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[2028] New Rollercoaster (Euro-Mir replacement)

I've always enjoyed it when I've ridden it. It's intense, especially towards the end, but I've never found the track particularly rough. The worst bit for me is the restraints which are quite easy to bash your knees against.

The queue line is grim though and not up to Europa Park's standards and the indoor bit feels like a 90s Laserquest massive fire hazard.

A family thrill ride is definitely the right way for the park to go after Voltron. An Xtreme spinner would have been silly.

Hopefully it goes more in the Adventure Club kind of direction rather than 'Ed and Edda's Space Race'. They have a blank canvas with a space theme to go crazy if they really want to although I guess the biggest question is how much of a budget they would have for it.
 
I somehow still think doing something similar to YOY with a Dueling Family/Xtreme Spinner could be fantastic for Europa.

Thinking Ride to Happiness dueling with Storm Chaser

One side would be thrilling and comparable to the likes of Voltron whilst the other would cater more for the Family Thrill market and offer something for a wider audience.

I can imagine this being a sleeper hit 🎯
 
I recall them considering an extreme spinner during the early planning phase of Voltron, and ultimately came to the conclusion that the capacity would not be good enough for the park with the space required for the trains. Hence the birth of the Stryker model.

Will be interesting to see what they ultimately plan on doing- whether it is just Mir 2.0 or something different- but either way hope that it's opened complete and not semi finished with missing themeing "to be added later" like Tyrolen and Josefina
 
Euro-Mir is from a bygone era at Europa-Park, when Mack rides weren't really sure what they were doing but had a go anyway.

The ride is one I always make sure to experience - and is one of my earliest memories (with Eurosat) of visiting EP for the first time back in 2004. I recognise it's not to everyone's taste, though, and it's clearly showing its age.

Euro-Mir was always meant to be a family-thrill ride. The intensity seems to me more by accident rather than on purpose.

I look forward to a modern ride but it will be bittersweet.

I have also stickied this thread as I feel it will be one to watch in the coming months and years.
 
I'd rather, if they're going to do it, they demolish the lot. Relocate the training module to one of the Technik Museums, probably Speyer as they have Buran, and start from new. Not entirely sure which period of Russian history they'd use in a replacement if they went in another direction.
 
Islander said:
How people rate Voltron and yet hate Mir is beyond me... :rolleyes:

She'll me sorely missed :(. Feel like the (few) members of the Mir fan club need to arrange some sort of proper goodbye, if nothing else but to help us with the grieving process :disrelieved:
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Well the fact Voltron is a good coaster and Mir is not would be the primary reason, hope that clears things up 😊

With the exception of its theme music Mir is a truly terrible coaster that I am glad to see the back of. Just hope they somehow preserve our ability to chant inappropriate lyrics whilst queuing for the new coaster.
 
Mir is a coaster that I have grown to like more and more over the years, so I will be sad when it does finally close (which I assume will either be partway through 2026 or at the end of the 2026 season).

I completely understand why a lot of people do not like it. It's incredibly intense and if you are on the final car travelling backwards for that last part of the ride then wow, there's not really anything else like it. But for me there is just something really fun about it; not knowing whether you will get forwards or backwards and then watching the reactions of other riders. People are always laughing, even if it is not quite to their taste.

I'll also miss being able to stand up before the train has come to a complete stop in the station!

Of course this move makes sense for the park. Mir is showing its age and is not as popular as other coasters in the park. I have no doubts that EP will do a great job with its replacement, which objectively will be better, but like Sat just won't quite be the same.

I hope they keep the towers, I feel they are so iconic for Europa-Park.
 
I think there’s a very strong chance that the towers stay, for a couple of reasons: -

- the towers already have a space aesthetic, therefore would fit in with the area’s new space theme. It may even be the case that the space theme was chosen specifically because it allowed the towers to be retained.

- the park are famously attached to their history, with very few attractions ever being totally removed. The removal of the coaster and the towers would I think be the largest, most iconic, landmark to ever be removed from the park - that wouldn’t be in character for them.
 
venny said:
I think there’s a very strong chance that the towers stay, for a couple of reasons: -

- the towers already have a space aesthetic, therefore would fit in with the area’s new space theme. It may even be the case that the space theme was chosen specifically because it allowed the towers to be retained.

- the park are famously attached to their history, with very few attractions ever being totally removed. The removal of the coaster and the towers would I think be the largest, most iconic, landmark to ever be removed from the park - that wouldn’t be in character for them.
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I think having to work round the towers is good for the creativity of the designers too. Many of the best coasters are so because they were forced to coexist with existing or unusual terrain, Nemesis being an obvious example.
 
On the other hand Voltron (for example) didn't have much in the way of limitations beyond the plot of land available.

It's all about how designers work within the ride type and any limitations.
 
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