Heide Park Review | Soltau, Germany
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2019
- Hear my thoughts on this Merlin theme park located in Northern Germany. The park is home to numerous roller coasters, including Krake, Flug der Dämonen, and Colossos (which I unfortunately did not get to ride).
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Heidepark was founded by a guy who was the best friend of the founder of Europapark in Rust (southern Germany) (Family Mack --> Mack Rides). So in the beginning all the rides were built by Mack Rides. Like the Europapark the Heidepark was focused on families. The landscaping, trees, flowers were in perfect order and just beautfiul. They had a mascots like the Europapark (you can see them at the walls of older toilets in the park). When Merlin bought the park from the family of the founder they started to transform the Heidepark. They started to incorporate IP of big companys and the old identity (and the mascots) was tossed away. When you have been to the Europapark you could imagine what the Heidepark used to be.
agree 100%! Heide Park has lost a lot of its charme over the last years. like you said, it was pretty similiar to Europa Park, the themes were similiar and way more cohesive with a dutch part, the Heide village, the USA area around the lake, the bavarian mountains and so on...
The slides were definitely a highlight of our visit!
They seemed like a pretty tight squeeze. Did you lose anyone that day?
Taylor's favorite coaster
Taylor's favorite coaster was the slide
An American being confused by European slides is one of the most funniest thing I've seen this week.
Yeah, they are really made for kids
The “new“ colossos is so smooth. Its more like a hypercoaster made of wood, than a wooden rollercoaster.
I like that place.
Great video
Hanse Rider the prefabricated wooden coasters are very smooth, I’ve ridden El Toro so I agree with you.
I am realy happy, to see a Heide Park Review, because it's my home park and it's just 5 minute's by bike from my living place. Also I can say Colossos is definitely a great ride and I realy like it.
Hello stranger,
I am planning on visiting this park next year and I was wondering if I need to take two days or isn't it necessary? I'm planning on a mini trip Heide park - Djurs sommerland - Liseberg and doing all three one day per park would be ideal but not sure if it's enough for Heide Park. Would you advice two days or not?
Thanks in advance!
@@therealinfernape4720 eyyyy Djurs sommerland too!! I think i can reply you that one as well since i have visited these parks! If you Are There in the high season, then i would say you need 2 days in Liseberg at least! Maybe 1 and a half in heide:) you can do Djurs in one Day thought! Its not massive but I love it! My favorite park in My country! I Hope your gonna like it:)
Villas Byrne Hey Villas, Thanks for the response and the advice! Can it get so crowded in Liseberg? Seeing their coaster line-up, I didn’t expect you need 2 days there. I wanted to add that I’ve already visited Djurs once but quite some years ago, so it seemed to be a good stop between Heide and Liseberg. Plus I won’t visit the parks during weekends, if that would matter alot.
@@therealinfernape4720 oh okay. It might have been because i only got 7 hours in Liseberg. You Will need a full Day and then 7 think your good!:) if you go in the Holidays, then it doesnt really matter about weekend or not
The Real Infernape You could definitely spend two days in Heide Park but if you’re only there for a day that would be enough too. I took my spanish exchange student there and I went there on a field trip with my class. Both times we were only there for a day and we had enough time to do anything we wanted. ( btw definitely to Krake. That’s my favorite one)
I really hope that you'll get back there. It's one of my home parks and Colossos is so amazing. It's supersmooth and full of airtime.
"It is not the best Peppa Pig Land that I have seen."
I'm surprised that you especially mentioned the ride ops wearing themed clothing, when I visited Heide Park every ride op at every attraction was wearing the same blue Heide Park shirt, except for the Flug der Dämonen ops. I know you visited Phantasialand as well and the ride ops at this place definitely got different, themed clothing at every attraction, really stands out.
I was there today and rode Colossos! And this ride is INSANE!!! You missed a really incredible coaster!
I was there too and rode it...
LeKu It’s not my favorite at the park actually
as someone going there many times as i live close to it, yes its the highlight
I was there last fall and while there's nothing wrong with Colossos it's definitely not as good as advertised. The first drop and the first hill are great, but after that airtime is scarce. There's also a really drawn out helix towards the end of the course that is forceless.
Ever since Hansa Park opened Kärnan I skip Heide Park. I used to visit Heide Park at least once a year but one of the major rides was always down due to technical issues. They also took down a lot of fun flat rides without adding proper replacements. Many people dislike the park for what it became. The only reason I might go again is Colossos and Kraken, well and Flug der Dämonen because I didn't have the Chance to go on a wing coaster yet.
