Fun fact for you: the guy in the back of the car wasn't just a character from a show. He's the actual actor himself. He does live shows every summer in the Plopsa theater and does that car thing once per day on those days
3:30 You JUST walked through the gate and I'm already blown away by the most unexpected thing: the kid's strollers are LITERALLY WODDEN WAGONS. IDK why that is so amazing, but it's a level of surprise and delight that no American park would bother to go to.
I mean its quite common, heck nearly all parks in Europe and other open air attractions used to have such little kids wagons, however many of them have retired them due to them being quite old.
This is the only video I've seen covering this park with thought and research gone into it! Thank you for representing this park really well in my opinion!
Ah yes the park i grew up with, this was literally my summer care when i was a kid. We live in the nearby town and me and my sister could just walk to the entrance everyday during the summer break and we had a whole day to ride attractions (like everyday during the summer XD), it was never boring ! Lots of memories, we have seen tons of attractions come and go ! Glad you visited our park in tiny Belgium , 10/10 review ! (Oh and the guy in the backseat of the car was "Kabouter Klus" from the Belgian (dutch-speaking) "Kabouter Plop" TV Show.
We visited last weekend and had an amazing time here. The hotel is incredibly well themed and the included breakfast and dinner options were delicious! The water park was lots of fun too and we all loved Plopsaland itself. My only disappointment was the later opening times for the bigger rides which meant that we missed out on some extra rides on Anubis and The Ride to Happiness, but overall it was a fantastic place to visit and we will definitely return.
On the money saving aspect, when my friend and I took a big trip across Europe last year, we bought a Plopsa season pass. Not only did that get us admission to Plopsaland De Panne and Holiday Park, but it also includes discounts on merchandise as well as discounted tickets to several other parks across Europe. It really saved us quite a bit of money.
I did that too! I think mine is still valid to August this year. Saved so much money on other park tickets with it! Even Walibi Belgium had a great discount. Didn't help with the 5 Euro water bottles though. That was daylight robbery.
Was really pleasantly surprised when I visited last year, we had an awesome day out. Super easy to get to from the Eurotunnel as well which was great. One of my favourite theme park days of 2022!
This and Bellewaerde are my home parks and I used to work in plopsaland as a summerjob, glad to see they have the best coaster in the world standing there even though I have not ridden it...YET
Agree with your comments. We were there the day you were and stayed at the Plopsa Hotel, which I would highly recommend. It is expensive, but the service was better than any hotel we stayed at in Europe (including Colisseum at Europa Park and Hotel Matamba at Phatasialand). We actually left the park to visit Bray Dunes France, just across the border for 3 hours, and then came back to the park to ride Happiness several more times. Beautiful park in a beautiful area of Europe. Highly recommend visiting!
As a Belgian, it's so weird to hear Studio 100 and K3 in English 😅 Great review, spot on! Only thing I would add is the lack of cohesive themes. Besides Wicky and Maja, all attractions are just put there. Great theming, but a Dino splash next to a Castle coaster and a German Alpine village...
The waterslides aren't part of the hotel, they're part of the water park (obviously). It's separate. In fact, the water park had opened before the hotel was even announced.
This is the beginning of an American rollercoaster enthousiast discovering the world of studio 100. I'm from the Netherlands and can tell everything about this because i grew up with those studio 100 shows and all this stuff.
I think they added 'Ride To Happiness' to satisfy adults who visit Plospaland out of nostalgia, or to lure people who want to visit it out of nostalgia but don't think it is worth the price because there aren't enough extreme rides. They built Anubis the Ride to lure young adults who watched the show 'The House of Anubis' but became too old for the children-rides and now they are doing the same for those people with 'RTH''.
2:56 This is not a train but a tram . The coastal tramline is a 65 km long almost straight line from De Panne to Knokke, the longest tramline in the world if I'm not mistaken.
