I didn't want to spend even more money riding all of them, so I looked at their facades and decided to go for 'Hotel Psycho'. Being a big fan of ghost trains, I was a bit stuck for choice by the 5 that were on offer here. Makes me wander why they bothered to build that shoddy Mess-karade this year, when the park already has a better version of an indoor spinning coaster with Insider.Ĭontinuing on the positive theme, Prater has one amazing stand-out ghost train. This one is very similar to the classic Reverchon mouse, with lots of hairpin turns. The coaster is ok too, although I expected more of an exciting layout from a Maurer spinner. The indoor queue line features a mirror maze AND a laser maze! For approximately 43 seconds, I was actually having fun at Prater! It's name makes me think of those cinema cards you can buy at Showcase. The worlds second-largest economy has been hit by record heat, flash floods and droughts - phenomena that scientists say are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. The best coaster in the park is 'Insider'- an indoor Maurer spinner. I suppose I should be positive about something for a minute. If it's red and yellow at Prater, it will give you a headache!Īnyway. Prater have colour-coded all their worst roller coasters! All of these awful machines are painted a vile combination of red and yellow just like those insects that have gross colour schemes according to how venomous they are. To make my mood worse, the ride opposite 'Maskerade' is this: In the end they figured out they had to align our cart so it was straight to get it to release back into the station. He was just making random stabs and looking lost. You know that Simpson's episode where Homer avoids a meltdown at the power plant by doing 'Eeniee-meenie-miny-mo' on the buttons? I swear the engineer was doing that too. The engineer came out in a pair of dungarees, and he seemed to have no idea what he was doing. The most exciting part was getting stuck on the brake run for 15 minutes. But it literally does nothing, it barely spins and the layout is uninspired. I got an orchestral version of Guns N Roses, no complaints about that.ĭue to being so fresh out the packet, this was possibly the smoothest coaster I've ever ridden. There was music playing, it's in the building, not on board the ride. But there is a sad looking disco ball at the top. The ride building, due to having massive holes in it for the track to roam outside, is completely light. So I walked up the bland office like stairs, sat in the ride cart and noticed that THERE WAS STILL BUBBLE WRAP ON THE FLOOR OF THE CART! They hadn't even bothered to remove it! (That's the kind of vibe at Prater, like the ops are desperate for your money.) But annoying man in the booth insisted it was open and kept harping on that I must ride it. There were building men still doing work to the exterior of the ride building. I already hated it because it's name falls prey to that stupid belief that spelling mistakes make things more 'fun'.Īnyway. Let's start with the parks newest cred: an indoor Gerstlauer spinning coaster named ' Maskerade'. With 11 creds on offer (Goon alert: Autobergbahn is a spiteful kiddie cred) you're looking at spending at least 40 Euros just for the pleasure of ticking boxes on Coaster Count (because you won't get any pleasure on the rides themselves).Įxpect to lose a whopping 65 Euros if you want to chance it on the interesting-looking flat / dark rides as well. Cred prices ranged from 3.50 - 5 Euro depending on how slightly above or below average it was. So there's no nice 'all day wristband' available. If you aren't already aware, each ride at Prater is owned and operated by individual vendors. I counted:Īnd I wasn't paying much attention, because I was too busy moaning about what a rip-off dump the place is. The park inexplicably has multiple versions of the same mediocre rides, with nothing shiny or special crammed a top its concrete. Wiener Prater is the amusement park equivalent of that. The images I created there and in the studio were made with digital and analog techniques.You know when you collect football stickers / Pokemon cards and you end up getting loads of duplicates of the same crappy player and no special shiny ones? In order to combine the familiar and the foreign, the natural and the artificial, and at best bring them into harmony, I strolled through the deserted Prater every morning, documenting the place from the perspective of the aforementioned contrasts. The Forward Festival with its promising glittering CGI world, then the gardens at Schönbrunn Palace: rosemary in bloom, chestnuts caressing hands, the sound of swirling leaves on asphalt. In addition to the strange and the familiar, my time in Vienna was strongly marked by contrasting digital and analog worlds. Others are new - Israeli breakfast far above the roller coaster screech, "time to say goodbye" as you fall asleep, crows, Hundertwasser. Some is familiar - the smell of coffee, shoes, the sound of cars on rain-soaked streets. Impressions mingle in a new place to form a unique bundle of feelings.
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