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Movie Park Germany

I went on this for the first time over the weekend and would agree they must have some licence, although there didnt appear to be much love for Riker :(. Everyone else got their mention in the queue.

The ride is good but nothing special and the indoor section (through the borge cube?) seems something of an after thought. As Rick pointed out, it is quite the juxtaposition from the queue to the ride. The ride itself seemed controlled and comfortable with a few pops of airtime and a decent Immelman. I'm sure some might like the roll that lifts you out of a your seat but I found it a painfully slow version of the ending of blue fire. However its all about the start, which is fun to say the least.

Also not sure of the rain helped but I quite enjoyed Bandit, except for the slam into the brakes at the end. I'd take a bit of rough and fun over the tame and meh ride of Mammut at Tripsdrill.

Van Helsing was fun and provided 2 jump scares that caught me off guard. Similar to Gseng'tsau i guess but indoor and mostly in pitch black. Not sure the 50's style hot rods in a spooky/horror setting will ever catch on as a theme though!

Movie Park is a cool little park but seems to be confused in what direction it's heading in and soo many rides seem to have remnants of their old themes lying about, ghost chasers being a prime example of that.

Would I go specifically for Movie Park or Operation Enterprise? Probably not but you could easily bundle it into an Efteling/Toverland/Phantasialand trip and enjoy it for what it is :)
 
So, if anybody wasn't aware, Bermuda Triangle - Alien Encounter has been undergoing a major renovation and name change to Area 51 - Top Secret, apparently due to open this summer. They're not relying on an IP but seem to be adding a pre-show and a story.

German YouTuber Ride Review went behind the scenes very recently, and his video is pretty damn thorough!

 
Movie Park is just a bit naff, really.

I hadn't been since 2011, and was keen to see developments.

  • The Mystery River change to Excalibur is shocking. Whilst the queueline/station has seen improvements, the total mish-mash of refurbishment during the ride is awful. Some of it looks dreadful! They clearly cannot afford to refurbish the rocks. They have also removed the giant figure above the lift.
  • The improvements to Area 51 are solid - although the old, yellow is starting to come through the red paint now.
  • Star Trek: Operation Enterprise is sort of OK. The theming doesn't feel particularly quality, so I hope it lasts.
  • Operations were not great on the SLC nor the woodie.
  • The wasps in the park were insane. They need to do something about this.
Thank god for Van Helsing. The park, like many Merlin properties, clearly has no budget.
 
Having never visited the park before, and then visiting it twice in a month I certainly have no plans to go back anytime soon.

overall I quite liked the style of the park, the entrance was nice and the area around it, Nick Land was also clean and tidy. But the Wild West area and boardwalk areas felt a bit tired.

also it may be cause of Covid, but there were so many areas which felt closed and out of action, very much like when visiting a merlin Park, you look at these giant buildings wondering what they might have been, then you watch a POV and see if used to be a massive stunt show or something.

it’s also clear the park don’t have the money to invest and upkeep. Area 51 was really good and I was very impressed with it, I loved the music and the theme. But then watching a POV of what it was before, you can see it’s basically just the same ride, with a new name and paint job.

meanwhile over in nick land you have the very random rapids, which has a perfectly nice queue line and station, and then the budget ends there. He outside section felt like it’s not been painted or cleaned in 20 years, despite it being a fairly new attraction. Having then watched a POV of the original ride you can see how amazing it would have been when it opened, and now it’s just so tired.

I do feel the park needs to invest in sorting out what it’s got before building loads more, the rapids does need major walk, and a lot of the park could do with a nice paint and tidy up.

hopefully when Covid ends they will open their indoor rides and shows, as they definitely felt lacking, and by the banners on park they are refurbishing their ice age ride for next season. However if it’s like their other refurbishments I don’t see it being anything major.
 
Movie Park is bizarre. You enter via the grand, LA inspired entrance street which wouldn't look amiss in a Disney Studios or Univeral park, into areas which very much look plonked from a Merlin park in terms of units being closed or just general lack of investment. I was really looking forward to the re-theme of the rapids, after recalling on my last visit that they looked like they had once lived some very pleasant glory days on a theming front. The re-theme simply falls down to scattered props, Merlin-y plasterboard walls in the queue line, and a new soundtrack. Area 51 isn't much better either in terms of the re-theme (although I still very much have a soft spot for it).

Star Trek's theming is a bit of a letdown and really doesn't do the franchise justice. The ride itself is fine. I didn't rate it as negatively as others, however, it still ranks towards the bottom half of the Mack Mega's I've done (jostling somewhere in-between Copperhead Strike and Icon). The general build quality throughout the queue line is unquestionably poor and void of a budget.

The wasp situation throughout the park was dire. You weren't able to stay in one spot to enjoy a drink or a bite to eat without being swarmed. One bin seemingly had more wasps swarming it than there were guests in the park.

On the plus side, Van Helsing was far superior than I remembered from my last visit five years ago. The laterals!

It's a shame. I want to love Movie Park but simply can't.
 
Movie Park has released another teaser, seemingly confirming Intamin as the manufacturer of their 2021 investment:

I wonder what it could be? Intamin has got a very diverse range of products, so it could be pretty much anything!

Did I imagine it, or did Intamin manufacture the original Ice Age attraction? If so, nice to see them bringing them back on to build its replacement as a token gesture!
 
If Intamin did produce the original boat ride, it could just be a rethemed boat ride. With some new boats or what ever.

I never did the boat ride, but looking at POVs when it became a Halloween Attraction it looked like you just walked down a lot of the boat channels, so guess a lot of it would still be there.
Part of me wants it to be a really good major ride, but at the same time I also don’t want to have to visit again

One thing is for sure, it’s bound to have a IMAScore soundtrack!
 
djtruefitt said:
If Intamin did produce the original boat ride, it could just be a rethemed boat ride. With some new boats or what ever.

I never did the boat ride, but looking at POVs when it became a Halloween Attraction it looked like you just walked down a lot of the boat channels, so guess a lot of it would still be there.
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The old boat ride system has now been completely ripped out at the beginning of this year. Both teaser videos are filmed inside the empty show building which is being kept and reused.
 
Given the amount of space in the building it literally could be anything within reason.

Though I'd be reluctant to say it'll be anything thrill based given the location next to Nickelodeon Land I'd prefer to be proved wrong.

As long as it keeps the tacky nature of their current dark rides. There's a strange charm to them.
 
Movie Park have confirmed on their social media that next year a new Multi Dimension Coaster from Intamin will open.

No opening date given, but confirmation at least.
 
Multi Dimension Coaster, so the same model that went to Futuroscope this year I think?
 
On the Intamin website they list the Multi dimension coaster as same as Thirteen. Where as futurescope model is listed as family spinning coaster.

however I still wouldn’t be surprised if it’s got spinning cars and the drop track.

Edit- just read more detail it’s more like a budget version of gringotts at Universal. So mix of dark ride with some coaster sections. Only goes outside of the building briefly

Two acceleration sections (forwards and backwards)

Multimedia effects (large screens, sound effects, plasma screens, wind machines)

532m long

360 degree rotating platform

3 12 seater trains (900 pph)

37mph
 
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