Yeeeeah... besides the pretty good-looking Intamin 10-Looper, it definitely feels like a case of "quantity over quality" in terms of the coasters for this place.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring Yup. Having read the full story, it's the classic case of starting it off way too big way too soon; without regard for how you'll maintain the park, make a profit (IE. how you'll make all that money you spent it on back), or even for future expansion to keep customers returning. With all the flaws in the long-term plan, I've honestly never seen a park just implode in on itself so quickly.
Well its now like a wrecked and abonded area that 750M dollars went to trash and the workers that have work there alot of time are now seeing this theme park a wreck.İm also a turkish man and im also sad that the theme park is abonded😢.
Yes it actually shut down because they couldn’t pay the electric on it it was too big and they didn’t think it through it’s a really cool idea though because it looks amazing they just should’ve done better planning with money
It was a case of too many rides. They would have been better building a park 1/5 the size with fewer rides done better. Several of the coasters were very good and well done.
davidjellis it was actually beautifully smooth to ride, so much fun. The bumpiness is down to the chest harness, and because there’s no overheads there’s nothing to brace against to hold it more steady. Would be good to be allowed to shoot it properly next time I head over there.
That's good to know (would be worried if it was rough from new). I tend to hold the chest harness during riding to avoid too much bumpiness as it's elasticated and moves quite a bit. Its still secure that way but I use the elasticity of the harness to hold the camera still like a conventional camera.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring im just checking out your coaster ride footage but i just watched a video of Wonderland Eurasia from Airtime Thrills im really surprised that RCDB haven't updated the database to say that Eurasia is a defunct theme park, seriously 17 roller-coasters just doing nothing at all, Hi David i also loved your pov video of Red Fire at Korsan Adasi really glad that im subscribed to both of your channels
Afraid I don't know. Their standard entry price seems to change on an almost weekly basis, so not sure if the same is true for an annual pass. Sorry can't help more.
Most of these seem/look very unsafe and cheaply made and also basic. Now I see it's not a surprise it failed so quickly. Also The coasters seem rough aswell. Also The Wacky Worm one looks like a cheaper version of one in Gardaland,Italy.
There was a lot of things around the park that felt unsafe, from lack of safety barriers around rides to missing manhole covers, but the rides themselves are primarily made by well respected roller coaster manufacturers and were very safe. There are dozens of companies making Wacky Worms, they're probably one of the most common roller coasters in the world.
Actually, yes, surprisingly so. It was smooth, good forces and fun. A bit slow for the upwards helix at the end, but good none the less. My only criticism is where the seatbelt secures in to the over head restraints it digs right in to your crotch, to undo it I had to ram myself in the nuts.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring That's very good to hear! I feel like IE Park is a very underrepresented manufacturer, and hopefully some smaller parks look into investing in one of their larger coasters! Apparently they're in the process of making their own launched coaster model already! (Source: Roller Coaster Catalog under the "downloads" section of their website)
Mondo Coasters based on how well this rode, I’d agree. They’re not to the standard of the likes of Vekoma or Mack, but as a cheaper option of getting a large coaster they could be a good option. I guess a lot will also boil down to maintenance and longevity, which we won’t know about.
Yeah there are lots of coasters exactly like that one. It's a cloned ride by Intamin - the first one being Colossus at Thorpe Park. The one in this video is a newer and much better version.
Egal Egal No haha, Wonderland is never expensive. It is even 1000 times cheaper than the usual rides. You certainly were not even there. Go and you will love it!
It's crazy cheap to go in, not at all expensive. It seems politically the park in not popular so people won't visit. The park is also not all built with only around half the rides open. When it's finished maybe it will be busier.
