Walibi Holland (previously called Flevohof, Walibi Flevo, Six Flags Holland and Walibi World) is a theme park in

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. 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 created in 1975 by

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, a Belgian businessman. (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 thirty 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

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-themed area and a powered-launch coaster themed around popular comic figure

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, later changed to the

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. In 2004, ''Six Flags Holland'' and its sister parks were purchased by financiers

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, who grouped the attractions under the name "StarParks". The park reverted to ''Walibi'' branding in 2005; numerous attractions having been rebranded as the sale of the parks also meant the loss of any references to Looney Tunes and DC Comics characters rights. In the second half of 2006, the parks were sold for the second time in as many years to the French group Grévin & Cie (Compagnie des Alpes), most notably the operators of the French themed resort Parc Astérix, who also purchased two other Dutch attractions - the

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and Avonturenpark Hellendoorn. In 2011 the park was renamed as Walibi Holland, which introduced new mascots. The adjacent associated event grounds were originally developed with Scouting Nederland for the EuroJam 1994 and the

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in 1995. It is or has been the location of many festivals such as the Lowlands music festival and the

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music festival.

Attractions

Present rides

Roller coasters

Thrill rides

Family rides

Water rides

Former rides / attractions

References

External links

Walibi Holland Official Website
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Walibi Holland Fan Page (Dutch)
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