Condor (El Condor)
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Condor (El Condor)
Walibi Holland · NL · Vekoma SLC 689m (prototype)
“Vekoma’s first suspended flight came to Flevoland.”
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Fast facts
- Condor operates at Walibi Holland in Biddinghuizen, Flevoland, Netherlands. coasterpedia.net
- The ride opened as El Condor in May 1994. coasterpedia.net
- Vekoma built Condor as a steel inverted Suspended Looping Coaster. coasterpedia.net
- Condor is 31 metres tall and reaches 80 kilometres per hour. de.wikipedia.org
- The layout turns riders upside down five times. walibi.nl
- Walibi Holland says the ride was called El Condor until 2013. walibi.nl
- For the 2021 season, the original trains were replaced with Vekoma-built rolling stock. coasterpedia.net
The story of Condor (El Condor)
In the spring of 1994, the visitor to Walibi Flevo found a new kind of Dutch engineering waiting in Biddinghuizen. Condor, then El Condor, opened on May 7, 1994, with Vekoma steel carrying the park into its new amusement-park chapter. coasterpedia.net· coasterpedia.net
The train hangs beneath the rail, leaving the traveller’s feet free while the track conducts its ceremony overhead. The course climbs thirty-one metres, runs to eighty kilometres per hour, and turns its guests upside down five times. de.wikipedia.org· walibi.nl
Condor was Vekoma’s first Suspended Looping Coaster, and the Biddinghuizen installation remained one of only two prototype layouts. After El Condor opened, Vekoma revised turns and the finale for the standard version that followed. coasterpedia.net· parkvault.net
The shorter name Condor replaced El Condor after 2013, though the older name still lingers for many visitors. In 2021, new Vekoma-built rolling stock arrived, and the coaster continues to operate at Walibi Holland. walibi.nl· coasterpedia.net
Sources
- coasterpedia.net Preferred source
- de.wikipedia.org Acceptable source
- walibi.nl Acceptable source
- coasterpedia.net Preferred source
- parkvault.net Acceptable source