Ican’t say I’ve ever felt compelled to hurl tomatoes through a basketball hoop. Nor have I ever been tasked with smashing suspended dinner plates with burger patties, propelling them one by one, frisbee style. Yet during recent school holidays , I found myself doing exactly this, with a surprising level of determination.

These unlikely scenarios were among the missions I encountered on SpongeBob’s Crazy Carnival Ride at the new Nickelodeon Land in Turkey . While I wasn’t hurtling vegetables around per se, I, my husband and our two children were using these ingredients on a series of screens, frantically trying to reach the high score from a moving carriage.

While you could relive this zany ride in Vegas, it is Europe’s first. As for Nickelodeon theme parks, you’ll find two others on

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