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2018: Eurosat Can Can Coaster / Madame Freudenreich Curiosités
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Rowe
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- Matterhorn Blitz (with an Aperol Spritz!)
Here's Epfan95's video:
And with all due respect to the incredible interior design, I'm reeling over these posters for shows performed in "Theatre Eurosat".
Michael, may I please... just... have that Starlight Express one in A2?
And with all due respect to the incredible interior design, I'm reeling over these posters for shows performed in "Theatre Eurosat".
Michael, may I please... just... have that Starlight Express one in A2?
CSLKenny
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No; takes away from an already limited capacity for VR riders and the station is only insured for riders from that age limit.
Poisson
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- The Giant Squid
And with all due respect to the incredible interior design, I'm reeling over these posters for shows performed in "Theatre Eurosat".
Michael, may I please... just... have that Starlight Express one in A2?
Starlight would have probably worked even better in VR than Phantom
LivOctober
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- Nemesis
Me and my partner went on this ride today (usual Can Can variety) and they've declared it's their favourite of the coasters we've ridden today. Honestly was surprisingly fun, I loved the music and the theming!
Sorry to report that I had an almost completely negative experience of the VR yesterday.
Firstly allow for about 40-50 mins for this as you queue, then you hold into another pen, followed by another pen where you are given the headsets, then you ride.
I can only describe the VR headset as a torture device. It was so painful on the nose and had to hold the screen during the ride to see/not be in pain. The headphones/sound was very quiet and I could hardly hear the music/dialogue despite checking they were on my ears. I tried raising my hand for ages but they ignored me. Boarding with the VR was an experience.
I will say though I did enjoy the graphics, the way it changes as you board. There was one or two glitches.
I couldn’t really complain/get a new ride at the time as I had to run for a Voltron VL booking. I wouldn’t have wanted a reride anyway, the normal version was so much more fun.
Firstly allow for about 40-50 mins for this as you queue, then you hold into another pen, followed by another pen where you are given the headsets, then you ride.
I can only describe the VR headset as a torture device. It was so painful on the nose and had to hold the screen during the ride to see/not be in pain. The headphones/sound was very quiet and I could hardly hear the music/dialogue despite checking they were on my ears. I tried raising my hand for ages but they ignored me. Boarding with the VR was an experience.
I will say though I did enjoy the graphics, the way it changes as you board. There was one or two glitches.
I couldn’t really complain/get a new ride at the time as I had to run for a Voltron VL booking. I wouldn’t have wanted a reride anyway, the normal version was so much more fun.
ItsAllGood
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- Wildfire
I agree, the audio on the new vr for phantom is the one thing letting it down at the moment.
Asked them to turn it up in the preshow and it was fine but on the lift hill for can can all i could hear was the music on the lift hill.
Asked them to turn it up in the preshow and it was fine but on the lift hill for can can all i could hear was the music on the lift hill.
Tim
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- Air / Blue Fire
On a similar note I had a really weird issue with the VR last time I rode Alpine Express. When they first handed me the headset it worked fine. But as I boarded the train an error message came up, blocking my straight ahead view.
I alerted the staff, who took the headset off me and checked it, in doing so pointing the headset in the opposite direction. To them it looked fine and they handed it straight back, but of course when I face forward there the error message was. I tried alerting them again, but they were desperate to send the train at that point (and probably thought I was just waisting their time).
Rode without it over my eyes in the end. The silver lining was that would be my last ride before the mine burnt down, so with hindsight I was actually glad I got one extra chance to enjoy it.
I alerted the staff, who took the headset off me and checked it, in doing so pointing the headset in the opposite direction. To them it looked fine and they handed it straight back, but of course when I face forward there the error message was. I tried alerting them again, but they were desperate to send the train at that point (and probably thought I was just waisting their time).
Rode without it over my eyes in the end. The silver lining was that would be my last ride before the mine burnt down, so with hindsight I was actually glad I got one extra chance to enjoy it.
Rowe
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- Matterhorn Blitz (with an Aperol Spritz!)