Absolutely agree with you in all points. We visited Plopsaland last year, because of RtH. The best coaster I've ever ridden. It's a really nice and scenic park, especially for families. K3 was down then, so I had a lost count. I could take it. But the prices for food and drinks are so expensive. I bought a RtH shirt there, because, yeah I have to 😅. I paid "only" 40€ for it. Without the Mack Extreme Spinning Coaster, I don't think I would visit it again. But there it is...😉
Great to see you enjoy our homepark. Fun fact about the Vekoma rollerskater. It is actually the very first vekoma Junior coaster ever. So sadly you missed out on that. Glad you enjoyed TRTH and all the other stuff the park has to offer 👌🏻
I went here last August and had a great time. loved ride to happiness but i was impressed by the theming of the whole park. Also, the goats are still there, they are in a small petting zoo behind that ride.
I would say that this park could do with a B&M surf. With that it would fill the empty gap of coasters. It would also bring coaster fans who can’t go to sea world for obvious reasons to plopsa so the only coaster that they do is not just ride to happiness or Anubis.
Anubis isn't a eurofighter, it's part of the launch coaster model, same goes for lynet. If it doesn't have a vertical lift hill and a beyond vertical drop, it's not a eurofighter, all of them have it.
I'm pretty sure the launch coaster isn't an official model anymore. Gerstlauer have just started putting launches on their euro fighters and infinity coasters. They don't have a specific model for launches anymore.
@@sethbridge2761 True, they don't make that model anymore. They originally made this model separate from the Eurofighter. but when they started putting launches on their infinities and eurofighters, a model specifically for launches became redudant. That's why there were only two sold. That doesn't make Anubis and Lynet anything other than a launch coaster though. I mean, galleons aren't made anymore, but they're still galleons and not motorboats.
I am from belguim and i just want to give some context about the dark ride and one of those characters who was on that car those are gnomes if they get shocked the two flaps on there hats go up and that dark ride was based on one of the first shows of Studio 100 and one of the main characters who was on the car his name is Klus or in english job but in dutch it sounds more like a name he is the handyman from that show " PLOP "
6:29 little mistake there Taylor.. it's a gerstlauer launch coaster, one of i think 2 ever build.. and then they added the option of a launch to the eurofighter so it became obsolete xD
0:54 Samson, the dog with a speech impediment switching words. Actually a puppet, part of the "Samson en Gert" show for young kids (ended in 2019). He is a main source of revenue for Studio 100.
I feel duped. Seeing that Magicspoon ad with the Queenstown New Zealand tshirt makes me sad that we don't get it in NZ. Also, yes, I agree with this review. That 5 Euro water bottles annoyed me so much. I also bought that 9 ride express pass and was well worth it in the end. I actually skipped the Super Splash. I did some research on it before hand and there's a special rule as to why it's not classed as a coaster according to RCDB. "These two rides do not have the before-drop dip as all other SuperSplash rides have. rcdb rules require this dip to be classified as a water coaster." Coaster Count obviously counts it because it counts almost anything lol.
It will be very interesting which steps Plopsaland takes next. Putting in Ride To Happiness was unusual, both the thrill level and the Tomorrowland theming. Both point more to young adults. Maybe they want to attract a wider audience.
Anubis is not a euro fighter it’s a launch coaster model that got overshadowed after gerstlauer allowed launches on their euro fighter and infinity coasters
I can apparently get there in about 5 hours by two trains and one bus. Might do a random half day some day (first train leaves at 7 am so a full day is not an option without a hotel)
Im visiting four new parks soon, Dollywood during spring break, and Hersheypark, Kings Dominion, and Carowinds in June. Do you have any tips or recommendatons? Also, Plopsaland looks like a fun park
5:13 Fun fact: Like me is not just an ordinary kids show but is one of the best shows I've ever seen. It has great characters, emotional scenes that made me cry and amazing songs. Great video btw😊
I was in Belgium a few months after you were and I think high prices are a Belgium thing, not a Plopsaland thing. I had just come from France, where prices weren't bad, and followed it with Germany, where really the only noticeable OMG price was gas. I Googled and Belgium had worse inflation than those countries. So not sure if the prices will go down after the war.
