NEU Phantasialand 2016 DVDTour / Phantasia Land Brühl Köln Cologne Germany HD
Phantasialand is a theme park in
Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany that attracts approximately 1.75 million visitors[1] annually. The park was opened in
1967 by Gottlieb Löffelhardt and
Richard Schmidt. Although starting as a family-oriented park, Phantasialand has also added thrill rides, especially during recent years. Furthermore, following the example of Europa-Park,[2] they have decided to attract business customers beside the regular ones, calling it "
Business der neuen
Dimension" ("business of a new dimension").[3]
Among the park's thrill rides is a themed
Mine Train roller coaster called
Colorado Adventure, which runs among some mountains in the park's
Wild West section and was opened by
Michael Jackson.
On 1 May
2001, a blaze took place that destroyed two roller coasters, a theatre and parts of the Westernstadt. It was the result of a cable fire in the Grand-Canyon-Bahn which was caused by faulty wiring.[4] The blaze caused a material damage of about 38 million
Deutsche Mark (17 million
USD)[5] and 54 people were injured.[6] Phantasialand reopened the park about two weeks later and invested about €2 million in fire safety, equipping every building with sprinkler systems.
The Phantasialand is also home to "
Mystery Castle", an indoor
Ride Trade/Intamin
Bungee Drop featuring a walk through a haunted castle.
Next to the castle is "
River Quest", a rapid river ride which features a lift, built by Hafema in
2002. It replaced the attractions which were destroyed by the fire one year before.
In 2002 Winja's
Fear and
Force, two indoor spinning coasters built by
Maurer Söhne, were built along with a new area called Wuze
Town.
New for the season
2006 was an African-themed
B&M; inverted roller coaster called
Black Mamba.
There is also a four-star on-site hotel called
Hotel Ling Bao, which is
Chinese themed and opened in 2004. The hotel's roof tiles were imported from
China, and every room door was hand-engraved. The hotel has two restaurants, one of them - the LU
CHI - renowned for its good Euro-Asiatic cuisine,[7] a bar, a pool with sauna, garden area, spa and its own entrance to the park. A second (three-star) hotel called "
Matamba" was opened in
August 2008 in the
Deep in
Africa section.
Phantasialand opened another ride for the season
2007 called "Talocan", a
Suspended Top Spin by
Huss Maschinenfabrik. It is located in the
Mexican section of the park. In 2008 the splash battle Wakobato has been opened in the lake in the old fairytale forest. This attraction is highly debated amongst residents living next to the park, who complain about noise pollution.
In
2010 Phantasialand has opened five new attractions for children in the Wuze Town: Baumberger Irrgarten (
Maze), Die fröhliche Bienchenjagd (
Jump Around by Zamperla), Wolke's Luftpost (
Magic Bikes by Zamperla), Der lustige Papagei (
Crazy Bus by Zamperla), and Würmling
Express (Monorail). The Berlin-part of the park has also been reworked. The area has been renewed with many berliner houses, fountains and a tribune for shows. Also new in 2010 was the show 'Sieben' (seven) by Jan Rouven.
In
2011 Phantasialand opened two new attractions: "
Maus au chocolat", an
ETF dark ride[8] in
Alt Berlin and a waveswinger on the Kaisersplatz. The old shop on
Berlin has been replaced with a new funhouse-attraction called "Verrücktes Hotel
Tartüff", which was built by the park's engineers and opened in
2012.[9]
For
2013, Phantasialand had been building a new log flume-style attraction that now replaces their two old water attractions which did not pass the
TÜV safety inspection due to their age. It is embedded in a large area of canyons and mountains, as a miniature model on display in the park had already revealed during the time of constructing the ride. 'CHIAPAS' was opened for park visitors to ride on on 1
April 2014. [10]
After the winter season 2013–14.
Silver City (a western theme town) and the dark ride Silbermine were removed to allow construction to begin on the park's 2016 roller coaster,
Taron and the new theme area Klugheim which will be a part of the
Mystery area.