A short weekend blast to Poland to ride some coasters – sure, why not? Be a decent way to add a new country cred and a few more random rides to the spreadsheet, right? Oh… it’s a +20 kinda weekend?! Well, you don’t see that every day.
Some backstory first, ahead of what will mostly be an excuse for me to post an unhealthy amount of pictures.
We had been putting off Poland for a few years. Once we knew Zadra was coming, it would have been lunacy to go before that was finished, and by the time we’d pencilled in other trips in 2019, Abyssus was well under construction, so didn’t seem so bad to wait another six months. Easter 2020 it is, then. Oh those were happy times… I remember them fondly.
Abyssus wasn’t done by August 2020, and at this point we’d sort of set our minds on only going once that was done (hence the German trip last year), however things were looking good for an August trip this year.
A further unnecessary detail here is that originally we’d planned a longer trip across five days, with some culture thrown in too. Sadly due to a few factors out of our control (mostly flight schedules and availability of time off work) we had to cut the trip down and – obviously – spite the culture for now. Perhaps best for another trip in the future…
So – let’s get to it. As I said, this is going to be mostly a self-indulgent trip report sharing photos (I have to admit a lot of mine are), some of which I’m rather pleased with. Hope at least you enjoy scrolling through them!
Day 0 – Travelling
I wouldn’t normally include this, but having gathered some useful advice from around the web before the trip I reckon it’s worth sharing a little bit of this. Big disclaimer here though – I’m going to be talking about MY experience only, and can’t speak for anyone else’s experiences and/or any new or changed regulations.
In compliance with the government regulations, I was able to take our pre-departure lateral flow test (the rapid type like the NHS use) before I left home, so I knew then I would okay to board the flight back from Poland in a few days time. Don’t ask me how that makes sense – I don’t make the rules.
(for reference, we used this site: https://www.c19testing.co.uk/rapidtravel)
Bit of a tedious drive from Bristol to Stanstead, but going through security was all very simple and it wasn’t long before we were beckoned to our gate. At the gate, they checked our boarding passes, our Polish Passenger Locator, and our NHS Vaccine Record.
Flight was short and simple, and besides a little bit of queuing on the Polish side, passing through their boarder control was easy too. Standard passport checks, and then just wanted to see my NHS Vaccine Record again. I can’t say this was particularly thoroughly inspected, I think mostly just a check of name/DOB. We do now get stamps though, which I think is kinda fab!
Picking up the hire car was a piece of cake, and the drive was a doddle down to Zator, with a quick late-night supermarket trip for dirt cheap wine and snacks!
Alright then, proper stuff now.
Day 1 – Energylandia & Legendia
I started the day early with a quick wander from our cabin over to the park entrance to blow away some of the cobwebs, and take advantage of the views of Hyperion. Not running yet, was still pretty early, but a nice view and got me excited to ride some [good] new-to-me coasters!
I’ve not seen a coaster skyline like this in quite some time
And not seen a coaster as tall as this in even longer!
If you don’t take this photo, did you even go to Energylandia?
Both Jake and I were hovering near milestones (700 for me, 1100 for him), so we made a beeline for the back of the park figuring there were enough miscellaneous Vekomas in the back half that we could make Zadra and Abyssus milestone coasters for each of us. As we walked past a seemingly countless number of kiddie creds, we saw that Formula was essentially a walk-on and so decided we’d ride it before we headed under the tunnel to the back half of the park.
Formula was pretty great, actually. My first time on one of the new Vekoma sit-down models, and I have to admit I was impressed. The launch was decent, the shaping of the elements was lovely, it had good forces throughout and was very punchy overall. Only complaint is that we were at the ride about 20mins after park opening (we were not, as you might gather, rushing), and just as we got to the platform they paused operations to add the second train. This is just poor planning, simple as that.
Bright start to the day!
