The Plopsaland-parks in Belgium, Germany and Holland are all based on Belgian TV-shows for kids. Gert Verhulst is the big boss from Studio 100, the group behind the Plopsa-parks. Maybe you don't know, but he actually was the main character in a TV-show which started it all: Samson & Gert. He played the part of Gert in the Samson & Gert TV-show, movie and annual Christmasshows, which are still running every year in december.
So, the big boss behind Plopsaland De Panne, Holiday Park and such can also be seen on TV like this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XkIOECf1p8[/youtube]
Fun fact about this video...the song was released somewhere in the early 90's. The song is about Samson en Gert wondering what they would do if they had 10.000.000 Belgian francs. They sing they would have a party and spent all their money. They say they would buy liters of lemonade and kilos of chocolate. Almost every kid in Belgium grew up with Samson and Gert and 7 years ago, a Belgian student sent a letter to Studio 100. He stated that at this time, Gert will probably have 10.000.000 and he reminded him that he sung in the song he would throw a party with lemonade and chocolate. What happened; Studio 100 big boss Gert organized a party in Plopsa Indoor in Hasselt with a massive amount of chocolate and lemonade.