AstroDan
TS Team
- Favourite Ride
- Steel Vengeance, Cedar Point
For those unfamiliar with Europa-Park, Geisterschloss (Ghost Castle) is Europa-Park's ghost train omnimover ride and is located in the Italian section of the park. It shares many similarities with the Wicked Witches Haunt ride that burned down at Thorpe Park in the year 2000. It also hosts a stretching room pre-show, much like Disney's Haunted Mansion - but done to a lesser quality. The theming on ride is largely unique.
Given that it is rumoured Geisterschloss is set to receive multi-year improvements, I thought I would start a new discussion topic for this classic dark ride, which originally opened in 1982!
For 2020, the ride has received a new queue area with animatronic and it is believed that this is only the start of a gradual enhancement programme for the ride over the next few years. It is hoped that the improvements will eventually return some form of coherent narrative. Over the past decade or so, Geisterschloss has been nicknamed the "trash temple" - somewhere in which the park dump old theming, or whatever flight-of-fancy is currently dominating the marketing (be it Spook Me characters or Happy Family). The narrative of the Medici family, whose palace you are theoretically inside, has been lost.
Personally, I would be delighted to see the ride gain from the park's new found ability to deliver really high quality indoor rides. Whilst Geisterschloss is only small, with some much needed love, the ride could really be improved.
The reason I was spurred on to post this was the unearthing of a 1996 POV from the ride. My god how it's changed...!
1996 POV:
2020 POV (incl new queue):
Given that it is rumoured Geisterschloss is set to receive multi-year improvements, I thought I would start a new discussion topic for this classic dark ride, which originally opened in 1982!
For 2020, the ride has received a new queue area with animatronic and it is believed that this is only the start of a gradual enhancement programme for the ride over the next few years. It is hoped that the improvements will eventually return some form of coherent narrative. Over the past decade or so, Geisterschloss has been nicknamed the "trash temple" - somewhere in which the park dump old theming, or whatever flight-of-fancy is currently dominating the marketing (be it Spook Me characters or Happy Family). The narrative of the Medici family, whose palace you are theoretically inside, has been lost.
Personally, I would be delighted to see the ride gain from the park's new found ability to deliver really high quality indoor rides. Whilst Geisterschloss is only small, with some much needed love, the ride could really be improved.
The reason I was spurred on to post this was the unearthing of a 1996 POV from the ride. My god how it's changed...!
1996 POV:
2020 POV (incl new queue):
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