Minor note here on the lockers at Energylandia – they operate a system where you buy a locker wristband, which is valid for the whole day and across the whole park. Once purchased, you simply scan the barcode, it assigns you a locker and off you go. They’re also (generally) the decent two-sided lockers, so you don’t end up with a mad scrum of people trying to deposit and collect at the same time. The wristband costs something so nominal it’s almost pointless, so also no complaints there. Only gripe really is that the machines to buy the wristbands are next to the lockers and generally aren’t geared up for the start of the day rush where everyone needs to buy one. We may have missed this, but perhaps a few of those machines at the park entrance or something would have been better. Hmm… that turned into not so much of a minor note. TLDR: Locker wristbands at Energylandia are cheap and effective. Thumbs up.
Now time to head under the tunnel, and once you emerge you’re met with an extremely exciting view!
Pwoar…
Heading through the little themed area around Zadra is pleasant enough, and does offer some decent views of the coaster.
The turnaround visible over the buildings.
I needed one more cred before Zadra, so we rode the little kiddie cred in that area, which again affords good views of the main event.
The stall is just too photogenic to not keep snapping away.
We joined the infamously long queue, and began our march towards the station. They were operating the coaster reasonably well, so was a good opportunity to get some photos along the way.
One of many aggressive airtime moments.
It’s a masterpiece of structural engineering, if nothing else.
A train plunging back down from the turnaround.
Into the final zero-g roll at breakneck speed!
In the words of our ever charming @Matt N – so, how was the ride? Well, boy-oh-boy. Energylandia have a monster on their hands with this one.
The first drop is fantastic (although sorry, I think Hyperion’s is better), and the drop out of the first turnaround gives me SteVe vibes with the way it just launches you out of your seat in that off-axis way. The stall is just… well… a stall. I mean, it’s hard to describe just what they feel like, but they’ve gotta be one of the most “perfect” coaster elements going at the moment. The next real highlight of the ride from there is the ejector hill running parallel to the first drop. It truly feels like you might end up in Katowice at the speed it throws you out! Zero-g into the structure is ace, as is the double down that follows it. I’m a bit take-it-or-leave-it with the little s-bend hill, but the final zero-g into the brakes is rather nice. Word of warning though, be prepared for those brakes, they stop the train like they mean it! It's also beautifully smooth, which helps a lot! Yeah, Top 5 stuff, that. Awesome.
Okay, what’s next? A Vekoma family cred thing – decent first drop, standard everything else. Mercifully only one lap, so minimal faff there.
Then it was time to head around to Aqualantis.
Looks promising as you enter.
I don’t have many pictures from Aqualantis from the first day – more tomorrow – so you’ll have to put up with just some words for now. I’ll start with the coasters – Light Explorers first (or, with it’s original RCT name “Family Boomerang #2”), which has a nice little station and decent layout. With a touch more detailing in the trenches, this would be a great family coaster. Although, yes, just another +1 really.
Onto Abyssus. Coaster was basically a walk-on (and doesn’t have a super burdenous queue), and we got back row. Launches are a bit lacklustre, and unfortunately the layout itself feels a bit too long with not quite enough oomph to make up for it. It’s smooth, and flows wonderfully (as I’m now learning Vekoma are knocking out of the park), but with the trims on the drop and a few too much of the same throughout the rest of the layout, we left feeling not very impressed. It’s by no means a bad coaster, and if we had something like this in the UK I think people would lose their minds, but it’s very much overshadowed at a park like Energylandia.
Overall the theming for Aqualantis is… okay? It’s not stunning, and everything feels very much like “cubes with stuff stuck on” rather than something a bit more organic. This is particularly apparent with the Abyssus maintenance building, which has barely any decoration at all and stands out like a sore thumb. I’m sort of assuming they aren’t done with it all yet, as most of the troughs around Abyssus were lacking water yet too – maybe they’ve still got some more work to do?
Hmm… yeah… felt a bit deflated after that.
We’d basically ticked off the back of the park, so now it was time to head back towards the front of the park for Hyperion – picking up the Speed cred and lunch on the way.
Big, kinda fast, bit of a splattering, and hilariously unnecessary MCBR, yeah not bad, not good. Review complete.
Time for this, then.