I'm honestly shocked that a grand, booming megamusical like The Phantom of the Opera starring a character who calls himself "the angel of music" has such a quiet VR adaptation at a grand, booming theme park like Europa Park.
IanB
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The issue with VR headsets is they are so expensive they tend to save money with the headphones.
I know the first thing many do is remove the default headphone and use more expensive headphones. When I changed mine, the difference it made was a massive improvement.
I guess the extra faff of putting the VR headset on, and then separate headphones is probably to much to do at a Theme Park, but with a ride like this, could custom headphones be added to the headset to improve the experience?
I know the first thing many do is remove the default headphone and use more expensive headphones. When I changed mine, the difference it made was a massive improvement.
I guess the extra faff of putting the VR headset on, and then separate headphones is probably to much to do at a Theme Park, but with a ride like this, could custom headphones be added to the headset to improve the experience?
IanB
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Annabelle and I did the Phantom Of The Opera VR experience, and for me the best part of it was putting the headset on before the ride starts, and walking to the ride and taking your seat in VR. It makes me want to go and do the Yullbe Pro experience even more.
Once you sit down, it did feel a little clunky the process of getting the safety clip attached to the headset. Maybe some sort of HANS device could be used to avoid having to do that step and speed the process up?
Once the ride started though, I thought the video quality and sync was not great, I actually felt like I was going slower. And I understand what everyone meant about the sound quality. It was fun, something different. Its a cool concept, and it is worth doing at least once. They just need to figure out how to improve the video and sound quality, and reduce the amount of faff, or at least have more stuff going on while your waiting.
We also did Alpine Express VR, picking the new Yumi ride, and this experience was significantly better than Phantom of the Opera. The video and sound quality was better, you felt like you were travelling faster. It was not perfect, but it was better than Phantom of the Opera.
Once you sit down, it did feel a little clunky the process of getting the safety clip attached to the headset. Maybe some sort of HANS device could be used to avoid having to do that step and speed the process up?
Once the ride started though, I thought the video quality and sync was not great, I actually felt like I was going slower. And I understand what everyone meant about the sound quality. It was fun, something different. Its a cool concept, and it is worth doing at least once. They just need to figure out how to improve the video and sound quality, and reduce the amount of faff, or at least have more stuff going on while your waiting.
We also did Alpine Express VR, picking the new Yumi ride, and this experience was significantly better than Phantom of the Opera. The video and sound quality was better, you felt like you were travelling faster. It was not perfect, but it was better than Phantom of the Opera.
And when you went backwards in VR, it actually felt like you were going backwards.
John_P
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So I went on Can Can Coaster shortly after it opened in 2018 and was frankly disappointed by the actual ride once it came off the top of the spiral with no on ride audio and lacklustre themeing.
So in 2024 I had 2 rides on this as Can Can Coaster and it was much improved with the on board audio working it was such a fun experience and shot up my personal rankings of Europa Park coasters.
Also tried the Coastiality experience this time, think from joining the queue to being in the gift shop it was 45 minutes. So quite a wait. When the experience finally gets under way the instructions video takes way too long. But putting your VR headset on in a room is such a novel idea and that worked really well. Was well impressed how that guided me to my seat. For the ride though the audio isn't loud enough, firstly it's drowned out by the Eurosat lift hill theme, and then during the ride itself you can hear the score but not what the voices are saying, still it's a very good video. However amazingly I'd still have to say Crazy Bats is still the best on board VR coaster experience I'd ever had.
So in 2024 I had 2 rides on this as Can Can Coaster and it was much improved with the on board audio working it was such a fun experience and shot up my personal rankings of Europa Park coasters.
Also tried the Coastiality experience this time, think from joining the queue to being in the gift shop it was 45 minutes. So quite a wait. When the experience finally gets under way the instructions video takes way too long. But putting your VR headset on in a room is such a novel idea and that worked really well. Was well impressed how that guided me to my seat. For the ride though the audio isn't loud enough, firstly it's drowned out by the Eurosat lift hill theme, and then during the ride itself you can hear the score but not what the voices are saying, still it's a very good video. However amazingly I'd still have to say Crazy Bats is still the best on board VR coaster experience I'd ever had.