Europa Park 10/07

oz boy · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:01 am Post subject: Europa Park 10/07

So a while back (This was still on my Europe trip) we went to Europa Park as well. In what started out to look like a pretty bad day (It was extremely foggy on the bus plus we found out that it was a public holiday) it turned out to be one of the best theme park experiences of my life.

I'll do the same as i did with my Alton towers TR, i'll talk about the roller coasters in order that i visited them Hope you enjoy the TR!

SCHWEIZER BOBBAHN
The first ride of the day, as my sister loves these rides. As compared with Parc Asterix's bobsled, this one was pretty tame. But don't get me wrong, they are a very fun ride, but this one was just a tad tame.

EURO MIR
I rode this twice in the day. In the morning, i was facing forwards for most of the way. It was a great ride, very fast and quite a few g's. But the second time was just something else. Facing backwards was unbelievably thrilling/fast. The g's were insane. The ride backwards was just nuts. This was my second favorite ride of the day.

ATLANTICA SUPER SPLASH
Kind of boring. The backwards part was pretty nuts, you didn't know when you were going to come up. And the drop was pretty good too, but other than that it was pretty dull. The queue was incredible though, especially since we didn't have to queue for long at that stage.

ALPENEXPRESS
For a powered ride, this is actually pretty fun and fast! There's a really cool indoor part as well with fire, and strange Austrian goblins, and a log flume!.

MATTERHORN BLITZ
I'm pretty sure we did this next. The queue, while amusing at some points, was extremely long, and the loading times were pretty bad as well. Compared to Scooby DOo, which is basically the same ride, i would give Scooby DOo the upper hand. I think Scooby Doo has a few more drops.

PUMPKIN COASTER (Eurosat with a big pumpkin over it)
Another spaced themed ride (Euro Mir was the other). This one was quite surprising. I recall a lot of critics not really liking this one, and with the exception of the boring spiral lift hill (Also seen in Euro Mir), i would have to disagree with them. The special affects were just nuts, i thought, and it kind of reminded me of this roller coaster i have in my dreams some times.

SILVER STAR
My first ride was somewhere in the middle towards the front. While this area was still pretty exciting, it was a bit rough, and you couldn't really see out the sides, which was annoying as well. However, after waiting about 30 minutes more for the front row, i changed my mind. It was much less rough, and there seemed to be another edge to it. More wind as well, which was pretty awesome as well.

PEGASUS
A smaller family coaster, but it did have a pretty good first drop, and the rest of the ride was surprisingly smooth, incredibly smooth. A ride i would be buying if i wanted a family coaster in my park.

POSEIDEN
I lied when i said Euro Mir was my second favorite roller coaster here (SIlver Star was my favorite btw), it is actually my second favorite with this ride. I would take this over Atlantica Super Splash any day, due to the more coastery affects (which were awesome). It had a pretty cool queue line as well, but it was a tad long.

Well, that about does it for this TR. Hope you enjoyed reading it, maybe i will post some photos of it as well.

ryan.