For all of those people who whinge about Zadra’s queue – you’ve clearly forgotten just how bad the Hyperion queue actually is. What we ended up dubbing “Euro-Mir: The Queue”, the indoor spiral slope is absolutely foul – especially when all of the shortcuts are closed. Then back down the fire escape and you’re into the batching area. The reason why I think this is worse than Zadra’s queue? At least with Zadra you can see the coaster and there are fewer options for a shortcut! Yeah, gross.
So the coaster. Epic, endless first drop (very reminiscent of the B&M gigas) and the first hill is bonkers. Love the turnaround, and from there it’s a fast, decently forceful and twisty route to the finish. The final bunny hills giving a couple of lasting airtime pops too. After a few laps, we decided that front row middle seats give the best ride, but frankly it was pretty great in every seat (tried both wing seats front and back, and middle front and back over the two days). More beaming grins all round.
Airtime!
Knowing we had a second day in the park, we decided it wasn’t necessary to get all of the rest of the creds in the time we had left (we could have done, but no need), so figured we’d pick up some of the remaining crap (yes, crap) on the way back to Zadra before calling it a day early for the first day.
Here's an in-depth review of the coasters we did:
Energus: Green Vekoma. I think the same as all the others. +1.
Boomerang: Purple Vekoma. This one goes backwards and forwards. +1.
Viking Roller Coaster: Disgusting SBF spinner with OTSRs. Almost wished we hadn’t. +1.
Roller Coaster Mayan: Red Vekoma. SLC, still no good. +1.
Shall we have some more of this, now we’re back at Zadra?
Ah, that’s better.
I love photographing the stall.
Down they go!
Some excellent expressions here – I can’t imagine stepping off any other coaster at the park (except Hyperion) and riding this. You wouldn’t know what hit you.
We jumped in the queue for another go, this time in the front row. Better in the front, I think. The visuals make this ride so much better and the forces are just nuts throughout, so worth the view, I reckon.
Indulged myself in some more photos on the way off the ride.
Arty one, fancy eh?
Diving back into the structure.
Absolutely huge coaster.
More people loving life!
Right, onto the evening plans then. We’d found out that Legendia were running and event 8pm-midnight, and with Energylandia closing at 8pm we figured if we left Energylandia around 6pm, headed to Katowice (an hour’s drive, give-or-take), grabbed some dinner in Katowice we’d be all set for an evening of more creds!
One from the car park on the way out.
I promise the sky actually looked this crazy – this is not a sky replacement photo!
Well by the time we’d faffed around a bit leaving Energylandia, driven over and eaten, it was nearing 9pm. Thankfully we needn’t have worried as Legendia is very small so easy to whip round in a few hours. Photos a bit less good here – never been an expert at night photography.
Park entrance is quite nice.
Decent little entrance plaza/midway thing, too.
Lech is almost barely visible across the lake – that’s good for night rides!
We planned to head left at the entrance and work clockwise round the park. First up was Bazyliszek, their new-ish dark ride. Queue entrance is a bit odd in the kids soft play area, but the queue itself is pretty high quality. Ride vehicles are fairly standard trackless dark ride stuff with pistols. As we headed off we found the accuracy of the guns wasn’t stunning, but not the worst by all means.
Now, a slightly strange thing happened. We stopped in one scene and completed the set-piece, except the vehicle didn’t move off once it was complete. The screen went off, and the house lights came on. We figured there was someone else on the ride needing attention or something – no worries. Then, the ride-op comes strolling up to our vehicle, opens the restraints and gestures for us to get off. We do, and then he sort of just motions his arm towards the way we’ve come, and heads off to the next car. We’re left to walk ourselves out of the ride, including climbing back from the floor area up onto the station platform. We’re gestured by another staff member to leave the station via the exit (barely looking up from his phone), and that’s sort of it. The complete lack of guidance and just sort of “okay, get out” was… very strange. By the time we’d exited the ride, the entrance was closed off. Hmm… we’ll come back later I suppose. Never did find out what caused it.
Next ride we got to was Dream Hunters Society – some generic Zyklon/Galaxi thing. 50min queue! For that?! You’re joking, we’ll come back later.