Just got back from here, Colossos is a must ride coaster. Literally has the best drop on any coaster. The ride ops dont push down on the lap bars, they just pull up so they wont staple you. The drop is better than steel vengeance, I cant even explain it. To sum up go there asap to marathon it. There was a 2 hour wait, but the single rider line is almost always a walk on.
Colossos and Flug der Damonen are two cool rides. Both have amazing theming and the soundtracks that i'm a fan of. I did get a bit stapled on my first ride, but when i got back on later, i had quite a lot of airtime. "A spectacular view" at the top of Colossos.
You really really have to come back to hyde park again at some point. They did a lot of theming and stuff the last years. Also colossus is running again and that coaster is an airtime machine with incredible speed. I really hope you get to visit hyde park again. Its my home park and they did very good the last 3-4 years. They recently redid the vekoma SLC. It now has good theming and they fixed some of the rattling
I love how you do a heide park review just after shawn uploads his heide park vlogs 😆
As German it's nice to see that you had fun in Heide Park. Alot of germans are bashing the park, because it has some flaws. However I actually like the park, obviously it is not as great themed as other Parks like Phantasialand or Europa Park, but it still got nice spots and some really nice coasters. It's a nice park, maybe not the best, but you can have really much fun there. And when you know that they have some really awesome deals. you pay just 50€ for a night in one of there Hostel style Hotels with two day entrance and food included... Thats basically a steal.
Considering that it is an amazing park.
About the color of the coasters, I assume it's about law. We have general speaking really strict rules concerning building things. One aspect is the view of the skyline. All the coasters on top of the hill are White, because that won't "disturb" the view.
I always love to see when people get splashed by Krake. last time I was there a group of small children got completely soaked. its always funny to see
I completely agree with your review! Been there several times but only to ride Colossos. Seen from the other side of the lagoon all the white painting gives you the impression that you're looking at only 1 giant rollercoaster
German weather is just like Utah weather... it will be snowing one minute, and then clear skies the next.
one thing that was pretty memorable to me, at Heide Park, is the soundtracks. They were very loud, especially around flüg der dämonen, and it really added to the theme, ambiance and general experience. Here is the link if you are interested in hearing it: th-cam.com/video/xyKJwqvzIYk/w-d-xo.html
From what I've seen, the dragon boat ride seems to be connected more to the Netflix show Race to the Edge (which is meant to take place before the second movie)
Excellent review. Plenty of details and the video flowed well.
When your a 20 year old guy hyped for the How to train your dragon section and you notice they left you a message...
"Die Insel"
12 Years ago the park was completely different compared to today. In the middle of the lake was a half size version of the Statue of Liberty, the "How to train your dragon" area was a Americane style area, the Ghostbusters attraction was a Lego shop and some smaller versions of a mississippi steamer.
In the moment they tear off the big panorams tower that was part of the park since 34 years. Merlin is somehow destroying this park....
Planing on going there this summer, looks like an amazing park, only been to Faarup and Djurs sommerland in Denmark, might be the 2 biggest theme parks here in Denmark
I got to ride the reopened Colossus last year, it is one of the largest wooden coasters in the world and an amazing coaster, but in the end my favorite ride in the park was actually Flug der Dämonen. I don‘t know if its worth returning just for the Colossus, especially because of the huge waiting time the coaster has. In the evening the waiting time isn‘t to bad.
There is one park in Germany I can absolutely recommend you to return to... It is Tripsdrill. They have 2 new coasters this year and one of the 2 is absolutely amazing. Their theming is going to be finished next year however.
I was there last week for the first time and I really enjoyed it. Colossos is an insanely great ride, lots of Airtime, but for a wooden coaster it's now weirdly quiet and overly smooth, almost like Mammut at Trispsdrill.
Man, not riding Colossus.. that is rough... I am from Germany and I went to Six Flags Magic Mountain during my ONLY USA trip and X2 was closed due to weather... I feel you... I wanted to ride that coaster so badly. Also Heide-Park opened in 1978, back then, the concept of theme parks wasn't very much a thing here, so it started out as a mixture between some themed places, some small rides and lots and lots of nature and garden areas. That's why it looks so unique compared to some other parks. It's also a shame that they basically do not theme most of their rides. Especially the older ones and the thrill rides like Top-Spin, the older coasters like Big Loop and others have absolutely no theming on them at all. All the specific theming only started rather recently. Before that it was only stuff like "Netherlands" or "Denmark" etc. so that's why the newer themed areas like Ghost Busters or HttyD feels a little out of place.