@@themightyimp08 it has indeed permanently closed down as the new government doesn’t approve and the park was losing too much money. I know a number of companies are now trying to buy some of the rides.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring The government is the same but the local municipality is now managed by the opposition party. The municipality has no authority over it since the park was rented to an "independent" entreprise (which had a job of making steel :P) before it was opened. The lack of visitors weren't because of political controversies in my view, it was because the park was half finished (just before the municipality elections :)) and the marketing wasn't very well either. It was also in a weird location, so the people of Ankara didn't find it interesting enough to go. Due to this lack of visitors, the running company was in debt and some things in the park were taken over after it couldn't pay its employees. In December 2019, out of a sudden they announced the park was closed for a few days. I couldn't find many sources but I suppose it was closed until 20th January 2020. It was revealed that they couldn't pay the electricity bill. Partly paying the electricity debt, they reopened from 20th January 2020 to mid February 2020. The runner said that the park was in maintenance but that's not the truth. Even if they were to reopen it, the pandemic didn't let them, they went fully bankrupt. Now a few months ago the park was delivered back to the state again and now we don't know what they're going to do with that place. Those cheap coasters are also there to state this park as "the biggest in Europe". But does it matter, there is a much better park built by a private company in Istanbul anyway, with less coasters but with better quality. They weren't even creative and invested enough, they had built a whole section that had the machines which were on every shopping mall anyway, just to make it look full :D I would really want them to build a great park, but they did a mediocre job which was a great fail. Learning some of them were second hand and Chinese fakes, it is clear that this park was doomed from the start.
I'm working on a documentary for a TV company on Wonderland Eurasia. Would love to discuss potentially including this footage in the show. My email is on my profile page
About 75% of the rides were shut. It's a bit of a mess to be honest with the park still being under construction several years after it was supposedly complete. Apart from a small number of Chinese copycat rides, the majority are from mainstream manufacturers like Zamperla and Intamin.
Maybe someone will buy the park as despite it having a lot of cheap and knock off coasters, some of them did look decent like the Intamin family Launch coaster and the 10 inversion coaster
Lightspeed is the biggest, the 10 loop one. They also have a water chute ride that will open soon, that's the tallest ride, although not a rollercoaster.
Coaster Touring isn't the... uh... the Chinese knock-off Maurer Skyloop going to be the biggest? I just looked at RCDB and it said that it's still supposed to open.
@@RealBlueony depends if we mean biggest in over all coaster or biggest in height. The knock off Skyloop is taller, if it ever opens, but it's a smaller coaster overall compared to Lightspeed as it's just a loop.
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Yeeeeah... besides the pretty good-looking Intamin 10-Looper, it definitely feels like a case of "quantity over quality" in terms of the coasters for this place.
Totally, quantity over quality. Not surprised the park failed.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring Yup. Having read the full story, it's the classic case of starting it off way too big way too soon; without regard for how you'll maintain the park, make a profit (IE. how you'll make all that money you spent it on back), or even for future expansion to keep customers returning. With all the flaws in the long-term plan, I've honestly never seen a park just implode in on itself so quickly.
Well its now like a wrecked and abonded area that 750M dollars went to trash and the workers that have work there alot of time are now seeing this theme park a wreck.İm also a turkish man and im also sad that the theme park is abonded😢.
It's more intriguing now that it's closed. There are a couple of good urbex videos from the closed park.
The first one looked to be the star of the show… the second one by Zierer also didn’t look horrible.
The theme park was shut down for good 1 year later it was opened. The theme park is located in Ankara, Türkiye. You can visit the ruins when you want.
which camera do you use ?
These were filmed with a GoPro 6 on a chest mount. But I have a variety of cameras for different jobs.
Hello, if you visit the park again, you can see more roller coaster opening.
I love the clapping when you arrive in the station
Had to cheer the ride operators up and give them a boost, the park was dead and clearly not going to survive.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring Sad that it's closed would of gone myself
08:02 "extra boost. gonna be a much faster ride now" lmao😅😂😅😂😅
the rides look so cheap, feels like they didnt made a lot of effort to put details in them
You're not wrong. A lot of the rides are indeed cheap, some are second hand and some are Chinese copies.
Thank u for this video. I want go to Wonderland Eurasia
Glad you liked the video. There's some great rides in the park.
Why do you want to go there? There is ONE good coaster!!!
Pretty sure it shut down in £750m worth of debt and was made back into farmland..
Yes it actually shut down because they couldn’t pay the electric on it it was too big and they didn’t think it through it’s a really cool idea though because it looks amazing they just should’ve done better planning with money
Came here to watch after watching a video of what it looks like after it closed. Weird to see this now. 😕
Probably looks the same, the park was in a right mess when we visited straight after it opened.
I have to agree with everyone else, with the videos I've seen, this park seems like a total mess of things that weren't properly executed.
It was a disaster area, and no surprise it closed down.
Love it 👌🏻❤️
Cheers.