Next up is Lech. Around a 30min wait, and seemingly motoring through the trains, didn’t seem to bad. Around 20mins later we’re on the ride and wow, this is an awesome coaster. The first drop is amazing (probably better than EGF, based on my memories of it), but there’s just a brilliant sequence of elements, especially from the airtime hill before the station fly-though, all the way to the brake-run, basically. Made oh-so-much better with the night ride and front row. Good work, Vekoma. Good work indeed.
It had a nice lighting set up too.
The station fly-through is great both on-ride and off-ride.
I like the hump in the roof too – a nice touch.
Last cred we needed was Devil’s Loop (I never got the cred at American Adventure). Worryingly it was looking mighty dark in that area of the park, and sure enough when we got to the entrance it was shut. Damn! Hey ho, that’s the game we’re in I suppose.
Okay, so far this hadn’t been the most successful lap of the park. We decided to turn back towards Lech and go counter-clockwise back to the park entrance. Ben and I took a quick lap on the rapids which were reasonably decent.
Did another quick lap on Lech, the queue even shorter this time, before again trying Bazyliszek. No technical issues this time, and overall the ride was good. Shortish, but not bad for a park like Legendia.
Dream Hunters Society still had a 30min queue, but as it was the last thing for us to get, we sucked it up. What made this queue particularly unbearable was all of the queue jumping. It was rampant. We wagered it probably added about eight trains to our wait! Of note on this was the speed it took through the course, with the MCRB barely biting. We got some Phoenix style ejector on the last few drops/hills. Overall, rusty and crap though. Wouldn’t surprise me to see this retired sometime soon – from what we could tell they only had two functional cars, and presumably have already salvaged everything they can from the other one in the park.
Rusty old +1s, where would we be without them?
And that was that – time to drive back to Zator.
Farewell Legendia!
I’ll leave a bit more of an Energylandia summary for the next day, but a quick wrap up of Legendia. I really like how they offer these late evening tickets at dirt cheap prices (just over a fiver, if memory serves), and Lech coaster more than makes it worth that. I think if I’m ever back in the area, I’d pop in again for an hour or two, but definitely not an all day kind of place.
Cool, thanks for reading. Part 2 (full day at Energylandia) coming soon-ish…
Some backstory first, ahead of what will mostly be an excuse for me to post an unhealthy amount of pictures.
We had been putting off Poland for a few years. Once we knew Zadra was coming, it would have been lunacy to go before that was finished, and by the time we’d pencilled in other trips in 2019, Abyssus was well under construction, so didn’t seem so bad to wait another six months. Easter 2020 it is, then. Oh those were happy times… I remember them fondly.
Abyssus wasn’t done by August 2020, and at this point we’d sort of set our minds on only going once that was done (hence the German trip last year), however things were looking good for an August trip this year.
A further unnecessary detail here is that originally we’d planned a longer trip across five days, with some culture thrown in too. Sadly due to a few factors out of our control (mostly flight schedules and availability of time off work) we had to cut the trip down and – obviously – spite the culture for now. Perhaps best for another trip in the future…
So – let’s get to it. As I said, this is going to be mostly a self-indulgent trip report sharing photos (I have to admit a lot of mine are), some of which I’m rather pleased with. Hope at least you enjoy scrolling through them!
Day 0 – Travelling
I wouldn’t normally include this, but having gathered some useful advice from around the web before the trip I reckon it’s worth sharing a little bit of this. Big disclaimer here though – I’m going to be talking about MY experience only, and can’t speak for anyone else’s experiences and/or any new or changed regulations.
In compliance with the government regulations, I was able to take our pre-departure lateral flow test (the rapid type like the NHS use) before I left home, so I knew then I would okay to board the flight back from Poland in a few days time. Don’t ask me how that makes sense – I don’t make the rules.
(for reference, we used this site: https://www.c19testing.co.uk/rapidtravel)
Bit of a tedious drive from Bristol to Stanstead, but going through security was all very simple and it wasn’t long before we were beckoned to our gate. At the gate, they checked our boarding passes, our Polish Passenger Locator, and our NHS Vaccine Record.