The bit where you said, there is obviously a Wild West part like every European park, made me laugh😂
I got to ride Colossos when I last visited Germany back in 2012 rode it twice
ive been there 2 times, at both times colossos was up but the second time was right before the refurbishment so it was not very pleasant that time.
but wow the first time it was brilliant. So much fun!
Hey,
nice video about one of Germany´s best parks (in my opinion, for sure;)). I worked there as an operator last year and I´ve also seen your "Just how fast are Heide Park´s operations" video. I really liked that you think we are very fast :). And I´m glad that you liked the operator´s costumes at Flug der Dämonen, because you´re one of the few guests that won´t make some silly jokes about it. And btw, I can confirm that Colossos is the best ride at Heide Park ;)
Greetings from Germany!
I was there 2 days before Colossos opened...😖
I was there 1 day after Colossos reopened.
niVeHD nice;)
HOORAY for another roller coaster ride!!!😄❤👍WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!❤❤❤
LOL just watched Shawn's Heide park vlog and got the notification 5 mins after for this
Epic universe’s HTTYD area is gonna be sick. HTTYD is my favorite movie ever, so it’s kinda like a wizardly world or galleys edge to me lol
I was at the park yesterday, and i tell you, Colossos is totally worth the trip. Desert Race was closed though, which was kinda sad. I got 7 new credits and had a blast. Definitely a park to visit if you want fun, but not insane rides. Also, buy fast pass or "Express Butler" as they call it. It really helps alot, so you wont have to wait in queue for 45-60 minutes per ride
Everything you liked about this park was pre-Merlin 🤣
LOL yikes
this season there huge intamin prefab (2nd biggest wooden coaster in europe) opened again witch is definitly the best attraction at the park
I’m looking forward to your review of Flug der Damonen seeing as how it’s currently the only coaster in the world with a Demonic Knot element.
The zone behind the splash of krake is signed as a soaking zone...so anyone should know that you can get wet there
I know exactly what you mean when you were talking about the ghost buster ride like when I was there the first time I was so excited about that one. We stood in line forever and had to wait way longer then for the other attractions and then after the ride it was like, it’s already over? I mean it was really fun but I just expected a little more especially since we had to wait so long.
k so the ride ops here have some nice outfits but have u seen alton towers ones
the smiler they are all wearing some mad costume and wickerman sometimes they have a cool costume on aswell
oblivion’s ops for the ride quite well aswell and nemesis with the dark colours 👌🏻🔥
What if all of Heide Park was repainted
W H I T E
Then it will be in debt 😂
tbh... i like the W H I T E painted rails...
I am at heide park atm. Gotta say colossus caught me by suprise! Really great ride, lots of air time, smooth drops, good special effects. Overall really nice. The other rides are just meh tbh. Nothing really standing out if you ask me. Flug der Dämonen backrow was kinda fun tho.
Do you think that you will ever visit Freizeitpark Plohn? It has a Mack Rides Big Dipper and a very nice GCI woody.
Your pronounciation of "Flug der Dämonen" was spot-on, which is impressive. However, with "Soltau", the emphasis is on the first syllable, not the second one. So, more like "ZOLL-tau".
Have you noticed that they have two vekomas, located right next to each other, that share the exact same colour scheme?
The German people commenting have all been very nice in not being horrified by your pronunciations. German is not an easy language, but the e's at the end of their words are NOT silent. Nor do they sound like "eeee", or this would be Heidi Park. Make an "uh" sound and you're close enough. Just remember "Thank you" in German: "Danke", a word that even Americans who haven't been to Germany know. So it's HIGH-duh Park. And KRAWK-uh, which is very close to KRAKEN, which would explain the big tentacled monster attacking that ship. There is literally only one letter difference!
Now that I've lectured you so mercilessly, no German expects someone who isn't fluent in German to correctly pronounce a letter with an umlaut. Or a word with "ch" in it. Or any word with more than three syllables. I've been to Germany a lot and I still commit homicide on all this stuff. (I'm still not sure how to pronounce Dämonen!) They realize how ridiculous some of their language is and they are mostly good-natured about it.
