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Nevermind work for the 2023 coaster and the Adventure Land retheme beginning - EP are also busy this off season with a couple other older attractions. Poseidon is seeing a partial retrack with modifications requested by the Tüv (health and safety authority). Allegedly the opportunity to redo...

Would give weight to the rumours the ride's new theme will be Sisi - the nickname for Empress Elizabeth of Austria; popularised by a trilogy of successful German language films in the 50s. A new film and a Netflix mini series about her are also due to come out this year. EDIT: never mind...

The satellite dish will be removed soon in the off season too. As will the show venue - there’s no where else free beside the coaster for the themed area to be built.

Which was literally the next thing I wrote about in my post?

Soon things will be getting more interesting… Michael Mack has confirmed Traumzeit Dome (360 film) and Flug Des Ikarus (old balloons carousel) are closing for good next Sunday. As we know from the planning permission they will need to go for the 2023 coaster. Dschungel Floßfahrt and the...

I mean yes. In my post there is a quote from the owner saying that exactly.

A significant win for Phantasialand in their decades of fighting for an expansion. The NRW state government has at last agreed to sell to the park the land west of the park which has been the subject of the last 10 years of expansion debate. However before we celebrate too early - now the final...

Because of corona. It was planned for 2020 before the pandemic struck and RB got delayed. Still mentioned on their website in their hotel FAQs as “currently can’t be offered”. So there’s hope/a good chance I think it will return.

The hotel guests Taron ERT hasn’t been offered since corona began.

Stefan Holtman of Vekoma made a nice post on LinkedIn with a couple new pictures from the ride's development to mark it winning "best new product" at IAAPA. Only seeing him stand in the bottom of the pit makes you realise the insane scale of the digging they spent years doing for this...

They’ve confirmed the current Club Cards won’t be sold again. Undoubtedly a new type of annual pass will come once the current ones have all expired. People are blowing this out of proportion online and misunderstanding it. Europa Park are almost certainly doing the same as they are not selling...

The hybrid train is purposely designed to be retrofitted on to any Mack coaster with standard sit down trains (mega, launched, hypers). The video shows the concept being tested on Blue Fire - they simply swapped out the last car of one train and tested it that evening. No other work was done to...

Track for “Dino Dash” has arrived on site.

Been opening 9:30 for the last few months now and is shown as such on the wait time boards in the park.

As referenced to in a few previous posts the next Adventure Club of Europe book, believed to be setting up the story for the new area and coaster, has been released now. “Since more than 100 years there’s has been a dark secret deep under the old opera house. A phantom they say lives here in...

I actually say yes. But it every much depends on how its done. The short 2016 craze was very much a quick cash in and not focussed on quality or long term sustainability. Issues of image quality, content, capacity, suitable attraction and interaction need to be properly looked at. Not just slap...

A sensible park would sell a limited number of tickets then / time slots. As I said you can control that queue a lot easier as an operator.

Helps capacity does it not? An upcharge gimmick/spinning back row you can control your queue with the sale of limited tickets. While the main queue has the extra capacity to move quicker with not all trains being hybrids.

I believe the land marked/planning permission is just for the attraction so the new themed area is not included. That will likely be in the space beside (the Immer Weider Sonntages show area and Traumatica site). Like Blue Fire you probably have a themed street/square beside the coaster rather...

Blue Fire and Matterhorn Blitz in Europa Park still have this. EuroMir did too until 2020.