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WALIBI AQUITAINE
France
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
2013 - Nothing known at this point in time.
WALIBI BELGIUM
Belgium
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
Formerly: Walibi Wavre & Six Flags Belgium
Park News - (4/12/13) The new characters from the Walibi parks are hitting the road it seems. During a live concert by WAB in Brussels, they announced that the WAB group would go on tour throughout Belgium with the finalists from “Le Voix Belgique”. They also announced that production on 52 episodes of the Walibi Music Battle animated TV series is well under way and that it will air throughout Europe in 2014/2015.
 2013 - Turbine becomes Psyke Underground and More - (5/17/13) Walibi Belgium has announced that the new name for Turbine is “Psyke Underground”. A video showing off the history of the park and coaster as posted to YouTube an embedded below. According to this second video the coaster’s launch system has been re-engineered and rebuild as a modern LSM magnetic launch system. The train has also been rethemed and you can find a picture of it here.
The Psyké Underground is located in a little village at Shimmeria, named Fabulous. From the outside, people can see some shops, a disco, a factory that produces firworks (Pyro Technics Inc.) and a ticketbox for the local underground.
You are hosted by the famous 300-year old pink dragon, Vita Drakovitz, and her little waterspraying creatures to have a guided tour around the village. But instead of that, visitors are merged into an old and abandoned underground station that beholds a huge special machine. While waiting, visitors will enjoy a pré-show, to get them into the mood of the new ride.
After that, you can take the train. But once you get in this train, there is no way out. And when one of those creatures accidentaly pushes the wrong button, the train is launched at 85 kmph into complete darkness.
What follows is a wild ride through the dark underworld of Shimmeria. Underway, visitors are exposed to a dark hallway, filled with special effects, illuminated bats along the way, finally facing a huge 3D projected watermonster while hanging upside down in the huge loop!
(5/14/13) I’ve been told that there will be a live press conference online at www.walibi.be sometime soon to talk about the relaunch of Turbine, the new name, new theme and new opening date.
(4/15/13) Turbine finally roared back to life at Walibi Belgium this weekend, featuring what appears to be a new train in this picture posted on the ‘net. The conversion of the ride is still not finished, as the spike tracks still have to be enclosed before the park will reopen the ride, but after sitting dormant for so long, it is good to see that the launch system still works. Look for it to likely reopen in June.
(3/25/13) I’ve been told that unfortunately Turbine will not be ready to open for guests when the rest of the park opens for the 2013 season on March 30th. Bad weather conditions this year have slowed down the construction progress and put the project behind schedule. The park is now hoping to have Turbine open sometime in June.
I’ve also been told that sometime in the next month the park is expected to announce the new name for Turbine. While we don’t know the name, I’m told that the ride will be rethemed as a tie in with the rest of the Music Battle theme of the park, possibly themed as “Shimmeria”, a secret planet the characters travel to through an abandoned subway station train.
(1/28/13) I’ve been told that in addition to the rethemed of Turbine this season, the park is making some theme changes to other areas of the park as well. The former “Paris 1900” area, home to Vampire and Wereworld, as well as the “Italia” area of the park will be merged together to form a new “WAB-zone”, themed to the Walibi Adventure Band characters. The transformation of the park’s Le Grand Carrousel will be rather dramatic I’m told. The Old Timers Auto Stop attraction, French Can Can (Wave Swinger), Tuf Tuf Club (bumper cars) and Cillindri Rotanti (Huss Break Dance) rides will also be altered to fit the new theme. The kiddie area that was in the Italia area will also be rethemed to tie in more to The SkunX band characters.
(1/21/13) Walibi Belgium’s Turbine will roar back to life in 2013… with an all new façade and colorful look, as seen in pictures posted to RollerCoasterRevolution this week. With the classic Schwarzkopf shuttle coaster now full enclosed, much to the delight of the neighbors who have long complained about the noise levels from the ride over the years, I do have to wonder just what kind of visual light show or special effects may be in store for riders in 2013. I can only hope Turbine wont just be another launch into darkness, as it has great potential for some interesting effects to be seen along the way.
(7/30/12) New pictures from Walibi Belgium have been posted to Freizeitpark-Fotografie this week, with a few showing off the work area around Turbine as they prepare to reopen the ride next season.
(5/15/12) World of Coasters brings us a trip report from Walibi Belgium where we can see that the renovations to reopen Turbine in 2013 have begun.
(4/12/12) According to this new Facebook page…Turbine, the former Sirocco coaster, will be back in action in 2013 at Walibi Belgium.
(11/22/11) Screamscape sources tell us that Walibi Belgium announced to the local coaster enthusiasts that while they still plan on reopening Turbine, the project has been pushed back and wont open until 2013.
(4/19/11) NewsParcs reports that Walibi Belgium has decided to go ahead with the Turbine Rehab project, which will see the ends being enclosed by sound insulation tubes, enclosing the entire ride experience. Look for the work to begin during the off season and the coaster to reopen in 2012, celebrating it’s 30th birthday. They also report that new environmental standards that cover sound, fireworks, operational periods and more have been issued by the government to run for the next 20 years before they come up for renewal.
(1/31/11) Pictures of plans submitted to enclose Turbine has now appeared online here, as well as plans showing off how the site could be altered to be used for a new spinning coaster project. I kind of like this last image showing off both ride plans overlaid over each other… and makes me wish they could expand the existing building and do both.
(1/7/11) A report at NewsParcs tells us that Walibi Belgium has confirmed plans to reopen Turbine for the 2012 season. Plans to rehab and reopen the ride were apparently included in the park’s “environmental permit” applications, which included a new wheel system to help quiet the ride and plans to completely enclose the ride’s two end spike tracks, thus enclosing the entire ride experience.
WALIBI HOLLAND
The Netherlands
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
Formerly: Walibi Flevo, Six Flags Holland and Walibi World
2013 - Nothing known at this point in time.
WALIBI RHONE-ALPES
France
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
2013 - Nothing is known at this point in time...
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