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In the Gelderland town of Groenlo, an indoor amusement park featuring cartoon characters Olivier B. Bommel and Tom Puss is under construction. The park will open on October 1, 2025. More

In the Gelderland town of Groenlo, an indoor amusement park featuring cartoon characters Olivier B. Bommel and Tom Puss is under construction. The park will open on October 1, 2025.

BommelWereld in Groenlo (Achterhoek) is an indoor theme park based on the comic strip characters Ollie B Bommel and Tom Poes, by the writer Marten Toonder.

The initiator is entrepreneur Edwin Bomers. The plan required an investment of approximately 40 million euros. He hopes to attract 100,000 visitors in the first year. (For comparison: The Efteling has approximately 5.5 million visitors annually.)

"30 to 40 million is quite a bold investment," says Goof Lukken, an expert in the leisure industry and affiliated with Breda University: "The Netherlands already has a huge offering in this area, of course."

Bomers—also the owner of a large holiday park in Groenlo—was looking for a new attraction in the Achterhoek region. "I was looking for something that didn't exist. That's when we came up with the idea of an indoor amusement park." According to him, various themes were considered: from Pirate Pete and Gnome Plop to Ollie B. Bommel.

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Achterhoek krijgt themapark rondom Stripduo heer Bommel en Tom Poes (2020)