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Park News - (6/12/07) I wasn’t aware of this myself, but Germany’s Hansa-Park actually started out it’s life as the world’s second Legoland park, opening in 1973 as Legoland Siersdorf, the follow up to Legoland Billund that had just opened in 1968. Things just didn’t work out for the park and it was closed in 1976 and reopened a year later as Hansaland before adopting the current Hansa-Park name in 1987. Even today the park’s main entrance still has that that classic Legoland style look. This will all change very soon however as the entrance will be converted over the next year (from 2007 to 2012) into a collection of well known monument structures built 3:2 scale including a 54 foot tall version of the Holsten Gate (Luebeck, Germany) that will be the new entrance.

2009 - Fluch von Novgorod (Curse of Novgorod) - (6/11/09) The Theme Park Review tour has hit Hansa park and taken on the Curse of Novgorod. As awesome as they say it is, this first ever launched Eurofighter coaster will be getting a ton of new theming installed for next year that will take it to the next level.
  Want to know more? Check out this lengthy German video below showcasing the ride with lots of footage of this girl getting a private tour of the ride… and screaming a lot. It includes some footage of the indoor sections with the lights on if you watch it long enough.

  (4/23/09) I’ve got all new pictu res of the Curse of Novgorod (Hansa Park) to share today, courtesy of Gerstlauer.
  (4/14/09) New videos showing off the Curse of Novgorod in action have been put on YouTube, and I’ve embedded a couple below for your viewing pleasure. The top video shows it off with some nice off-ride footage while the second video shows off the complete POV experience from the front row, though some sections are a bit dark.


  (4/1/09) While all the themeing and pre-show experience isn’t quite ready, Hansa-Park decided to open the Curse of Novgorod coaster anyway on April 9th. Piece by piece, all the themeing, special effects and more will be added to the ride throughout the season. You can see construction pictures of the coaster, the already built themeing, as well as one of the new trains at the official website.
  (3/9/09) A bunch of new construction pictures of the Curse of Novgorod coaster have been posted here as well as posting a third storyline video onto their YouTube channel, along with an English version as well. Meanwhile I did receive a message from the park claiming that the construction timetable has been pushed back by at least 3 weeks due to cold and wet winter weather than prevented the project from moving forward as quickly as planned. They hope to open the new ride sometime after Easter at this point.
  (2/12/09) Hansa Park has posted all new construction pictures of Curse of Novgorod this week showing off the vertical lift and drop tower as well as what seems to be an enclosed lift hill. From what I’ve been told that vertical lift/drop tower will be enclosed and you’ll experience it all in total darkness.
  (1/26/09) Hansa Park has launched their own YouTube channel to tell the story behind their new Curse of Novgorod coaster. Even better, there are both German and English versions of all the videos.
  (1/12/09) A good construction update on the new Hansa Park coaster can be seen in the official photo gallery where quite a bit of track has already been installed, both in the air as well as down in a underground tunnel section.
  (12/2/08) New pictures from the official Hansa Park coaster construction website have been posted this week. Meanwhile you can also click on that storybook and finally open that dark dungeon door to enter a library full of books. Look for the one called Fluch von Novgorod and you’ll get to see some German text and a video clip that ends with a “Novgorod” logo.
  (11/28/08) Some great new pictures of the track on site for the Fluch von Novgorod coaster at Hansa Park can be found at RCDB.
  (11/5/08) Hansa Park’s new coaster project (Kataplektor) is still moving forward in secret but a few more hints have dropped on the website. A quick translation of the text here mentions that Kataplektor will “combine several roller coaster categories and justified thereby a world-wide new, own roller coaster class.” It also describes the one and only Kataplektor coaster as being a “Thrill in the 5th dimension”.
  Meanwhile the flash animated site has been updated slightly to include a wolf howl at the start and what looks like a pair of eyes peeking back at you from the bottom now. Finally some facts are also posted on the site here revealing that the coaster will have a dark ride section, a launch, an enclosed vertical lift in the dark, a beyond vertical 97º drop and one inversion. The site mentions that the coaster will be named Fluch von Novgorod (Curse of Novgorod). The coaster will use single car units instead of trains, each holding 8 riders per car in typical Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter fashion. More on this new themed coaster when we find out.
  (10/7/08) The official construction photo blog for the new coaster has posted a picture of the ride’s track at last. This appears to be the same newer style of new Gerstlauer track being used on Thorpe Park’s new coaster, compare for yourself with this photo. You can also see uses of this style track in last year’s SpongeBob: Rock Bottom Plunge coaster as well as Rage at Adventure Island the year before. You can also see new construction pictures posted to Hapa-Forum though it may help if you can read German.
  (10/3/08) According to a few of our European readers, the message on the Hansa-Park coaster preview website simply says that more information will be revealed soon.
  (10/2/08) The park’s website has been updated with some new teaser information about the new coaster. Be sure to click on the storybook on the left side of the page, though I’m not sure how to proceed from here. I can find a door that cracks open in the dark, only to get some warning in German and it burns up in flames. Anyone get further?
  (8/2/08) From the look of this piece of concept artwork sent in by a reader, the new Hansa Park coaster does indeed appear to be some kind of haunted house themed Eurofighter coaster though the “5th Dimension”. We hope to find out more details soon.
  (7/31/08) If the latest rumors are true, Maurer may not be the company building the new Hansa Park project. Given the hints released so far, it now seems to be a Gerstlauer EuroFighter style ride.
  (7/15/08) While we don’t know much for certain about Hansa Park’s new 2009 thrill ride in development, we do believe that it may be called Kataplector since the park has apparently bought the website domain names for kataplector.com and kataplector.de which right now simply take you to the main park site. The park has been sending out various little teasers it seems for the past few months as well, hinting that the new attraction will be an indoor/outdoor coaster ride with a very steep drop, a dark ride section, a very steep lift hill and magnetic brakes.