The Manneken Pis Tour
Day 4: Walibi, Belgium

Next we headed over to The Vampire. Nothing to do with it's namesake at Chessington.

As you might have guessed from the photo it's a ride known as a Vekoma SLC. It's a coaster which has at least 20 clones dotted around the world.

I've already done a couple of copies of it, but I rank them above the Boomerangs, and it has a more pleasant queue so we decided to give this a go.

You get some good views of the ride as it passes overhead in the queue.

Usually these rides suffer from being rough, and having a lot of head banging, but I found this one wasn't to bad. I reckon it's even one you could do a couple of times in a row on a quiet day.

Another shot of one of the trains going past.

It being Halloween there were a couple of extra rides on. There were two horror mazes, but we skipped these, partly because of the language barrier, but also having done Thorpe Park recently it didn't seem worth the extra queue.

We did decide to try out Clown River. Normally it's just a quiet boat ride, but it's been done up for Halloween using amongst other things a huge number of fog machines.

Most of the ride consists of just some basic models and some spooky sound effects. It's a nice effort but overall I just found it disappointing. There is one section with a couple of live actors (why do people say live actors? What other type is there? If they weren't live you'd call the police) at the end of the ride but that didn't make up for the rest of it which was pretty dull.

After this we had a final check around the park to see if any ride with technical problems were up and running or to see if any queues had got short enough for us to want to do a repeat ride on anything, but had no luck, se decided to cal it a day.