Europa Park Discussion Thread

[mudvayneimn]

Wow, that made me lol so loud my co-workers gave me the eye, this forum has been on fire recently. I really need to get back to Europa Park, I have not been since 1998.

[SharkTums]

^There will most likely be a 2012 TPR Trip to Europa next summer!!!

[odene497]

I had my first visit to Europa last week and it was really great. The park was super busy, but the PPH on their rides is just insane, Silver Star with its 3 trains, I believe Blue Fire had 4, while the others had a solid 5 or 6. The lines averaged around an hour per ride, but it didn't feel too bad as you're constantly doing a slow walk. I really loved Blue Fire, it's so cool with just lap bars on inversions and being able to lean forward and hang around while going upside down, it just creates an entirely different perspective. All in all a really well rounded park, only to be made better with the GCI next year.

[Mario M.]

Great model and great layout

 

[Gerstlauer1]

^There will most likely be a 2012 TPR Trip to Europa next summer!!!

 

Oh snap!! I'll start saving now!

[Coaster Cow]

There is so much great interaction in that model, I see three path crossovers, a crossover with the Supersplash (which is brilliant), a crossover with Blue Fire, and a station flyby. Suck on that, cookie cutters.

[Mario M.]

More pictures of the model and a new artwork:

 

Overview

 

entrance with viking ship

 

lift, first Drop, camelback and Twisting Camelback

 

more tunnels

 

great station

 

[rosscoe]

That curving first drop looks awesome, might have to do both China and Europe next year!

[Team Thriller]

That looks great!

The only thing that would make this better is a single rider line.

 

--James

[andyuk200523]

Does that flag on the 2nd Hill say "Airtime Hill"?!?!?!?!

[GeorgeT]

Does that flag on the 2nd Hill say "Airtime Hill"?!?!?!?!

 

Looks like...

[andyuk200523]

Does that flag on the 2nd Hill say "Airtime Hill"?!?!?!?!

 

Looks like...

 

If there is copious amounts of Airtime on that hill, the drop turn tunnel section following it is going to be awesomely intense.....another GCI winner, I think So I need to head to Europa!!!!

[Jerrykoala2112]

Dang, this ride looks AMAZING! I really hope I have a chance to ride it next year, I love the way it interacts with the 2 roller coasters and the midway!

[BaMiTsPaT]

That model is impressive to look at. If the ride ends up looking quite similar to the model, then Europa Park has built one of the most highly themed wooden coasters in the world!

[SharkTums]

I'm pretty sure that's the model that Chris from GCI was working super hard on all summer so it's probably pretty close to what the ride will be!

[BaMiTsPaT]

I'm pretty sure that's the model that Chris from GCI was working super hard on all summer so it's probably pretty close to what the ride will be!

I didn't know that someone from GCI had built this. How awesome!

[GeorgeT]

More Pics (about 50 !) from Chris-Space.net with those "sweeeeet" signs all over the track :

 

http://nettsurfer.pytalhost.de/?incvar=bilder.php&path=news/2012/2011_08_20-coastermodell/

 

What I love the most about this coaster until now is the fact that it`s going underground several times...plus the station fly-through.

 

So I guess the sense of speed will be great...

 

GeorgeT

[deathbydinn]

^ Is there another way to see those, or are they hosted on another site? I'm getting a full screen ad every time I click to go to the next picture.

[GeorgeT]

I`m sorry for that...it works absolutely fine for me.

 

So do I need to post them all ? Has it to do with the country ?

 

GeorgeT

 

(EDIT : NO...I think they are NOT hosted somewhere else...)

[_koppen]

^ Is there another way to see those, or are they hosted on another site? I'm getting a full screen ad every time I click to go to the next picture.

 

 

Just close the ad in the corner

[deathbydinn]

^ I know, but it pops up for every picture. It's fine though, I found a way around it.

[coasterfreak101]

Wooow. If this park couldn't have gotten any better...it just did.

[STR8FXXXINEDGE]

Reason number 1,001 to get back to Europe and Europa Park!

[Kooky]

really cool layout, can´t wait to ride it next year....maybe at the opening day

and many people often wondered how they will get up to 2000 people per hour on the ride, after looking at the layout i think it will be very fast and at the end of the track it looks like they had another station to exit the train(or maybe its just for maintenance of the trains):

and really like the theming:

source: http://nettsurfer.pytalhost.de/?incvar=bilder.php&path=news/2012/2011_08_20-coastermodell/

Edited August 22, 2011 by Kooky

[Baffles]

..and there's me thinking it was a smaller coaster - what a surprise to find it crosses two other rides

 

I am still wondering on the capacity of the ride though - I'm sure they have some genious plan to reach a higher throughput than other GCI's - but will be interesting to find out.