Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-81774.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: How Disney Attractions Inspired Parks Around the World - Europa Park's Pirates in Batavia</b></a> <p>The great Disney and More blog has started a series showing how Disney park attractions have inspired similar attractions aroudn the world. First up is Europa-Park and Piraten in Batavia. Here's a ride-through.</p> <p>[[yt:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jwFq_2r_b4I]]</p>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Definitely a ripoff, but at least it's got AA's, large sets, and the like. In the 80's I went to Madrid's Parque de Attractiones and rode their "Las Piratas." Talk about bizarre. It was mostly outdoors, for one. You rode in suspended pirate ships more like Peter Pan - outdoors, mind you, just a few inches off the ground, around a grassy area with some concrete walkways that seemed to have existed long before the ride - and eventually came to various tableaux set up with skeletons, many of them ripped directly from POTC. That was it. It was like one of those DL dreams you have where something just seems terribly, terribly "off." BUT IT WAS REAL!!!!!!!
Originally Posted By fkurucz LOL! I liked how they replaced the dog with they keys with a monkey. I'm not sure if this is a rip off or a tribute!
Originally Posted By TP2000 That ride is a disaster. It looks like a barely mechanical department store window display at Christmas, somehow themed to pirates. The only cool part was the fiber optic stars on the ceiling, but that probably looks better on amateur video than it does in real life.
Originally Posted By tiggertoo <<I liked how they replaced the dog with they keys with a monkey.>> It's the POTC version of McDowell's and his "Golden Arcs".
