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December 17, 2024 - Toverland started as a small, indoor park that was designed for children and families. When I first visited in 2013, it had started building larger rides outside in the Dutch countryside. Today, it has expanded into one of the largest and nicest theme parks in The Netherlands. With beautiful themed lands and new thrill rides, Toverland has grown into a wonderful park. In addition to the pictures, I have on-ride and off-ride videos of many of the park's biggest rides including a launched-motorcycle coaster, a Wing Coaster, a spinning coaster, a wood coaster with a station fly-through, and a crazy indoor-outdoor log-ride with wonderful theming and a backwards section!

November 28, 2024 - I love strange roller coasters, and today's update shows one of the weirder rides I have been on. BillyBird Hemelrijk in the Netherlands is known for its beach and water activities, but it is home to Familieachtbaan, a strange little ride built by abc rides, a company with limited experience building roller coasters. The coaster's loading platform requires a climb up 14 meters (46 feet) of stairs to get to the top of a tall tower. The unloading platform is at ground level. Be sure to watch the POV Video of Familieachtbaan to see how odd this ride is.

November 17, 2024 - Our European coverage continues with the little DippieDoe Attractiepark near Eindhoven, Netherlands. There are pictures and POV videos of both of the small park's roller coasters.

October 21, 2024 - Our newest park is a big one! Walibi Belgium has 10 coasters, so there are lots of pictures and videos to share. There are POV videos from all of the coasters, so if you can't travel to Europe yourself, you can still see what it is like to ride every coaster! The park, which used to be called Six Flags Belgium, Walibi, and Walibi Wavre, is home to the world's only enclosed Schwarzkopf shuttle loop, a Mack PowerSplash water coaster, a fantastic Intamin Mega Coaster which has world's first non-inverting Cobra Roll maneuver, and a whole lot more.

October 9, 2024 - Here is Arizona's newest roller coaster: Canyon Coaster at Canyon Coaster Adventure Park in Williams, AZ is close to the southern rim of the Grand Canyon. It is an Alpine Coaster built in 2022 by Wiegand. Be sure to check out the POV video as well as the aerial videos!

The music in the video of me riding the coaster was made by made by Iris Dee Jay. Check out her work at www.irisdeejay.com for more great tracks! And if her music was not enough, Raquel also helped me with the CSS for my new website design. (I hope I do not get in trouble for revealing Iris Dee Jay's real name here.) Thanks Iris/Raquel for helping make CoasterGallery.com responsive and beautiful!

September 24, 2024 - Today's addition is Mondo Verde a small park that started in The Netherlands as a World Park, but was purchased in 2007 and added a small zoo and an amusement park. The park is home to the Havana Spinning Coaster, one of the larger "Three Loop" models from SBF Visa. Be sure to watch the video of the Sailor and Pirate Nautic Jet boats that literally fly off their tracks and splash down into a lake.

September 4, 2024 - I love the audacity to take an old factory and turn it into a huge Family Entertainment Center. Klaas and Bert van der Honing created the Kinderstad Heerlen in the Netherlands in 1999. It has two roller coasters, Achtbaan and Spinning Coaster, and I have POV videos from both of them!

August 22, 2024 - The latest park to be added here got its start as the Wyandot Lake Adventure Park in 1984. It was purchased by the Six Flags chain, but never was converted into a Six Flags park. As the chain struggled financially and spun off a large number of parks, this small one was sold to the adjacent Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and first opened as Jungle Jack's Landing. Check out the pictures and on-ride POV videos of the new Tidal Twist and the historic Sea Dragon.

July 1, 2024 - Today's update is a study in contrasts. The Rocky Mountain Coaster is an alpine coaster. It sits at about 10,000 feet above Sea Level in the Copper Mountain ski resort in the mountains of Colorado. And for the oposite of that ride, I've added the Family Roller Coaster, a family coaster at the Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium, a park located just to the west of Phoenix, Arizona. It sits in a field of llamas, and passes through a building with a few different animal habitats, so it is a unique ride. Just don't plan on seeing it action during the summers because of the desert's high temperatures. The zoo's small collection of thrill rides only operate in the fall, winter, and spring seasons.

June 4, 2024 - I have had pictures of Utah's Lagoon here for over a decade, but I am adding new ones now. I visited the park to see the opening of the amazing Primordial roller coaster. This complex ride, which sits in a 70,000-square-foot mountain, is part roller coaster, part indoor dark ride, and full of surprises. I won't spoil any of its secrets here, but if you read all of the Primordial text, I do give away many of the secrets found inside of the mountain. The planning and construction of this ambitious thrill ride took nearly seven years, but I think it was worth the wait. It is one of the most surprising rides I have ever encountered.

April 21, 2024 - Julianatoren is a delightful little park in The Netherlands that got its start as part of the Royal Dutch family's summer estate. The park is designed for children, but it has a multitude of characters and themed elements that make it really nice for everyone. The park is also home to the spinning Texas Twister, the Jul's RollerSkates, and the self-operated Vlinder Butterfly shuttle coaster. If you have never seen one of these 2-seat Butterfly coasters made by Sunkid, you need to check out the pictures and on-ride and off-ride videos of this unusual ride. There aren't any Butterfly coasters in the United States, so it is a challenge to get on one of these strange creations.

