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Normally I'd say the test seat, but I can't remember seeing something like this over there. But there was an old car on display in front of the entrance. Maybe try that, if it's still there.

I'd love to go to Japan and ride all those weird japanese coasters! Great video, thanks!

Yep, that's pretty much the same case we had with TTD. CP is awesome with that. We even had the feeling every ride OP was glad to get the ride open ten minutes before closing and noone had a problem cycling trains way after park closing.

Okay, great. I just didn't want you to have wrong expectations and a bad experience because of that! Have fun!Europa Park is great! Even more if you have plenty of time. Make sure to give all the small rides a shot. Even the normal travel fair rides liek the ones in the spanish area are better then you'd think.

^ What he said. They reopende TTD in July 2017 even after the official park closing. It had a breakdown one hour before and some people wanted to stay in line. We were on our way to Breakers and saw the ride testing. OPs let us in the line when it was already ten minutes after closing and we had four rides. CP is great with trying to get rides open if there is a real chance and even it is only for a bunch of crazy people.

I think many people hoped they'll do more with these huge chunks of land the park has available and are now a little bit let down because this ride is "short" and has a "small" footprint. This is understandable for me. Just think of this "Beast Unleashed" prediction everyone saw. That "would have been" amazing. But I really think this ride - if the concept will be right - will be a hell of a ride, a lot of fun and we will marathon it well when we finally return to KI.

^ You are aware that this hotel is about fifteen walking minutes away from the real park, aren't you? So you'll have to use the shuttle.

^What Elissa and Bill said. Plus, after 6 pm crowds will get significantly lower. Between noon and 2 pm there'll be sign at each ride op booth telling you how long the park will be open on this day. The minimum is 6 pm, but reality says that it's never under 7 pm in the summer. We've even had a 9 pm day. If you want to go to the Food Loop Restaurant, you'll have to make reservations. The line for the reastaurant can be up to one hour plus waiting for your food. Otherwise I recommend the Irish Pub in the irish kiddie area. It's awesome and has a very low line after 1 pm. The other option is what we did for the first time: Ignore the big restaurants, go snacking over the course of the day and go for a larger dinner. There are so many litte snack shacks we've missed so many times - it was well worth it. Oh, and download the app. Wait times are almost always accurate and so it helps you a lot. It also shows you where you are and how you have to walk to get to your desired attraction. Any other particular questions?

Just a question out of interest. I could imagine that there were more than one possible layout for the same cleared and they have made more than one blueprint, maybe because some sort of a decision to be made by the city council. And this leaked obe is one of them. Maybe it's the final one. Another thing I thought: Maybe the track in the plant wasn't for KI, the blueprints were the right ones and we're not looking a a trditional sit down coaster here, so it doesn't matter for record purposes to hit the 300 foot mark? If (!) it would be a 285 foot, non inverting WIng Coaster (remember, if!), the short overall length, would make sense. You could theme it to a flying creature hunting the beast, though. I don't think any of this might be the most likely possibility, but I want to point out that we don't know everything about this coaster yet and there will come some informations that will make the puzzle pieces fit.

So.. Another thing we'll do when our friend finally moves to Orlando! Keep going!

See above. Fourth time! I'm so sorry.. I'm a moron. I just read the first site and replied with quick reply. Just didn't see the other pages. My bad.

Is it impossible that these peices are also for Hershey and are just not painted yet?

^ I have a question: Under the worst costers overall, Anaconda ist the wooden one with the lowest number ("the worst"), but under the worst wooden coasters, there's Bandit still worse than Anaconda. How do I have to interpret that? How can it be a badder wooden coaster, but is not worse in overall?

^ If it is a super sized 300 foot version of Wickie Splash at Holiday Park, I'd book my flight right no. No kidding.

