EUROPA-PARK
Germany
(Note: The park is owned by Mack GmbH and used as a Showcase for their products.)
 Park News - (8/25/10) Take a nearly 200 photo park tour of Europa Park over at Amusement Insider this week.
(5/12/10) New pictures from Europa Park’s Historama attraction area can be found at EPFans.info.
(3/31/10) A new photo update from Europa Park has been posted to RCPro this week.
(3/27/10) I’ve been sent a few notes from the press days at Europa-Park. In addition to the new Whale Adventure Splash Battle attraction the park has also expanded the monorail by 400 meters and added a new station. A new kiddie water playground area will open in Iceland this summer along with a new snack restaurant in Portugal and a new restaurant in Italy. The park’s “Chocoland” Pyramide is getting rethemed from now until Summer with a new exhibit called Historama showing off the 35 year history of Europa-Park. Later on this year construction will start on their next hotel, slated to open in 2012. You can find some incredible pictures taken at the media preview at the park posted to Freizeitpark.
(10/20/09) Terenzi Horror Nights is back once again at Europa Park.
(10/30/08) A video showing off Terenzi Horror Nights 2 has been added to Parksmania.
(7/31/08) Pop into Europa-Park with the Theme Park Review tour to see the park that is often labeled as being able to out-theme even Disney parks in many of the park’s areas and attractions.
2010 - Historama - (8/18/10) A nice press page has been created showing off all about Europa Park’s new Historama attraction, a showcase about the long history of the park and it’s attractions over the years. From the look of things, this appears to be Europa Park’s nod to Disney’s famous Carousel of Progress. The attraction uses a mix of animatronics, 27 digital video projectors, 9 lasers, some of which mix with fog effects to make a sort of 3-D floating Hologram effect. Add in a nice collection of 4D style theater effects to round out the mix.
2010 - Whale Adventure – Splash Tours - Confirmed - (4/14/10) LiftHill.net has posted their own review and photos of Europa-Parks new Whale Adventures – Splash Tours attraction.
(2/25/10) All new construction pictures from the new Splash Battle attraction going into Europa Park can be found at EPFans.info.
(1/14/10) New artwork showing off the Whale Watching themed Mack Splash Battle ride going into Europa Park can be seen at EPFans.info. The ride will be called Whale Adventure – Splash Tours and be part of the Iceland themed area of the park. The park will also add something called GAZPROM Experience, which sounds like an educational attraction from the local natural gas company. Other new improvements can be found at the official park site which includes the New Western Saloon, some Portuguese themed catering buildings, new restaurants in the France area and a new Iceland monorail station.
(11/4/09) Europa Park is adding a Splash Battle ride for 2010, apparently with a ‘Whale Watching’ theme, as part of the Iceland area. I’m told that a new “Portuguese” restaurant will also be added as well as a major upgrade to the Italian pizza restaurant. Some kind of sponsored exhibit from Gazprom will also be added, but I’m a little foggy on just what it is. Check out LiftHill.net to see some pictures from the big announcement.
???? - Future Expansion - Rumor - (12/8/09) I’ve been sent a rumor claiming that Europa-Park is eyeballing a site next to the Colloseo hotel for some kind of new expansion project. One rumor seemed to indicate that they might be looking at building a waterpark as well as a new hotel. Anyone know more?
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