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[20XX] Euro Mir 2.0

Michael Mack today in an interview confirmed NewroMir will feature a new layout but the old attraction will not be totally demolished. As with newer rides a fully immersive story world is set to come with it. Within the next 3 years apparently it will begin. Does seem to suggest rumours of a delay are accurate.

What's coming is the overhaul of Euro-Mir. It won't be completely demolished, but there will be a new layout, with a 360-degree approach similar to Voltron. If it were up to me, we would have already tackled that. But my father is still in charge, and he's more cautious about it. My gut feeling, though, tells me we'll start in three years.
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Europa-Park-Chef Mack: "Ich muss nicht jede Weiche überprüfen"

Der Europa-Park feiert am Samstag sein 50-jähriges Bestehen. Michael Mack, Sohn des Gründers Roland Mack, über die Zukunft des Parks, den neuen Kinofilm und den Schatten des übermächtigen Vaters.
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I must admit, I don’t really get the love for Euro Mir. People on here seem to rave about it, but I remember it being very rough and not particularly remarkable in terms of layout. For me (admittedly 3 years ago), it was easily the weakest coaster on park (excluding Ba-a-a, as I didn’t ride it). I can sense that’s a very unpopular opinion, but I wholeheartedly stand by it!

What is it that fans of the ride like so much about it, out of curiosity? I’ve heard it referred to as the best steel coaster on park before (pre-Voltron, admittedly), and as that is an opinion I couldn’t disagree more with, I’d be intrigued to know why the consensus on it leans so positive.
 
Mir is such a unique ride, it will be sad when it does get redeveloped, but I completely understand why they are going to. It's an old school coaster, they don't make them like that any more (and I am sure many would say for good reason). I don't love Mir, but there is something I do enjoy about it.

New Eurosat is great and clearly better for the park. But I'd love to ride old Sat again. I reckon the new Mir will be a similar situation.
 
After the rave on the lift (all 3 themes are good which helps) you then get a properly intense and violent ride. Properly old school and rides more like a Schwarzkopf than a Mack. It also has a charm which not many can match as well.
 
Poisson said:
After the rave on the lift (all 3 themes are good which helps) you then get a properly intense and violent ride. Properly old school and rides more like a Schwarzkopf than a Mack. It also has a charm which not many can match as well.
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Weirdly my ride this week past even in the very back lacked the gut punch the final helix used to bring.

So not even got the intensity going for it anymore.
 
Benzin said:
Weirdly my ride this week past even in the very back lacked the gut punch the final helix used to bring.

So not even got the intensity going for it anymore.
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Having rode it last week too, I would have to disagree. I found it the most forceful coaster on the park in terms of pure positive forces in my opinion.

It was definitely uncomfortable and would love for it to be modernised, but I would have to say it was definitely intense as a ride!
 
I think a large part of Mir’s popularity is its cult status. The theme tune plays a very large part in it.

There aren’t many ride theme songs that are played at silent discos, in shows and during DJ sets that get such a big reaction.
 
In an interesting development, it would seem as though the new Ed and Edda game made reference to a “Projekt 2028” that is linked to Euro Mir: https://coasterforce.com/forums/thr...update-projekt-2028.47429/page-2#post-1188825

This reference was quickly removed, if that’s anything to go by.

With this in mind, could we be looking at a targeted 2028 opening for Euro Mir 2.0, with a potential 2026 or 2027 closure for the current form of Euro Mir?
 
Matt N said:
In an interesting development, it would seem as though the new Ed and Edda game made reference to a “Projekt 2028” that is linked to Euro Mir: https://coasterforce.com/forums/thr...update-projekt-2028.47429/page-2#post-1188825

This reference was quickly removed, if that’s anything to go by.

With this in mind, could we be looking at a targeted 2028 opening for Euro Mir 2.0, with a potential 2026 or 2027 closure for the current form of Euro Mir?
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The park replied to epfriends about this on Instagram, apparently it was an easter egg thrown in by the game developers and not approved, hence the removal. They claim that Mir is being revised in the medium term, and are very early in the planning stage.