Flight was short and simple, and besides a little bit of queuing on the Polish side, passing through their boarder control was easy too. Standard passport checks, and then just wanted to see my NHS Vaccine Record again. I can’t say this was particularly thoroughly inspected, I think mostly just a check of name/DOB. We do now get stamps though, which I think is kinda fab!
Picking up the hire car was a piece of cake, and the drive was a doddle down to Zator, with a quick late-night supermarket trip for dirt cheap wine and snacks!
Alright then, proper stuff now.
Day 1 – Energylandia & Legendia
I started the day early with a quick wander from our cabin over to the park entrance to blow away some of the cobwebs, and take advantage of the views of Hyperion. Not running yet, was still pretty early, but a nice view and got me excited to ride some [good] new-to-me coasters!
I’ve not seen a coaster skyline like this in quite some time
And not seen a coaster as tall as this in even longer!
If you don’t take this photo, did you even go to Energylandia?
Both Jake and I were hovering near milestones (700 for me, 1100 for him), so we made a beeline for the back of the park figuring there were enough miscellaneous Vekomas in the back half that we could make Zadra and Abyssus milestone coasters for each of us. As we walked past a seemingly countless number of kiddie creds, we saw that Formula was essentially a walk-on and so decided we’d ride it before we headed under the tunnel to the back half of the park.
Formula was pretty great, actually. My first time on one of the new Vekoma sit-down models, and I have to admit I was impressed. The launch was decent, the shaping of the elements was lovely, it had good forces throughout and was very punchy overall. Only complaint is that we were at the ride about 20mins after park opening (we were not, as you might gather, rushing), and just as we got to the platform they paused operations to add the second train. This is just poor planning, simple as that.
Bright start to the day!
Minor note here on the lockers at Energylandia – they operate a system where you buy a locker wristband, which is valid for the whole day and across the whole park. Once purchased, you simply scan the barcode, it assigns you a locker and off you go. They’re also (generally) the decent two-sided lockers, so you don’t end up with a mad scrum of people trying to deposit and collect at the same time. The wristband costs something so nominal it’s almost pointless, so also no complaints there. Only gripe really is that the machines to buy the wristbands are next to the lockers and generally aren’t geared up for the start of the day rush where everyone needs to buy one. We may have missed this, but perhaps a few of those machines at the park entrance or something would have been better. Hmm… that turned into not so much of a minor note. TLDR: Locker wristbands at Energylandia are cheap and effective. Thumbs up.
Now time to head under the tunnel, and once you emerge you’re met with an extremely exciting view!
Pwoar…
Heading through the little themed area around Zadra is pleasant enough, and does offer some decent views of the coaster.
The turnaround visible over the buildings.
I needed one more cred before Zadra, so we rode the little kiddie cred in that area, which again affords good views of the main event.
The stall is just too photogenic to not keep snapping away.
We joined the infamously long queue, and began our march towards the station. They were operating the coaster reasonably well, so was a good opportunity to get some photos along the way.
One of many aggressive airtime moments.
It’s a masterpiece of structural engineering, if nothing else.
A train plunging back down from the turnaround.
Into the final zero-g roll at breakneck speed!
In the words of our ever charming @Matt N – so, how was the ride? Well, boy-oh-boy. Energylandia have a monster on their hands with this one.
The first drop is fantastic (although sorry, I think Hyperion’s is better), and the drop out of the first turnaround gives me SteVe vibes with the way it just launches you out of your seat in that off-axis way. The stall is just… well… a stall. I mean, it’s hard to describe just what they feel like, but they’ve gotta be one of the most “perfect” coaster elements going at the moment. The next real highlight of the ride from there is the ejector hill running parallel to the first drop. It truly feels like you might end up in Katowice at the speed it throws you out! Zero-g into the structure is ace, as is the double down that follows it. I’m a bit take-it-or-leave-it with the little s-bend hill, but the final zero-g into the brakes is rather nice. Word of warning though, be prepared for those brakes, they stop the train like they mean it!
It's also beautifully smooth, which helps a lot! Yeah, Top 5 stuff, that. Awesome.Okay, what’s next? A Vekoma family cred thing – decent first drop, standard everything else. Mercifully only one lap, so minimal faff there.
