Nobody at Energylandia has said a word about a new coaster. The steelwork rising above the fence line near Zadra has said plenty.
What happened
Dutch enthusiast news site Looopings reported on 2 September that construction photos from Energylandia, the Polish park in Zator, show track sections in the distinctive box-spine profile and pale pink shipping primer that Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) uses before a track’s final topcoat goes on. The pieces have been photographed going up near the park’s existing Zadra and Abyssus coasters, alongside a station building foundation. The shape of the brackets — cantilevered supports built to hold seats out to the side of the rail rather than above or below it — points to one specific B&M product: the wing coaster, the format that seats riders in pairs to either side of the spine with nothing over their heads and nothing under their feet.
Energylandia has not confirmed any of this. As Looopings put it, “the Poles have not communicated anything about the construction project themselves.” What follows is what the physical evidence and enthusiast tracking (principally threads on Coasterforce and ParkFans, cross-referencing the same construction photos) currently support — not a park announcement, and it should be read that way throughout.
The detail
| Park | Energylandia, Zator, Poland |
| Reported manufacturer | Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) — unconfirmed by the park |
| Reported ride type | Wing coaster |
| Reported height | Enthusiast trackers cite a permitted cap around 65 m (213 ft), tied to local land-use limits on the plot |
| Comparable existing ride | Fēnix, Toverland — 40 m (131 ft), 813 m (2,667 ft) long, 95 km/h (59 mph), 3 inversions, opened 2018 |
| Restraint (if the format holds) | Vest restraint — standard on every B&M wing coaster built since 2011 |
| Reported opening | 2027, per enthusiast tracking; not stated by the park |
No official name, cost or exact height has been published anywhere we could find, so none appears above as anything firmer than “reported.” If the 65 m figure holds, it’s worth noting for scale: the tallest wing coaster running anywhere today is B&M’s own Falcon at Wuxi Sunac Land in China, verified by RCDB at 60 m (197 ft). A confirmed Energylandia example at 65 m would nose past it — which is exactly the sort of claim this site waits to verify before repeating as fact.
What it actually means
A wing coaster is B&M’s most structurally honest product: strip away the train shell most coasters hide behind, and what’s left is a seat bolted directly onto the wheel truck that grips the rail, with the spine running between two rows of riders instead of underneath or above them. That’s why it has carried a vest restraint on every installation since the very first one, Raptor at Italy’s Gardaland in 2011 — with nothing overhead and no floor underfoot, the softer chest harness has to do the entire containment job a lap bar and a car body would otherwise share. It’s the same vest logic this site has already covered as B&M’s fix for OTSR headbanging elsewhere in its catalogue; on a wing coaster, it isn’t a retrofit or a comfort upgrade, it’s the only restraint the format has ever used.
Only six of these exist in Europe so far — Gardaland’s Raptor, Thorpe Park’s The Swarm, Heide Park’s Flug der Dämonen, Toverland’s Fēnix, Legoland Deutschland’s Maximus and Chessington’s Mandrill Mayhem — and none of them in Poland. If Energylandia is building one, it would be the country’s first, and a notably conservative choice for a park that has otherwise built its reputation on record-chasing hardware: Zadra’s heartlined RMC hybrid track and Hyperion’s Intamin giga layout are both closer to the industry’s experimental edge than anything in B&M’s catalogue tends to sit. B&M’s whole reputation runs the other way — reliable, conservatively engineered, built to still be dispatching trains on schedule decades from now. Adding one suggests a park thinking about its second and third decade of operating costs, not just its next headline.
The Dispatch verdict
A paint colour and a bracket shape are not a press release, and we’re treating them accordingly — everything specific here beyond “something is being built” carries an unconfirmed label because that’s what it is. But construction sites are hard to disguise, and this one is telling a fairly clear story: Poland’s most decorated coaster park, having spent a decade chasing the tallest and fastest, is about to add the one major manufacturer catalogue it doesn’t already own. Worth watching for the moment Energylandia actually says so.
Further reading: our guide to the roller coaster manufacturers, how roller coaster restraints actually work, and how roller coaster wheels keep trains locked to the track.