SuperSplash isn't considered a coaster, because the only coaster elements it has are a drop and an airtime hill. There are log flumes that do that as well like Chiapas. And Chiapas isn't a coaster. Atlantica SuperSplash IS a coaster because of the backwards drop. Big Timber Log Ride is also a coaster because of the dip before the drop. I believe there are multiple SuperSplashes that aren't considered coaster.
my girfriend invited me to this park i was like? isn't that a theme park for little kids oh boy did i enjoy that park so cool atractions its a really fun park
the one thing you forgot is somtimes they close the real exitt and force you tho exit via the ride shop so the kids see the toys ore t-shirts and try forcing there parents to buy it
the model is a supersplash (they gave the ride a real original name i know), a water coaster is a different model. poseidon for example is a water coaster. is a chiapas a coaster then, cause the only coaster elements this supersplash has are a drop and a bunny hop. some log flumes have that too like chiapas.
In general I really love this park, but the management ruined my experience. 5€ for a small bottle of water, the worst theme park food I’ve ever had and slow operations in general we’re just unacceptable imo. Just swap the management and this park could be top tier…
I'm on the train back from this park. Ride to Happiness was an interesting experience, but to be honest I preferred Anubis. (Also interesting that Ride to Happiness was walk on all day while Heidi had an 80 minute line)
5 Euro for a 50cl bottle is extorsion. In a shop or supermarket it would cost you about 1,20 Euro for a single bottle, cheaper if you buy 6-packs or larger quantities. In a restaurant you would pay about 2 Euro. What amazes me is that they allow people to bring their own food and drinks.
Im going to plopsaland today and Everyone that grew up with studio 100 LOVES this park, i dont go to much but its always fun to be there. The only thing are the prices there🥹👍
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Fun fact for you: the guy in the back of the car wasn't just a character from a show. He's the actual actor himself. He does live shows every summer in the Plopsa theater and does that car thing once per day on those days
3:30 You JUST walked through the gate and I'm already blown away by the most unexpected thing: the kid's strollers are LITERALLY WODDEN WAGONS. IDK why that is so amazing, but it's a level of surprise and delight that no American park would bother to go to.
I mean its quite common, heck nearly all parks in Europe and other open air attractions used to have such little kids wagons, however many of them have retired them due to them being quite old.
I still remember a time when you were the coolest kid if class if you dared to go on Anubis, how times change
Same here. Anubis and Typhoon are so iconic around here (though I personally don't like Typhoon)
This is the only video I've seen covering this park with thought and research gone into it! Thank you for representing this park really well in my opinion!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :)
I agree
Ah yes the park i grew up with, this was literally my summer care when i was a kid. We live in the nearby town and me and my sister could just walk to the entrance everyday during the summer break and we had a whole day to ride attractions (like everyday during the summer XD), it was never boring ! Lots of memories, we have seen tons of attractions come and go ! Glad you visited our park in tiny Belgium , 10/10 review ! (Oh and the guy in the backseat of the car was "Kabouter Klus" from the Belgian (dutch-speaking) "Kabouter Plop" TV Show.
We visited last weekend and had an amazing time here. The hotel is incredibly well themed and the included breakfast and dinner options were delicious! The water park was lots of fun too and we all loved Plopsaland itself. My only disappointment was the later opening times for the bigger rides which meant that we missed out on some extra rides on Anubis and The Ride to Happiness, but overall it was a fantastic place to visit and we will definitely return.
The Ride to Happiness is almost a perfect roller coaster in our eyes, we absolutely love it.
On the money saving aspect, when my friend and I took a big trip across Europe last year, we bought a Plopsa season pass. Not only did that get us admission to Plopsaland De Panne and Holiday Park, but it also includes discounts on merchandise as well as discounted tickets to several other parks across Europe. It really saved us quite a bit of money.
I did that too! I think mine is still valid to August this year. Saved so much money on other park tickets with it! Even Walibi Belgium had a great discount. Didn't help with the 5 Euro water bottles though. That was daylight robbery.
Absolutely loved my trip here. The audacity for a family park to put in ride to happiness is so cool. My number 1 coaster, really took me off guard
Was really pleasantly surprised when I visited last year, we had an awesome day out. Super easy to get to from the Eurotunnel as well which was great. One of my favourite theme park days of 2022!