Then it was time to head around to Aqualantis.
Looks promising as you enter.
I don’t have many pictures from Aqualantis from the first day – more tomorrow – so you’ll have to put up with just some words for now. I’ll start with the coasters – Light Explorers first (or, with it’s original RCT name “Family Boomerang #2”), which has a nice little station and decent layout. With a touch more detailing in the trenches, this would be a great family coaster. Although, yes, just another +1 really.
Onto Abyssus. Coaster was basically a walk-on (and doesn’t have a super burdenous queue), and we got back row. Launches are a bit lacklustre, and unfortunately the layout itself feels a bit too long with not quite enough oomph to make up for it. It’s smooth, and flows wonderfully (as I’m now learning Vekoma are knocking out of the park), but with the trims on the drop and a few too much of the same throughout the rest of the layout, we left feeling not very impressed. It’s by no means a bad coaster, and if we had something like this in the UK I think people would lose their minds, but it’s very much overshadowed at a park like Energylandia.
Overall the theming for Aqualantis is… okay? It’s not stunning, and everything feels very much like “cubes with stuff stuck on” rather than something a bit more organic. This is particularly apparent with the Abyssus maintenance building, which has barely any decoration at all and stands out like a sore thumb. I’m sort of assuming they aren’t done with it all yet, as most of the troughs around Abyssus were lacking water yet too – maybe they’ve still got some more work to do?
Hmm… yeah… felt a bit deflated after that.
We’d basically ticked off the back of the park, so now it was time to head back towards the front of the park for Hyperion – picking up the Speed cred and lunch on the way.
Big, kinda fast, bit of a splattering, and hilariously unnecessary MCBR, yeah not bad, not good. Review complete.
Time for this, then.
For all of those people who whinge about Zadra’s queue – you’ve clearly forgotten just how bad the Hyperion queue actually is. What we ended up dubbing “Euro-Mir: The Queue”, the indoor spiral slope is absolutely foul – especially when all of the shortcuts are closed. Then back down the fire escape and you’re into the batching area. The reason why I think this is worse than Zadra’s queue? At least with Zadra you can see the coaster and there are fewer options for a shortcut! Yeah, gross.
So the coaster. Epic, endless first drop (very reminiscent of the B&M gigas) and the first hill is bonkers. Love the turnaround, and from there it’s a fast, decently forceful and twisty route to the finish. The final bunny hills giving a couple of lasting airtime pops too. After a few laps, we decided that front row middle seats give the best ride, but frankly it was pretty great in every seat (tried both wing seats front and back, and middle front and back over the two days). More beaming grins all round.
Airtime!
Knowing we had a second day in the park, we decided it wasn’t necessary to get all of the rest of the creds in the time we had left (we could have done, but no need), so figured we’d pick up some of the remaining crap (yes, crap) on the way back to Zadra before calling it a day early for the first day.
Here's an in-depth review of the coasters we did:
Energus: Green Vekoma. I think the same as all the others. +1.
Boomerang: Purple Vekoma. This one goes backwards and forwards. +1.
Viking Roller Coaster: Disgusting SBF spinner with OTSRs. Almost wished we hadn’t. +1.
Roller Coaster Mayan: Red Vekoma. SLC, still no good. +1.
Shall we have some more of this, now we’re back at Zadra?
Ah, that’s better.
I love photographing the stall.
Down they go!
Some excellent expressions here – I can’t imagine stepping off any other coaster at the park (except Hyperion) and riding this. You wouldn’t know what hit you.
We jumped in the queue for another go, this time in the front row. Better in the front, I think. The visuals make this ride so much better and the forces are just nuts throughout, so worth the view, I reckon.
Indulged myself in some more photos on the way off the ride.
Arty one, fancy eh?
Diving back into the structure.
Absolutely huge coaster.
More people loving life!
Right, onto the evening plans then. We’d found out that Legendia were running and event 8pm-midnight, and with Energylandia closing at 8pm we figured if we left Energylandia around 6pm, headed to Katowice (an hour’s drive, give-or-take), grabbed some dinner in Katowice we’d be all set for an evening of more creds!
