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I should have cut and paste info on the ride from the Extreme World website when the news came out, because the website is currently adjusted to just say the park is currently closed. Well at the time of the accident I checked the website and there was a statement about the harness system. It said something to the effect that even if the rider tried they would not be able to maneuver out of the secured starting position and miss the net. Then again the whole statement in the original article about the girl falling 40 feet doesn't make sense to me.

Guess what? If I'm talking baseball with someone and every time I bring up a player the other person says he is the greatest player, I think the other person is an idiot. If we talk about vacation destinations and every place he has been is the best destination ever, the other person has no credibility. If someone comes off every coaster saying it the best coaster... Well you get the idea.

Dave - not sure if you heard but well over half the animatronics are no longer even working. King Kong is in B mode, Cheeta no longer water skis, the list goes on Since a picture is worth 1,000 words. The tribute is 20% done. = 1,000 words

^^anyone who has a positive opinion of every ride is not a credible source and should not be trusted to make recommendations. The Beast????? maybe 15 years ago. Viper providing a wilder ride than the Coney Island Cyclone???? Viper might be better nowadays, but no way is it wilder. I challenge him to ride both for an hour and see if he feels the same way.

Wow, I'm almost upon that 12 hour self-imposed deadline to get the rest of the Wiener Prater pictures posted. I think you can all tell by my enthusiasm how much I enjoyed my visit. I initially started reading about this park a couple of years ago when Robb & Elissa were kicking around the idea of a Wiener Prater/VidamPark add-on, but had no idea the park was this big or enjoyable until now. Since I have just focused on the rides in the past four updates let me show you other aspects of the park. A view of the entrance plaza. Unlike a typical narrow walkway lined with shops the entrance to Wiener Prater has many open air eateries. and those types of cafes exist throughout the park. and the food prices are quite reasonable, but service appeared leisurely so I twice stopped at stands to purchase drinks and Wiener Schnitzel sandwiches throughout the day. Another look into the park from the main entrance. I'm not big on foreign films, so I passed on this. This is my favorite picture of the trip. A view from the top of the Dizzy Mouse. There are a couple of rides that I did not show before like their Rockin Tug. Mecky Express was an indoor train ride, the only indoor ride that a skipped. One of the kid friendly driving rides I mentioned earlier. and the children's bumper cars Thee may have been more in the kid's area that I did not visit. There are the random trampolines you see any many European parks. Games of chance, like live Archery shooting. I also mentioned before that you can rent a Segway, here are the prices. Theming on the log flume! In the middle of the park was a courtyard with statues Another freaky statue From the roof of one of the fun houses I spotted this house that parts of the side friction coaster were built around. It appears Terry may have visted Vienna and traumatized the statues I was exhausted after getting back to my hotel, but most of the food places in the area were combination pizza/gyro places. I'm very particular about my pizza and don't like gyros so I went to a supermarket and bought crackers and chorizo to make my own mini sandwiches, and spent my remaining Euros on snack food. That's all for Vienna folks.

Ivan - think of the Park Index and takes lots of pictures for us

Tiggernel - I would say the Jack the Ripper house was closest to the Frankenstein's Castle experience. There's not a "watching the band" experience or anything like that room with multiple doors, but the Jack the Ripper house has multiple levels with plenty of surprises and can be walked through at a leisurely pace Chuck - you are already nuts

