Balder

Accessibility

For those with disabilities, the entrance is through the attraction's exit. There is an elevator down to the exit level in the building. Contact the staff via the intercom in the hallway leading to the attraction area.

• You need to have stability and muscle strength in the upper body and neck.

• You need to have two legs down to the knee joint (intact thigh bones).

• You are allowed to ride with a prosthesis if it begins below the knee joint

• You are allowed to ride with a cast.

Only one guest in a wheelchair per ride, for evacuation reasons.

This attraction has virtual queueing

You can also join the queue in person. Virtual queuing is used when needed, depending on how busy the park is.

This is how you do it:

• Download the Liseberg app

• Click on “Choose attraction”

• Follow the instructions to get your place in the queue

While you are waiting you can continue exploring all the fun at Liseberg But don’t forget to allow notifications in the app, so we can let you know when it is almost your turn!

Read more about the virtual queue and how it works

Quick facts about Balder

Did you know...

Balder is 1,070 metres long and twice as tall as Liseberg’s old wooden roller coaster. It reaches a top speed of 90 km/h, and the first drop has an impressive 70 degree angle! The ride lasts just over two minutes, during which you experience negative G forces, that feeling of lifting out of your seat, no fewer than ten times. Balder certainly offers a ride worthy of the gods!

At first glance, Balder looks like a giant game of pick up sticks. And in a way, that is exactly what it is. It took around 50 construction workers more than a year and a half to put Balder together. After 190,000 metres of timber and 140 tonnes of bolts and fasteners, the coaster now stands firmly in place, a Gothenburg landmark that is here to stay.

When it was built, Balder was the largest single investment in an attraction in Liseberg’s history. It cost just over SEK 100 million, but surely it was worth every penny?

To make room for Balder, a 5,400 cubic metre hole had to be excavated. That is equivalent to almost 6 million one litre milk cartons!

The concrete slab supporting Balder covers 6,450 square metres. If you wanted to park a few cars on it, say 1963 Volvo Duetts, you could fit 3,370 of them. If you parked them very close together, of course...

Beneath the concrete slab are 300 piles. Laid end to end, they would stretch for 6 kilometres! The concrete also contains reinforcing steel bars to make it stronger. Laid end to end, they would stretch for 230 kilometres, roughly the distance from Gothenburg to Helsingborg.

It is a good thing Balder is not afraid of the dentist. A total of 6,200 holes had to be drilled to secure all those wooden beams.