After Black Mamba I pretty much forget exactly what else I did, or at least the order I did stuff in, but I'll start with rides, did Mystery Castle an Intamin Bungee drop which was really cool albeit a very short cycle, wont go into details about the ride unless someone really wants to know. Also did the Mine Train which has 2 signs with different names, so it's either Colorado Adventure or the Michael Jackson Thrill Ride (no idea, but that's what the main sign says), an an excellent Vekoma Mine Train one of the best mine trains around great themeing, did Wuze Town where Winja's is, being racing Dueling Maurer Soehne XC-3000 spinning coasters named Fear and Force, unfortunately Fear was closed for the day with Maurer Soehne employees doing some very major work out on the ride, bummer, but rode Force and it was not exactly what I was expecting, didnt do all that much spinning, but it had some neat tricks, with an elevator tilting lift and see saw track, I liked it but have also ridden better, lets see, also on Day 1 here(trying to remember what I did each day), I rode Temple of the Night Hawk and enclosed, totally dark and pointless Vekoma coaster, coaster itself was decent but any coaster done in 100% total darkness with no effects ends up being rather pointless, though there was a laser tunnel on the first lift, after that it was just darkness. Also did their Condor and a few other flats, then I noticed I had done just about every ride in the park that I wanted to do and it wasnt 2pm yet so for the rest of the day I rerode some stuff and I would have left early though I held out hope maybe Winja's Fear would open up, though it never did and they were really working some major stuff on it, now onto the park.
Phantasialand supposedly one of the most amazing parks on the planet. I didnt think that
But, I'll exlpain, first off the park was maybe 1/3 the size I thought it'd be, it was literally the size of say Holiday World or Santas Village(plus a few acres), it had distinct themed areas and each was themed exceptionally well though in some areas there would be a ride that didnt fit any sort of theme which was odd. Second and this one really turned me off for some reason, but I went from Black Mamba to Colorado Adventure and the path takes you though what is obviously a former off limits to GP area, it was literally a parking lot for an administrative office lines and all on the ground, though quick thing on parking in Europe, parking lots tend to be gravel with a decorative metal, stone or plastic grid on the ground and in this grid they fill it with gravel and they can slip in tiles in the spaces to make lines, and this was most obviously a parking lot with no themeing at all, and I think they should either have given it a basic theme or not opened that area at all to the public, it really takes you out of the theme park enviroment, especially as there is a gate leading onto a local street in this area also. Also the park layout was odd, it was sort of a cross between a Y and a T shaped park, actually put the Y on top of the T and that is a pretty accurate park map. Front of the park has a Disney type Main Street with frequent parades. Staff was friendly though sometimes slow, food was decent and priced about right for a theme park in Europe (maybe 10% more than food outside the park). Also last, the park seemed to have an excess of water rides which I normally dont ride (though I rode at least one on day 2), but more on that in the next TR. I guess that's about it, left right around close got in the car and headed back to Motel 1 and stopped at Burger King on the way and tried what seemed to be a local menu item, Cheezy Bacon Nuggets, the worst thing ever invented for your arteries, it was a triangular Mozz. Cheese Stick but with bacon bits insides, I'll admit it was damn good, but the whole time I could hear my heart saying, "Why?!"
Next, Day 7 Klotten/Phantasialand.
