Bellewaerde Park: General Discussion

[AstroDan]

Bellewaerde Park, a small family theme park around 45 mins drive from Plopsaland, or 1 hour 10 from Calais, are replacing their Mack Tow Boat ride (Pirates of Adventure style) with a new Indoor and Outdoor experience from Zierer! It is the first coaster they have put in since... 1984!

The park today released the name on Youtube here.

Some stats:

custom indoor Zierer Family Coaster

Height: 15 m
Length: 500 m
Speed: 50 kph
Forces: 4G positive

Ride time: 2 mins
Trains: 2 trains, 20 people each (10 rows of 2)
Capacity: 1000 pph

Cost: € 4 million (£3.4m)

It will start out as a dark ride, with lots of special effects, including fire.

A lifthill takes you outside through the roof, only to drop you right back into the building for an indoor coaster finale.

On-board music.

Bellewaerde Park is owned by Compagnie des Alpes, who also own Parc Astérix, Fort Fun and the Walibi Parks.

 

[Sam]

Construction photos from the park's FB:

They're in reverse order, sorry.

 

[Tomahawktom]

Some more pics from the parks facebook. A fair amount of track has been placed and I think the station is under way being built

These are the stunning themed cars

I sure hope the park pull it off with this coaster. Looking forward to seeing it next year

 

[Tomahawktom]

Sorry to double post, but just wanted to show, that some more theming has arrived.

Also a bit more work has been done inside

 

[AstroDan]

Thanks for the posts.

I think Movie Park Germany's efforts with the brilliant Van Helsing's Factory a couple of years ago has really allowed smaller parks to realise that modest budgets go a long way!

Exciting!

 

[Rupert]

I can't fathom how a coaster that reaches 31mph allegedly pulls 4G!

 

[Lordy]

Um, a tight corner maybe?

 

[Bear]

I can't fathom how a coaster that reaches 31mph allegedly pulls 4G!

The tiny Pinfari loopers (such as Turbo at Brighton Pier) hit 5 in their loops!

 

[Rupert]

I guess, it just seemed excessively high for what I assumed was a children's coaster. Also a throughput of 1000pph on just two trains of 20 is also impressive.

 

[Lordy]

This isn't a kiddy coaster. By the sounds of things, the dark ride section is going to be similar to that of the Mummy at Universal Studios!.

 

[Quetzal]

Wow!

I hadn't seen or heard much about this project, but I have to say it looks impressive. I'm loving the look of the trains.

 

[Tomahawktom]

The supports for the outside bit have started going up

A different way to do it

Just wondered, when is this meant to open. Will it open the first day of the parks season, or will it be later in the year? ;D

 

[Lordy]

Wow! I never realised just how big that Los Piratas was, that building is HUGE!

 

[Tomahawktom]

Bellewaerde has just released this video of its layout.
Look interesting

Coaster Simulation Huracan - Bellewaerde Park

 

[Tomahawktom]

Sorry for double post but found this picture of the train

Also by the looks of things track indoors is complete

 

[BigAl]

Those trains are fantastic! ;D Everything about this ride is great.

Why can't our smaller parks create this kind of magic?

 

[LiamC]

I can't believe how fast this has flown up, efficient Belgians! Whole thing looks fantastic, can't wait to see a POV of it

 

[Stevie]

Those are the most gorgeous trains I've ever seen!

 

[Scott]

Those trains are beautiful!

CdA are a bit weird with their investments anyway. They owned Pleasurewood Hills for a good few years over here and basically did sod all with it. Nice to see a small park having an installation that looks so goo though.

 

[Sam]

This project isn't spectacular, or incredible. And that's what I really like about it. It's simply a well-themed, high-quality new addition for a small park. For this small park, it'll mean the world. For them, this will be Kingda Ka ten times over.

What a lovely looking ride.