certainly helps, lots of younger people are heading out to eastern europe because cheap booze and travel along with oversaturation of places like Ibiza and magaluf, lots of my friends went to Romania, Bulgaria ect this summer so things like this would be an added draw, although slightly more expensive.
 
Plus there's the community around the park, people that maybe haven't been to theme park before, that now have one on their doorstep.
 
Having visited this weekend, it's clear to see there is definitely a demand for Energylandia. I'll no doubt cobble together a report of the park in full depth in the coming days, but the park featured 40-70 minute queues consistently for the coasters. The traffic to get in flowed from several miles back, and a 90 minute ride close extension was put into place at around 3pm.

It may not be the most obvious method of attracting tourism to Poland, but it's certainly helping bringing Poland to Zator.
 
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Danny said:
Having visited this weekend, it's clear to see there is definitely a demand for Energylandia. I'll no doubt cobble together a report of the park in full depth in the coming days, but the park featured 40-70 minute queues consistently for the coasters. The traffic to get in flowed from several miles back, and a 90 minute ride close extension was put into place at around 3pm.

It may not be the most obvious method of attracting tourism to Poland, but it's certainly helping bringing Poland to Zator.
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Wow no wonder they're pumping so many Zlotys into this place.

Good news for future investments if it continues to be this popular.
 
Stuie said:
Does anyone understand why the EU has funded/partially funded this and how much they've poured into it?
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Hello fellow RC enthusiast :) I can explain it because I'm from Poland, I've got something like 3 hours of ride to Energylandia...

You guys don't actually get our specific polish culture:) We can get everything what we need legal ways :) There are special companies here which are helping getting EU founds, we Want to get those founds as much as we can and we are doing that. Don't want to start the political discussion here, but those are facts. Energylandia is just example of our cleverness in that area:p

EU dotation is not for rolllercoasters itself - it's for "innovation" which in times they asked for dotation were... 3D glasses added to the ride. So the whole money is for innovative coasters, not Just regular coasters :p how much part of coaster is innovative part and 3D equipement we know, but formally and legally everything was fine. I think dotations summed up are something like 80 mln PLN, which means about 19 mln euros. That's for 3 coasters builded for start - New generation Vecoma launch Formuła, family ride Energuś and good bad SLC Mayan.

For curious ones - the 3D oculus are in permanent state of "tests" :p they are there, you can see them, but you can't use them, and again from legal point of view everything is fine. This is how we manager here to race the West :p

Sorry for my english :p
 
Having watched a recent vlog from a very popular TP vlogger......I'm not sure how I feel about this place really. Obviously it's difficult to judge from a vlog and not visiting for yourself but I didn't get the right VIBES from the park at all. Hyperion looks awesome and a real top class coaster (even if I don't like the colour choice) but the rest of the coaster line up just doesn't do it for me. Definitely going to hold off a potential visit until the RMC is open that's for sure.

So far they seem to have gone for quantity over quality which is a risky strategy for me.
 
Benjsh said:
So far they seem to have gone for quantity over quality which is a risky strategy for me.
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The number of guests says something rather different :) There are crowds there, bigger and bigger year after year, and in Legendia which builded few new rides but with complete and beautiful theming, great quality rides to add - very small number of guests, less than expected. In Energylandia - more.

The thing is, Goczał (founder of Energylandia) understood one important thing - there were few big plans for amusement parks in Poland, even Michael Jackson had one back in 1997, but each one of them was big one-time investment with big promises of building complete park from scratch. And each of those plans failed miserably, due to law problems, local people protests etc. Energylandia on the other hand started without noise, with modest decorations, with new small scale attractions and is growing very fast. It worked - guests gone for new rides, some of them first time in life had a chance to ride new attraction - don't take it to yourself, but I imagine it's hard to uderstand to people from western societies. Now park got about 26-30 ha, but have 150 ha ready to build up and Hyperion shows that they can build great rides, there is lot of place and lot of money - and it means LOT of potential.

So this is only begining and looking at the fact that park got only 4 years it's amazing. Is it filled with rides, no space, lot of concrete and some of attractions aren't themed at all? Sure, but here in Poland for now it's enough. You can compare it to your theme parks, but how long Europa Park or Alton Towers operate? 50? 60? Give Goczał some more time, 3 new coasters including hybrid will be there till 2021 :)
 
Given that the biggest coaster in Poland prior to this and Lech Coaster was a Soquet, quantity isn't a bad shout for a park in such a situation...

Half of a park's future lies in the location anyway, and having a good base of rides straight out of a catalog before the more unique stuff comes in isn't a bad idea in the long run... Think the operators had to have things built in a quick timeframe to in order to get the full wedge of cash from the EU funding...

Besides, it means a hearty plus double figures for the cred whore, can't knock that...
 
Meet ZADRA, Energylandia's 2020 RMC:

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Zadra will stand at 200ft tall, 4,625ft long, have 3 inversions and two trains of 24 passengers each. Thankfully the park will be incorporating a themed area called The Dragons Castle, and a series of flat rides will be opening to accompany it. Hopefully this is the beginning of phasing out the crappy fairground areas and theming and starting to focus on real and impressively themed areas.
 
Looks very impressive.

Also agree about them needing to move away from the cheap and tacky fairground experience. Themed areas are what make the rides more magical really. Without them you're just six flags.

2020 visit is now pretty much guaranteed.
 
The concept art for the themed area it will sit in looks great too. Name translates to 'Splinter' in English apparently. Quite like it.

It's absolutely dirt cheap to fly to Poland too and also stay and eat there. Win win for us enthusiasts.
 
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