Today we decided to do something that we had planned ever since we'd heard about it on our first trip - a visit to Bakken Amusement Park.
To make a full day of it, and to get the most value for money on our toll cost to cross the bridge into Copenhagen, we decided to start with checking out a few more of the Copenhagen Hidden Trolls.
We'd seen a few of the trolls before, 11 Mar 2018 and one at the entrance to Christiania:
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| Green George |
The trolls are created by an artist, Thomas Dambo, who creates them from recycled wood. He has a full website and troll location map Here. The trolls are found around the world - with many in Europe and America, but our focus was the original ones in Denmark - particularly The Six Forgotten Giants.
So far we had visited a few trolls - here's a reminder:
Green George - Location: Christina - Created 2019 - Picture above.
Hill Top Trine (Bakketop Trine) - Location: Hvidovre- Created 2016 - One of the Six Forgotten Giants:
Oscar Under the Bridge (Oscar Under Broen) - Location: Ishøj - Created 2016 - One of the Six Forgotten Giants:
Sleeping Louis (Sovende Louis) - Location: Rødovre - Created 2016 - One of the Six Forgotten Giants:
For this trip I had a list of Trolls that I wanted to get to, but unfortunately we had a late start so only managed to get to three of them.
The first was Bjarke Cirkelsten, in Dragør. He was created as part of "Den Store Troldefolkefest" - The Big Troll Folk Party, which was undertaken during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
We then headed out to our next troll - Sanka Suttetrold (Sanka the Sucker Troll). Sanka is located in the grounds of a kindergarten, which happened to be having an open day/faire at the same time, so it was a little busy. The idea of Sanka was to provide a way for children to give up their dummies/pacifiers to the troll.
There is a sign next to Sanka with the following details:
Sanka was the world's happiest troll, because he lived right in the middle of a playground and was surrounded every day by many hundreds of children who fed him with pacifiers. There were big pacifiers, small pacifiers, blue pacifiers, gray pacifiers, children's pacifiers, bear pacifiers, eagle pacifiers, teddy bears and orange pacifiers and all sorts of other pacifiers.
Sanka loved pacifiers – Yes… in fact they were his right to life and if it was up to him he could lay there in the playground and eat them all day long. Never would he have to go anywhere else, but could just lay there and watch his belly grow bigger and bigger!
There was just one problem. Sanka hated the sound the little human children made when he ate their pacifiers. Their ear-splitting, crying, sobbing, snot-snorting, wailing-hooting noise drove him completely crazy!
But Sanka was a cunning pacifier troll, so to prepare the little human children for the fact that he would eat their pacifiers, he had written a little song that the children could sing to him while he smacking their pacifiers into him!
There is also a song provided, but I'm not sure it translated 100% correctly:
Suttetrolden Sankas Sang til Madro
Kæmpestore suttetrold, du som er så sulten
Aldrig skal du høre mer’, græde, tude, hulken
Før var jeg en lille skid, men nu jeg blevet voksen
Sutten den er slut og prut, og jeg kan klare mosten
Kæmpestore suttetrold, jeg gir’ dig her min sut
Spis dig rund og glad og mæt, mit babyliv er slut
Sanka's Song to Madro:
Giant pacifier troll, you who are so hungry
Never shall you hear more, crying, hooting, sobbing
I used to be a little shit, but now I'm an adult
Sucking is over and fart, I can handle it
Giant pacifier troll, I'll give you my pacifier here
Eat yourself round and happy and full, my baby life is over.
We then tried for one last troll - Lange Liv (Tall Liv), who was built during Den Store Troldefolkefest on the island of Skrædderholmen. This one was built on an island that hosted a busy highway and was a bit of a hike from where we parked:
When we finally got to the island we climbed down a path on the south side and passed under the road bridge. The troll was on the north-east of the island, but there was a group of teenagers camping there and when we arrived they were quite drunk, loud and were peeing in the bushes. We couldn't see Liv without pushing through their camp and the whole area was pretty overgrown, so we gave up and headed back.
From there we took the drive up to Bakken.
Bakken (formally Dyrehavsbakken - Deer Park Hill) is a former royal deer park that houses an amusement park in Denmark. Bakken was opened in 1583 and is the world's oldest operating amusement park.
The site was originally (in 1583) the location of a natural spring which drew locals to the area because of the good quality water. Since crowds were gathering in the area it also draw hawkers and entertainers who formed the basis for the amusement park. In 1669 the area was made a private royal hunting by king Frederick III grounds and it was returned to the public in 1756. The park has free entry, but rides can be paid for either with a ride pass or coupons.
When we arrived there was a traffic jam to turn down the road leading to Bakken. We didn't think much of it and waited until we could turn onto the road. Only then did we notice the signs that they had a full carpark. The line was cars waiting to enter the carpark. At this point we were blocked and couldn't turn around. After about half an hour, Kristine told me and the boys to get out and go visit the park while she waited in line. It took her about an hour more to get a park:
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| A small part of the line - the line was about 1km long |
While Kristine waited in line in the car, the boys and I got to wait in line for their ride passes. The park was pretty busy:
The boys and I did a quick lap of the park to check out what was there and they took a ride on the Skyroller, which was similar to the plane ride in Legoland:
Then the Tornado - at first they were going to skip it because the line was too long, but then they found out about single rider lines:
We walked around the park before the kids found the Supernova. They were waiting in line for this when Kristine finally met up with us:
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| I was a little worried about the big dent in the operator's booth roof |
The boys had a few rides on this and then we stopped for dinner in the American Café. After burgers, we split up, with the boys running off to ride a few more rides and Kris and I exploring the park. We ducked down to look at the biggest ride, the Rutschebanen (a wooden rollercoaster from 1932) and saw that the boys had just ridden and had been pulling stupid faces for the ride camera, so we payed 20kr to buy the photo...
The boys mostly stayed on the Supernova, but had a few rides of the Rutschebanen and the Tårngyset, a dropper ride. Kris and I wandered around and checked out the park:
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| Tom on the Tårngyset |
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| Sign in the Women's Toilets |
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| The Polyp - this really sounded much worse in English.. |
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| Horseracing |
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| Rutschebanen |
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| Cultural Appropriation! The Kænguru |
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| Crazy Theatre |
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| The Time Machine |
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| The Haunted Castle |
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| One of many chocolate wheels |
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| Den Vilde Mus (The Wild Mouse) |
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| Tårngyset |
We met up with the boys at 7:30pm and they pleaded for more time, so Kris and I waited by the Skyroller for them to have a couple more rides. While we were there, someone shoe flew off, fell through the tree and hit Kris on the head - luckily the tree slowed it a little!
We ended up leaving around 8:30 and got home just before 10.
