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Plopsaland Belgium: General Discussion

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They've also revealed artwork for the new Pirate restaurant (again replacing an old one):

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Those are the freakiest diners I've ever seen in a theme park restaurant. Is there some sort of pirate curse that's turned normal park goers into faceless gloopy grey messes?

Or is it that the AI curse strikes again?
 
Plopsaland have set up a preview centre in the park where guests can discover more about next years flying theatre.

Most notably they have revealed:

The Village Square at the entrance to the amusement park is being renamed Plopsaland Plaza, featuring a restaurant, a bowling alley, and a train station alongside the large flight simulator. They also plan to make this part of the park accessible after closing time, specifically for overnight guests. Different films will then be shown in the flying theater.
That's a very exciting prospect! We don't tend to make ERT benefits so the option of exclusive after hours rides is a great idea.

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Plopsaland geeft bezoekers voorproefje op de toekomst: previewcenter voor nieuw flying theater

Hoe gaat de nieuwe attractie van Plopsaland Belgium eruitzien? Het Vlaamse attractiepark geeft bezoekers vanaf vandaag alvast een voorproefje op een...
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The Plopsaland expansion continues, with the announcement of a miniature golf course for 2027 as well!

It will be located in the PlopsVillage but will be open to all guests or those just wishing to come play golf without entering the park.

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Plopsaland Belgium heeft plannen voor eigen minigolfbaan

Bezoekers van Plopsaland Belgium kunnen vanaf volgend jaar minigolf spelen. Het Vlaamse pretparkresort werkt aan plannen voor een eigen minigolfbaan...
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Seems like Plopsaland Belgium are starting to advertise more to the UK audience with a new English advert with the Welcome to Plopsaland song that we're familiar with for Germany.


From: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Gk44Yi5FR/


I haven't heard a Flemish version of that song yet though

Back to the topic at hand, it seems the park are recognising that there is a huge audience out there for English theme park goers who may come from Calais
 
Currently in the Plopsa Village and our place looks out over the field directly behind the Nachtwacht Star Flyer.

Does anyone know about this plot? It looks like a potentially massive expansion area but i presume the park don't own it. There seems to be a house i can just about see in the distance which would be near the road. Doesn't seem like it's currently being used for farming.

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Bowser said:
Currently in the Plopsa Village and our place looks out over the field directly behind the Nachtwacht Star Flyer.

Does anyone know about this plot? It looks like a potentially massive expansion area but i presume the park don't own it. There seems to be a house i can just about see in the distance which would be near the road. Doesn't seem like it's currently being used for farming.

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It truly depends on if Plopsaland own it or not, it does look like a potential expansion if they own it or buy it in the future as it does look like quite a substantial expansion
 
Day 2 in Plopsaland. We didn't actually spend much time in the park as all my son wanted to do this trip was go in the water park but still had a couple of hours in there which was fine. The water park remains a delightful haven of health and safety contradictions that would never exist in the UK.

The new Wild Swing is much hairier than i expected! It's very smooth but the fast short movements are surprisingly intense.

That was my sons favourite ride and we went on that quite a few times. Throughput is fairly low and i'm curious to see how Paulton's will deal with the batching process. There was essentially none here and several times as people ran to seats it meant groups were unable to sit together and so had to rejoin the queue. I suppose with Paulton's and Plopsaland being quite comparable parks perhaps the throughput won't be an issue. The cycle was good too, especially compared to say Rush at Thorpe Park.

Park was busier than i expected, certainly busier than when i checked last few days. Seemed to be what i assume were school trips of predominantly older children meaning all the main coasters had queues of around 30 minutes. Could still hear Ride To Happiness going round 30 minutes after closure.

Strangely the park have introduced a beach feature for guests, where after the park closes they have an area you can spend the evening by the sea. It's about a 10 minute drive and it's rather chilly in early April but perhaps this is a Belgian habit!

I still think this park is brilliant and overall better than anything in the UK. This was our third trip and i've no doubt we'll be back again next year. In terms of family parks, there are an absurd amount of rides. I'll never quite understand what the thought process behind building Ride To Happiness was here but i won't complain. Plops Village is lovely too, seems odd we don't have an equivalent at any UK parks (until Paulton's build theirs). I know there are things at Towers but nothing self catering and it's all a bit grim in comparison. There was an army of gardeners tending to things since we arrived. They've also built several play areas since our stay last year.
 
Day 3 and park was dead! Mad to see on Good Friday. Most things were walk on or 5 min queues. Fair amount of savvy UK visitors of the few people there. Some ops were letting people stay on even when there was a short queue which seemed a little unfair.

Construction was ongoing today unlike yesterday, lots of cranes lifting things into the flying theatre and engineers welding things.

Rode Anubis. So wish Paultons had built this instead. Still has that debatable Gerts profiling but much more fun and pleasant than the Euro Fighters I’ve been on.

Ride To Happiness is a wonderful ride in so many ways but i can’t do it more than once. At a few points the vibrations are so intense i always have a mild headache after. Wish Thorpe Park would build a coaster over the water like they have. Being able to see different bits of the track up close from all around the park is thoosie porn.

Ate in the park for the first time and wasn’t bad! Certainly better than most UK offerings. Not many places open but we went in the restaurant in the main square that leads into the indoor ride area. Had a vegan (maybe) stir fry, very expensive though.

Speaking of UK operators, it struck me how none of the staff are teenagers. They’re all adults, notably often 40+.
 
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