Castello dei Medici Europa-Park - The Geisterschloss Transformation | Making of Documentary

This year Europa-Park transformed their classic haunted dark ride Geisterschloss into a new incarnation as Castello dei Medici. In this part 1, discover the making of the ride and the great undertaking to rebuild Geisterschloss in this collaboration with Europa-Park, hearing from the ride's production team and the Mack family.
With special thanks to Europa-Park and Mack Media for all their support!
Part 2 will explore the History of the original Geisterschloss.
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[@mario64remix]

Great to see more love for Geisterschloss, it has such an interesting history. I'm amazed the refurbishment took only so short, it turned out very well, although I do miss some of the old animatronics. Can't wait for part 2!

[@vectorwolf]

Man, I remember this ride from years ago... I visited pre-Batavia fire too, so I only experienced the old version of that ride too. Even back then, it was really showing its age... the reflection-ghost effect was still working but not very well, the scenes were disjointed, and I really felt like someone had jammed in too many copies of Haunted Mansion references, instead of letting it be its own story. This looks like a vast improvement, never mind that it was looking tired already back then, so I can only imagine how much it needed a rebuild. Kudos to Mack Rides, they've done a banger job.

[@CoasterFoodBlog-st8rv]

Liebes Mack Media Team, vielen Dank für diese wunderbare badisch-elsässisch-französische Doku, in denne d' Litt schwätze, wi ihne de Schnabl gwachse isch. Danke an alli Kolleeeginne und Kolleege, die so schee fun ihrer Arbeit vazehlt hänn, dass mir alli mitgnumme wärre un ä Einbligg kriege. Mir hätts total gut gfalle. Sinn halt alli symbadisch in sällem EP (un de Firme drumrum) ❤😍

[@Rachael8989]

Fantastic documentary, so interesting to hear from all the creatives. It’s amazing what a big transformation they completed in such a short time! I would love to get to Europa Park some day soon and experience the attraction myself!

[@-Tekuo-]

I definitely appreciate the result and the creative work that went into the attraction. The Geisterschloss deserved some love after all the years of neglect. I love seeing what happens in the companies working on Europa Park rides and shows. Hope i will be able to experience Castello Dei Medici for myself one day but for now videos will have to do. When will the OST release? It sounds really nice.

[@thebup6850]

Very well done! I had no idea this ride existed, but seeing into it’s creative process and history definitely makes me want to go and see it for myself!

[@buddyterrier]

The ghost train was better than before. It really needs to be emphasized.

[@Stuntman707]

Beautiful, I imagine they wanted to make sure this attraction was updated and preserved after the recent fires they’ve had. Sometimes, you don’t need to reinvent a whole attraction to thrill and surprise people. I would still choose practical, real, visceral effects over VR. Europa Park never stops getting better. 💙💛

[@cinemaniac6599]

Excellente réhabilitation, l'attraction est à nouveau cohérente et a une thématisation très originale malgré les emprunts à Disney. J'apprécie qu'ils aient osé raconter une histoire sombre sans chercher à faire sursauter les visiteurs toutes les dix secondes et que certaines scènes de la version originale aient pu être adaptées pour la nouvelle version, notamment la mythique salle de bal avec la légendaire licorne.

[@STILLRACING]

Now we want a Piccolo Mundo transformation. Why not doing a walkthrough attraction like Hotel tartüff at Phantasialand ?

[@MackProdukt]

i still like piccolo mundo

[@thereaelchicken]

Piccolo Monndo kann gerne so bleiben wies ist :)

[@danny.ray101]

Piccolo Mondo is not the problem. Madame Freudenreich and Russische Schlittenfahrt are.

[@AttractionSource]

Excellent documentary. Excited to get back on it!

[@EuroThemeParkArchive]

@@AttractionSource Thanks a lot!

[@a.kalotta9038]

Das Video macht neugierig auf die neu gestaltete Geisterbahn. Es sieht wirklich vielversprechend aus. Ich war als Teenie mit meinen Eltern im Schwarzwald-Urlaub. Da waren wir auch in einem kleinen feinen Vergnügungspark, der heute der Europapark ist. Ich bin immer noch stolz darauf, da gewesen zu sein, als den Park nur Einheimische kannten. Die Pensionswirtin war dabei und fungierte sozusagen als Parktourguide. 🙂 Dabei kamen wir an eine Baustelle, von der uns erklärt wurde, hier würde ein italienischer Bereich entstehen. Italienisch sah da noch nichts aus, denn es waren gerade erst die grundlegenden Bauarbeiten im Gange. Man sah wirklich nur die Fundamente, sonst noch nichts. Könnt ihr mir sagen, wann ich im Europapark war? Denn seit dieser Zeit bin ich dem Europapark im Herzen verbunden und auch mein Wunsch, unsere Flitterwochen im Europapark zu verbringen, ging in Erfüllung. Vielen Dank an die Familie Mack und allen, die dieses großartige Erlebnis möglich machen.