Eli - How coincidental that you ask. Next up are the remaining dark rides and walkthroughs at Wiener Prater. Then I'll post remaining pictures from the park, since these last couple of my posts only showed rides. Lastly, I'll have coverage from my last park of the trip VidamPark in Budapest and sightseeing photos of Budapest in my typical style. This is Eisberg, a great shooting dark ride for two reasons. 1 - it is air conditioned in the building 2 - you shoot wild animals like seals and polar bears. OK, so you shoot the animals with a camera and make scenes change, but still cool. Get it "COOL"! Yo, we're hanging out on an iceberg, word. 3.5 Euros to ride Looking at this Spectacolo sign I expected a fun house. Then I see this sign and don't know that to think. Lasers in a fun house? WTF? So I pay 3 Euros, end up in a room with surprise effects and then encounter this Stop Sign. The wall opens and I enter a room and sit in an indoor frog hopper. They turn out the lights, tilt the seats forward and then bounce us up and down staring at a laser show shown on a smoke filled floor. Very interesting. At this time I starting circling the park again to make sure I didn't miss any other indoor rides. So now I have to ride Silberbergwerk 2.5 Euros. It's an indoor dark ride themed to fairy tales. Right across from Silberbergwerks is any family dark ride called Grottenbahn, that appears to be fairy tale and cartoon themed. for 2 Euros, Mickey and Minnie are included. and Joan of Arc being set on fire On to the walk throughs: in my head, in my head Since it was a walk through there were no sharp turns and I could actually take pictures. It was a decent size for 2.5 Euros but not too scary, props light up as you trip sensors Blue Planet was just odd. First you buy a ticket from this dog for 3 Euros You stand in an elevator that shakes and you watch old dinosaur movies Then you sit in a psuedo ride vehicle (still not sure if it actually moved) and these eyes stare at you. Then a T-Rex appears out of nowhere. Then you go on the Dino Tour portion and walk across a rope bridge and see dinosaurs. Shocking! Then there was another dark elevator to exit the building and of course you are attacked by T-Rex again The last walk through looked most impressive. And this sign is next to it, but it all looks like the same ride for 4.5 Euros. Although the sign is not grammatically correct, it sounds like this is another ride with an elevator. No pictures from inside, so you have to take my word. It's a long walk through themed to Jack the Ripper with a lot of well timed stunts, air blasts and scary sounds. No live actors. Then at the end you get in this elevator. Guess what? The elevator shakes a lot. Then you get to the Action House portion final room which is actually a small haunted swing. All in all a good attraction. In about twelve hours I'll post some more overview photos showing the rest of the park.

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Statements like this make me feel real old!

I'm a Blue Fire buddy also. I loved Blue Fire Glad you posted the room pictures from Hotel Matamba. I was just thinking about that room the other day and couldn't remember where my roommate slept. I knew I had the big bed and my rememberance was that there was not another bed in the room. Then you reminded me of the cave room.

Benny - I did all the coasters (28.3 Euros) and all the dark rides (not the mirror mazes) for 41 Euros but only four flat rides (21 Euros). I spent a total of 90 Euros on rides, 20 Euros on food/drink and 2 Euros for the WCs/restrooms. It costs 50 Euro cents for each visit to the WC. I spent a grand total of 112 Euros at the Wiener Prater, quite an expensive day. Again my apologies for posting Wiener Prater piecemeal but I have to devote some time to real work, since that pays for the trips. I'm going to try to do the rest of the park in one shot

I over estimated the allure of fun houses, or cake walks as they are sometimes referred to in Europe. As I stated in my last post the park also has 3 Ghost Trains (I thought there were 4, but in reviewing my notes one was a walk through) and 3 Mirror Mazes/Glass Houses. I did not do the mazes, in the interest of saving money, but I'm sure anyone who could find their way from the Kings Domnion entrance to Intimadator 305 would have no trouble getting through any of the mazes. I did not get the prices of the mazes, but the Ghost trains were between 2.5 and 3.5 Euros. Here is the Hallowien maze and that is all that I have to say about it. And here is a much larger looking maze, that I think was named Lachspiegelkabinett. As you have already figured out, those last three photos were just filler. And now the moment that ryancrash and cfc have been waiting for: The Ghost Trains This huge building houses Geister Bahn It bills itself as the biggest and longest Ghost Train in Europe, all for only 3 Euros. At least that's what I think the sign says. Sorry, no pictures from inside the ride. It was very dark inside and great timing on all the stunts. In particular there was a great stunt involving a broken bridge that the car had to pass. Geister Schloss costs 3 Euros and had some of the cheesier props, but all worked well. The ride was very heavy on the animatronics (and cheesy artwork)outside the building to draw people. The Ghost Train portion of this PTR is being interrupted as I found the picture of the "original" lachspiegelkabinett. Close-up of awesome artwork on GeisterSchloss The ride vehicle Second level outdoor section. Geister Bahn Zum Roten Adler was the third Ghost Train. 3.5 Euros to ride in these vehicles Just like the other Ghost Trains, this had an outdoor portion on the second level. The stunts were not as well times as to others rides, but this one had a shocking "Bug's Life" type effect in the seats that made me jump. Keep following as walk-throughs, fairy tale themed rides and other indoor stuff is still to come.