From: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNd0JpIs5hs/?igsh=Z2MzaThjd3cxd3E5
 
They seem to be disavowing that reference as an unrelated easter egg added by the developers, but if you look at the original video (posted above) it seems relatively wild to imagine that someone slipped this extremely specific and well-designed image in as a joke.

It seems like they probably aren't ready to fully commit to announcing details of the Euro Mir revamp but if I had to guess, that picture is somehow "official" even if they deny it and an opening date of 2028 does seem right. It fits with the "medium term" phrase they keep saying and Matt's timeline does seem realistic, maybe closing after the 2026 summer season in anticipation of an opening 12-18 months later. If there's one thing Mack can do it's build a new ride quickly.
 
Llama said:
They seem to be disavowing that reference as an unrelated easter egg added by the developers, but if you look at the original video (posted above) it seems relatively wild to imagine that someone slipped this extremely specific and well-designed image in as a joke.

It seems like they probably aren't ready to fully commit to announcing details of the Euro Mir revamp but if I had to guess, that picture is somehow "official" even if they deny it and an opening date of 2028 does seem right. It fits with the "medium term" phrase they keep saying and Matt's timeline does seem realistic, maybe closing after the 2026 summer season in anticipation of an opening 12-18 months later. If there's one thing Mack can do it's build a new ride quickly.
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Probably something like that. Mack timescales seem to be quite flexible and subject to change.

Planning phase now.
Keep it open most of 2026 or close it at the end of the summer season.
Winter 2026 - Spring 2027 demolition work / tower refurbishment and updating for fire regs / site preparation / new external buildings
Late 2027 - early 2028 coaster construction and testing

It will definitely need a new queue building as the current one is a fire disaster waiting to happen (hence why they limit the number of people who can be inside at one time). At the moment it has the worst queue experience by far at the park, especially with all the smokers. So hopefully as part of that they will enclose more of the queue line and make it more of an immersive experience.

I can see them recreating it as a slightly tamer, more family-thrill orientated ride like their modern versions of this ride type. I know their previous recreations have been quite faithful to the originals but Euro Mir is a bit of an oddity compared the spinning coasters that Mack will build for parks now. It will still be iconic if they keep the towers and it will have a lot more height to work with than their other versions of the ride system. I know some people want the Xtreme spinner, but they have an extreme ride in Voltron right next door and Holiday Park down the road is rumoured to be getting an Xtreme spinner that is supposed to be RTH 2 (although seems to have been pushed back to 2028 now). Europa Park is a big park so does need to keep up with its family ride offering.
 
Donkey said:
Probably something like that. Mack timescales seem to be quite flexible and subject to change.

Planning phase now.
Keep it open most of 2026 or close it at the end of the summer season.
Winter 2026 - Spring 2027 demolition work / tower refurbishment and updating for fire regs / site preparation / new external buildings
Late 2027 - early 2028 coaster construction and testing

It will definitely need a new queue building as the current one is a fire disaster waiting to happen (hence why they limit the number of people who can be inside at one time). At the moment it has the worst queue experience by far at the park, especially with all the smokers. So hopefully as part of that they will enclose more of the queue line and make it more of an immersive experience.

I can see them recreating it as a slightly tamer, more family-thrill orientated ride like their modern versions of this ride type. I know their previous recreations have been quite faithful to the originals but Euro Mir is a bit of an oddity compared the spinning coasters that Mack will build for parks now. It will still be iconic if they keep the towers and it will have a lot more height to work with than their other versions of the ride system. I know some people want the Xtreme spinner, but they have an extreme ride in Voltron right next door and Holiday Park down the road is rumoured to be getting an Xtreme spinner that is supposed to be RTH 2 (although seems to have been pushed back to 2028 now). Europa Park is a big park so does need to keep up with its family ride offering.
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I'm thinking that it isn't outside of the realm of possibility that they could do both regular and XTreme. Something that duels?

Sorry if I said that a while ago but it could be a best of both worlds approach that way.

Or that it could be a regular spinner with slightly more height and thrill than Sierra Sidewinder or Dwervelwind
 
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