Europa Park Discussion Thread

[STR8FXXXINEDGEJar-Jar Binks smells like Donkey]

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

[KookyI wrote the book about donkeys!]

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/

[BafflesCan I park my donkey here?]

..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.

[coasterfreak101Gimme Some Candy!]

^^That's a maintenance shed - GCIs always always have the final brakes, the maintenance shed, and then the station.

2000 pph? Holy bajeebers! I can't wait to see how they work that out!

[AstroDanI teach at the school of donkey!]

I was somewhat bemused why EP chose to announce the "per day" capacity of the ride, at 18,000 rather than the per hour.

Based on their standard hours of 9-6, that's literally 2,000... however, the park often open longer (till 7, 8). I highly doubt they'd expect a throughput any higher than what they achieve with Blue Fire (around 1,700) and Joris en de Draak, only achieves around that COMBINED both tracks together...

So it's very interesting.

[SharkTumsSite Admin]

I have a feeling based on some questions I asked to Chris at GCI at our Factory Tour on the Road to Cedar Point Trip and the answers he gave me that there still may be some surprises on the way with this ride.

[hyyyperHard Rock hyyyper]

Hmmm, the station doesn't seem to be long enough for a separate exit and boarding station, so perhaps we will see a switch track double station?

[AstroDanI teach at the school of donkey!]

I have a feeling based on some questions I asked to Chris at GCI at our Factory Tour on the Road to Cedar Point Trip and the answers he gave me that there still may be some surprises on the way with this ride.

Yeah - same here. I was at Efteling recently and got chatting to an enthusiast member of the ride tea on Joris. He reckoned that there would be an onload/offload for the ride at EP, which isn't exactly rocket science but, as said above - space!?

Surely no seatbelts is a given? EP haven't got belts on any of their coasters. I can't see them accepting them on a woodie.

[Gerstlauer1A zonkey is a cross between a zebra and a donkey.]

I have a feeling based on some questions I asked to Chris at GCI at our Factory Tour on the Road to Cedar Point Trip and the answers he gave me that there still may be some surprises on the way with this ride.

A little of topic here, but i can't find the TR for The Road To Cedar Point, where is it?

[ernierockerWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

^They haven't been posted yet. Be patient and they will be up in due time.