• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
    8·
    4 days ago

    France: Parc Astérix, Walibi
    Belgium: Walibi
    Germany: Europapark, Phantasialand, Legoland
    Denmark: Legoland
    Netherlands: Efteling
    Poland: Energylandia
    Spain: Port Aventura
    Italy: Gardaland
    Denmark: Legoland

    These are amusement parks with shops, not malls with some rides like Disneyland.

    • 🇳🇱 Snoezelpoes@feddit.nl
      5·
      4 days ago

      Conserning the Netherlands: the Efteling is great, it’s themed on European fairy tales! It’s a very nice park for all ages.

      Another nice, yet smaller park for the Netherlands is Toverland.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
      1·
      2 days ago

      Fuck Lego (the company). Their bricks are on the lower end of the quality spectrum, way too many stickers, shit and cheaped out designs and bricks and all that for 50 to 400% more cash. There is nothing that makes Lego any better than competitors, except the little “Lego” imprint. And, in fact, if you call identical bricks, that are simply not made/sold by Lego, “Lego”, the will sue you (if you have any public influence). Also, they sabotage competitors by claiming IP on basic parts that are hard to realize differently, even though they did not invent the concept of clamping bricks at all.

      I get the point of “Lego was good when I was a kid, I want to give my kid the same experience” - but instead of beautiful, complex and interesting 300€ Unimog they’ll get an ugly-ass, very simple and cheaply made 400€ set with much less design and parts value.

      If you are already boycotting stuff, try eg. BlueBrixx, Pantasy, CaDa, Cobi, Mould King and dozens of smaller ones. Some are produced in the EU, like Cobi (Poland).

      • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        2·
        2 days ago

        If you are already boycotting stuff, try eg. BlueBrixx, Pantasy, CaDa, Cobi, Mould King and dozens of smaller ones. Some are produced in the EU, like Cobi (Poland)

        Thanks for sharing the names, which one is your favorite?

        • Lucy :3@feddit.org
          2·
          2 days ago

          As each of them more or less specializes in a category, that’s hard to say. Pantasy focuses on very neat house models, some with lighting (not two small LEDs, but dozens of LEDs with intensity and color perfectly matching their purpose and scene, with hidden cable management through special bricks) and other models, cobi makes very accurate vehicle models (including ships etc.) (mostly in system bricks), CaDa makes good vehicles too, but more in technic bricks (including remote control and actual technic functions). Mould King is more of a jack-of-all-trades, but overall cheaper (in my experience). BlueBrixx is more complicated to describe, as they have multiple series, including reselling other manufacturers (eg. Mould King), but they also have their own sets, for which they buy existing bricks (mostly GoBricks).

          So overall: It depends on the type of set, but especially for large (also expensive, but FUCKING large) sets, BlueBrixx is best. Eg. Burg Blaustein, 26k pieces, 940€, and the astronomer’s series, 21.5k pieces, 240€ (the next set for +>5k pieces and probably +~200€ was already announced). But there are more manageable sets, like the V100/200 locomotives (~5.5k pieces, 200€ and ~8k pieces respectively). And of course, many smaller and neater sets.

        • Lucy :3@feddit.org
          1·
          2 days ago

          Then look at neutral, unpaid/sponsored reviews and compare with competitors. Also, watch Held der Steine (German), specifically where he was sued (two times).

    • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzM
      6·
      5 days ago

      I heard good things about this park, but didn’t have time to visit when I was close by :(

      Was it super crowded? I heard that it is really popular but someone said it’s quite big so crowds are not a problem?

      • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
        7·
        5 days ago

        You can expect to wait an hour for a coaster on full days… But it helps to go early in the morning. And ride less popular coasters. Also in the evening, I remember riding silver star with 10 minutes queue time.

        • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzM
          5·
          4 days ago

          Okay then would have to treat it as a really crowded park and have planned it so (like you said, early mornings and evenings). Thanks for the info, will make it more enjoyable once I get to go!

  • Foreigner@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 days ago

    Parc Astérix, especially if you like rollercoasters. There are fast pass bundle options for a lot of the main rides as well. Halloween is also a great time to go, they have a bunch of great haunted houses and the park is open after hours.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      3·
      4 days ago

      Liseberg is pretty good. Grönalund in Stockholm is also good. The two parks have a very different vibe. Liseberg is a big park with the rides more spaced out while grönalund is a small space with the rides literally overlapping with each other.

  • popsyking@feddit.nlEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    Italy has Gardaland on lake Garda. Quite fun and you can visit the beautiful area afterwards.

  • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Well, I’ve worked back of house for both Disney and Knots, so Six Flags.

    ETA: just saw where i am. Am stoopid American. Ignore me.