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WORDS CATHERINE COOPER
THE MUST SEE
WODAN
COASTER
BASEL
MULHOUSE
FREIBURG
That is one massive roller
coaster.
It certainly is. TheWodan
is “the most elaborately themed
wooden ’coaster ever constructed”,
according to its designers at Great
Coasters International.
What does that mean?
Well,
not only is it more than a kilometre
long and 35-metres tall, it travels
at 100km/h, is interwoven with
two adjacent rides and zooms
underground three times.
Why the funny name?
It’s named
after the ancient Germanic god of
death and the wind,Wodan.
Death? I don’t like the sound of
that!
Relax, it’s perfectly safe. Or at
least, it will be when it’s finished.
What’s the hold up?
It’s a long
process: the ‘coaster is completely
made of wood and built by hand.
Tens of thousands of boards and
bolts have to be assembled into a
giant lattice.
Sounds amazing.Where can I
find it?
At Europa-Park, Germany’s
largest theme park. It will be the
park’s 11th ’coaster – not counting
FoodLoop, the one in its fully
automated restaurant, which
delivers food to the table.
That’s if you can eat after all that
whirling around.
Wodan Timburcoaster opens on
31 March at Europa-Park, an hour
north of Basel; europapark.de
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