Ghost Castle Dark Ride | Europa Theme Park 2021 | Omnimover Haunted Ride 

and the Fact That There So Many Things Happening At Once It Distracting.

They even have the singing head busts.

yes.

Pretty much.

@Jimmy Starbeck phantom manor translates to ghost mansion in English. It’s just the France version

@Jimmy Starbeck I’ve always wanted to go to the other Disney parks in the world. I’ve been to Anaheim and Orlando a few times. I still love the original park the most.

Yes, nothing is ever going to top the ghost ballroom dance

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At leats it's not Phantasialand's Geisterrikscha. :> (Though that one only has the same ride system.) I was in Europapark three years ago around christmas. Geisterschloss is a nice ride, but a lot of scenes are overcrowded with props. According to some long term visitors, the ride was also softened up a lot and the addition of the cast from Happy Family is clashing with the overall theming, too.

They cut out the stretching room, complete with hanging guy.

Yeah, this felt like a really feverish dream about the haunted mansion.

Unfortunately great Animatronics are hugely expensive, so Europa Park had to use a mix of good and average animatronics even on their flagship dark ride „Pirates in Batavia“ . That is, unfortunately, the difference between a park with 6 Mio/year visitors and $60 tickets and one with more than 20 million visitors and $110 tickets.

But.. but.. it's ghost castle, totally different and not trying to make money off of it...

@@toadster464 Because every haunted ride is a knock off of the haunted mansion? This looks completly different. Yes there are some stolen elements, but the overall ride is not comparable in the slightest. Disney fans always try to label everything as 'stolen from disney'

@@QDude24 Calm down. Nobody is implying that it literally copied the Haunted Mansion. Its an omnimover ride and the cars are similar so people will compare. Maybe this ride got inspired by the Mansion ride.

@@gissneric Toadster is definitely implying that its a copy with the sentence "totally different and not trying to make money off of it..."

It's inspired by Haunted Mansion but its not a rip off just because it shares similarities

I loled at this

I think it takes more than quick animatronics, though. The brilliance of Disney's Haunted Mansion is its simplicity. The dancing ghosts in the haunted ballroom there are ancient, and don't even move themselves - they are just unmoving mannequins on a turntable, but the use of Pepper's Ghost and other basic stage magic tricks make them feel 'alive.' Watching this ridethrough I was struck by how overwhelming it was. Horror is in many ways what you don't see, not what you do see. This attraction left nothing to the imagination. The Haunted Mansion has a hall of doorways with cries and screams coming from the other side of them. What's behind them? You have to imagine. Here, they showed what's on the other side of them - and then some! There was no downtime, no moment of darkness where something could go 'bump.' Haunted Mansion also excels at building towards the climax. Here you start and are immediately faced with, like, skeletons. Disney's pace is slower. You get hints of something evil lurking in the house, but it's either invisible or hinted at with shadows, footsteps, and portraits that change when thunder strikes. The first 'ghost' only shows up about halfway through the ride, leading to the climax of the graveyard scene. This ride was like the graveyard scene all the way through, there was no build, no anticipation. I agree that this was gorier, and I think having a gorier haunted mansion-style attraction could be interesting for people who like that sort of thing. But at least in my opinion, for something like this to do that it needs a complete redo.

The ride system also reminds me of the now recently defunct “Wheels” red pod dark ride about motor car history within the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, Hampshire in Southern England.

A lot of haunted attractions have that effect now. I don't think it's something that is copyrightable

Given that this ride opened 40 years ago and that the CEO of Disney. visited the park in the late 1980s to do researxh on what was popular in Europe in preparation of Disneyland Paris…no.

Aside from the singing busts, which ironically weren't added until many years after opening, they didn't copy much at all.

@@mario64remix the whole ride system is a copy

@@AuthorCertifiedGoof That's true, although you could argue that Haunted Mansion's is in turn copied from Adventure Thru Inner Space. There's only so many ways to design a dark ride transportation system.

@@mario64remix Disney at least was the creator of adventure through inner space. It’s not really “copying” when you already own it lmao.

@@TargetSniper365 Right, I guess the term self-plagiarism would be more fitting. :P Btw I'm not knocking Disney or anyone else for (re)using the Omnimover style system, it is probably the best designed dark ride transportation system after all (or at least by far my favorite)

Is it actually patented because parks all over the world use it

I believe so unless it expired

Technically it's not an Omnimover as it works differently. The technology can be patented, but the general idea can not.

It actually took a lot of Inspiration from Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, it has the elevator / stretching room concept, a ballroom, singing busts. So it is indirectly copying it and while it's definitely not on par with other attractions i still like it for the nostalgia.

@@-Tekuo- "Inspiration" would be to take something existing, and make it even better. This doesn't do that at all. For me, 'nostalgia' might become nausea ...

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