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Eurosat CanCan Coaster at Europapark

Wodan and Blue Fire et Europa Park, both within ten minutes yesterday!

^ Well, X-Works as a customer is Cedar Fair (IIRC, or was X-Works even Cedar Point directly?), so the wouldn't be that wild, if the picture is actual.

We'll be at the park Wednesday and Thursday! Does anyone want to meet up? We'll be wearing Club TPR shirts or Kings Island shirts and are carrying a light blue handcart. Trip report will be coming afterwards.

I'm not sure about this. The right colour on the right coaster may look good. But I also like the pitch blackness of some rides (Magnum, Millennium Force, GeForce) at night, which would be destroyed by the lights.

It's still in operation!

Expedition GeForce, April 6th. One of the last trains, new wheels, hot day. A hell of a ride.

Hi, I'm Peter from Germany, close to Holiday Park. Me, my wife Sarah and our one year old Paul are and will be travelling parks as much as we can do! We loved coasters for most of our life, but were afraid ultil 2016. Now we have a lot to do

I'll bet it's the new version of the Battle for Cedar Point that they've done the last couple of years, where people vote for which coaster they like best. Not quite.. https://fox8.com/2019/04/11/cedar-point-announces-new-attraction-coming-in-may/

That's because there's no boat visible at the moment. #alwaysrememberthevalravnboat #noboat

Okay! Well, you could put T-Rex track on Millennium Force and put even more T-Rexes next to the ride and rename it T-Rex Force.

You can easily get an automatic if you request that while booking. It may be an additional fee, though. Awesome, will keep in mind once we firm up some things! Another side question for those in/around Germany... As far as navigation goes, is using phone navigation such as Waze good enough to get around the country? Or is it worth me buying the dedicated GPS maps for Europe for my Garmin? Debating on if I really need to or not, seeing how awesome the Waze app is for navigation (here in the US at least!). As far as I know I can recommend Google Maps. It's free of charge and will be working perfectly for your purposes. Go there! It's well worth it's price an the detour you will have to take. You only need a couple of hours to reride everything you want if you can hit it on a weekday. Even oh the weekend or a holiday a full day is good enough. G'sengte Sau is the first ever Gerstlauer Coaster. Mammut is the first wooden coaster to be completely planned and built by germany companies. Karacho is a great Gerstlauer. Rasender Tausendfüßler is a nice Zierer. And there's a Sky Fly with a revoluion counter. Also, food is affordable and yummy and Parking is free!

There's a crane on the overbank of Millennium Force right now.

Okay, I'll do that. On the food situation.. We were pretty aware that the Kick Off is meant to sort out the kinks in operations.. But only 50 buzzers is not enough, no matter on which day!

^ For us, as we have to cross an entire ocean to get back to Knoebel's, it will not matter if and how much they will increase the prices. We will be back and have a blast again. But I can totally see the "typical stenotype GP Facebook customer" who will "never get back there again because they raised the prices". I hope for the true lovers of this beautiful park that they will fulfill their promises.