Photo Trip Report - Europa Park 04/24/2019 and 04/25/2019 After our first two amusement park attempts with Paul to Tripsdrill and Holiday Park we assumed that he's ready for a full trip. Not been to Europa Park for two and a half years, the longest streak ever, it was our sure target. So we took his uncle and two nieces and headed there for two days. We went to the main gates the day before to get our passes. We had our Club TPR cards with us and asked if there's a discount and the employee gave us group prices without missing a beat. She also seemed to know the forums, because she asked me to greet the Club TPR people - so please feel greeted! With our little one we didn't get there for coastering in the first place, but we managed it to ride every big coaster we wanted multiple times. Because there were holidays in Germany, France and Switzerland, the pack was packed. Wait times on the big rides never went under 45 minutes between park opening and 6pm, so we mostly focussed on riding things suitable for Paul. We did almost every ride in the park he was allowed on and he enjoyed all of them. We never expected that, because we went to the park with opening and went with closing, a pretty long day for him. He managed to eat an take his naps for the right times on both days, so there was no crying, no bad mood - just a pure awesome one year old giggling on the rides. We managed to get on Blue Fire, Wodan, Silver Star and the Voletarium on the first day. Three of us always went on the rides while the other two waited outside, played with Paul and fed him until we returned with the Baby Switch passes and they could walk up the exit and ride immediately. On the first day around 5pm a thunderstorm hit the park badly, flooding the ground within minutes. We went to the Glückskind Lounge, a grocery store for young families inside the park with a changing room, things to buy, two microwaves and everything you need. We waited for the rain to go and won the bet. One hour later the rain went away and most of the people had left. So we could do a lot of rides in the last hour. We ended our day, as we do always, at the "Ochsen", the best restaurant in town. On the second day we first hit Euro-Mir due to a nonexisting line before going for the kiddy area. When Paul was sufficiently tired, we went for the Voletarium again. While waiting, Paul decided to take a nap in his handcart - and didn't wake up again for the next two hours. We pulled him over hedge and ditch while going for the Vindjammer, the teacups and finally our first ever ride on the new Eurosat. It had a 45 minute queue, but I didn't care because I wanted to see the new queue area, so I broke my rule never to wait more than 30 minutes for a coaster for the first time in years. Even if it was long, it was well worth it. The fact that the others outside could ride immediately afterwards also helped - as well as the reality that the line was almost always as long on both days and it hat frequent breakdowns on both days, so we feared to miss it at all. After that, we went to the Irish land again, where all of us found things to ride. As our last things to do, we planned to go for Wodan, Blue Fire, Fjord Rafting and, in the end, for multiple rides on Atlantica. Baby Switch again saved our day and so six tired ridden theme park soldiers went to the "Ochsen" again! On our whole trip we met tons of awesome ride OPs that went above and beyond to make an unforgettable day for everyone in the park. The lines really flew everywhere and they managed it to get 40 second dispatches on both Euro-Mir and Eurosat. One ride OP at Voletarium wasn't that helpful, but this happens and perhaps he didn't have his best day. Here are our ride reviews: Wodan - Timburcoaster: We rode it almost everywhere in one of the trains it was running both days. It was incredibly smooth, I'm about to say that were my smoothest rides I ever had on in. Especially in the evening it was hauling without any rattle. We loved it! Blue Fire Megacoaster: Also smooth a butter. Running four trains all two days, the lines were fast. I only rode it in the back row (the only launch coaster I like to do so) and the differences between the morning (nice airtime), the evening after the thunderstorm (almost no airtime, but incredible hang time in the loop and the horseshoe) and the evening after the second hot day (airtime everywhere, even in the hop into the MCBR; ejector air out of the MCBR and nice hangtimes) were amazing. Even if I don't find that ride super thrilling, it's one of our most liked coaster experiences. Silver Star: Had a pretty bad rattle in the first drop and was rattling throughout the whole course. Nothing unberable, but just bad. What the heck has to happen that a GCI is so much smoother that a B&M hyper? Don't get me wrong, the airtime was there, it was fast. But it felt more like a woodie than a B&M. Voletarium: None of us had been to a flying theatre before, so we didn't know what to expect. The queue line is incredible and really gets the hype up for the ride. Once wat sat and locked the belts, we were a bit disappointed of the screen, only to see the "screen" going out of our sight, the vehicle to move forward and ourselves flying into the room. Wow. Never seen this before. The film was perfect, the 4D effects were perfect. Everything was perfect. My first ride was in the top row, our second in the lowest row. Two different rides. We'll be back there. Eurosat CanCan Coaster: A perfect replacement for the old classic. The ride is so smooth. The music is fitting perfect. The queue line was made with so much love. Just go and ride it. Euro-Mir: We had two rides. One in the rain after the thunderstorm, the other the next morning. The ride developed a bad rattle throughout the whoke course since our last visit. Also the spinning effect of the cars on the spiral lift wasn't working both times. Flord Rafting: Just one of the best rapid rivers on the planet. You won't get home dry. It delivers always. I love this one. Atlantica SuperSplash: One trick pony? Maybe. But a really good one! And the bonus: If you do it before closing, you may not have to get out of the vehicle and can ride multiple times. We didn't go on Pegasus, Poseidon, Enzian, Arthur, Bobbahn and Matterhorn Blitz because the lines were always too long for those coasters. At some points even longer than on the big ones. Thanks for reading! I hope you liked it. If you have questions, I'm glad to help you! Early morning shot of Wodan Happy boy, happy dad! The roar of Wodan was very interesting for him! I love how the Blue Fire queue meanders through the course - and how close you get Twisty track! Nice looking coaster on a beautiful day One of the rides we had never done without Paul That's how a queue line should look! Thunderstorm flooding the park I truly love the look of this coaster. But I really don't like the coaster. The new kiddy hotness. Very funny! The pacifier eating tree Chilling boat ride - while every big coaster had an hour wait time Knocked out after one and a half interesting days Also an underrated gem we never did before The sing is still there! Fjord Showering Queue line of Eurosat CanCan! Very good! Mmmmh, food! Thanks to Madame Freudenreichs Curiositées I now know how dinos were made! Old MacDonald's Tractor Fun was his favorite ride of the day! Dancing Dingie - nothing for me, but the others loved it I love the twisty ending of Wodan!