March 15, 2024 - Splash City Adventures in Pensacola, Florida, the park formerly known Sam's Fun City, is the latest park to come to CoasterGalley.com. It is primarily a water park, but it is home to Miner Mike, one of the smallest coasters ever built! A Pinfari Zyklon called Emerald Coaster used to be here, but it was removed a few years ago.

February 20, 2024 - Here is the Canyon Coaster at the Canyon Coaster Adventure Park in Williams, Arizona. In addition to the pictures of the alpine coaster, you can also watch POV video taken on the ride, as well as footage of my reactions as I travel down the mountain.

February 1, 2024 - The new park for today sits just outside of The Hague in The Netherlands. Duinrell is known for its Caripro suspended single-rail coaster that was built in 1997 but never opened due to technical problems. The three coasters there today are much more successful: Falcon which was built by Gerstlauer, Dragon Fly which was also built by Gerstlauer, and Kikkerachtbaan which was built by Zierer.

December 25, 2023 - As many people are celebrating Christmas, it seems fitting to unveil Santa's Village Amusement & Water Park, the Illinois location formerly called Santa's Village, Worlds of Fun, Three Worlds of Santa's Village, and Santa's Village AZoosment Park. In the 1950s, plans were to franchise Santa's Village parks throughout the nation, but this one was the third and final one built. A lot of coasters have left there, but two coasters, Super Cyclone and Wacky Worm still remain.

November 25, 2023 - I have been writing about amusement parks for many years, but the latest update marks some new territory for me. The Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris, France has had a crazy history in its over 150 years of existence, so describing its past required me to discuss killing and eating zoo animals, sacrificing two famous elephants for meat during a wartime siege, and the troubling acts of putting foreigners on display in a "human zoo" for Parisians to gawk at. But if you can get past the park's worrisome history, you can look at pictures and videos of its three roller coasters. There is the now defunct Dragon Chinois, or Chinese Dragon, the spinning Souris Mécaniques, formerly the Papillons d'Alice, and the new Speed Rockets.

October 25, 2023 - It is time for two big Disney parks to be released! Disneyland Paris - Disneyland Park and Disneyland Paris - Walt Disney Studios Park are places I have wanted to visit for a long time, and I finally got to spend some time in France to document these parks. Unfortunately, three of the six coasters at the parks formerly known as Euro Disney are enclosed, so you will not get a good view of all of the coasters, but I hope you enjoy the pictures I have of these Disney rides. There are some unique rides: A Big Thunder Mountain coaster on an island, a Space Mountain coaster with both Jules Verne and Star Wars theming, an Indiana Jones roller coaster, an Aerosmith Rock 'n' Roller Coaster that was changed into Avengers Assemble, and a spinning coaster based on the "Finding Nemo" movie.

September 19, 2023 - This is the time of year when I am busy visiting amusement parks. So far this summer, I have been on over 100 European roller coasters, which is not bad considering that I live and work in the United States. But despite the park visits, I had a little time to add Spain's PortAventura, home to eight roller coasters.

July 16, 2023 - Now that the redesign is about done, I have time to start adding new parks. Ferrari Land is home to Red Force, the world's third tallest and fourth fastest roller coaster.

April 26, 2023 - I must show you why I haven't been working on this page. I have been working on a TOTAL REDESIGN of the website! You can preview the new look and feel of CoasterGallery.com on the Six Flags AstroWorld and Six Flags Darien Lake pages. Please tell me what you think of them. I look forward to your feedback.

September 27, 2022 - I really should delete this page... I never update it. It looks like I haven't updated the website since March, but I have done a lot. I just forget to post about it here! This summer, I visited a wide variety of amusement parks in the United States, The Netherlands, and Spain. So if you want more pictures and videos, I have plenty to show you!

Here are a few things I recently added to the website: Japan's Tobu Zoo is home to three interesting coasters. I haven't finished all of the Fuji-Q Highland pictures, but there are a lot of new Do-Dodonpa shots to give you a taste of my visit there. And if you like videos, please visit the CoasterGallery.com YouTube page because there are a lot of new videos. I especially love the POV videos of RailBlazer. I permission to ride some of California's Great America's coasters with a camera, so there are some nice on-ride videos for you to see. But please don't do this yourself... This was done under close supervision of the park and was done when the park was closed to the public. Trying to use a simple cell phone on a coaster is dangerous, stupid, and probably against most park's policies.

March 22, 2022 - Last time I posted on this page, I added pictures from some Disney parks in Florida. Today, I am adding a bunch of new pictures from a Disney park in Japan! Tokyo Disneyland hasn't added any roller coasters in a few years, but our last visit there was nearly 20 years ago, so those old Disney pictures needed updated! I have been working behind-the-scenes on a major update to CoasterGallery.com, so I haven't finish the Disney Sea pages yet, but check back soon to see the adjacent park that some people consider the best of all of the Disney theme parks!

January 11, 2022 - Let's kick the year off with some Disney updates. I recently added the picturesque Slinky Dog Dash at Disney's Hollywood Studios, the park originally known as Disney-MGM Studios, the swaying Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, and the under-construction TRON Lightcycle Run which is also at the Magic Kingdom. I hope you like Disney parks, because I visited Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, and Shanghai Disneyland, so there will be a lot of Disney coasters coming to the Gallery this year!

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