Toverland - a magical day Trivia Quiz

Answer: The park was completely indoor

The Land of Toos hall is mostly aimed at children and, features not only a number of rides - a teacup ride, a chain swing ride, the pictured coaster and some kiddie rides, but also a set of water slides (to be used with a raft, so you won't get wet) and, like the entire park, a lot of playground of equipment.

The initial setup for Toverland called for it to be entirely enclosed and thus independent from the weather. This also meant the park had no closing dates - until the coronoavirus-mandated closures of early 2020, it had been open every single day of its existence (although, on the least busy days, hours were rather limited).

Answer: Riders can choose to be turned upside down by locking their gondolas

Wirbelbaum consists of a rotating central mast to which two wheels are mounted on opposite sides. Each wheel carries just three gondolas and can be raised and lowered along the mast, while also spinning. Loading takes place one wheel at a time, from the same side, while the other remains raised and spinning near the top.

Turning upside down would be a bad idea in this ride, given that there are absolutely no restraints!

You can imagine from this description that this ride, charming as it is, has a low capacity (a problem shared by quite a few Toverland rides) and is, due to its complexity, prone to break down.

Answer: One of the turntables for the boats is in the middle of a lift

If you look closely at the photo, you see the second lift with the turntable at the left. The boats are taken out of the water, raised a few meters and only then turned, while at the steep angle of the lift, giving a very interesting movement. The platform turns back and forth, so you don't know in advance whether you're going to get a left or right turn on the lift. Then the lift continues to the 30 meters high outdoor tower from where boats then take the big plunge.

Expedition Zork operates in the winter as the outside section is quite short and you come back into the well heated hall before you can get cold.

Answer: The bobs are electrically powered

A freewheeling ride whose speed is determined by the rider, with a vertical loop? This would be something the Evil Twin might install in his parks to collect some souls...

There's also no reason to go underground and not even the Dutch would want you to propel a sled with bike pedals.

No, it's an electrically powered ride with only mild elevation changes. The attraction is themed around a crazy inventor who made these electric bobsleds as the transit system of the future. It also contains a lap timer, encouraging riders to go fast and, to get the best possible time, you not only need to keep accelerating but also to avoid tape strips glued to the track that slow you down by shifting your weight. It's a unique and fun ride that also suffers from low capacities - even on slow days where everything else is walk on, you can have 30 or 40 minutes of wait here.

The best thing to do for this ride is really to rush there right when the park opens, you can usually get two or three rounds before there's any significant wait, and once you're done with that, you can hit Booster Bike as well before it fills up.

Answer: A padded safety bar lowers onto the rider's back

While I am sure some thrill seekers would enjoy a completely restraint-free ride, this isn't recommended for a ride that quickly accelerates to 70 kph and provides some airtime hills. The system used holds the rider from above, with a bar across the back, ingeniously lowered by pulling on the handlebars. This also makes sure you take a proper bike racing position with the head down.

The train on this coaster consists of 16 bikes, but with only one train and the relatively difficult boarding, this is another attraction that has a low capacity and sometimes long lines.

The TRON Lightcycle Power Run being installed at Disney parks is an upgraded version of this ride by the same manufacturer.

Answer: It's a regular attraction, included in the day pass.

You'd probably pay almost half the price of a Toverland ticket to use one of these attractions outside the park, but in here, it is a normal attraction, free to use with your day pass. If you're halfway decent at it and don't have any scaredy cat or clumsy bag of flesh in front of you, you can make a lap around the twelve obstacle sections in about ten minutes - plus the time it takes to don and remove your safety gear.

It's a great quick workout that I can only recommended if you need something more active than standing in line. Just be there right when it opens for the day (usually a few hours after park opening) or you could be in for a LONG wait - this attraction can't really serve more than 20 to 30 visitors per hour.

Answer: The park provides a "soaking wet" hour in the afternoon

During the hot days of the 2019 season, Toverland introduced an afternoon hour where you can be certain to get drenched to the skin and below! All overhead waterfalls that normally switch off when a boat passes by remain on for a free shower and, if that's not enough, the park provides staff members standing on bridges and next to the track with super soakers and buckets to ensure that the "drenched hour" lives up to its name.

And if they should still happen to miss you or you don't want to wait in line for it (or the weather is only 28 degrees, traitor), you always also have the option of what the park calls the Benelux' biggest shower - a multi-storey waterfall with enough of the wet stuff to dissolve you in seconds if you're so inclined and you can just stand under it. Splash!

Answer: Cars spin freely, creating a different experience each ride

No, you won't find inversions on Dwervelwind, although if you want a spinning coaster with upside down elements, those are now actually being built. However, that would be a bit too much for a family-oriented park, so we'll have to do with free and sometimes rather fast spinning that will give every single ride a new spin (pun intended). If you go with a family or friends, try for a bit of weight difference between the front and back row of your car, but not too much - you need some difference to get a good momentum going, but if the imbalance is too large, the heavier side will just stick to the outside of every turn.

Oh, if you're asking why Euro Mir has never been upgraded to this system - it features a far more intense track layout and the forces in some sections would just be too great if you were to hit them facing sideways.

Answer: Ithaka

A Greek-themed coaster of course feels right at home in Ithaka. Manufactured by Great Coasters International (aka the guys who know to build an exciting woodie), this was the first major outdoor attraction of the park and the beginning of the expansion from an indoor-only operation to a fully sized and landscaped theme park.

Like most GCI coasters, Troy also features a station flyby - a section of track where the train runs above the exit side platform at high speed to provide some excitement for the waiting riders.

Ithaka also features Scorpio, a swing ship and the Horses of Ithaka, a slow rocking horseback ride mostly aimed at kids.

Answer: Wing coaster

All of these coaster types exist, but the "seats on the side" style used for Fénix is called a wing coaster. The ride picture here is shot from a right side seat which offers two very sections of flying very low over the ground at maximum speed while the left wing offers a more intense experience during the sideways-twisting sections of the inversions, especially the first drop. So it's really two quite different rides and, if you get the chance, you should try both.

The good news for us coaster fans is that Fénix, Dwervelwind and Troy all three have excellent capacity and on moderate to busy days, they're the shortest waits in the park. So there's really no excuse to not get enough coaster time.