^^ Interesting that it is definitely for the whole year, not only for the first and last weeks of the season.

Well, skip Movie Park from that list, if you have to choose between those. You have to do Europa Park, at least two days if you want to check out all the magic (wait for my trip report coming soon). Holiday Park is just around two hours away from Europa Park, directly at the highway. On a not so crowded day you only need around three hours do do everything (plus the time for the uncountable rerides on Expedition GeForce), so you maybe are able to squeeze that in the day you are driving to Europaprk or back. Also close to these two is Tripsdrill, another hidden gem you should visit for some hours if you can manage that. Karacho for itself is well worth it. And before Movie Park, it would do Phantasialand. It's around two hours north of Holiday Park and also directly accessible from the highway. If you are visiting Holiday Park and want to meet up, we live only 40 minutes away and have season passes - maybe we can make it!

Ah ok, thank you! I read that as the seats reclining backwards towards the sky. Yeah, sorry. It was quite misreadable. In other news it would be interesting to drop like that

^ I think you misunderstood me: They are always tilting to the front by 30 degrees. On some rides they are tiliting back to the normal position before dropping down.

^ That has nothing to do with what Elissa said. Not every app is available on every phone. Most important may be working with 99% of all Android phones. But they have to be programmed for working with different phones and UIs

^ The seats are tilting 30 degrees, but on some rides they even tilt back before the drop. On other rides you'll drop down with the tilted seats. It will be determined randomly by coincedence.

I know a bunch of people who would download an Android version on the spot

I think that they're Intamin, they look just like the ones on El Toro and T Express. Okay.. Is it true that the old trains were from Gerstlauer? I have that memorized, but I can't find anything about that online, so I may be wrong.

Is it normal that they take away the bleachers from Luminosity in the offseason? Combined with the hole in the fence and the cleared land from the dorms on the other side of the street it looks like clearing for something that connects both spaces.

^ True, the trains are new, but I didn't read anything about the manufacturer yet. Has anyone?