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2009 - Nothing known at this point in time.

WALIBI BELGIUM
Belgium
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
Formerly: Walibi Wavre & Six Flags Belgium

Park News - (6/26/09) Apparently the Day of the Red Heads promotion was a big success for Walibi Belgium and now they’re at it again. From June 25 – 30th the park is placing Vampires in the spotlight to celebrate their Vekoma SLC coaster’s 10th birthday. The park is working with the Red Cross and will set up a blood drive event in the park.
  (5/22/09) In one of the more odd news stories I’ve ever posted, Walibi Belgium will be promoting their ‘Big 7’ action rides with the first ever “Day Of the Redheads” event on May 30th, 2009. Yes... this is their way of celebrating “the 140,000 people with red hair living in Belgium.” The focus of the event will be the story of Calamity Jane, a famous western Red Head who was a friend to Lucky Luke. All Red Heads will be allowed into the park for free provided they pass the test of the “Red-Head Jury” (I’m not making this up) which will consist of the park’s Kangaroo mascot, Calamity Jane herself and a professional hair dresser.
  (5/20/09) According to a reader, Walibi Belgium has asked for permission (and possibly recieved it) to expand the park by 7 ha, which will allow for considerable room for future growth if true. Anyone know more or have a link to a story confirming the approval?
  (3/7/09) I had first heard the rumors from some of our European readers earlier this week, claiming that Walibi Belgium had decided to close down the Turbine coaster. Turbine not only was a classic Schwarzkopf Shuttle Looper, but one of the better Flywheel launched versions, much like the still popular Montazooma’s Revenge at Knott’s Berry Farm in the USA. Turbine was also made even more unique by the fact that the park had decided to enclose the entire ride’s layout except for the huge spikes on the ends, which can you see pictured here. This was done for the 1999 season in an effort to reduce the noise from the ride.
  The closure of Turbine was confirmed by the local media this week as well, who report that after 27 years the ride will not open this season. Apparently the park’s owners decided not to provide the park with an operational budget for the coaster this year in an effort to cut-back on costs. The park claims that no decision has been made to remove the coaster, only to not run it for the 2009 season, so there is a chance it may return in 2010. Of course if enough people complain, I’m sure they could dig up the budget to reopen the ride before the end of the 2009 season as well. Of course the impact of the closure of Turbine is made only worse by the fact that the park also removed the problematic Vertigo coaster style attraction this past off-season after years of trying to get the prototype ride to operate reliably.
  (2/3/09) Screamscape has been sent some interesting news about Walibi Belgium and a future project. First off the park will start the 2009 season with a new General Manager, Fernando Medroa who has worked for the park for 7 years and previously put in 10 years with Disneyland Paris.
  Apparently the park has also informed their passholders that they should drop into Aqualibi (the waterpark) this season for sure because they are planning on closing the waterpark for the entire 2010 season to conduct a huge renovation by the time it opens in 2011.
  (10/10/08) Walibi Belgium has confirmed to the media that they have asked Doppelmayr to remove Vertigo from the park. After three failed seasons wastes on the ride, they have had enough as the tests have proven that there is no quick and easy fix for the attraction. The process of removing it has just started and they expect it to be gone this winter. A great video showing off Walibi World’s problem plagued Vertigo attraction can be found at CoasterForce.

2009 - Nothing new will be added to the park this season.
 

2010 - Internal Improvements - Rumor - (7/1/09) According to one of our readers, Walibi Belgium announced to the local news that the park was not planning on adding any major new rides in the near future. Instead they will continue doing what they’ve done the last two years, and fix up and retheme many of the park’s older classic attractions as well as give the whole park a face-lift. Next on the list to be worked on is the Radja River Rapids.

2011 - Aqualibi Expansion - Rumor - (2/3/09) The park is said to have informed their passholders that they are planning on closing the waterpark for the entire 2010 season to conduct a huge renovation and expansion by the time it opens in 2011.

WALIBI RHONE-ALPES
France
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)

2009 - Nothing known at this time.

WALIBI WORLD
The Netherlands
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA)
Formerly: Walibi Flevo & Six Flags Holland

Park News - (4/18/09) According to postings on the WalibiWeb.nl site, the park’s Huss Rainbow ride (Aztec) will be removed from Walibi World, over concerns about the accident that took place on a similar model ride in Sweden last year.
  (11/10/08) It’s been rumored that Walibi World may remove Aztek, the parks Huss Rainbow, which has remained closed since the accident took place on a similar ride in Liseberg over the summer. It’s also said that the park may be looking at removing one or two other small rides from the park as well.
  (10/1/08) Click here to meet Eddie, a scary clown character who is apparently the mascot of the park’s Halloween Fright Nights event. While I don’t speak the languagein the nearly 12 minute video, Eddie kind of reminds me of a cross between Universal Orlando’s famous Jack The Clown... if he was played by Jim Carrey.
  (9/8/08) I’ve been told that the park has finally reopened Xpress. It seems that the parts they needed were quite rare, and they did not have any spares on site at the park. The only solution that would get the ride open again before the end of the season involved striking a deal to purchase the existing spare parts that Disneyland Paris had obtained for their own future use for Rock ‘n Roller Coaster.

2009 - La Via Volta - Removal or Renovation? - (4/13/09) The latest version of Walibi World’s park map now shows an empty construction site where La Via Volta used to be, marked as being Under Construction. This doesn’t look good for any chance of bringing the coaster back to life, as it has sat closed for the past two years, and had it’s train sold off to another park.
  (1/14/09) Does anyone know the status of La Via Volta? So far we haven’t heard much in regard to previous rumors about reopening the coaster for the 2009 season or not. Anyone know more?
  (8/1/08) The latest update on Walibi World’s closed La Via Volta (Vekoma Boomerang) is that the park plans on buying a new style train for the coaster when they reopen it in 2009. I’ve got to wonder if they may use the new Schaefer trains that premiered last summer on Wiener Prater’s Boomerang. While I haven’t been on it myself, the design looks simply awesome and features a very open train design as well as a lap-bar only restraint system.
  (2/14/08) Screamscape has been informed that La Via Volta (Vekoma Boomerang) at Walibi World will receive a new train and reopen once again for the 2009 season. No word on who will supply the new train.

2010 - New Coaster - Rumor - (11/10/08) I don’t know how much truth there is to this, but someone has posted a rumor that both Walibi Belgium and Walibi World will both open new identical coasters for the 2010 season.