Walibi Holland
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| Slogan | #HardGaan (#GoFast) |
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| Location | Biddinghuizen, Flevoland, The Netherlands |
| Coordinates | 52°26′24″N 5°45′45″E / 52.44000°N 5.76250°ECoordinates: 52°26′24″N 5°45′45″E / 52.44000°N 5.76250°E |
| Owner | Compagnie des Alpes |
| General Manager | Mascha van Till-Taminiau |
| Opened | 1971 |
| Previous names | Walibi World (2005 to 2010) Six Flags Holland (2000 to 2004) Walibi Flevo (1994 to 1999) Flevohof (1971 to 1991) |
| Operating season | April - October |
| Rides | |
| Total | More than 40 |
| Roller coasters | 7 |
| Water rides | 3 |
| Website | Official website |
Walibi Holland (previously called Flevohof, Walibi Flevo, Six Flags Holland and Walibi World) is a theme park in Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands.
Attractions include the Speed of Sound, Condor, Xpress, Goliath and Robin Hood roller coasters.
The adjacent associated event grounds has been the location of large music festivals.
In 1971, the park was opened under the name 'Flevohof'. It was an educational themepark themed after agriculture and farming. Having struggled to compete with more modern family attractions, Flevohof went bankrupt in 1993, and was subsequently purchased by the Walibi Group that autumn, who redeveloped the site as an amusement park. After a major winter-long programme of reconstruction the park reopened as Walibi Flevo on 7 May 1994, featuring the world's first Vekoma suspended looping coaster (SLC), El Condor. The park also adopted the wallaby mascot of its sister park, Walibi Wavre in Belgium. (The name 'Walibi', incidentally, is derived from the first two letters of three towns in Belgium put together to form a single word: Wavre - Limal - Bierges).
The Walibi parks, including Bellewaerde in Belgium, were purchased by Premier Parks Inc. in 1998, who subsequently overhauled the Flevo park, removing the 'Walibi' branding and building 30 new attractions as part of its transformation into Six Flags Holland in 2000. Six Flags's nominal expansion into Europe saw a similar refurbishment of the Belgian Walibi theme park, which was renamed to Six Flags Belgium. Both parks benefiting from the group's rights to use Warner Brothers characters within them, leading to the creation of a Looney Tunes-themed area and a powered-launch coaster themed around popular comic figure Superman, later changed to the Xpress.
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