Toverland
Fun in a nutshell
After a one-hour drive from Gump's house, we arrived at Toverland. Most of the park is still focused on small children, but since the park built Troy, more teenagers and families started visiting the park.
Rhys in the back of ye olde Fiat Panda
An overview of Troy
When we arrived at the park, we immediately went to Troy and had a front seat ride after waiting in the 5 minute queue. The ride was very smooth for a woodie, but it had quite a temper. Troy is a very wild ride with lots of airtime when you least expect it.
Troy's Station Fly-Through
An airtime hill on Troy
Our next ride was Boosterbike, this Vekoma motorbike coaster is a real fun ride, but sadly a bit bumpy and short. The launch was really nice, the restraints didn't stress your body at all and you felt quite free in those special kind of restraints. The bunny hills are especially a lot of fun when you put your hands up in the air and lean back.
A small overview of BoosterBike
The train on a bunnyhill
Afterwards we went to Boomerang, a small indoor kiddie. This coaster had a lot of hang time in the back during the raised turn.
Boomerang
Coaster BINGO!
We went to BoosterBike again, the fun part about these restraints is that you are squeezed by your belly between the motorbike and the restraint, therefore Gump thought it'd be fun to slap Max' restraint an extra click resulting in him having a hard time breathing. Ouch...
Troy had to be ridden another time, so there we go for a backseat ride, which was still smooth, just a lot more wild!
An arty shot of Troy with some theming in the front
Next up was the survival course.
We got up the tower and waited for our turn.
Rhys was up first and failed even to get to the first exercise. Max didn't do a lot better, he came halfway on the first exercise and then decided he would go back. Main reason of his return was that a kid in front of him kept falling on every single exercise. “If I had to wait for him all the time I would trip!”- Max' excuse. (Gump: “Pussy!”)
Gump waiting before he can start an exercise - Smile!
Last up was Gump, he managed to complete the entire course. While he was having fun, Rhys and Max settled down in the grass and took pictures of Gump and Troy.
Gump on an exercise - Hold on mate!
That's one weird support! -Taken while waiting for Gump to finish the course
Knock knock! Let me back in!
Afterwards it was time to get a quick snack, we bought apple pie and a drink.
Mmh, delicious!
Rhys wanted a Slushy and got epic amounts of brain freeze, which would keep returning to him every time he had a Slushy.
Quit laughing guys, this fucking hurts! - Rhys having a Brainfreeze
Also, the employees suck, they failed to add a second apple pie on the ticket, therefore Rhys' was free...
Villa Fiasco drew our attention. It's a fun house with lots of tight squeezes and moving stuff. Had a few good laughs.
We had to do WoudRacer, much like a powered bobsled, it was fun. But we expected more of it because this being the longest queue. Ah well, poor capacity… nothing to do about that.
Rode BoosterBike again, backseat.
Then we did BackStroke, a log flume. Rhys took a nice splash in the face but we all came out pretty wet. How’s that, a bunch of wet guys in a boat?
Nice Splash!
Rhys trying to get a picture of the splash too, instead he ended up being a monkey scratching his ass.
The day was pretty much over and at 5PM we had French Fries. Poor Max was out of money and had to get money from an ATM, which was hard to find. In Holland we get mayonnaise with fries instead of salt and vinegar. We forced Rhys to try mayonnaise on his fries and eat a kroket (lekker lekker). Good stuff, eh? Rhys? (Sorry he's currently throwing up, he'll be back shortly.) (J/k)
The park was about to close so Gump decided to rest a little more before we rode to the hotel near Phantasialand. Meanwhile, Rhys and Max rode BoosterBike twice, again.
Time to go!
Max posing with a souvenir from Troy - A piece of the supports that collapsed during construction.
About an hour drive from Toverland to Brühl where Phantasialand is located. It took us a while to get the keys for the room, but when we got in, the fun started!
Hold tight for the next report!
Edited by Jogumpie, 04 September 2013 - 09:24 AM.