This and Bellewaerde are my home parks and I used to work in plopsaland as a summerjob, glad to see they have the best coaster in the world standing there even though I have not ridden it...YET
Oh and also the slides you mentiond aren't part of the hotel, its a seperate waterpark called plopsaqua
Agree with your comments. We were there the day you were and stayed at the Plopsa Hotel, which I would highly recommend. It is expensive, but the service was better than any hotel we stayed at in Europe (including Colisseum at Europa Park and Hotel Matamba at Phatasialand). We actually left the park to visit Bray Dunes France, just across the border for 3 hours, and then came back to the park to ride Happiness several more times. Beautiful park in a beautiful area of Europe. Highly recommend visiting!
going to be going here in 2 weeks! cant wait to experience ride to happiness!
As a Belgian, it's so weird to hear Studio 100 and K3 in English 😅
Great review, spot on!
Only thing I would add is the lack of cohesive themes. Besides Wicky and Maja, all attractions are just put there. Great theming, but a Dino splash next to a Castle coaster and a German Alpine village...
thats fair!
That's not a German village, but a Swiss village, as you can see from all the small Swiss flags hanging across the buildings.
I used to live literally next door to this park for almost 10 years. Great video!
The waterslides aren't part of the hotel, they're part of the water park (obviously). It's separate. In fact, the water park had opened before the hotel was even announced.
Great informative video! Thank you! We are in the UK and plan to visit plopsaland for the first time next month. We can't wait!
We went here (& Efteling) as a sort of road trip from the UK in February. Very cool. Obvs loved RTH & Anubis was also loads of fun!
This is the beginning of an American rollercoaster enthousiast discovering the world of studio 100. I'm from the Netherlands and can tell everything about this because i grew up with those studio 100 shows and all this stuff.
Thanks for this, we’re here now and this has pointed out a few rides we didn’t spot today but will get on tomorrow. Cheers
I think they added 'Ride To Happiness' to satisfy adults who visit Plospaland out of nostalgia, or to lure people who want to visit it out of nostalgia but don't think it is worth the price because there aren't enough extreme rides. They built Anubis the Ride to lure young adults who watched the show 'The House of Anubis' but became too old for the children-rides and now they are doing the same for those people with 'RTH''.
2:56 This is not a train but a tram . The coastal tramline is a 65 km long almost straight line from De Panne to Knokke, the longest tramline in the world if I'm not mistaken.
Ja de kust tram maar er is ook een nmbs station vlak voor het park zelf maar wat hij toonde is de tram, j
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Rule number one: If they tell you not to bring your own food in an European park, you definitely bring your own food.
Absolutely agree with you in all points. We visited Plopsaland last year, because of RtH. The best coaster I've ever ridden. It's a really nice and scenic park, especially for families. K3 was down then, so I had a lost count. I could take it.
But the prices for food and drinks are so expensive. I bought a RtH shirt there, because, yeah I have to 😅. I paid "only" 40€ for it. Without the Mack Extreme Spinning Coaster, I don't think I would visit it again. But there it is...😉
Great to see you enjoy our homepark. Fun fact about the Vekoma rollerskater. It is actually the very first vekoma Junior coaster ever. So sadly you missed out on that. Glad you enjoyed TRTH and all the other stuff the park has to offer 👌🏻
I went here last August and had a great time. loved ride to happiness but i was impressed by the theming of the whole park. Also, the goats are still there, they are in a small petting zoo behind that ride.
I would say that this park could do with a B&M surf. With that it would fill the empty gap of coasters. It would also bring coaster fans who can’t go to sea world for obvious reasons to plopsa so the only coaster that they do is not just ride to happiness or Anubis.
Anubis isn't a eurofighter, it's part of the launch coaster model, same goes for lynet. If it doesn't have a vertical lift hill and a beyond vertical drop, it's not a eurofighter, all of them have it.
Just like lynet at fårup Sommerland, it's a gerstlauer launch coaster and not a eurofighter.
@@AspectCreative that's literally what I said.
I'm pretty sure the launch coaster isn't an official model anymore. Gerstlauer have just started putting launches on their euro fighters and infinity coasters. They don't have a specific model for launches anymore.