All coasters (currently open)
*thanks for watching*
Amazing... It's perfect
Say that now.
türk olanlar +1
Super video. Continue please . ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ .
Thank you, I have some more from Wonderland that I must finish editing.
This parc is already closed ^^
Did you used Water coasters in wonderland
None of them were open on our visit. I think the Water Rapids have now opened.
It almost seems like it was designed to fail. Majority of the rides seem to fairly basic and honestly temporary
It was a case of too many rides. They would have been better building a park 1/5 the size with fewer rides done better. Several of the coasters were very good and well done.
The Colossus clone looks a little bumpy...or was that simply a body-worn camera harness providing the bumpiness?
davidjellis it was actually beautifully smooth to ride, so much fun. The bumpiness is down to the chest harness, and because there’s no overheads there’s nothing to brace against to hold it more steady. Would be good to be allowed to shoot it properly next time I head over there.
That's good to know (would be worried if it was rough from new).
I tend to hold the chest harness during riding to avoid too much bumpiness as it's elasticated and moves quite a bit. Its still secure that way but I use the elasticity of the harness to hold the camera still like a conventional camera.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring im just checking out your coaster ride footage but i just watched a video of Wonderland Eurasia from Airtime Thrills im really surprised that RCDB haven't updated the database to say that Eurasia is a defunct theme park, seriously 17 roller-coasters just doing nothing at all, Hi David i also loved your pov video of Red Fire at Korsan Adasi really glad that im subscribed to both of your channels
Didn't only cost like $3.50 to get in that place when it was open ?
It was ridiculously cheap, from memory it was about that. An unlimited fast pass, not that you needed one, was about $2.
I was just about to ask how many times you rode that damn kiddie coaster when you told me. Four. Four times.
I’d only really go there for Lightspeed.
It's definitely the only reason to go there.
How much costs a yearly card? I dont find it on their page
Afraid I don't know. Their standard entry price seems to change on an almost weekly basis, so not sure if the same is true for an annual pass. Sorry can't help more.
Most of these seem/look very unsafe and cheaply made and also basic. Now I see it's not a surprise it failed so quickly.
Also The coasters seem rough aswell.
Also The Wacky Worm one looks like a cheaper version of one in Gardaland,Italy.
There was a lot of things around the park that felt unsafe, from lack of safety barriers around rides to missing manhole covers, but the rides themselves are primarily made by well respected roller coaster manufacturers and were very safe.
There are dozens of companies making Wacky Worms, they're probably one of the most common roller coasters in the world.
was the ie park looper any good
Actually, yes, surprisingly so. It was smooth, good forces and fun. A bit slow for the upwards helix at the end, but good none the less. My only criticism is where the seatbelt secures in to the over head restraints it digs right in to your crotch, to undo it I had to ram myself in the nuts.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring That's very good to hear! I feel like IE Park is a very underrepresented manufacturer, and hopefully some smaller parks look into investing in one of their larger coasters! Apparently they're in the process of making their own launched coaster model already! (Source: Roller Coaster Catalog under the "downloads" section of their website)
Mondo Coasters based on how well this rode, I’d agree. They’re not to the standard of the likes of Vekoma or Mack, but as a cheaper option of getting a large coaster they could be a good option. I guess a lot will also boil down to maintenance and longevity, which we won’t know about.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring Apparently their oldest coaster has been operating only since 2003, so we can't say anything about that for sure yet
I really hope we get an IE Park looper in the US the loop looked really forceful
Was that Lav Macera one any good? I can't tell if it's rough or smooth.
This place shut down 2 years ago sorry
@@I.EAT.BUGS1 I know I was just wondering if those types of coasters are any good
It went upside down 10 times
Chicken Nugget great isn’t it.
Yeah there are lots of coasters exactly like that one. It's a cloned ride by Intamin - the first one being Colossus at Thorpe Park. The one in this video is a newer and much better version.
Why is it abandoned right now?
Electric dept and a to many rides malfunctioning
Can't see it ever opening again.
Why the park is so empty ?
Maybe to expensive ?
Egal Egal No haha, Wonderland is never expensive. It is even 1000 times cheaper than the usual rides. You certainly were not even there. Go and you will love it!
