Balder • Liseberg

Airtimes Lap Bar Smoothness Dead spots

My thrid favourite ride at Sweden is Balder at Liseberg. This Intamin beauty is exact what i want from a prefab rollercoaster, Airtime and goed drops. This ride was when i rode it very smooth and with the lap bars a great amount of airtime. But after riding it like 6 times then you know the ride i some kind of the same 3 times with an corner and then 2 airtime hills. But good enough to get on the 17th spot of my top coaster list.

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The airtime moments are brilliant, I just think the banked turns kill some of the ride’s momentum - though I understand why they used them a lot as they didn’t have a lot of space to work with.

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Absolute beast of a ride, best ridden in light rain at night!

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The first drop is so good, the ride is in my opinion the smoothest coaster at the park. The floater airtime, pared with the restraints is just awesome. The theming is not great, if there is even theming. Overall one of my favorite wooden coasters.

Lap Bar Pace Smoothness Disappointing! Airtimes

This is by no means a bad ride, but I was left disappointed with the airtime. This ride was hyped up to have awesome airtime moments like on other Intamin pre-fabs, but I didn't feel it. I only got one ride on this, so maybe my seat was bad, so I am hoping the next time I get to ride this the airtime will be better. Balder is still a very smoother ride with awesome pacing, however, which still makes it an awesome wooden coaster. Even so, I know this ride can do better.

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Fun coaster. Very fun! Trains are comfortable and send you down a fantastic first drop. I believe it is so satisfying because it increases its intensity step by step, until it finally reaches a level you would not have believed it would reach. Every following airtime hill is great. Me personally, I like these rodeo-like short bursts of airtime more than the sustained ones (Helix). The dead spots are the turns in the latter half though, it would have been a 4-star-ride with them being faster. A coaster that proves that extreme stats are not needed for a thoroughly fun experience.

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The hills and first drop are superb but the corners are definitely dead spots. Still without an incredibly good coaster and cements Liseberg as one of the best parks in Europe!

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A wooden airtime machine! The turns are pretty dead and it felt like it was losing it’s power at some times, but it is still a great woodie.

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If I had to sum this up in 4 words "El Toro's Baby Brother". This coaster does have some of the most insane bunny hills out there but lacks so badly in it's laterals that it mitigates the benefits. The first drop is pretty intense if you sit in the back seat, but in other seats it lacks. Still it's probably a top 50-60 coaster in the world and it's definitley worth riding if you are going to visit Sweden or particularly Liseberg. It's a nice ride but Helix is definitely the best ride in the park and that is in my top 20

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The hills had great airtime. The banked turns were forceless and pretty dead. It doesn't deserve to be a top 50 coaster, but it is a nice woodie for sure.

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I'm not normally a massive fan of woodies.. but i'll make an exception for Balder! Unfortunately only got to ride it once on the front row (queues then got to over 1h, so i chose to wait for helix instead!) so I think this might get 5 stars on the back row as It must be much faster. It felt a little slow at places on the front.. buut.. airtime ! Yes! So fun.. and surprisingly smooth :) Lots of 'head choppers' .. good solid ride :)

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For me, Balder is the number one of all classic woodies. So smooth and yet so wild. Love the drops and the tunnels.

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Nice surprise!

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Disappointing!