@@sethbridge2761 True, they don't make that model anymore. They originally made this model separate from the Eurofighter. but when they started putting launches on their infinities and eurofighters, a model specifically for launches became redudant. That's why there were only two sold. That doesn't make Anubis and Lynet anything other than a launch coaster though. I mean, galleons aren't made anymore, but they're still galleons and not motorboats.
I hope you and Sarah are having a great day
11:21 this man is my childhood
I loved the theming here!!
I am from belguim and i just want to give some context about the dark ride and one of those characters who was on that car those are gnomes if they get shocked the two flaps on there hats go up and that dark ride was based on one of the first shows of Studio 100 and one of the main characters who was on the car his name is Klus or in english job but in dutch it sounds more like a name he is the handyman from that show " PLOP "
When it was Meli park the old entrance was where the hotel is now. So the entrance layout made more sense then.
6:29 little mistake there Taylor.. it's a gerstlauer launch coaster, one of i think 2 ever build.. and then they added the option of a launch to the eurofighter so it became obsolete xD
0:54 Samson, the dog with a speech impediment switching words. Actually a puppet, part of the "Samson en Gert" show for young kids (ended in 2019). He is a main source of revenue for Studio 100.
I love this park i so wish I could go
I feel duped. Seeing that Magicspoon ad with the Queenstown New Zealand tshirt makes me sad that we don't get it in NZ. Also, yes, I agree with this review. That 5 Euro water bottles annoyed me so much. I also bought that 9 ride express pass and was well worth it in the end. I actually skipped the Super Splash. I did some research on it before hand and there's a special rule as to why it's not classed as a coaster according to RCDB. "These two rides do not have the before-drop dip as all other SuperSplash rides have. rcdb rules require this dip to be classified as a water coaster." Coaster Count obviously counts it because it counts almost anything lol.
It will be very interesting which steps Plopsaland takes next. Putting in Ride To Happiness was unusual, both the thrill level and the Tomorrowland theming. Both point more to young adults. Maybe they want to attract a wider audience.
Anubis is not a euro fighter it’s a launch coaster model that got overshadowed after gerstlauer allowed launches on their euro fighter and infinity coasters
I hope Plopsa can add more to their sister park in Germany, Holiday Park, because this park looks so much better with more to do.
I can apparently get there in about 5 hours by two trains and one bus. Might do a random half day some day (first train leaves at 7 am so a full day is not an option without a hotel)
Im visiting four new parks soon, Dollywood during spring break, and Hersheypark, Kings Dominion, and Carowinds in June. Do you have any tips or recommendatons? Also, Plopsaland looks like a fun park
11:30 Dat is Kabouter Plop jonge, hele park is naar hem vernoemd
2 days here 2 days at Walibi Belgium! That’s what I’d want to do.
The character on the back of the car is Kabouter Plop, the character the park is named after.
*Klus
it's Klus XD
So I have a Plopsa park like 4 Km away from me but it's smaller than The Smiler and the tallest coaster there is like 10 m tall
The “train” at the beginning is actually a TRAM and its the largest tram line in the world spanning the whole coast of belgium
I think this park could build more intense or bigger rides if they already built Ride to Happiness.
5:13
Fun fact: Like me is not just an ordinary kids show but is one of the best shows I've ever seen.
It has great characters, emotional scenes that made me cry and amazing songs.
Great video btw😊
Somebody needs to make a 1000 ft coaster the craziest most insane coaster ever built. Then theme it to Bee Movie 😆
I haven’t been here but I’m surprised this park doesn’t have a drop tower
Would you say Anubis is better than Dare Devil Dive?
I think if you'd be more familiar with all the studio100 stuff it's much more enjoyable bc it's nostalgia for most Dutch and Belgian people :)
When are some Australian park reviews or longer videos coming out?
Australian park reviews will be a while, but the vlogs will be out soon and the coaster reviews will follow!
@@CoasterStudios Awesome! Thankyou 👍
I was in Belgium a few months after you were and I think high prices are a Belgium thing, not a Plopsaland thing. I had just come from France, where prices weren't bad, and followed it with Germany, where really the only noticeable OMG price was gas. I Googled and Belgium had worse inflation than those countries. So not sure if the prices will go down after the war.