I believe Hawaiian Mike also escaped Hans' camera, as Hans could not decide if Hawaii was part of the USA or not.

Don't know how I ended up in the bus that evening. And pee-stop? What pee-stop they never woke me up! Ohh man I was K.O. after all that german beer! Note to future trip participants, do not sit in the seat behind Erik after he drinks alot. Erik gets on the bus and sits in front of me and asks if it is OK to recline the seat. He reclines the seat as far back as it will go (which is much further back then on US coaches) to a sleeping position, crushing me and forcing me to move seats. 6 hours later Erik wakes up. He did sleep like a baby, a big orange baby.

^It looks like your current title is still relevant.

Pricing is within the first post of the thread as is timing, sign up ASAP. First Post of Thread Once tickets are sold out Robb will make an announcement and change the title or sub-title of this thread

^remember not a spinning wild mouse, a spinning coaster. Since this is a custom model it could take up a larger and non-traditional footprint

Elissa's good parenting skills will inhibit your musical mentoring. I'm so glad that traveling the world is having a positive effect on her and that knowing Ryan did not block any progress.

OK, I know there are plenty of dark ride and walk through fans out there and Wiener Prater has plenty of them to appease you. There were 17 attractions at Wiener Prater: 4 Fun Houses 3 Ghost Trains 3 Mirror Mazes/Glass Houses 2 Fairy Tale themed Dark Rides 3 Walk Through Haunted Attractions 1 Shooting Dark Ride 1 Miscellaneous My captions are going to be long as I want to give a description of each ride and provide my commentary. Unfortunately many of these attractions blended together after awhile and even now looking at my notes I can't quite remember everything about each attraction. Pictures were not allowed or difficult to take in many of the attractions. So if we have any DAFErs reading this thread, break out a new box of Kleenex. I just hope that when I am done that you all will enjoy what I feel is the most comprehensive overview ever shown of Wiener Prater and that it inspires others to visit. When I initially planned this trip I was so worried that I would be disappointed in Wiener Prater, but as you can see I was not. First up will be the Fun Houses This is Super Top Dance They know how to have FUN in this house. This was the best of the four Fun Houses and cost 2.5 Euros. Highlights include this 5 story plastic slide, not for the claustrophobic. And just when you think you are done and trying to balance as you walk over the last obstacle, the ride op starts firing at you with a high powered water gun. Funball was the second best fun house and is priced at 3 Euros. One of the first gags in the fun house is this short rope bridge with an arc of water that is practically impossible to avoid. Not surprisingly, Funball is sports themed. More sportiness and a disorienting tunnel Magic Dreamland was 2.5 Euros and was one story shorter then Super Top Dance, hence a shorter slide. This was the sight at the other end of the spinning barrel. Just like the other 3 fun houses there were plenty of floor traps and conveyor belts. The memorable part of this fun house was on the last set of conveyor belts the ride op was able to change the speed of them while you were stepping on and off. Another never in America moment. Calypso was the most permanent looking of the fun houses (Magic Dreamland and Super Top Dance were clearly portable even if they have not moved in years). It cost 2.5 Euro and was the only fun house with a glass maze room and had the best tilt room but many of the other gags were just working better in the other houses. I just found some more photos from inside Calypso. Dizzy Tunnel Did someone order a picture of Larry with no sleeves? Siamese twin Larry Long Tall Larry with a big butt.

Besides the fact that your first post does not make sense grammatically... 5. Do not post for posting sake. I'm just moderating!

^^Correct answer ^Wrong answer

Benny - BPB is a good comparison in terms of how close the rides are to each other but Bakken is probably a better comparison. Chad - I felt secure but I'm not afraid of heights. There is no way you are accidentally coming out of the chair (seat belt and locking mechanism). Now granted I didn't check the welds on every link of the chain attaching my seat to the arm, but I figured the chains would be strongest during the ride's first year. Derek - I was laughing every time I came across another driving ride. I can't say that any of them were extremely busy but I guess they must be money makers for those leasing the space. Actually none of the rides had lines and the only ones running more than half filled were: Space Shot, Prater Turm, Tornado, Turbo Booster and the Tagada. I never entered the Riesenrad queue but that also seemed popular. Many flats ran with only one or two riders.

Eos rides (Italian company) rcdb has as interesting snippet on the history of the coaster rcdb.com/2944.htm