EUROPA-PARK
Germany
(Note: The park is owned by Mack GmbH and used as a Showcase for their products.)
Park News - (3/25/08) According to a post at CoasterFriends.de, a local radio station interviewed Marc Terenzi about the upcoming 2008 Terenzi Horror Nights event at Europa Park. He said that the 2008 event will be three times bigger than it was last year and will feature six haunted houses and a corn maze. For comparisons sake, you can find some pictures of the 2007 event here.
(8/13/07) Europa Park will put on Terenzi Horror Nights. This will be a true horror style event which is a departure from the normal daytime only family friendly Halloween celebrations they’ve done in the past.
2008 - New Attractions - (1/9/08) Europa-Park will be adding two new family rides from Zamperla this season called the Crazy Taxi and London Bus. While the website has added some stylized artwork for the rides, they don’t quite show off exactly what kind of rides they will be. Looks like our earlier rumors about them being a Zamperla Crazy Bus and a Zamperla Demolition Derby are holding true however.
(12/4/07) Screamscape has heard that Europa-Park has closed the Baron William’s Mystery Hall attraction, which as I understand it, was one of those walk-through attractions with the heavily slanted floors and visual gravity effects. If the rumors are true, the park may replace it with a pair of new family flat rides, possibly a Zamperla Crazy Bus and Demolition Derby.
2009 - New Coaster - Planning - (6/12/07) An interview with park staff confirmed that plans to build a new coaster in 2008 have been pushed back to 2009… but in this case this is good news. Seems the park was able to get more land and has pushed back the project so they can build the project in the new bigger space, which likely means a bigger coaster… something everyone can appreciate. Not much is known about this new coaster other than it will be a new Mack Rides product, and there are rumors claiming that it may actually feature Inversions… something not found on any of the park’s other coasters. I’m not sure if this is connected to the previous plans to expand the Portugal area with a major new attraction or if this is an entirely separate project.
???? - Portugal Expansion - Rumor - (7/6/06) Sources tell us that any expansion to Portugal has been postponed for another year or two while they focus on other higher priority projects.
(6/24/05) Screamscape has heard that the 2006 expansion to the new Portugal area has been postponed until 2007.
(11/29/04) Our sources tell us that there may be a bigger expansion to Portugal along with another major attraction.
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