KevyB can you not comment on a video again
with "Dämonen" you come really close if you try "Damn", "oh" and the add "Nanny" without the "y" - "Damn - oh - nann"
Living about a 5 hour drive from Heide Park, I visit there once every couple of years. I enjoy every stay there. But I do agree it's not a stand out park. With Efteling, Toverland and Phantasialand all a lot closer to home, it's not a park I would go to every year.
They do have am agreement with dreamworks I'd think. Last time I was there, there was a circus show from Madagascar 3.
The rides are all pretty good. Only like in most parks, the vekoma coasters could use the newer trains. The bobsled coaster is one of the better ones of it's kind. Together with the one in Parc Asterix. I'm definitely looking forward to my visit in august to ride Colossos again.
If you ever visit there again, look for promotions on it's website. We were lucky to get a really nice deal on a hotel+tickets package.
You should do an Intimidator 305 Coaster Parody
Yes! Great Idea
Cedar point on magnum u can see the whole park even cedar shores
Do a review of Mindbender at Six Flags over Georgia please.
So are the ride Ops there really Wearing themed Clothes? I know the operators at Flug der Dämonen Do, but the other ones only wear blue jackets as I remember.
Taylor you got good taste in movies
I love these !! Will you be doing a BPB one ?
Yes
@@CoasterStudios Okay Thank You!!
I´ve been in HeidePark for about 50 times. And I never saw this pirate...
and trust me. Colossos is like the best roallercoaster in the world !
Go to Skara sommarland its in Sweden its super fun I do it every year
Do it in summer btw
You have good taste in best animated movie trilogy!
Can you please do a revenge of the mummy review
I like that Flug der Dämonen has the only Demonic Knot in the world.
0:51 . . . those two Canada Geese are thinking "Nope, not getting on a Vekoma SLC"
Sees Colossos is closed; Looks like I'm not going any time soon.
Sees duck in river: OKAY NOW I'M SOLD!
What about Desert Race, their Intamin launch coaster ? Nice video 👌
go there at Halloween, good additional Horror Elements :D
The bobsled is top tier
Anybody please tell me do the one day ticket include all rides and theme parks??
I totally agree with your review. However, since Heide Park is my home park I want to add that the park itself was better 10 years ago. Whereas rides like flug der dämonen and krake are great additions, the park closed its most beautiful section the 'heide dorf' which encorporates this 'medival' entrance style. Instead the entire entry section has been ignored and the focus on the lake section caused the park to feel smaller than it actually is. In addition to this great rides like the second log flume have been closed. All those changes caused the park to loose its identity, which was based on the local culture and architecture. Instead the park has now an incoherent mess of different themes which are poorly executed. Therefore, I am confident that you would have liked the park better 10 years ago, despite lacking some of the current coasters, due to the better structure and atmosphere.
Interesting to hear. I would agree the park is still beautiful and I really liked the landscaping, but the random placement of themes here and there was definitely strange.
I would visit this park but I don't live near there :(
2:18 Taylors dream has come true!
now i am not the biggest fan of heide park, still a nice one but yeah this might be a bit biased
5:27 i think this is due to the history of this park. the park was originally created by the son of the guy who wanted to run the europa park together with the mack family, before he died unexpectidly. so the early park had close connections to both europa park and mack rides leading to simmilar attractions and a simmilar "vibe". this continued until 2001 when the park was aquired by the tussauds group, which itself was aquired in 2007.
so in the past 20 years the park was under constant changing of ownership leading to no clear vision or direction for the park. merlin entertainent also doesnt seem quite as willing to make big investments into heide park as they are, for example, alton towers. the recent edition of property based rides was likely a decision by merlin entertainment as the first property based ride wasn't opend until 2016
Is it bad I want to go just for the slides?
I have waited this
The splash on Krake was greatly reduced and now the splash zone on the path is basically gone. At least that's what I saw when I visited last week. Don't think it's weather related
It depends on the wind. At least that how it was last year, I was there 3times and one some days the wind is pushing the water there.
I wanted a good review of colossus too, I’ve rode el toro over 1,000 times and I wanna know how much ejector you get on the first two hills and the first drop isn’t as steep as toro. Also anyone out there ride every pre fab?
Did you go to Thorpe Park? Haven’t heard of it since Saw The Ride opened.
@Oliver Humber i mean yes thorpe park haven't got a lot of money put into them recently like this year with them getting game fx bounzilla and jungle escape ik we expected more but i thunk this is just prepping for a massive coaster in a couple years. I mean i kinda wish some billionaire buys it and actually cares bout the park and puts investment into the park
@@louishaj2787 Thorpe is owned by Merlin, they are loaded with money, they just don't like spending it.
