Major rides will include a suspended, looping roller coaster bought from a park in South Africa and refurbished to smooth out some of the rough sports in its design a "launched" coaster from a park in Sweden that accelerates passengers onto its track with a rocket-like start a "dark ride" indoor coaster housed in a re-creation of a volcano that Brown says he believes "will be one of the coolest attraction in the park" and, as the park's centerpiece, a Ferris wheel with lighting by West Des Moines' KCL Engineering, which provided the lights for the Monster coaster and Giant Sky Wheel at Adventureland, as well as other rides across the country.For example, he says, rides will have a storyline that patrons can explore while waiting in line. "They're putting in a ton of effort behind the scenes to ensure that each realm is going to have a very distinct feel, down to the most minute details," Brown says in his narration. It will be divided into five "realms," each, with its own subtheme.Following the design of the Bertches' Lost Island Water Park, a long-established attraction next door to the theme park site, Lost Island will have a Polynesian/southeast Asian theme "meant to create a tropical island type of ambience despite that you're in the middle of Iowa surrounded by cornfields.".In his video - this time made with Bertch's cooperation - Cole confirms many of his earlier prognostications, and adds some new details.
The Chicago-based Cole, a corporate business analyst in his professional life, won high praise in March from the park's general manager, Eric Bertch, who told the Des Moines Register that a video Cole posted analyzing the park plan based on renderings on its website was "very astute."
".If they can follow through with creating an immersive park-going experience. "I can say with a pretty high level of confidence that Lost Island will be better themed than any of those park," Brown, who has posted video reviews of dozens of roller coasters and parks, including Adventureland, says in the video. More: Readers voted these roller coasters the 10 best in the United States
He predicts that when it opens in summer 2022, that will set it apart from many of the other less-themed amusement parks in the Midwest, including Altoona's Adventureland, 100 miles away. The roller coaster super fan behind the YouTube channel Park Pros has posted a video sneak peek of construction at the Lost Island Theme Park in Waterloo that provides a closer look at some of its rides and other attractions.Ĭole Brown shows in the video how the Bertch family, owners of the more than $100 million project, are seeking to create a park with an overarching theme, like Walt Disney World, Silver Dollar City and Dollywood.