https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJvGr2PfPk
With friendly support from MackRides:Here is where it all started: The house of Franz Mack! In this video you will get a short tour through the beautiful hou

https://forum.touringplans.com/t/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-europa-park-a-trip-report/73317
I am copying @sanstitre_has_left_the_building's logic - since Europa Park is said to be Germany's WDW, this trip report belongs here 😂 About the park Europa Park is owned by Mack Rides - WDW fans might know them as the makers of Slinky Dog Dash. It serves 2 purposes: it is a major theme park with the second largest attendance (6 million visitors in 2019) in Europe, only behind

https://www.inparkmagazine.com/mack-rides-through-the-generations/
Mack clients can visit Europa-Park to experience a product first- hand, see how it operates in the field and observe guest reactions. "This happens often, we have many park operators from all over the world as guests," says Noel Ebhart, Europa-Park Corporate Communications. "For Mack Rides, Europa-Park is a great exhibition place."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_Rides
Mack Rides GmbH & Co KG, also known simply as Mack Rides, is a German company that designs and constructs amusement rides, based in Waldkirch, Baden-Württemberg.It is one of the world's oldest amusement industry suppliers, and builds many types of rides, including flat rides, dark rides, log flumes, tow boat rides and roller coasters. The family that owns Mack Rides also owns Europa-Park.

https://blooloop.com/water-parks/in-depth/roland-mack-chip-cleary-rulantica-europa-park/
Both Franz and Roland Mack are members of the IAAPA Hall of Fame. Roland and Chip Cleary are former chairmen of the board at IAAPA, where they struck up a great friendship. Cleary, a senior consultant at Europa-Park since 2013, has also served as the association's president and CEO. In the early '90s he founded Splish Splash in Long Island

https://presse.europapark.com/en/presse/nachricht/datum/2024/05/03/eine-erfolgsgeschichte-aus-dem-hause-mack-3/
After drawn-out negotiations with authorities and administrations, it was finally time to begin construction. In 1975, Europa-Park opened its doors for the first time. 1975 − 1985: The early years, growth despite initial opposition. The development of Europa-Park is a textbook success story.

https://www.themeparktourist.com/features/20201128/29447/bucket-list-parks-europa-park
Bucket List Parks: Europa Park. Saturday, November 28, 2020 - 19:21. In 1975, the family behind Mack Rides opened a park that would be, first and foremost, a showroom for their constantly innovating attractions. Mack Rides began in the late 18th century as a manufacturer of carriages and wagons, slowly but surely breaking into the amusement

https://blooloop.com/theme-park/in-depth/europa-park-michael-mack/
Michael Mack is CEO of Europa-Park and part of the eighth generation of the Mack family to make its living in the amusement industry. Michael Mack. Now 41, Michael Mack has been CEO of Europa-Park in Germany since 2006. Building on the legacy of his father and Europa-Park founder Roland Mack, he has continued to roll out new rides, attractions

https://www.veejoy.de/en/series/the-europa-park-story/the-wide-world-is-my-playground-1
In the first episode of the 'Europa-Park Story' series, we take a look at the Mack Rides production facility in Waldkirch, the place where the Mack family has remained loyal for generations. Since 1780, this is where the Mack's have been producing fairground carriages and later rides as a family business. We accompany Franz and Roland Mack on a

https://blooloop.com/theme-park/in-depth/roland-mack-70th-birthday-europa-park/
Europa-Park founder and Mack Rides director Roland Mack lives, sleeps and breathes the amusement industry. On the occasion of his 70 th birthday, the speaks to Blooloop about his lifelong career in the business. Friends and colleagues also pay tribute to a man who has truly earned 'industry icon' status. Over 120 million people have visited

https://coasterpedia.net/wiki/Mack_Rides
Europa Park The entrance to Europa Park in 2008. Mack Rides is owned by the Mack Family who also own Europa Park, Germany as a showcase for Mack products. 11 out of the 13 roller coasters at the park were built by Mack Rides, five of which are the first of their model. Notable Roller Coasters. Flash has the world's largest vertical loop.