@@marcussheen yes they just don't care bout the park
I do remember questioning why most of the rides are white in RCT 😂
Me: How many white coasters do you want?
Heide Park: Yes
They probably got a bulk discount on white paint!
If colossus was located in the US I wonder if it would be more liked than el toro
No, it's not as good. Haven't been on El Toro in years but from what I remember it's better. In my opinion Balder is also better than Colossos.
Since you get back on doing reviews again, does this mean that a Top European Park list coming soon?
I will rank the Europe parks I visited once I have a review posted of each of the ones I got a chance to experience.
Will you do an Alton Towers review?
Yes, eventually
I could see a GP getting confused by a lot of the roller coasters having the same track color right next to each other.
do you think that krake has the coolest splash down ever
?
Probably!
Will you do a Hansa Park review?
yes, that will be the next park review!
@@CoasterStudios Awsome!
Almost all of the coasters here painted white just like almost all of the coasters at Knotts are orange.
In germany all TH-camrs say the theming of Flug der Dämonen is bad
Yeah, there is this bashing mentally. But actually I personally prefer Flug der Dämonen ober Colossos, because I love hang time, obviously flavors are different.
Ok I didn‘t rode obe of this but in the Summer I will stay 2 days there
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Please review Alton Towers next!
Bluedragon967 it won’t be next, but I will review it eventually!
When I was a kid I went to Heide Park almost every year with my parents and I loved it because there was something for everyone. But since Merlin took over the park (and I know it already belonged to Tussauds before that, but there the former owner had some influence) the park pretty much lost its soul and heart. Almost every attraction aimed on children that I grew up with was torn down and not even replaced by something else. It was never a very tightly themed park, more like every ride had its own theme, but they were nice. They put a lot of heart in them, especially the Heide-Dorf and, as I said, I loved it as a kid so they must have done something right. Today it seems more like a stationary Oktoberfest with half-hearted decorations that's only there to make profit. I go there only for the rollercoasters, they are great. But If I had any children, Heide Park would not be my first choice for them.
At Europa Park and Phantasialand for instance - as was the case at Heide Park until Merlin bought it - you can see that they are famliy businesses because they put so much effort and love in every detail. Heide Park, on the other hand, has become just another corporate asset that is treated only for maximum revenue, so everything but the rides themselves becomes mediocre, as you mentioned in your review. Very sad...
Untamed analysis soon?
Taylor is always careful to tame his analysis before uploading it. Safety first.
2:33 Taylor likes httyd? Awesome.
very good videoo ilive in lower saxoni and its very good
Ive noticed that nearly all the coasters at worlds of fun are red! Why would parks make their coasters all the same color? Takes away from the beauty and identity of each coaster
Universal buy this park Germany needs a universal studios park.
how many days do u think I should stay for?
Dave DALK I was there two days, but both of them were actually half days. We arrived at 13 o’clock, and were there to the end of the day. Next they we had additional 30 minutes as camping guests, but left around 15-16. But it turned out that we actually had done most of the rides on the first day(but still I wanted to do them more😅). Hope that I helped
Dave DALK I’m doing a coaster trip through Germany this summer and I’m allotting one day to Heide. From all that I’ve heard, that should be enough.
Dave DALK I think you could do one day and assuming it’s not packed, you’d have time for everything!
@@CoasterStudios thx love the vids
@@StamfordBridge many thanks have fun on your trip
Do a review on MovieWorld and DC Rivals Hypercoaster!
he has not been to austraila
Tell him he should go then!!
J Terry TV His standard response to that: he’ll be happy to go if you’ll volunteer to pay for it.
StamfordBridge I’ll think about it.
Have u ever rode leviathan
Yup!
It’s weird 4 coasters have the same color
Why does every European park have a Wild West area?
Westerns were HUGE in Europe. Notably in Italy and France.
Here in Germany it is at least because of few really famous writers. Karl May has written alot of stories. kinda hilarious that he got in Prison for beeing an impostor and used his time there to write some books. Today we would say he was mentally ill and he wasn't able to differentiate between reality and fiction. However his adventures he has written are still today classic books for children. And when you grew up with a certain view on that theme you like it.
How To Train Your Dragon is my favorite animated movie also. Are you my brother from another mother?😄😄😄
you didnt mention the demonic knot on the wing coaster... How dare you not mention the demonic knot
Want to ride another prefab?
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