[@j.n2814]

Der italienische Themenbereich wurde 1982 samt Geisterschloss eröffnet. Ich würde mal schätzen, dass du so 1980 da warst.

[@a.kalotta9038]

@@j.n2814 vielen Dank für Deine Antwort. Da wäre ich elf gewesen. Das könnte hinkommen. :)

[@j.n2814]

⁠ Kein Problem, sehr gerne :) Bist du denn das Geisterschloss 1982 auch direkt gefahren? Dort war es ja noch in seiner Urfassung.

[@a.kalotta9038]

@@j.n2814 Nein, ich weiß gar nicht genau, wann ich das zweite Mal dann dort war. Das sollte dann Ende der 80er gewesen sein. Aber klar war ich dann im Geisterschloss und es war bis heute zusammen mit den Piraten in Batavia meine Lieblingsattraktion. Ein Besuch des Parks ohne Geisterbahn - völlig undenkbar. Auch die Anreise, wenn man mit heute vergleicht, so richtig über die Dörfer. :-D Heute habe ich etwas Angst wiederzukehren, beides neu. Und das Video vom neuen Schloss hat mir…na…semigut gefallen. Was denkst Du?

[@a.kalotta9038]

Also ich habe ein anderes Video gesehen und das läßt vermuten, dass die singenden Köpfe nicht mehr da sind und der klopfende Geist im Sarg. Meine absoluten Favoriten!

[@angelagabathuler9199]

Gutes Lied am ende danke.😊😊😊😊😅😅😅😂😂😂😂

[@Pennee]

❤❤❤

[@ReneCamphausen]

Wann kann man denn den Soundtrack kaufen? Gibt es dazu schon Infos?

[@TimeoMateo-Gabriele]

La salle de l'ascenseur n'a pas eu de réhabilitation ?

[@cinemaniac6599]

Si, les tableaux et les lampes ont été changés, de même que les voix enregistrées.

[@jdchoven]

interesting documentary but do not forget to show instead of tell. There's a lot of talk but not much images. Please show what the challenges were in keeping (were possible) the older animatronics / puppets. Now we are mainly seeing "talking heads" explaining.

[@EuroThemeParkArchive]

@@jdchoven Unfortunately I was limited to the footage Europa-Park were able to record of the project which was mainly the later stages so the first half is a little light on footage

[@florentaltieri7604]

C était vraiment clairement mieux avant, mtn hormis mes décors mieux y a pas assez de trucs qui font peur.. C vrmt dommage

[@cinemaniac6599]

Ca ne faisait pas du tout peur depuis des années, maintenant l'attraction raconte une histoire très sombre.

[@mandyyo6859]

ist halt n #mackprodukt

[@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536]

Just came back from 3 days Europa Park. 3 days of bloody hot 🥵🥵🥵 fun. Thanks to all the waterrides, there were plenty of possible cool off's. (Soaking wet. I love it) Europapark isn't very good in theming, to be honest. Of course, some rides are ridiculously good themed, like Voltron or pirates in Batavia, but many others aren't at all. Even some of the newer rides are just badly done.( I have never seen so many ugly "animatronics/dolls" together in one park. 😮 And, what about that parade from hell?. Do it well or stop it. It was embarrassingly bad. The same goes for the fairy-tale part of the park or even the great ride system, but damn ugly Arthur. I hated it. Absolutely a few levels below parks like Efteling, Phantasialand or Disney. Does it matter? Nope, Europa Park is such a fun park to spend a few days. Especially when it's 30°C outside. Highly recommend 👌

[@sstrange96]

Europa Park is one the most fantastically themed parks in the world! Every corner has something to find and explore. The weird dummies everywhere are part of the oddness and fun! Other than Silver Star it’s exploding with beautifully presented rides

[@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536]

@@sstrange96 it's a great park, that's what I said. But definitely with a lot of flaws and lots of overdue maintenance.

[@SashaMasonVR]

Europa-Park is a massive mixed bag of really well done new rides (Voltron, Batavia, honorable mentions for Snorri Touren and even dare I say Madam Freudenreich as well, yes it is an odd sight but so packed full of details that the overall quality of the decor isn't the issue here), but then also some half-baked things (Hello Josefina), which have also just been fairly poorly maintained and it already looks fairly run down, and lastly, all of the really old things, like some of the fairy boat rides or even the lil dark ride in the Russian Themed area. Euro-Mir itself is also really outdated looking, especially with Eurosat having been refurbished as well and (at least the outside n queue) looking absolutely fantastic. I have the feeling that is going to change sooner or later though. I feel like with a park as big as this and with how old it is, that might be why there's still so many really old things, both because nostalgia and because it would be too much to rebuild everything all the time. But even with all that said, in my eyes, it's still a solid park. As far as Phantasialand goes, I think it is very hard to really find anything that can really compete with that. Its biggest flaw are the massive downtimes at times that have been reported en mass by people before, and that I have experienced myself, but everything from theming, the rides, the food, it's all incredibly well made and in my opinion, Phantasialand has really pushed the bar for what a theme park can be.

[@remconet]

That is a lot of people just talking...