GRONA LUND Sweden
Park News - (9/21/09) LiftHill.net has posted a nice report about Insane at Grona Lund. (3/17/08) Grona Lund has confirmed that they have removed the Kuling ride to make room for the new Teacups. (12/28/07) While it could just be a website error, a reader tells us that the park has removed the Kuling ride (Kontiki) from their list of rides.
2010 - Tuff-Tuff Taget - (2/26/10) Grona Lund has announced on their website the addition of a new Zamperla kiddie roller coaster called Tuff-Tuff Taget, which roughly translates into English as Choo-Choo Train.
2011 - Twister & Tuff-Tuff Taget - (8/11/10) The second new ride coming to Grona Lund next season will be Twister, a new wooden coaster from The Gravity Group that will redefine the park’s skyline. Located by the waterfront, the coaster will go over the Ghost Train, over and under the Jetline and Kvasten coasters, and come quite close to many more. A bit more info has been posted to The Gravity Group site as well as a video of the animation made for it embedded below.
(7/9/10) Grona Lund has posted a new teaser about their 2011 attraction on the park’s website. Little is revealed other than an August 9th announcement date and the number 7. Why 7? The most likely answer is that the park currently has 6 roller coasters, so this announcement may be for a 7th coaster. If true, this will actually be the 3rd new coaster installed in the park in four seasons, as they installed Kvasten (Vekoma Family Inverted) in 2007, Insane (Intamin ZacSpin) in 2009 and Tuff-Tuff Taget (Zamperla Mini-Mouse) in 2010. If it is a new coaster, chances are it may be a more thrilling one. (6/22/10) Grona Lund will launch two new attractions in 2011. The first attraction announced is a replacement for the current Blå Tåget (Blue Train) dark ride which will close forever on August 9th. The new horror dark ride experience will be ready in time for the start of the 2011 season and will also use the Blå Tåget name. The new version of the ride will feature 4 passenger cars instead of 2 passenger, doubling the capacity of the current ride, and will also run along on a coaster style track system. As for the second new ride… the park says we’ll have to wait until they announce it on August 9th. They do mention that it will be an entirely new ride experience for the park.
2012-2013 - Major Expansion - Planned - (10/12/09) I’ve been told that the park received a final approval vote from the city to move forward with their plans for expansion into what is currently a parking lot area. No exact timeline has been set for the expansion to be finished, but they did say that the soonest it would be ready would be the 2012 season at best. (12/16/08) Grona Lund is seeking permission to expand again and if approved, this will be their biggest expansion in the park’s 125 year history. The plan is to expand the park into a parking lot across from the entrance where they would add a 35 meter tall B&M Inverted coaster, a 100 meter tall heavily themed Star Flyer and much for at a cost of about $65 million. If approved, they hope to have it all ready for either the 2012 or 2013 season.
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