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Croatia to Get Country's First Amusement Park

Their website is now online and the logo has also changed to better.

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http://mirnovecpark.hr/

The attractions (26 of them) are going to be divided into 3 areas (all accessible on their website), but for better clarity I've had them listed below;

Wild West (Divlji zapad):
Ludi profesor (a small spinning flat ride)
Oldtimer (a small spinning flat ride)
Western Pacific (train ride)
Dino safari (tracked ride)
Rotirajuće šalice (teacups)
Bik koji vesla (canoes)
Hiawatta (smaller pirate ship)

Pirate town (Gusarski grad):
Kapetan Ludobradi (pirate ship)
Atlantida (some sort of water ride, the photo shows a Spillwater, but might be only a placeholder)
Nigdjezemska (Splash battle)
Sudarajući autići i brodići (dodgems and bumper boats)
Vrtuljak (carousel)

Space (Svemir):
Alien 8 (spinning coaster)
Space Witch (looping coaster)

Povratak u budućnost (not exactly sure what that is, but I think it's a starflyer)
Panoramski kotač (Ferris wheel)
Turbo jeza (some sort of a Discovery/Frisbee ride)

Here is some artwork from the website:

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Note that the coaster artworks are (hopefully) just placeholders for the time being. I can't really see them building just a big oval spinning coaster. :D

And some recent construction photos (from 22nd of September, if my info is correct):

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source: http://radio.hrt.hr/radio-zadar/clanak/ ... ec/128479/

While not the most exciting of the 2017 projects, this nevertheless looks like a nice little family park. Certainly what the country needs and I hope that will promise more amusement parks popping up in the area in the coming years. Also a note that the 15m€ price tag that I have quoted in the initial post is indeed wrong. The number apparently means how much money will the project get from the Croatian board of tourism and not the actual worth of the project as a whole.
 
I really like the look of the looping coaster, it's quite cute and very RCT. Loving that banked turn between the two inversions. Wtf is happening on the second inversion. I actually want to ride it.
 
It may not be disneyland but for a countries first park it looks pretty good. Croatia is a fantastic country and this gives an excuse to go back (As if i needed one)
 
The park just linked a video of a Schwarzkopf Silverarrow, saying that their coaster has arrived. Could this be the ride that has been sitting dormant in Loudoun Castle for the past few years?
If it is indeed the Silverarrow that's great news, and looking at Google Maps the one at Loudoun Castle was taken down between 2013 and 2016.
However the Facebook page also has a picture of a Boomerang, so we don't know for sure
 
The second Schwarzkopf coaster popping up again after years of hiatus after the Shuttle Loop for Rotterdam - at least something to like about this year... :)
 
For less exciting news. Duane and Myself worked through a reference list from Beijing Jiuhua Amusement Rides provided at IAAPA and discovered Alien 8 will be a BJA spinning mouse. Chinese rides are spreading :) There is no mention on that list of BJA looper though thankfully.

If Space Witch is that silver arrow though that's great news.
 
For less exciting news. Duane and Myself worked through a reference list from Beijing Jiuhua Amusement Rides provided at IAAPA and discovered Alien 8 will be a BJA spinning mouse. Chinese rides are spreading :) There is no mention on that list of BJA looper though thankfully.

If Space Witch is that silver arrow though that's great news.
Is that list anywhere publicly available? I've noticed that the BJA spinner has been added to rcdb and I was just to email Duane where he got the info from, since I couldn't find anything that would connect the park and a Chinese manufacturer. :)
 
Is that list anywhere publicly available? I've noticed that the BJA spinner has been added to rcdb and I was just to email Duane where he got the info from, since I couldn't find anything that would connect the park and a Chinese manufacturer. :)

I don't have the list myself I'm afraid. Duane does have a copy though. I just have snippets of the bit which I could help with.
This ride for example was ride was listed under the Spinning Coaster model that's a Reverchon clone as
JH16-04-21 - Croatia.

the date being contact date. Combined with the park plan below which you can clearly see the mouse is a Reverchon or clone of Mouse.

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Double post but I've been informed it is likely an Intamin splash boat similar to Gardalands but with one drop. The boat is under the cover on the left.
 
Double post but I've been informed it is likely an Intamin splash boat similar to Gardalands but with one drop. The boat is under the cover on the left.
Most likely. Apart from those coaster-like pieces of track in that photo I've heard no mention of a possible 3rd coaster coming in. Quite exciting if it is indeed an Intamin built ride.
 
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Double post but I've been informed it is likely an Intamin splash boat similar to Gardalands but with one drop. The boat is under the cover on the left.

Is that used or new? Im not aware of many of those splash boats existing and the track certainly doesn't look new!
 
The Schwarzkopf Silverarrow (Twist and Shout) got a new lick of paint and is starting to go up now. No sign on the Spinning Mouse yet, though.
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Photos of some of the other rides that have been completed so far
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And an aerial overview of the place. I did notice something interesting for the cred whores in here as well, can you spot it?
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Yeah, it's a kiddie +1, which can be seen hiding behind the bushes on one of the photos
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Source (with more photos)
 
Good to see Twist And Shout getting new life. And new colours too. Oddly reminisent of its Original colour scheme
Whats very strange is the train on site appears to be the original western themed train. This was swapped out with Looping Stars trains at Slagharen years ago so Twist And Shout got the more normal Schwarzkopf trains. But now it appears they may have been changed back again.
 
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