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Charlee
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What other Parks are in France? I've never really known the French for being Coaster fans.
I used to think I knew a lot about coasters, but then I joined this forum.
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Disneyland Paris is the only other major one, although there are several other small parks.

Futuroscope and Puy du Fou are major, but not theme parks in the traditional sense.

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Is just looked up Maizières-lès-Metz, They have a B&M Invert, so Os'Iris isn't the first B&M in France, I thought it was :?
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That would be Monster at Wallygator park, which Pedro hinted at on the previous page. 

You could say Os'Iris is the first time a French park has bought a new B&M though.
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Charlee wrote: What other Parks are in France? I've never really known the French for being Coaster fans.
How could people in France become coaster fans when the best coaster was for a while a Woodie at Parc Astérix. Tonerre de Zeus is really good, but except that, we only have some Vekoma (2 boomerangs, 1 Goudurix  :evil:, and of course the 2 at DLRP)
Don't forget that price in France are incredibly high! Parc Astérix will cost 44€ next year + 8€ carpark, a park like Walygator will cost 30€. And I don't speak about disney! :-D

Well you're right, Oz'Iris is the 2nd B&M in France. The first is Monster at Walygator Parc, it was relocated from Japan in 2010. The ride itself is really good, but just have a simple look at some photos on rcdb and you will understand that it is definitly not worth a visit there!
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Monster aka Flump the ride! Was fairly intense though!!
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here is an article in French, from leparisien.fr
Just have a look at the video, there's some pictures from the station, and it does look incredible!

Some New photos too.

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And the last photo, with Julien Bertevas, head of the project!
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*faps furiously*
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thats purtey
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Why is car 1's wheel cover on backwards? :S
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At least it has one unlike the other few rows :P
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Benzin wrote: Why is car 1's wheel cover on backwards? :S
Fail tbh! LoL
and you can see that some are completely missing in other rows!  :P
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I imagine they haven't got round to adding the others yet - I believe Black Mamba started testing without them.

Hopefully they won't just leave loads of them off like Thorpe Park have...
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I'm actually a bit worrying about the maintenance since I've noticed that! lol
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I'm sure it'll be sorted pretty soon. B&M will no doubt clamp down on them and ensure everything is perfect for opening :P
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Its only on that one picture. Look at the pics with the train in motion, its the correct way there. They may have done it on purpose...
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Or its a different train
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on nemesis inferno, one of them i think its he back one is on the wrong way round, i only noticed it after seeing this thread and having one the wrong way round
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photo update

Did I mention that it looks great? :D

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i hope merlin are watching because THAT is theming! bloody well done Parc Asterix :clap:
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