Trifter

The first thing you will notice when you come to Seoulland is when you enter the park in “World Plaza” you will see a large geodesic sphere and a bunch of countries represented it’s just a little ok a lot like Disney’s Epcot. The other lands will also sound very familiar as well. Adventure Land is not only named the same as a land at the Disney parks but it also another obvious Disney knock off, it’s an American west frontier village to roughly translate the Korean description offered by the park.

The next land is of all places Fantasy Land. Entering Fantasy Land the entrance looks a lot like It’s a Small World. The next lands is surprise, surprise Tomorrow Land, I wonder where they got that name from? These are not the only lands one more exists the last land is the most original of all the lands its Samchulli Land, what that means I don’t really know it probably translates into Frontier Land, Main Street, or Toontown.

The top ride at Seoulland is Sky-X. You have probably seen this kind of ride at other theme parks. Sky-X is not free it cost to use its one of those rides that pull you up in a harness and then swings you in the air.

Tomorrow Land has Shot X Drop that is a ride like many other parks as well. You sit down and then are launched up fast. It is not the tallest or fastest of rides the height is 52 meters but how tall that is in feet or stories I don’t really know.

The Black Hole 2000 is by far the best ride at the park even though officially the park ranks it as their third best park. It is an amazing roller coaster. It is a good roller coaster not the best but this coaster can stand up against any that the U.S. has. The only fault it has is it is small but it is a very fun coaster.

There are a few rides that they have that are common like a Viking ship, a tumbler ride, and a spinning ride called the World Cup that was introduced during the 2002 World Cup.

The final ride that should be mentioned is the haunted house. If you love old dark rides you will love the haunted house. The haunted house is the most old school gimmicky lame ride but if you are like me and love the old classic dark rides that are sadly mostly gone or totally updated so they no longer look like they used to. It is a ride that has charm. If you heard of the guy who built a dark ride in his garage well that looked like a better more advanced ride then Seoulland version but that is part of why it is so much fun.

You go into a cave which is about the high point of the ride as it does give good staging and is kind of impressive its just not some building but a cave oh, ah (no I am serious I am not mocking its cave). The only bad thing about the cave is it probably shouldn’t be called a haunted house if it’s a haunted cave. As I understand things the ride features legendary ghost from Koreas history but not being Korean they are lost on me.

The park is not a great park by American standards; a typical county fair has the same rides or even better ones often. The only two rides that are worth going for are the haunted house and the roller coaster.

Though it was fun if you have lots of time like more then a weekend in Seoul then this is worthwhile park to see it is certainly one of the best theme parks in the country which isn’t much of an accomplishment but since you can do most things you want in Seoul you should have some time to see frivolous places like Seoulland.