https://amusementtoday.com/mack-rides-europa-park-unveil-innovative-eatrenalin-experience/
The Europa-Park Resort has introduced something so ingenious and innovative; it has become a continuously sold-out dining experience — Eatrenalin. It is called "new dimensions in dining.". Eatrenalin's origins date back five years when the concept was envisioned by Europa-Park managing partner Thomas Mack and Oliver Altherr, CEO of

https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/202308/9708/
August 11, 2023, 9:55 AM · Now this is some world-class trolling. Europa-Park has announced the full name for its new coaster for 2024. The multi-launch thrill ride will anchor the park's new

https://www.thethemeparkguy.com/interview-with-michael-mack-europa-park.html
Michael Mack: Exactly, which was kind of a coincidence because the first land we're looking at was a little lake called Europa Lake. It was in Plaisa, at a little village south of Freiburg. We didn't have enough money to actually build a bridge, which was asked by local authorities to go to that area.

https://themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/46437-new-ride-concepts-by-mack-rides/
Toasty82. At FKF's annualy FKF-Convention, held at Europa Park this year, Mack Rides showed some new ride concepts as well as a preview of their new Xtreme Spinning Coaster for Plopsaland De Panne. - The Rocking Boat (a new ride system to combine water and/or dark rides with coaster parts. There are rumours they will use this kind of type for

https://www.themeparktourist.com/features/20240304/33863/mysterious-theme-park-restaurant-actually-dark-ride-disguise
Opened in late 2022, Eatrenalin isn't cheap - it's €255 per person. (For comparison, that's just a little cheaper than Walt Disney World's elite, fine-dining experience, Victoria & Albert's.) But of course, the all-inclusive experience bring not just an extraordinarily high end, eight course menu of food and drink, but an elite "dark ride

https://blooloop.com/technology/in-depth/europa-park-innovating-at-mack-speed/
The big breakthrough, he says, came in 2009. This was the creation of Blue Fire (above) - their first looping coaster. "So I was changing sides, so to say, from Vice Chairman of Mack Rides to Europa-Park in 2008, with the building of the Blue Fire.". Blue Fire is a ground-breaking combination of dark ride and launch coaster.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/comments/117iz31/will_there_be_a_mack_extreme_spinning_coaster_in/
On a recent trip the director of Park Operations told us they had looked into adding an Xtreme spinner as the next major coaster addition a few years ago but the capacity just couldn't meet their needs. With that said, Euro Mir will be in need of a complete overhaul soon. 4. Ireeb.

https://forums.openrct2.org/topic/6067-europapark-rust-germany-475x475-home-of-mack-rides/
Posted September 19, 2022 (edited) In the 70´s the Mack Family bougt this land as testing ground for their ride developement program. Decades later it became one of the most popular parks in europe. This is my work in progress attempt to build an up-to-scale version of it in RCT2. (Mockup of two .park files for work-in-progress reasons)

https://corporate.europapark.com/en/company/historie/
The Europa-Park Resort has a company history to be extremely proud of: 250,000 visitors came when it opened in the summer of 1975, and today, the family-run park is the most popular tourist destination in the country. With more than six million visitors in 2022, Europa-Park is by far the biggest theme park in Germany - and the most visited

https://thrillography.blogspot.com/2013/08/europa-park-my-obnoxious-ace-central.html
Poseidon is one of many examples of Europa Park possessing a fairly common ride/concept and executing it so well that it feels leaps & bounds above its contemporaries and clones.My ride on Poseidon marked the first time I ever really felt excited about a water coaster.While other parks seem to rest comfortably on the fact that they have a roller coaster that merely rolls through water, Europa

https://coasterforce.com/forums/threads/europa-park-voltron-mack-rides-stryker-coaster-2024.41398/page-41
A "rider-cam" POV, a nice mix of different views, cannot wait for a normal one once everything is done but for now this does look fantastic. Last edited: Feb 29, 2024 Reactions: Thekingin64 , Pokemaniac , JamesB and 10 others

https://blooloop.com/theme-park/in-depth/icon-launch-coaster-blackpool/
Blooloop profiles the building of ICON. The £16.25m ($22m) attraction from Mack Rides was officially opened in late May. ICON is the first new roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach since the introduction of Infusion in 2007, and before that the Big One in 1994. There have been a lot of coaster developments in that time.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5597454/2024/06/28/alan-shearer-criticism-england-bubble/
I was asked by a mate this week what a 26-year-old Alan Shearer would have made of the 53-year-old me. Before anyone else says it, I'll get in there first: what a slap-head old fart. Obviously

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5589116/2024/06/25/cubs-giants-lose-justin-steele/
SAN FRANCISCO — The Chicago Cubs keep finding excruciating ways to lose. The lack of star power continues to show up in these one-run games. The offense doesn't have a true middle-of-the-order