06-19 TusenFryd Amusement Park

Woohoo. It's another amusement park day for us.

We walk to the bus stop and then take two buses to get to
Norway’s largest amusement park, TusenFryd (thousand delights), arriving before they open at 10:30. The line to get tickets takes forever. People in front us are buying 30 and 50 tickets for their groups.

Finally in the gate, we head for Speed Monster. It's a steel Intamin launch coaster built in 2006. It starts out good fast and smooth. But then the corkscrew section is not as smooth. Bummer.

Next door is the burger place Rockburger. It isn't open yet, so we get in line for Nightmare.

Nightmare is a 5-D shooting dark ride. Well, that was a one-of-a-kind strange ride. You go in a room and watch a pre-show.  Of course, we can't understand any of it. Then you go into a room with theater type seats and you get 3-D glasses. We notice there's a seat belt AND a gun in a holster so we buckle up and grab the gun.

Oops the rides broke, so she tells us to go out of the room so she can reset it. Then, within 2 minutes, we come back in and buckle back up. We don't understand the story, but there's two 3-D screens and motion seats with air and water. The platform our seats are mounted on spins around 360 degrees.

We start out facing the first screen thinking at some point we need to shoot. But at what? A bad lady is on the screen and 3-D things are coming towards us and then rats are running through the theater and somebody kills one and now there's "blood" all over you. All of a sudden the screen goes blank and you spin around a few times to a screen directly behind you. Now you're interacting with it, shooting things coming at you. We shoot at things that "might" be things to shoot at. Back to the other screen we whirl. It eventually ends when the house comes crashing down on the screen. The top three shooters pictures appear on the screen. Pat was #1 !!!!

After Nightmare we had burgers at Rockburger. The fries were cold and not good. The burger was just ok. Rockburger had a kind of a 50's diner theme going on but it had a great view of the Speed Monster loading station.

Now on to Thunder Coaster, their wooden coaster. This coaster was rough.

Western Express is a steel junior coaster.

Happy Space Shot broke down while we were in line. We walked through their Kiddie area and then circled back to the Space Shot ride that was up and running again.

We rode Thor twice.  It's a  3-D dark ride simulator with very good theming. You go along and stop at several screens with 3-D villains trying to get you. Then the two last screens you actually move like you're going through the scene. The first one you're chasing someone through a castle. The second screen is the largest screen, probably three times as wide as the others. On it you are flying and in the end you catch Thor's hammer. It's very good and I'm sure the story is good. But you could see the tops of all the screens and the scenes.

Next we went over to the water drop ride, Skaff Deg Bilde and took pictures of it and their raft ride, Ragnarok. Skaff Deg Bilde had a water dragon creature in the water and Ragnarok had a Viking Thor theming. While taking pictures of the river raft ride we had an ice cream bar.

It was still sunny and warm out. After a flew more pictures we took the 3:30 bus back into Oslo and changed buses again at Bjørvika station for the rest of the way back to our apartment.