It's crazy cheap to go in, not at all expensive. It seems politically the park in not popular so people won't visit. The park is also not all built with only around half the rides open. When it's finished maybe it will be busier.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring airtime thrills channel reckons it closed down permanently. Who is right?
@@themightyimp08 it has indeed permanently closed down as the new government doesn’t approve and the park was losing too much money. I know a number of companies are now trying to buy some of the rides.
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring The government is the same but the local municipality is now managed by the opposition party. The municipality has no authority over it since the park was rented to an "independent" entreprise (which had a job of making steel :P) before it was opened. The lack of visitors weren't because of political controversies in my view, it was because the park was half finished (just before the municipality elections :)) and the marketing wasn't very well either. It was also in a weird location, so the people of Ankara didn't find it interesting enough to go.
Due to this lack of visitors, the running company was in debt and some things in the park were taken over after it couldn't pay its employees. In December 2019, out of a sudden they announced the park was closed for a few days. I couldn't find many sources but I suppose it was closed until 20th January 2020. It was revealed that they couldn't pay the electricity bill. Partly paying the electricity debt, they reopened from 20th January 2020 to mid February 2020. The runner said that the park was in maintenance but that's not the truth. Even if they were to reopen it, the pandemic didn't let them, they went fully bankrupt. Now a few months ago the park was delivered back to the state again and now we don't know what they're going to do with that place.
Those cheap coasters are also there to state this park as "the biggest in Europe". But does it matter, there is a much better park built by a private company in Istanbul anyway, with less coasters but with better quality. They weren't even creative and invested enough, they had built a whole section that had the machines which were on every shopping mall anyway, just to make it look full :D
I would really want them to build a great park, but they did a mediocre job which was a great fail. Learning some of them were second hand and Chinese fakes, it is clear that this park was doomed from the start.
I'm working on a documentary for a TV company on Wonderland Eurasia. Would love to discuss potentially including this footage in the show. My email is on my profile page
From what I saw on a few forums, this park is one giant bootleg, how was your visit?
About 75% of the rides were shut. It's a bit of a mess to be honest with the park still being under construction several years after it was supposedly complete. Apart from a small number of Chinese copycat rides, the majority are from mainstream manufacturers like Zamperla and Intamin.
The park looks and feels like a giant mess. It has closed down, now.
RIP Wonderland Eurasia.
What's the current status, is it now closed down?
@@MarcusGainesCoasterTouring I believe in February the owners announced the park would be shutting down.
Maybe someone will buy the park as despite it having a lot of cheap and knock off coasters, some of them did look decent like the Intamin family Launch coaster and the 10 inversion coaster
And that SBF Tower Coaster looks mental
It’s stated as SBNO on RCDB, the park may just be closed until the park owners pay back their debts
And now it's anbanoned
It looked abandoned when I was there. :)
#wonderlandeurasia good themapark
A great theme park, and when they finish building it then it'll be even better. We really enjoyed the right hand side of the park.
Einige sind für Kleinkinder. Das ist sehr gut.
There's something for all ages at the park.
All that money and it failed and now abandoned.
The first one
Chicken Nugget congratulations, thanks for watching.
Coaster Touring thank you for hearting it
@@chickennugget1177 thanks for watching it.
This park has two wacky worms? Why???!!!!
They have two of a lot of rides.
Which coaster is the biggest ?
Lightspeed is the biggest, the 10 loop one. They also have a water chute ride that will open soon, that's the tallest ride, although not a rollercoaster.
Coaster Touring isn't the... uh... the Chinese knock-off Maurer Skyloop going to be the biggest? I just looked at RCDB and it said that it's still supposed to open.
@@RealBlueony depends if we mean biggest in over all coaster or biggest in height. The knock off Skyloop is taller, if it ever opens, but it's a smaller coaster overall compared to Lightspeed as it's just a loop.
Coasters very slow, short and low, they r not crazy
Lightspeed is a fantastic coaster and pretty crazy.
Lifht speed is 120kmh and its awesome
@@shortdefteri 120 kmh is average traffic speed in turkey 😀
Couldnt pay their electric bill
Think there was like 50 people in the park when we went, surprised they could pay any bills.
too bad it closed
And some of the coasters never opened.
Turkey ankara wonderland eurasıa
Shame it's now closed, so many rides never got to open.
Goofy ahh rides
This park is lame, wonder why is close down
Not enough visitors to pay the bills.