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Attractions |
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ATTRACTIONS |
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The Expo-trains were usually filled to capacity |
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The Attractions
The attractionspark was splitted in two parts, one besides the Grand Palaces and close to the Heliport and the other nearby the Folklore section. It was set up by three departements of fun, entertainement and consumption. Mostly, the park was opened till four am morning.
The Fun Fair:
People could get some kicks with the newest fairground attractions. It was really fun ! The list below shows the attractions of the Fun Fair ¨ The Sky-Scraper: a rollercoaster especially built for the world fair ¨ The Interplanetary Rocket: an 8 m in diameter and 12 storeyed building high rocket ¨ The Panoramic Watchtower: passengers enjoyed an 80 m high exhibition overview ¨ The Lightning: a long curvy roadtrack with sickmaking slopes ¨ The Typhoon: a combination of a variable rotation and a full looping ¨ The Mad Mouse: a neck-braking zig-zagged ride for two passengers ¨ The Autodrome: a two floors racetrack with 20 cars for sporty drivers ¨ The Big Wheel: 12 flying discs did triple rotations ¨ The Round Up: spectacular attraction for 35 daredevils ¨ The Rotor: with 18 m in diameter, the biggest in the world ¨ The Boomerang: 4 rotating cars with 6 people on board ¨ The Dodgem Scooters: with thousand of colour lights the most modern of its kind ¨ The Flying Reaction Planes: hyperelevation with flying objects especially built for the fair ¨ The Swing-O-Plane: an acrobatic fly for junior pilotes ¨ The Shooting Screen: hunting big game ¨ The Flying Cars: 6 small race cars did breathtaking spins in a big cilindre ¨ The Big Phantom Train: with a monorail around the world in 80 seconds ¨ The Swan Ride: a family attraction in a fantastic maze
The Garden of Attractions:
As a continuation of the Folklore Section and just behind the Heysel Stadion there was the second part of the Attractions park located. Mainly entertainement based attractions were set up in this part. ¨ The International Music Hall: many watershows were performed in this swimming stadion with 5000 seats, the pool could be covered with a movable stage to give place to celebrated international artists. ¨ The Cinerama: demonstrations of the newest improvements of this revolutionary movie process ¨ The Hawaian Village: every day there were traditional and classic performances in this authentic 4000 square meters large village ¨ Meli: a honey palace with modern water organs and illuminated dancing fountains ¨ Cabaret-Dancing: a modern circular building, with the romanthic atmosphere of the Jordan in Amsterdam ¨ The Frogmen: deep-sea-divers gave demonstrations of their dangerous occupation in a gigantic tub
The Other Set ups:
The best meal for the lowest price was the slogan of this section. ¨ Oberbayern: modern and tradional kitchen in this 3200 square meters large restaurant ¨ Rome-Vienna: culinary Italian specialities in this restaurant with a Wiener Café on the first floor and home for popular Radio Luxembourg ¨ Trianon: café-restaurant in original concept with exquisite plates ¨ Caulier: the snackbar/pub of this Belgian beer company ¨ The Swiss Cottage: culinary Swiss specialities in this cute eating house
Expo Transport
Transport of visitors was done by typical Expo vehicles. For many people these transport possibles were attractions in itself. They had the choice of four opportunities to explore the exhibition.
A cable lift took two visitors per gondola, 6 metres high from the Grande Palace via the Atomium to the U.S.A. pavilion.
Some twenty Expo trains, powered by Mercedes, brought visitors to several stopping places at the Expo.
Many Pousse-Pousses, a motorized three-wheeler, drove with two passengers all over the Expo site.
For the upper middle class , there was a chopper flight over the exhibition site. The Heliport was also used to transfer people from the nearby airport Melsbroek. |
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The Attractions Gate |
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Two favourits of the Attraction park |
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No fun fair without the dodgems |
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An enormous rollercoaster in front of the Heliport: The Sky Scraper |
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Choppers took off from the Heliport for an Expo-flight |
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Many visitors used the cable-lift for a first introduction of the exhibition while ohters took place in one of the 220 Baltour pousse-pousses |
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The Big Phantom Train |
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The Round Up |
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The Panoramic Watchtower |
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The Interplanetary Rocket |
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The Reaction Plane |
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The Swing-O-Planes |
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Not only traditional music in the Hawaian Viillage but also early Dutch Rock’n’Roll with The Thielman Brothers |
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Fun for young and old |
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The Löwenbrau, a large oberbayern café between the attractions |
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Three in one; the Blue Donau offered a cold buffet together with a Wiener Café and an Italian restaurant called the Roman Cellars. This restaurant building with reasonable priced menu’s was very popular by hungry fun-fair visitors |
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The Robbedoes Rocket |
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The Lightning |
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The Meli building, located in the second part |
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Cinerama: a real crowd puller |
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One of the two auto scooters for the 58er fun fair |
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Click here for a detailled Expo map |
