In 1975, the park was founded by Eddy Meeùs and inaugurated under the name "Walibi Wavre". A decade later, in 1987, an aquatic theme park, Aqualibi, was inaugurated.
In 1998, the park was bought by Six Flags, Inc, and, in 2001, Walibi Wavre changed its name to Six Flags Belgium.
In 2004, the park was bought by Palamon Capital Partners, an English company.
On November 7, 2004, Six Flags Belgium was officially closed and opened again under the name "Walibi Belgium" on March 26, 2005.
In 2006, the park was sold to Grévin & Cie, a French leisure group.

The park's original main attraction was a large lake where guests could water-ski. In following years, the larger rides were themed to comic book hero Tin-Tin.

1975: Walibi
The name Walibi comes from the combination of Wavre, Limal and Bièrges, three towns in the province of Walloon Brabant, in Wallonia.



In 1979, the very first Vekoma inversion coaster in the world was build in Walibi
"Tornado"


1982: Walibi Wavre

The jear of the Schwarzkopf Schuttle coaster...
There are some discrepancies with the Sirocco's opening year. Some say 1981 while others say 1982. It seems the ride was built in 1981 and intended to be sold to a park in Japan or China that year. That order was canceled and the ride was then sold to Walibi who installed in for the 1982 season.
In 1996, a full train stood still inside the loop for houres...
Here's a video of the people trapped inside the schwarskopf loop....




In 1998 Premier Parks purchased the park. At the time Premier Parks also owned Six Flags Corporation. In 2000 the Premier Parks name was dropped in favor of the more popular Six Flags brand name .


And In 1998, the SLC "Vampire" and the free fall "Dalton Terror" was olso build .

2001: Six Flags Belgium



Rides build in 2001 becose of the six flags comming are:
Vekoma Boomerang(Cobra) (Second one in Belgium),
Vekoma Wooden coaster,(Loup- garou)
Kidie coaster,(Coccinelle)
Mad house,(Palais du genie)
Top Spin,(Screamer
Interactive Darkride(Challenge of Tutankhamon)...

The same olso came in the version in Holland, exept, instead of an interactive darkride, there's a Hypercoaster.


Six flags was ofcorse an amerikan park, and has his amerikan ways..
Like Halloween



Belgium didn't even know what the hell halloween was in the jear of 2000.


But six flags shure made us know this "halloween" thing.


Tornado died becose of six flags.
The amerikans let the coaster just wast away in his green filth.
they used the coasterruins for halloween, and named it "Tornalloween".

2003: Eddy Meeus, the creator of Walibi died in 2003

2005: Walibi Belgium
Six Flags operated the park until early 2004 when Six Flags sold their European parks (excluding their small portion of Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid, Spain) to Palamon Capitol Partners who now operate the parks under the Star Parks Europe name. The park continued to operate as Six Flags Belgium for the remainder of the season and the park was renamed Walibi Belgium for the 2005 season.

In the spring of 2006 Star Parks sold Walibi Belgium to Grévin & Cie.

2007:



Opening of the highest (suspended) rollercoaster of the Benelux(62 meter).
The Vertigo was intended to be a new attraction for the 2006 season. Problems with the ride prevented it from opening until June 2007 where it is planned to open as a "soft-opening". It will then be promoted in 2008 more traditionally as a new attraction.

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Vekoma: 31. Mack AG: 18. Zierer: 8. Intamin: 7. Schwarzkopf: 4. B&M: 3. Custom Coasters International, Inc: 2. Maurer Söhne: 2. Reverchon: 1. Roller Coaster Corporation of America: 1. Caripro: 1. Pinfari: 1. Kumbak: 1. Fabbri: 1 Soquet: 1. Gerstlauer: 1. Zamperla: 1