I don't think prices will go down, Belgian theme parks have and will always be expensive. Taxes ...
4:30 Since when is a pirate ship a Viking ship?🤨
Personally I like Maverick better than steel vengeance because of the intensity
AHHAHA THE GUY IN THE CAR THAT YOU DIDNT KNOW IS MISTER PLOP (the signaturen figure and there most famous show)
I feel like Maverick at Cedar point doesn’t get enough credit because vengeance is there
226k subs thanks 4 sharing
It's my local park 25 min drive away.
SuperSplash isn't considered a coaster, because the only coaster elements it has are a drop and an airtime hill. There are log flumes that do that as well like Chiapas. And Chiapas isn't a coaster. Atlantica SuperSplash IS a coaster because of the backwards drop. Big Timber Log Ride is also a coaster because of the dip before the drop. I believe there are multiple SuperSplashes that aren't considered coaster.
Well, chiapas also has a backwards drop so that's not a valid argument i think.
@@sennevanstappen6957 yeah but it doesn't go upwards after that.
You made this error before, there is not such thing as North Belgium. It' located in the West. West Flanders to be exact. Great review tho.
my girfriend invited me to this park i was like? isn't that a theme park for little kids oh boy did i enjoy that park so cool atractions its a really fun park
the one thing you forgot is somtimes they close the real exitt and force you tho exit via the ride shop so the kids see the toys ore t-shirts and try forcing there parents to buy it
Be warned that Supersplash (which coaster-count does consider a coaster, btw) does not open until noon and it can get a two-hour line!!
We used our skip the lines on that one, I didn’t realize how long the line can get on that one! Geez that’s bad!
Plopsaland have 8 roller coasters, because Zamperla Disk'O Coasters ARE coasters ! 😂
The debate is closed ! 🤣
Yeah the plopsa in general ist way too expensive
the guy in the car was :KABOUTER KLUS
I don't even live near Europe so it's impossible for me to go there for a while 😔
When is the taiga review coming?
soon!
The prices of Plopsaland are super expensive because of local tax issues.
Super splash being a coaster shouldn't even be an argument It's litterly a water coaster
the model is a supersplash (they gave the ride a real original name i know), a water coaster is a different model. poseidon for example is a water coaster. is a chiapas a coaster then, cause the only coaster elements this supersplash has are a drop and a bunny hop. some log flumes have that too like chiapas.
Also when is the Australia content coming???
it's on the way!
@@CoasterStudios thanks!
In general I really love this park, but the management ruined my experience. 5€ for a small bottle of water, the worst theme park food I’ve ever had and slow operations in general we’re just unacceptable imo. Just swap the management and this park could be top tier…
I think I'm going to name my bathroom "Plopsaland".
Ew Omg😂 haha
>North Belgium
>Literally right up against the south border.
Actually this region is known as the Westhoek, western corner. The trenches of WW1 are not far. This is also the province of West-Vlaanderen.
You did not just call K3 Kidzbop omg hahaha they deserve betterrr
Noicr
Ayyy
10 dollars for a box of cereal!!!...love your channel though.
I'm on the train back from this park. Ride to Happiness was an interesting experience, but to be honest I preferred Anubis.
(Also interesting that Ride to Happiness was walk on all day while Heidi had an 80 minute line)
RtH can look scary for some
Are you going to do anymore reviews for the Alton towers rides?
not for the foreseeable future
@@CoasterStudios ok 👍🏻
@@CoasterStudios6 months later - does a review of Galactica 😂
Worst park i've been to, bad and strange policies and they don't care about their guests, they wouldn't do anything for their guests
I hope the pooch gets a steak for appearance fee
OMG those prices. That's so bad.
5 Euro for a 50cl bottle is extorsion. In a shop or supermarket it would cost you about 1,20 Euro for a single bottle, cheaper if you buy 6-packs or larger quantities. In a restaurant you would pay about 2 Euro.
What amazes me is that they allow people to bring their own food and drinks.
Im going to plopsaland today and Everyone that grew up with studio 100 LOVES this park, i dont go to much but its always fun to be there. The only thing are the prices there🥹👍