One from the car park on the way out.
I promise the sky actually looked this crazy – this is not a sky replacement photo!
Well by the time we’d faffed around a bit leaving Energylandia, driven over and eaten, it was nearing 9pm. Thankfully we needn’t have worried as Legendia is very small so easy to whip round in a few hours. Photos a bit less good here – never been an expert at night photography.
Park entrance is quite nice.
Decent little entrance plaza/midway thing, too.
Lech is almost barely visible across the lake – that’s good for night rides!
We planned to head left at the entrance and work clockwise round the park. First up was Bazyliszek, their new-ish dark ride. Queue entrance is a bit odd in the kids soft play area, but the queue itself is pretty high quality. Ride vehicles are fairly standard trackless dark ride stuff with pistols. As we headed off we found the accuracy of the guns wasn’t stunning, but not the worst by all means.
Now, a slightly strange thing happened. We stopped in one scene and completed the set-piece, except the vehicle didn’t move off once it was complete. The screen went off, and the house lights came on. We figured there was someone else on the ride needing attention or something – no worries. Then, the ride-op comes strolling up to our vehicle, opens the restraints and gestures for us to get off. We do, and then he sort of just motions his arm towards the way we’ve come, and heads off to the next car. We’re left to walk ourselves out of the ride, including climbing back from the floor area up onto the station platform. We’re gestured by another staff member to leave the station via the exit (barely looking up from his phone), and that’s sort of it. The complete lack of guidance and just sort of “okay, get out” was… very strange. By the time we’d exited the ride, the entrance was closed off. Hmm… we’ll come back later I suppose. Never did find out what caused it.
Next ride we got to was Dream Hunters Society – some generic Zyklon/Galaxi thing. 50min queue! For that?! You’re joking, we’ll come back later.
Next up is Lech. Around a 30min wait, and seemingly motoring through the trains, didn’t seem to bad. Around 20mins later we’re on the ride and wow, this is an awesome coaster. The first drop is amazing (probably better than EGF, based on my memories of it), but there’s just a brilliant sequence of elements, especially from the airtime hill before the station fly-though, all the way to the brake-run, basically. Made oh-so-much better with the night ride and front row. Good work, Vekoma. Good work indeed.
It had a nice lighting set up too.
The station fly-through is great both on-ride and off-ride.
I like the hump in the roof too – a nice touch.
Last cred we needed was Devil’s Loop (I never got the cred at American Adventure). Worryingly it was looking mighty dark in that area of the park, and sure enough when we got to the entrance it was shut. Damn! Hey ho, that’s the game we’re in I suppose.
Okay, so far this hadn’t been the most successful lap of the park. We decided to turn back towards Lech and go counter-clockwise back to the park entrance. Ben and I took a quick lap on the rapids which were reasonably decent.
Did another quick lap on Lech, the queue even shorter this time, before again trying Bazyliszek. No technical issues this time, and overall the ride was good. Shortish, but not bad for a park like Legendia.
Dream Hunters Society still had a 30min queue, but as it was the last thing for us to get, we sucked it up. What made this queue particularly unbearable was all of the queue jumping. It was rampant. We wagered it probably added about eight trains to our wait! Of note on this was the speed it took through the course, with the MCRB barely biting. We got some Phoenix style ejector on the last few drops/hills. Overall, rusty and crap though. Wouldn’t surprise me to see this retired sometime soon – from what we could tell they only had two functional cars, and presumably have already salvaged everything they can from the other one in the park.
Rusty old +1s, where would we be without them?
And that was that – time to drive back to Zator.
Farewell Legendia!
I’ll leave a bit more of an Energylandia summary for the next day, but a quick wrap up of Legendia. I really like how they offer these late evening tickets at dirt cheap prices (just over a fiver, if memory serves), and Lech coaster more than makes it worth that. I think if I’m ever back in the area, I’d pop in again for an hour or two, but definitely not an all day kind of place.
Cool, thanks for reading. Part 2 (full day at Energylandia) coming soon-ish…