Photo Trip Report - Season Kick Off Holiday Park 04/07/2019 On Sunday, April 4th 2019, Holiday Park invited the Season Pass holders to the exclusive Kick Off Event. Every pass holder was able to bring a friend. So Sarah, Paul and me went with my brother and her maid of honor to have a fantastic day. Weather was pretty solid, no rain, some wind and a lot of sun. You had to get your tickets beforehand online, so they knew the park would be packed and sent an email on friday, saying that the park would open at 10 am, three hours (!) earlier than scheduled! Most people were families with little children, so Maja Land was overcrowded and we skipped Holiday Indoor completely because there was a line just for going into the building every time we passed the entrance. Paul was able to ride the Frog Hopper (5 minute wait), which made him a lot of fun, the antique carousel (walk-on) and the Balloon Race (15 minute wait). We were very fortunate with this, because it was down for maintenance more then open the whole day. After that we took our ride on the Sky Fly (15 minute wait). Paul was getting hungry, so we went to Sky Scream, split apart in groups of two (that the other two could play with Paul) and did some rides. Curiously enough (remember that the park was really, really full), lines were almost nonexistent, we waited three trains maximum with each try. Afterwards Paul went for a nap in his handcart, giving us the opportunity to walk over to Expedition GeForce and ride it twice in the front and the back, again with two and three train waits each. It was around 2 pm now and we thought it would be a good time for lunch. Here we had the significant letdown of our day, we had to wait 65 minutes to order (!) our food. When we got in line for ordering, there were roughly 20 people in front of us. Normally ordering, getting drinks and paying should not last long. We knew, that waiting for our food to be ready will need some patience, but we thought to go to the rafting while waiting. But they had only 50 buzzers (the little devices that are beeping and buzzering when your order is ready to get at the counter), so every customer stood in the frond and had to wait 5 to 15 minutes after ordering and paying for a buzzer to return before the transaction could be finished and the next customer was in place. There was no back up system. There was no plan how to handle the situation. Surely enough, we could just have went away and eat elsewhere, but when we recognized the problem, Sarah gave Paul his lunch and we all, including him, needed some sit down in the shadow. To sum it up: food was good, operations and B2C communications were horrible. As they knew how many people were heading to the park and they made food 50% off the whole day, they should have known what will happen and could have had a plan. After our lunch/dinner we split again and went to the water rides, first the Donnerfluss (10 minute wait). It was a ton of fun and really got us wet in the wave pool section. In the meantime, Sarah and Paul went again on the carousel, which he liked a lot. After that, we were heading directly to Wickie Splash (15 minute wait). We really got soaked, but it was well worth it. I love the double down! In the meantime the park decided to extend the opening hours for that day until 7 pm, so we decided afterwards to get our final round through the park to visit the Pirate Ship (5 minute wait), Sky Scream again (walk-on) and Expedition GeForce (10 minute wait because it was down to one train operation), before we got our passes processed and left for the day! We skipped the Free Fall Tower, Holiday Indoor, a second run to Maja Land and the water ski show, but we really had a blast with great weather. Here are our ride reviews for the day: Expedition GeForce: ran two trains for the majority of the day, which was the first time I experienced this! Our ride in the front was really good! It ran very well the whole day. In the front, we had some minor shaking in the turn over the rafting, but nothing unbearable or bad. In the back, this was not noticeable. We had trimless rides all day and it ran really fast. Therefore we wanted a late ride again and were able to hop on one of the last three or four trains of the day. It really had warmed up and was hauling a$$ this time! No trims, not rattle but airtime all over the place. On the airtime hill after the first overbank, I was slammed into the lap bar and didn't return until the very bottom of the drop! Very nice ride OP's, especially Eric! On a side note: It could really use a paint job! It's not only faded, it's ugly. Nobody, who isn't in the know, would expect that thing to be one of the world's best coasters. Sky Scream: butter smooth as always. Really good airtime in the back when coasting forwards after the backwards launch. Amazing airtime in the front when going horizontal again after the vertical section after the launch. I love the hang time in the roll. The only coaster clone I've ridden I really love! Our only complaint is, that we didn't expect an double run (shooting through the station after the first loop; we had this at an halloween event). Carousel: Seriously, Holiday Park? There was damaged and ripped fabric on almost every seat, really much dirt everywhere and it looked like it was the last day of operations after a hard season and a very wet autumn. It's such a nice carousel and the little kiddies love it. But it needs to shine and not to rot. Pirate Ship: Really good ride cycle, better than the last time we've ridden. Awesome ride OP (don't remember the name). Wickie Splash: I don't know how and why, but I never was this wet after riding this! Also an awesome ride OP (Manfred), keep going! Donnerfluss: The water was utterly brownish, but it worked with the theming. We didn't get wet until the wave pool. We had the feeling not every gimmick that should get you wet was working. Very good ride OP (turkish name). One last thing to mention: Debbie Downer: At the Donnerfluss our second-hand embarrassment moment of the day happened: There was a woman who insisted that her (clearly) too small son has to go on this ride because some other staff member at the entrance said he could. He explained her the rules and didn't let him go. I stood to his side. He saw my Club TPR shirt and smiled. I told her, that the height restrictions are for safety reasons, not for fun and that it could be dangerous for a smaller person to ride (I had the same problems at Tripsdrill, but a rule is a rule and there's no way to call a ride OP following these rules expletives). She then screamed also at me and the ride OP let security come and get her way. After our ride we saw the very same woman on the carousel. Sarah later told us that another woman (or maybe the same) smoked her cigarette in the waiting line and told her kiddies that in two weeks, they will "go where they belong", to Europa Park, where "the employees know where they belong". She told her kids that last year, she "drop her fag and let the employee get it, because thats his job". The women I "talked to" wore clothes of a german enthusiasts group. I don't know their names or anything, but I was really embarrassed because such idiots are putting a bad light on every enthusiast group. Do you think I shall email the guys running that group and inform them? Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed my first trip report ever. Here are some photos of our tour: Good Start with a free look on two Intamin hotties! Hop the frog! So much fun! Sexy Intamin curves Two must rides. Simple as that. This was way more exciting than we thought! Loved it. Paul was a bit scared. Hang time in the sky I can see. Screams I can hear. Two train operations on GeFroce! This was the line at the restaurant. It lasted 65 minutes from here to order! I love how Expedition GeForce interacts with the park! It was hauling! Where is mommy? Here she comes! Drenched! That's one weird support!

Is it just me - or are the second and third live cam switched? On the Main Midway Camera I see the freeze pic of the Power Tower West Camera and vice versa. If I click on them, they are correct. Yes, it's off season. And I'm a gazillion miles away.

We just booked our season tickets today and will attend to the season kick off on April 7th! Is somebody else there and want to meet up?

Hey folks, has anyone been with an one-year-old to the park? As seen on the website, there's quite some rides he may do. So I'm asking more if it's "easy" to be there with a stroller or hand car and if there are enough places to rest.

^, ^^ you have to remember that you are not able to use the front line of Black Mamba if you use the QP. I'm not sure about the other coasters. When are you going? If you have two days during the week (and maybe outside of the local holidays) you're fine without QP. Perhaps we can meet up, if you like?!

There is a 99% chance that cedar point already has their next coaster planned out and designed. And if it is a 2020 attraction (I highly doubt that if we're talking about a bigger coaster than, let's say, Lightning Run) many parts are already produced.

Time Traveler isn't controlled spinning. It's free spinning. Time Traveler is controlled spinning. Its spinning isn't controlled by a motor, but there is a magnetic (I think) brake on the ride that slows down spinning if it gets faster than a certain speed. The park actually put a considerable amount of effort into stressing that the spinning is controlled so that it doesn't spin too fast like you'd see on many actual free-spinning rides. Yeah, you're right. But I see that more like "trimmed", as it is not controlled like it's determined when exactly the cars are looking in a certain direction. Each ride may be different, even when there may be a maximum amount of rotations per minute. So the "controlled" factor is still very liberal.

Time Traveler isn't controlled spinning. It's free spinning.

Welcome to our group. Can I offer you some Pierigies?

Wouldn't it have to be a dueling 500 ft T-Rex on the boardwalk into Lake Erie to match CP's standards? Or they will do it the easy way and take the record of "most frustrated enthusiasts by one announcement of an amusement park". I think you can put me in that ballpark.